Culture
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Bohemian bagpipe tradition focus of documentary Call of Dudy
Dudy is the Czech word for the bagpipes and Call of Dudy is the title of a documentary film focused on the Bohemian piping tradition. Featuring lots of great music and…
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Dozens of valuable artworks returned to Czech Republic
It’s not everyday you are given a budget of 10 million crowns (624,000 USD) and told to spend it all. But that’s exactly what a group of Czech art experts were ordered to…
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New exhibition treats communist oppression of 1980s Czech rock bands
This sort of music may not make for the easiest of listening, and the title of the song ‘pal vodsud’ hajzle’ (something like ‘piss off, jerk’), might not sound the most…
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One of the country’s biggest film festivals celebrates 15 years
Thursday night sees the opening of the Febiofest film festival. Between now and next Thursday audiences in Prague will be able to choose from nearly three hundred films…
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Czech government team sent to recover lost art treasures at Christie’s auction
Art lovers have good reason to visit Amsterdam next week. On Tuesday, the Dutch branch of Christies auction house will be putting some very interesting artefacts under the…
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Artists behind prank “nuclear blast” acquitted of wrongdoing
On Tuesday, seven Czech artists who hacked into a Czech TV broadcast as an artistic prank last year were acquitted of criminal wrongdoing. In June 2007 members of the…
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New Czech-American play looks at dating across cultures
Prague’s Divadlo na Zábradlí may be famous for staging former President Václav Havel’s plays, but over the next couple of months, it will be playing host to something…
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Czech Easter traditions
Czechs may be one of the most secular nations in Europe, but when it comes to Christian holidays such as Easter or Christmas, they are very keen to observe traditions…
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The Easter market on Prague’s Old Town Square
The sun has just come out over Prague’s Old Town Square, and the Easter market is now looking a lot less sodden - and a lot more appealing - than it was five minutes ago…
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Burning the Morana
I’m here in the Vysočina region of the Czech Republic, in a small village in the midst of hills, fresh air and idyllic countryside. Next to me are a couple of young ladies…
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V+W+J - three letters that changed the history of Czech music
In this month's Music Profile, we go back in time to the 1930s and the Liberated Theatre, where political satire and dadaist cabaret collided head on to a soundtrack of…
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Forays into the Brno line-dancing scene
Let me tell you a story about how once upon a time, I ran away with a Moravian country dance troupe. I appreciate that my love of all things Czech and country is getting…
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