Culture
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Palermo - putting Prague on the alternative music map
In this week's Sunday Music Show we look at earlier tracks but also the latest album by electronic duo Palermo.
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Devětsil - Prague’s forgotten movement
Until the advent of the First World War, intellectuals and artists sitting in Prague’s smoky coffee houses would have talked in ‘isms’: modernism, cubism, futurism, and…
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Mariusz Surosz: Czechs and Poles – “Nobody Knows Anything”
One of the curious things about Central Europe is how little people from the various countries of the region know about each other. A recent sociological study suggested…
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Five years of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague
It’s hard to believe that it has already been five years since the opening of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Holešovice in Prague. Founded by Leoš Válka (who lived…
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Legendary lyricist and songwriter Zdeněk Rytíř dies at 69
The Czech Republic has lost one of its most highly-regarded lyricists and songwriters, Zdeněk Rytíř, who worked with many of the biggest names on the Czech music scene for…
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Installation makes actors of passers-by at Prague’s New Stage
With barely a month to go until the New Stage theatre on Prague’s Národní třída turns 30, an art installation from Aleš Hvízdal, Marek Volf and Dominika Nettwallová has…
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International Festival of Outdoor Films begins in Ostrava
This Friday sees the start of the International Festival of Outdoor Films in Ostrava, the largest festival of its kind in the Czech Republic focussing on adventure, travel…
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Next Wave performing arts festival heads into its 20th year
The Next Wave festival of independent theater and art is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Starting on Thursday, new and established performance groups and…
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Prague 10 district set to buy Karel Čapek’s villa
When one half of the Čapek brothers villa was put up for sale by the relatives of Karel Čapek’s wife on May, some were worried that the famous writer’s residence, where…
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Irena Eliášová: a song to raise your spirits
The poet, playwright and novelist Irena Eliášová spent her early childhood in a Romany village in south-western Slovakia. The memory of this time has become the defining…
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Students launch campaign to end dubbing of foreign TV programmes
Switch on your TV here in the Czech Republic and you’ll see numerous familiar shows – Dr House, Bones, Downton Abbey – but they’re invariably dubbed into Czech; rarely are…
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Ivan Shvedoff: Prague-based actor is “Mr. Eastern Bloc” in Western movies
Actor Ivan Shvedoff moved to Prague at the end of the 1990s from his native Saint Petersburg. Since arriving here he has extended his filmography greatly, with roles in a…
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