Jarka Hálková

In the Arts this week we visit two concerts and look at two rather different musical projects. The first one is an international guitar festival Guitar Across Styles. The…

It would be hard to find a person who is not familiar with at least one tragic story of the Nazi concentration camps. This tragic episode in history has been a source of…

Euthanasia - in the original Greek the word means help in suffering, both medical and in the mind. The word now applies to the highly controversial issue of enhancing…

Dragon boats have been plying their way up and down Czech rivers for nearly ten years. When Sebastian Pawlowski and Hajo Libor had the idea of starting dragon boat racing…

A Czech organisation called "Change" has just finished its first ever campaign in Prague's metro aiming to raise public awareness of the mentally ill. Mental illness is…

The very first refugee entered Czechoslovakia shortly after the Velvet Revolution fifteen years ago. Since then many more have applied for asylum. Having fled their…

Many Czech dancers left the country in the 90s. After a few years abroad they are now slowly coming back home with new ideas, inspiration and experiences. Czech dance is…

Today's Czech Books looks at Magdalena Platzova who has in her mid thirties published two books, poems and is author of three theatre plays. The plays were very well…

This year's international festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre Tanec Praha or Dance Prague is living up to the great reputation it's built up in the last…

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC opens its halls to artists of different countries once a year. Audiences have already been able to hear French…