Culture
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Diamond Jubilee of eclectic "Smetana’s Litomyšl" international opera festival underway
An annual international opera festival celebrating the works of Bedřich Smetana – perhaps the most famous Czech composers of all time – kicks off on Thursday in the…
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Lou Reed, Havel, Půlnoc – and the first Velvet Underground reunion
The first reunion of the classic lineup of The Velvet Underground took place in Paris in 1990, at a show also featuring the Czech band Půlnoc. Believe it or not, the VU…
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J. R. Pick and a brilliant novel of the Holocaust: Part 2
In the last edition of Czech Books we featured an interview with Zuzana Justman, who with her older brother and mother survived the wartime Terezín ghetto. Her brother…
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Brno festival marks centenary of modern Czech statehood, women’s suffrage
For the third year now, the Moravian capital Brno is hosting an international event that brings together representatives of various nationalities, cultures and faiths. The…
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Church Night 2018
Over 1,400 churches, chapels and cloisters opened their doors to the public last Friday, offering visitors a rare opportunity to get a glimpse of places which are usually…
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Czech highlights at Karlovy Vary 2018 to include radical drama, presidential election coverage –…
The just-announced main competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will feature two Czech films: Adam Sedlák’s Domestique, and Winter Flies by…
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Multiple criminal complaints filed over “Our Violence” play in Brno
A group of right-wing protestors who over the weekend disrupted a theatre performance of the controversial play by Croatian director Oliver Frljić have filed a criminal…
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J. R. Pick and a brilliant novel of the Holocaust – at last available in English: Part 1
“Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” is a remarkable book by many standards. It is a comic novel set in the wartime Jewish ghetto in Terezín, written by the…
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More than 1,300 sites take part in 10th Church Night
The 10th annual Church Night gets underway in the Czech Republic on Friday and it’s bigger than ever before. The event, which offers visitors a rare opportunity to get a…
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Philip Roth’s crusade to help Czechoslovak dissident writers under Communism
Towering Jewish-American author Philip Roth has died at the age of 85. And while most of the tributes will rightly focus on his many prize winning works over 60 years…
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Brno musicians turn hobby into multi-million equipment export business for top studios
Two Brno art students have done what many people dream about: turning their hobby in a business. In this case the two passionate musicians built their own musical kit in…
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National Gallery’s app reveals hidden medieval secrets
The National Gallery in Prague has launched its first mobile application, called Hidden Secrets of Medieval Paintings. It offers visitors an interactive viewing of…
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