Culture
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Prague Zoo celebrates 75th birthday
The Prague Zoo celebrated its 75th year in style this week, with festivities coinciding with the national holiday of St Wenceslas Day on September 28th. As Patrick Ryan…
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French exhibition of Czech art winds up, heads for Prague
In the shadow of the church of the St. Germain de Pres on the Rue Bonaparte, the staff of the Czech Cultural Center waved visitors in to the closing celebration of a…
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Jaroslav Jezek: 100 years since the birth of a Czech musical legend
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jaroslav Jezek, a man whose musical compositions from the late 1920s and 1930s have stood the test of time. Critics…
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"Through the Valley of Shadows" maps burial sites, rituals from Neolithic to early Middle Ages
Anyone interested in archaeology is likely to be attracted to a new exhibition just opening at the Prague City Museum titled "Through the Valley of Shadows". The exhibit…
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Franz's sand "ziggurat" final piece at Sculpture Grande '06
For a number of years now visitors in Prague have been able to view public sculpture in and around the monumental Wenceslas Square throughout the summer months. Titled…
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Pursued by a bear on the seacoast of Bohemia: Shakespeare and the Czechs
For this edition of Czech Books we are at the Philosophical Faculty of Prague's Charles University to meet one of the most respected professors at the university. Dr…
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"Seven Candles" to remember Czech composers who died in the Holocaust
The impact of the Holocaust on Czech classical music was devastating. Many Czech composers were of Jewish origin, and during the German occupation were deported to the…
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Long forgotten photographs recall a lost Czech world
Some of the best things come about by chance, and that is certainly the case with an exhibition that opens on 27th September in the beautiful Baroque Clam-Gallas Palace in…
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Czech Radio and institutions sign agreement to map and preserve authentic testimonies on 20th…
Public broadcaster Czech Radio and a number of professional institutions like the Jewish Museum in Prague and Prague's Institute of Contemporary History recently signed a…
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Days of Iranian Culture, Broumov - Memory of the Heart
In this week's edition of the Arts, a festival of Iranian culture in Prague, at a difficult time for relations between Iran and the West. And an exhibition of photos from…
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International photography project maps travels of Franz Kafka
"Journeys of Franz Kafka" is the name of a new project in which award-winning Czech photographer Jan Jindra follows in the footsteps of the literary great, taking black…
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Jan Spata: A documentary maker of everyday life
Jan Spata would have celebrated his 74th birthday on October 25 if he hadn't died in August this year after a short and serious illness. A documentary maker, cameraman and…
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