Culture
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Vojtěch Merunka – Developer of Interslavic language spoken in The Painted Bird
One of the most striking aspects of director Václav Marhoul’s new film The Painted Bird is the language spoken in it. The characters communicate in Interslavic, or…
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King’s Singers launch annual music festival Lípa Musica
The international music festival Lípa Musica got underway this week with a performance by the British vocal ensemble King’s Singers in the Hejnice Monastery in North…
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Cofounders of Laydeez do Comics’ Czech branch on gender, graphic novels, and pushing boundaries
‘Laydeez do Comics’ is an international organisation that promotes female comics artists and their work. I spoke with the co-founders of the Czech branch shortly after the…
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National Museum searching for early Czech sound recordings in US
Few people in the Czech Republic know that a significant chapter in the history of early Czech sound recordings was written by Czech immigrants in the United States. For…
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Peter Sis: In September 1989 I led fleeing East Germans through Malá Strana
Peter Sis’s On Flying and Other Dreams is one of the exhibitions of the year in Prague. It places in a fresh context five books focused on freedom by the US-based author…
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My Brno – Martin Reiner
Brno’s Martin Reiner is an award-winning poet and novelist. He also works closely with some of the Czech Republic’s other leading writers as head of the publishing house…
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55 years since Starci na chmelu popularised the film musical genre in Czechoslovakia
Released in 1964, Starci na chmelu is the first and perhaps most famous Czechoslovak film musical. The film’s songs were written by Vratislav Blažek and were recorded with…
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FAMU’s animated movie grabs student Oscar
Daughter, a Czech short animated film by Daria Kashcheeva, has won the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ student Oscar for best animated film from…
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Revolutionary year of 1989 focus of new Jan Šibík exhibition in Prague
Jan Šibík 1989, a photography exhibition now running in Prague, brings to life some of the most dramatic moments of that momentous period. Šibík, who was then in his mid…
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New album pays tribute to Czech country music legend Michal Tučný
The Czech rock-pop band Jelen has released a new album paying tribute to the Czech country music legend Michal Tučný. The LP, called Půlnoční vlak Michala Tučného…
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Strike alert! Czech opera singers demand ‘auditions’ for top National Theatre posts
National Theatre artists, mainly opera singers, are threatening to strike if the newly appointed culture minister rejects their demand to open selection processes to…
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Pianist Pogorelich among stars of this year’s Dvořák Prague
The annual Dvořák Prague festival, dedicated to one of the country’s greatest composers of all time, gets underway at the Rudofinum concert hall on Sunday. The event will…
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