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  • Join the Network of European Café Houses – OPEN CALL

    For café houses, literary cafés, cultural cafés, and community-based hospitality venues across Europe. Issued by HADIK Coffee House, Budapest, within the framework of the CAFE project — Redefining Café Houses as unique European Cultural Heritage

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    Join the Network of European Café Houses – OPEN CALL
  • TRISTALINE KVINTET IN CAFÉ MAKS ON 12 JUNE

    Yesterday’s concert by the Tristaline Quintet at the Maks bookstore and café in Nova Gorica. Jazz press…

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    TRISTALINE KVINTET IN CAFÉ MAKS ON 12 JUNE
  • Gergő Karádi and Florencia Horváth at New European Bauhaus Festival

    What happens when a poet and a songwriter enter into dialogue with one another? For them, the lesson is clear: personal experiences become universal, and creative worlds become boundless.

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    Gergő Karádi and Florencia Horváth at New European Bauhaus Festival
  • ZEROSCENA – meeting with the Italian artists at Caffè Letterario dell’Emeroteca dell’Arte

    The meeting with Cesare Pietroiusti, Zeroscena, and Carola Cappellari at the Emeroteca dell’Arte in Mestre represented a moment of public sharing of the research developed within the framework of CAFE – Redefining Café Houses as Unique European Cultural Heritage, a project that investigates the role of European cafés as spaces of cultural production, the layering…

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    ZEROSCENA – meeting with the Italian artists at Caffè Letterario dell’Emeroteca dell’Arte
  • Cucchiaino – Mátyás Sirokai, Orsolya Vágner and Verus Klausz IN ITALY

    What happens when an everyday gesture becomes choreography? And when sound emerges from the most ordinary objects, transforming a familiar space into a place of shared creation?

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    Cucchiaino – Mátyás Sirokai, Orsolya Vágner and Verus Klausz IN ITALY
  • CAFÉ international training – ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

    At the opening roundtable of our CAFÉ international training, on 19 January we discussed how heritage spaces can adapt through artistic collaboration and social innovation.

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    CAFÉ international training – ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
  • How can café houses evolve to remain vibrant cultural hubs while preserving their unique European heritage?

    Between 19 and 23 January we gathered in Hadik House (Hadik Kávéház) for the training programme of the CAFÉ – Redefining Café Houses as unique European Cultural Heritage project. With 10 international guests from across Europe, we explored how café houses can remain living heritage spaces: adapting through artistic collaboration and social innovation, and continuing…

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    How can café houses evolve to remain vibrant cultural hubs while preserving their unique European heritage?
  • EU Café International training program 2026 in Budapest

    As part of a full-week training invited café house operators explored the framework of cultural ecosystems, focusing particularly on coffee houses and the challenges they face in the 21st century.

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    EU Café International training program 2026 in Budapest
  • Partner meeting in Nova Gorica

    The partners of the CAFÉ project spent two inspiring days in Nova Gorica, Slovenia on 5–6 November, hosted by ZRC SAZU. 

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    Partner meeting in Nova Gorica
  • Redefining Café Houses as European Cultural Heritage – Live Exchange Workshop

    Café has always been more than just a place to drink coffee. It’s where history unfolds, where art, literature, and political ideas are born — where communities meet and cities come alive. But what does the future hold for these iconic European institutions?

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    Redefining Café Houses as European Cultural Heritage – Live Exchange Workshop