About us

This trans-atlantic web experience named Café Stockholm-Toronto is nothing more than an experience. The perpetual beta-version of a web site born out of the desire to find a home. Even a virtual one.

Both authors are facing the challenges of the immigrant (emigrant?) life, though in different places, on different continents. Hence Stockholm and Toronto, respectively. But the land left behind is the same: Transylvania. For them it is not the legendary home of Dracula. It is the place where they were born, went to school - and lived. (I bet you thought there is no real place with that name...) Actually the authors have studied at the same university - when they were a little bit younger - and after many years of lost connection they suddenly discovered each other on the net. Emails followed... and they started to build the Café.

It is a Café - a traditional place for gathering, for talk. It also offers a public space for authors and artists and everybody.

Unfortunately the majority of the website is in Hungarian, we don't have the resources to translate all the texts. For the moment the only chapter with an English version is the Gallery.

Look around and enjoy!

Tamás & István

NEW!

On Sept. 29, 2001. an artist named András Márkos (from Stuttgart, but originally also from Transylvania) organized a 24 hours long performance. During the 24 hours he painted 24 paintings - one by every hour. Poets, writers, critics and other artists were invited to write previously a "presentation" of the work knowing only the title! The texts were written and sent or brought (personally) to the gallery were the event took place in Csíkszereda. Our website published four mini-interviews with the artist on the week before (in Hungarian only).
On Sept. 29 thanks to the truly unbelievable efforts of Edit Gergely who was on the spot - we managed to follow the events: uploading almost hourly the photos of the new paintings and the text with the same title.
We also have a lot of pictures taken during the performance titled "24 HOURS - The Cast and András Márkos". (Pictures: page1, page2, page3.)
For the paintings click here (IE users only!) - Netscape users, please, go here and chose the "hours" at the bottom of the page.
Enjoy!

In the Café part there are pages presenting the authors, the story of this site and links to our friends.
Stockholm contains short interviews in TIFUSZ and longer ones in Dracula.
In the Toronto chapter there are some writings of the webmaster, photos and a collection named Guestpage for authors invited by us.