Culture
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Prague Shakespeare Company production highlights ‘Masaryk in America’
A debut performance by Prague Shakespeare Company premieres tonight at the National Theatre’s Estates Theatre. Masaryk in America tells the story of the founding of…
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Prague’s Allstar Refjúdží Band celebrates decade of eclectic music at Archa Theatre
The Archa Theatre in Prague is renowned as a space where artists and companies from around the world meet and cooperate on projects ranging from contemporary dance…
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Martina Forman: “Miloš was a great, great man – great company”
Novelist and screenwriter Martina Forman settled in the United States in the 1990s after meeting her husband, the great film director Miloš Forman. When we spoke at her…
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The Pied Piper: a Czech version of a classic story that defies interpretation
Most Czechs know the story of the Pied Piper through a writer called Viktor Dyk. His short novel of the same name – Krysař in Czech – is a Czech classic, written on the…
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New book of soldiers’ letters and memoirs brings personal account of WWI
One of the new books out marking the anniversary of the end of WWI is a collection of soldiers´ letters, diaries and memoirs giving a personal account of life in the…
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Czech folk artist’s award from Vladimir Putin sparks controversy
On Sunday, one of the most famous Czech folk singers, Jaromír Nohavica, received the Medal of Pushkin in Moscow from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nohavica’s…
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Exhibition highlights the best of Czech toy design
One of the many successful exhibitions marking the 100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia is Mini Wonders, which explores the evolution of Czech toy design over the past…
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Food Film Festival gives Prague moviegoers a taste of science
The fourth Food Film Festival brought documentaries from around the world to Prague’s National Technical Library over the weekend. Morgan Childs visited the one-day event…
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Pierre Pe’er Friedmann and the challenges of bringing Czech writing to readers in Israel
Pe’er Friedmann is currently the only active literary translator from Czech into Hebrew. It was his enthusiasm for Karel Čapek, the best-loved Czech writer of the 1920s…
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100 years of the Republic - Dining at Prague Castle
Dining is one of the most important manifestations of material culture. At state dinners the quality of the porcelain and glass used represents a given state. On the…
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Presidential vote and Czechoslovak past among themes at 22nd Jihlava documentary festival
This year’s edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival gets underway on Thursday. While the country’s top documentary event opens with a film focused…
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Comic book tells tale of post-1948 Czech emigrés
Historians rarely publish comic books, but Martin Nekola is an exception. In cooperation with illustrator Jakub Dušek he has just published a comic book about the fate of…
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