Public presentation of the new illustrated map Bon appetit, neighbor was held on 8th August 2019 in the popular book store ArtForum in Košice. An informal disscusion with the local artists and activists - illustrator Ľudka Žoldáková and film maker Mišo Hudák with the director of ETP Slávka Mačáková covered topics such as the increasing trend of TCN coming to Košice to open a small business or the importance of civic initiatives in the field of TCN integration. The map is one of the innovative ways how to encourage the locals to interact with foreigners, their new neighbors, the owners of various non-typical restaurants and cafés.
The map presents people from Košice, who weren't born in Košice. They came from other cities and countries, Košice for them is a place of studies, place of work, place of family, Košice is their home. They speak a common language, by food. They bring this language to Košice from their original homes and they are sharing it with new neighbors. In stands, cafés, bistros, pubs, delis, restaurants, pastry shops and other places, they not only create new grammar of eating, but they are making Košice more diverse and more open. Don't be afraid to learn a new language!
The creation of the map has been initiated by ETP Slovakia and designed by Východné pobrežie and is one from the series of maps/layers of the city of Košice.
As part of Project #INTEGRA - Integration of Third-country Nationals Through Urban Partnerships, the Croatian partner Center for Peace, nonviolence and human rights is running an online campaign, part of which includes information about immigrants and their contributions to their new countries.
In July they presented online the story of Levi Strauss. Levi Strauss, the inventor of the quintessential American garment, was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria, on February 26, 1829. He had three older brothers and three older sisters. Two years after his father succumbed to tuberculosis in 1846, Levi and his sisters emigrated to New York, where they were met by his two older brothers who owned a NYC-based wholesale dry goods business called “J. Strauss Brother & Co.” Levi soon began to learn the trade himself.
When news of the California Gold Rush made its way east, Levi journeyed to San Francisco in 1853 to make his fortune. He established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name Levi Strauss & Co. and imported fine dry goods from his brothers in New York, including clothing, bedding, combs, purses, and handkerchiefs. He made tents and later jeans while he lived with Fanny's growing family. Jacob W. Davis was one of his customers and one of the inventors of riveted denim pants in 1871, and he went into business with Strauss to produce blue jeans. The two men patented the new style of work pants in 1873.
