Culture
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Prague in Noir – Paseka publishes new urban noir compilation
Noir fiction and the sub-genre Urban Noir do not have a long-standing tradition in Czech writing, where the emphasis for many years was on classic mysteries and detective…
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Lasvit: transforming glass into a breath-taking light and design experience
In 2007 when businesses were closing down as a result of the global crisis, Leon Jakimič founded his lighting installations and glass artworks company Lasvit. Today it is…
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Chuck Palahniuk headlining Prague Writers’ Festival
The annual Prague Writers’ Festival, which brings together prominent writers and thinkers from around the world, gets underway in Prague on Friday. The 26th edition of the…
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National Theatre honours Havel at 80, kicking off festival putting focus on human rights
This week Václav Havel, who died in 2011, would have turned 80 and events in his honour are being held around the country. Some will celebrate his works as a playwright…
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Barbora Mochowa – the Czech Lana Del Rey
In this week’s Sunday Music we present up-and-coming singer-songwriter Barbora Mochowa. Dubbed the Czech Lana Del Rey, Barbora recently released her debut album Waiting…
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Exhibition marks 40 years in the life of Prague’s biggest housing estate
It is exactly forty years since the first inhabitants started moving into the Czech Republic’s biggest housing estate, Jižní Město in the south of Prague. The local…
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Joshua Bell helps Czech Philharmonic launch 121st season
The Czech Philharmonic launched its new season on Thursday night with a concert at Prague’s Rudolfinum featuring the world-renowned US violinist Joshua Bell, who performed…
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Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz: of unknown origin in a strange wood without leaves
This year’s George Theiner Prize, which honours people who have helped to promote Czech literature abroad, went to Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz. At the University of British…
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Glass works by winners of the Stanislav Libenský award, as well as other finalists, on view at DOX
The Stanislav Libenský Award, founded eight years ago, is an international competition recognizing outstanding works in glass by art college graduates. This year’s winners…
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Prague’s Nostitz Palace houses priceless collection of books
One of the city’s most precious book collections is to be found in the Nostitz Palace Library in Prague’s Lesser Town. The Early Baroque building, former residence of the…
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Performance sheds new light on life and work of Gideon Klein
Gideon Klein has been known mainly as a Czech Jewish composer who was interned in Terezín and later died in Auschwitz. A new international performance, which has its Czech…
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Russian street-art activist and critic of Putin regime detained in Prague
It was reported first by RFE/RL that the founder of the political street art group Voina, Oleg Vorotnikov, and his wife and fellow activist Natalia Sokol, along with their…
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