Date: 25.6.2026
Time: 14:30-16:30
Location: Pakghor – The Social Kitchen» im Platzspitzpark (behind Landesmuseum)
Partner: The Zurich Archipelago
Artist: Eirini Sougiadaki
Access:
Free entry, open to everyone
No reservation needed
This is an invitation. If you show up in the Cafè Imperial, we will take a look together at some of the multiple layers of a colonial beverage. We will look for traces in the cup and think of traces on the map. The tradition of powdered coffee boiling that spread with the Ottoman Empire across the Balkans, North Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean meets in variations; a Greek coffee is a Turkish coffee, a Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Bosnian, Armenian, Cypriot, Bulgarian. Grinded a bit more finely or a bit more roughly, served in a cup with or without a handle, with cardamom, clove, sugar, or not. Stories surviving from empire to empire, connecting, empowering people and community. An unremarkable morning ritual. Sometimes, an unremarkable evening ritual. Connected to blood and oppression. Served in funerals and memorials. Used for fortune telling. Come.