Culture

125 Years Ago Today: The First Film Screened in Prague

On Oct. 18, 1896, Prague held its first-ever film screening at the Hotel U černého koně. Optician and mechanic Adolf Oppenheimer carried out the screening, screening only short films at the time.  Dismas Šlambor, alias Viktor Ponrepo, established the first permanent Czech cinema a few years later in September of 1907. The theater opened in the house U Modré štiky located on Prague’s Karlova St.  Ponrepo’s father was a glider, but rather than endeavor to take over the family business, Ponprepo worked as a traveling magician for a while. When interest in the magic business tanked at the turn of the 19th century, Ponprepo purchased both a phonograph and a cinematograph, kicking off his career in film.  His Ponrepo cinema held 200 seats, somewhat resembling a family business. After the theater’s establishment, moving pictures became increasingly popular for the city residents. By 1911, there were nine cinemas located at Prague’s center and another 13 in the suburbs, making for an uptick of 22 cinemas over the course of four years alone.  Another three years later, and there were 39 theaters constructed in the city, seeing around 12,000 visitors on weekdays and up to 80,000 on Sundays. Today, with its seemingly...

 by Prague Morning Oct 18, 2021

The First NFT Gallery Opens in the Heart of Prague

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have revolutionized the digital art world. The unique signature keys associated with NFTs have created a new cryptocurrency marketplace.  Crypto Portal, housed in a medieval basement in the heart of Old Town Square, features NFTs from a range of well-known local and international artists, including @jessicatichio, @solos.nft, @iamautomobilist, and @ivonatau. Prague’s NFT Gallery houses 40 screens in 12th-century basements of IAM Prague. For all visitors of IAM Prague, the entrance to the NFT gallery is going to be free of charge. Working hours are daily from 9.00 a.m. until 7.00 pm.m What is an NFT? Non-Fungible Tokens: NFTs are digital tokens. These unique tokens are packaged with digital art, collectibles, music, and even virtual land. Like cryptocurrencies, NFTs utilize blockchain technology, in this case, to establish verified, public proof of ownership of the digital collectible, along with a record of all transactions. The initial proliferation of NFTs happened on the Ethereum network, though NFTs are becoming more widely available on other blockchain networks. Why buy NFTs The sale of NFTs can empower artists and creators by enabling them to reach larger audiences, bypassing the need for physical sales or gallery involvement, and helping protect the uniqueness...

 by Prague Morning Oct 16, 2021
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Famous and Mysterious Frida Kahlo: Hundreds of Photographs from her Collection Can be Seen in Prague

The Gallery of the Capital City of Prague has exhibitions for over two hundred photographers and their collections. From October 15, 2021, through January 16, 2022, Frida Kahlo will have a featured exhibition where viewers will see her extensive collection of over 6,000 items in the House at the Stone Bell. She was an influential and mysterious Mexican artist whose featured archive wasn’t discovered until 2003. The organizers of the event say that some of the photographs found were done by other famous photographers that befriended Frida including Man Ray and Edward Weston. These photographs are not only historically valued but artistically valued. This is a traveling exhibition and has been seen in various parts of the world with more than half a million spectators. She was born in Mexico City in 1907 and died in 1954, and throughout her life she endured many tragic events. When she was 18 years old she suffered from a severe case of polio and was injured in a bus accident. She underwent 35 different spine and pelvic surgeries which caused detrimental physical and mental problems. During her convalescence, she began to seriously focus on creating art. Mexican Ambassador Rosaura Leonara Rueda Gutiérrez told...

 by Prague Morning Oct 15, 2021

Prague Mayor Unveils Havel’s Corner in Brussels

Havel’s corner, unveiled in Brussels on Tuesday, should be reminiscent of the legacy of the former Czech president and writer Václav Havel and at the same time entice people to sit and talk. Two chairs and a round table, through which a tree grows, stand in the park in sight of the European Parliament. According to the Czech Ambassador to Belgium, Pavel Klucký, the space can serve, for example, as a meeting point for citizens and politicians. “We want it to become a real place where various ideas, often controversial, are expressed,” Klucký told reporters, according to whom the space, despite its small size, could become the Brussels form of London’s Hyde Park. Since the place is on the road leading to the meeting place of seven hundred politicians, it could serve the purpose well. The Czech Embassy in Brussels plans to revitalize the site by organizing some events, for example in connection with the upcoming Czech Presidency of the European Union. Similar monument stands in Prague since 2014 The monument, designed by Havel’s presidential architect Bořek Šípek, was created based on cooperation between Prague and Brussels’ City Halls. It is almost identical to the two chairs and table which since 2014...

