LiKE 2026 - Košice Contemporary Literature Festival

We invite you to the 11th annual Košice Festival of Contemporary Literature – LiKE, which will once again be coming to our theater this year.

PROGRAM:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026
6:00 PM – Festival Opening (Artforum)
6:00 PM – Bára Bažantová: Which Way Out? (Na Peróne)
6:15 PM – Daniel Pastirčák: We’ll Meet in Our Dreams (Artforum)
7:00 PM – Košická spojka Live: Special on Marginalized Communities (At the Platform)
7:30 PM - Mirka Ábelová: A Record of the Creation of a Strange World (Artforum)
8:30 PM - Waldemar Švábenský: That Night I Slept Standing Up and Hungry (Na Peróne)
9:00 PM - Lyrik H: Poems and Rap (Na Peróne)

We’ll be posting the program for Friday and Saturday soon.

More information about the event: https://www.festivallike.sk/#programme

This project is made possible thanks to support from the Fund for the Support of National Minority Culture, the LITA Fund, the Polish Institute, the Slovenská sporiteľňa Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation as part of the Regional Culture Fund.

The festival’s visual identity was designed by Simona Császárová, winner of the National Design Award.