Culture
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The Days of Unrest: Prague actors' and artists' protest against the council’s arts funding
Hundreds gathered outside Prague’s National Theatre on Sunday to witness an eight-hour-long protest against the way the arts are funded in the Czech capital. The event …
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Anthony Northey: Kafka and the Geishas
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The opening sentence of Franz Kafka’s story…
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Prague Fringe Festival gets underway on Sunday
Prague’s seventh annual Fringe Festival, a marathon of theatre, dance, comedy, music and film from around the world, gets underway in the Czech capital on Sunday. Running…
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Václav Havel - "Leaving", but also returning
In this week's Arts, a look at the first new play by former Czech president Václav Havel in twenty years. "Leaving" - about a politician's painful adjustment to a new life…
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Havel’s new play premieres in Prague
Last-minute rehearsals before the long-awaited world premiere of Václav Havel’s latest play at Prague’s Archa Theatre on Thursday night. Leaving or Odcházení, is the first…
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Jaroslav Marvan: 50 years on stage and screen
Jaroslav Marvan was one of the most prolific Czech actors of all times with more than 150 film roles and many more theatre acts. He appeared in his first – silent – movie…
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Prague’s American Center exhibition shows “Life with the Radar”
The Czech and American governments have reached a deal under which a US radar base would be based in central Bohemia. With most Czechs opposed to the project, Prague’s…
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Hollywood to Czech Republic: “Give us a break!”
In 1996, Mission: Impossible put the Czech Republic on the international map of film-making locations. It wasn’t just that the city provided a backdrop to much of the…
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Meda Mládková and her priceless art collection
Meda Mládková is a Czech art collector who spent more than half of her life in exile, mostly in the United States. In 1968 she established a collection of Czech art which…
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Celebrating the Czech Republic’s vibrant animation tradition at Anifest
Anifest, a weeklong festival dedicated to animated film has fast become a firm fixture on the Czech cultural calendar since it was established seven years ago. This year’s…
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Exhibition revives Czechoslovak triumph at Expo 1958
It is exactly 50 years since Czechoslovakia’s great triumph at the world Expo exhibition in Brussels, at which the country won the best pavilion award and many Czech and…
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Prague Spring international music festival gets underway
As every year, on May 12th the sound of Má vlast or My Country by Bedřich Smetana will launch the Prague Spring international music festival - a renowned festival of…
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