Culture
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Graffiti and street art invade ‘traditional’ gallery space
Part of Prague’s City Gallery, one of the city’s best-known venues, has been turned inside out, recently launching an exhibition of work not usually restricted by gallery…
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2012 Mezipatra queer film fest focuses on power, madness and manipulation
This year’s Mezipatra Queer Film Festival gets underway on Thursday night with a ceremony at Prague’s Lucerna cinema. The event, now in its 13th year, is bringing more…
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Requiem for Auschwitz – fighting prejudice, with choir and violin
Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall is one of Europe’s most prestigious classical music venues – it kicks off the Prague Spring International Music Festival each year, among…
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Journalist and writer Aleš Březina
Aleš Březina is a journalist, author and also editor and publisher of the Canadian-based Czech and Slovak bi-weekly newsletter “Satellite 1-416”. Mr Březina was born in…
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Classical guitar player and chanson singer Lenka Filipová
This week’s Sunday Music Show profiles chanson singer, guitarist and composer Lenka Filipová. The singer, who started out as a classical guitar player and developed into a…
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Film about Transnistria wins top Czech documentary award
A film about the breakaway region of Transnistria won the best Czech documentary award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2012. The movie Fortress, by…
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Painting depicting murder of St. Vaclav sees light of day after 167 years
A painting depicting the most famous fratricide in Czech history – the murder of prince Vaclav by his own brother Boleslav in 935 has emerged to see the light of day after…
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A Prague institution - the famous Café Slavia
Prague’s wealth of traditional coffeehouses is a legacy from the era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But even in today’s hectic time, grabbing a quick cup on the run is…
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Marta Kubišová, the voice of Prague Spring, receives France’s Legion d’Honneur
Czech singer Marta Kubišová has been awarded France’s Legion of Honour in recognition of her art as well as of her courage in standing up to communist oppression. One of…
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Celebrating some of the greatest Czechs abroad
There are more than two million Czechs and their Czech-speaking descendants living outside their homeland, or working abroad indefinitely, and Czech Radio and the Czech…
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Remembering Geraldine Mucha: a Scottish composer in Prague whose work and spirit will live on
The death on October 12 of the Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha at the age of 95 marked the end of an era. Since the end of WWII, her home had been Prague, where she…
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Vladimíra Krčková, a young jazz singer who lives in Prague
Vladimíra Krčková recently performed at Life Fashion Café in Prague. She sang songs like “Once I had a secret love”, originally written for Doris Day in the 1950s…
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