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Prague celebrates Prague – the 1st Oslavy Prahy festival
There are many festivals in and around Prague celebrating all the wonderful facets of this city imaginable. But until this weekend, there was never a festival that feted…
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Shakespeare festival “theatrical event of the summer” says translator of new version of Merry Wives…
One of the biggest cultural events of the season in the Czech Republic, the annual Shakespeare Summer Festival, has just begun at the Supreme Burgrave’s House at Prague…
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Sorbian culture promoted in Prague’s Malá Strana
The Lusatian Sorbs are a small Slavic minority who can mostly be found in the East of Germany. But they have their history, and their friends, in the Czech Republic too…
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Actors Banderas and Malkovich and screenwriter Schrader among big names at this year’s Karlovy Vary
In a week and a half’s time the red carpet will be rolled out at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. There are no Czech pictures in the main competition this…
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Artworks from Hitler’s collection discovered at Czech museums
Part of a large art collection that once belonged to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is dispersed in several Czech museums – often without their curators being aware of it…
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Changing narratives from the smaller countries of Europe
If you are a writer from one of the smaller countries of Europe, writing in a language spoken by a few million or perhaps just a few hundred thousand people, your chances…
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Free music festival brings party to Vltava’s islands as Czech EU presidency winds down
Tens of bands and dozens of djs performed around Prague on Thursday evening to open this year’s United Islands Festival. The event, which is in its fifth year, is…
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Annual opera festival underway in Bedřich Smetana's hometown
The East Bohemian town of Litomyšl has a lot to boast of, from its UNESCO World Heritage status to its lively year-round atmosphere. Nonetheless, what this town of 10,000…
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Rudy Linka – a guitar virtuoso bringing world renowned musicians to Czech cities and towns with…
The world-renowned jazz guitar player Rudy Linka was born in Prague but moved to Sweden at a young age. After half a decade there he left for the US, and has been living…
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Radim Hladík
This edition of Music Profile is dedicated to the great Czech rock guitarist Radim Hladík. Hladík was a founder member of two of the leading Czechoslovak bands of the late…
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Sculpture that sparked controversy in Brussels meant to be fun, says creator Černý at Prague launch
The sculpture Entropa has been one of the most reported on aspects of the Czech presidency of the European Union. The artwork, which was placed in an EU building in…
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Art of storytelling meets art of dissent at 19th Prague Writers’ Festival
The capital event of the Czech literary calendar began this week with the start of the 19th Prague Writers’ Festival. Each year the festival brings dozens of major…
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