Artsczech

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Czech art scene

Whom is it for and what you can find here

News & Events

Mix of news and events from Czech arts.

Calls

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Highlights

Podcast: Czech Next Wave

Radio Prague International and Czech Centers are launching a new English podcast, Czech Next Wave

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9. 10.

— 17. 10.

Festival 4+4 Days in Motion Celebrates 25 Years

The 25th-anniversary edition of the international festival of contemporary arts 4+4 Days in Motion will take place on 9-17 October 2020 in Prague. The major venue will be the Art Nouveau building of the New School in Strašnice.

PQ Podcasts: Disappearing Visceral Landscapes

The team of Prague Quadrennial presents a podcast Disappearing Visceral Landscapes.

Publications

Czech Poetry in the British Journal Modern Poetry in Translation

The British journal Modern Poetry in Translation has dedicated 60 pages of its summer issue to Czech poetry.

Literature

Fotograf Magazine #36 New Utopias

The New edition of the Fotograf magazine is out. The 36th issue covers the topics of New Utopias.

Visual arts

Events

Show must go on/off-line: Green Thursdays

The Show must go on / off-line: Green Thursdays is a series of international online discussion meetings with Czech and foreign guests in the field of performing arts.

Performing arts

9. 9.

— 13. 9.

SYNTHESIZING / DISTANCING – Isolation, Ecology and Democratic Space

UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague is part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 with its intervention in Kepler’s gardens (Linz) in the form of two experimental public space platforms.

Calls

New Online Portal of Residential Places in the Czech Republic

Nová síť is working on completing a new website ARTS-IN-RES focused on the sphere of theatre, dance, performance, and contemporary circus.

Performing arts

New Grant Program for Access to Arts Online

Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Arts and Theatre Institute announced an extra call for applications in the grant program "Cultural activities" with the main goal to support creators and make their work accessible on-line.

PQ 2020: Call to Performance Design Educators and Students

The goal of this project is to offer students who may have found their summer creative projects canceled, a chance to find artistic inspiration through a play that eerily anticipated – over eighty years ago – many of the dangers the world is facing today.

Stories

Artists and art professionals share their experiences with residencies, grants, and study visits both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Literature

„I don’t want to produce fast-moving consumer goods,” says literary documentarian and publisher Baronová

Before the state of emergency, Baronová's small art publishing house wo-men issued the documentary book Ženy o ženách (Women on Women), soon nominated for the Most Beautiful Czech Book of the Year.

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Our websites

SoundCzech

Website of the Czech music export office.

IDU

Arts and Theatre Institute website.

Czech mobility info

Practical information about international collaboration of artists.

PerformCzech

Website promoting Czech performing arts.

Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.