 by Prague Morning Oct 15, 2021

The 9th Signal Festival of Light Starts in Prague

After last year’s break, Signal will light up and revive Prague’s spaces in a big way. A total of 4 routes, 15 installations in public space, 6 installations in augmented reality, and a rich accompanying program. The absolute novelty is a mobile app working with augmented reality, which is dedicated to one entire route in Karlín called Signal AR. It will complement the popular Karlín and Old Town routes and the new Holešovice route. The ninth edition of the digital and creative culture festival is all about sustainability and is called Plan C – ecology, sustainability and above all adaptability. The pandemic got us thinking: “How do we create a festival that can be there with us in times of need?” In collaboration with digital agency BRAINZ IMMERSIVE, bicepsdigital and four Czech artists – painter, sculptor and writer Jan Kaláb, futuristic visual concept artist AOKU, visual artist Jan Hladil and visual designer Longiy, organizers developed the Signal AR project. The Karlín route is accompanied by the virtual exhibition Signal AR. Six works in augmented reality that you can view from 8:00 to 19:00. You need to download the new Signal Festival app, now available on the Apple Store and Google Play. The application also offers...

 by Prague Morning Oct 14, 2021

The History of Panelák Housing in the Czech Republic

Prague was recently voted the most beautiful city in the world. With its castles, gorgeous architecture and cobblestone streets, the Czech Republic capital is viewed as one of the most picturesque corners of Europe where tourists entering in floods every year.  However, many are ignorant to the fact the Czech Republic is not merely immersed in attractive and charming buildings. Much of its architecture, and where many residents live, is still froze in the times of the communist era, in the form of Panelák housing. Referred to frequently as an ‘architects’ nightmare,’ the bleak, towering and frankly ugly apartments are a stark contrast to the beauty of the traditional, well-loved, construction of the beauty spots of Prague. The Panelák apartments were a quick solution in the communist era- they solved a need for quick, affordable, and modern housing in large quantities when the country was known as Czechoslovakia. Under total government control, soviet-style cities, and the housing developments within, generally featured tower blocks in park-like settings. This explains the enormity of some paneláks, which can be more than 100 meters long, and 20 stories high. Standardized and mass-produced, urban planning in the Soviet-run countries during the Cold War era was...

 by Prague Morning Oct 13, 2021
Holašovice Stonehenge

Healing, Crying & Strange Sensations: The Powerful Energy of the Czech Stonehenge

Back in 2008, a circle of giant stones was built in an idyllic landscape in the South Bohemian village of Holašovice. At first glance, some may confuse this for the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, called Stonehenge. But they would be wrong. The Czech Republic in fact has its very own, unique, version. It is called the ​​Holašovice Stonehenge, and it was created upon the expert advice of a well-known psychotronics engineer called Pavel Kozák. The stone circle is said to have the strongest energy of all domestic man-made megaliths. The term megalith refers to a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument. Many people who visit the stones speak of their power- saying that they can take away negative energy from the body and draw back positive energy. Those who visit seem to go to experience the special energy which is found in the centre of the stones. Visitors who choose to delve to the middle must stay silent while the energy is at work, and respect others who are operating inside.   There are rumours of a presence of high astral spiritual beings in the area, and for this reason, people have experienced various reactions to being...

 by Prague Morning Oct 13, 2021

Meet the British Expat in Prague Who Cleans Shoah Stones to Preserve Memories

A British expat in Prague has taken to cleaning hundreds of Holocaust memorial stones dotted around the city because dirt and grime meant the people they commemorate “were disappearing for a second time”. Trevor Sage, 61, a retired engineer born in Finchley, emigrated in 2006 after his wife died, and first happened across the Stolpersteine or “stumbling stones” by German artist Gunter Demnig while on a tour of his adopted city. “My knowledge of the Holocaust was limited to what I knew from watching films and TV documentaries but leapt when I took a tour of Theresienstadt with a guide (Pavel Stránský) who had survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Years later I was walking around Prague with a Czech friend who pointed out some hand-made memorial plaques set into the pavement,” said Trevor. He explained they were called Stolpersteine. Czechs call them the “stones of the disappeared”. They commemorate the Nazis’ victims, including Jews, LGBT, Roma, Sinti, resistance fighters, political prisoners and the disabled. The first Stolperstein was installed in Berlin in 1996. Today there are over 70,000 in 2,000 towns and cities across 24 European countries. Sweden and Denmark will be added later this year. It is the world’s largest...

 by Prague Morning Oct 05, 2021
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Prague Will Host Top-Notch Stand-Up Comedians

“Still the greatest and most influential comedy club on the planet.” Time Out On 12th November 2021, The Comedy Store will welcome in the Prague RockOpera a representative of the best that the European stand-up scene has to offer: Michael Odewale, Troy Hawke and Christian Schulte-Loh! Join us for a night of pure, unfiltered comedy from the very best of the British comedy circuit. Described as the birthplace of alternative comedy in the UK, The Comedy Store has been a launchpad for the careers of countless stand-up stars with the likes of Michael McIntyre, Eddie Izzard, and Jimmy Carr all performing on their world-famous stage. Tickets available at www.livenation.cz For the show on 12th November they will present: Troy Hawke Milo McCabe is a character comedian with over ten years of experience on the circuit. He has twice been nominated for the Amused Moose Best Edinburgh show award and was listed as GQ’s Top Ten comedy shows of the festival. TV credits include ITV’S Benidorm, BBC3’s Live at the Electric and various hidden camera and talking heads projects on Channel 4 and 5. As Troy Hawke he has garnered multiple award nominations and wins in various festivals across the world and...

 by Prague Morning Sep 30, 2021
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Eurovision Winners Måneskin to Play for the First Time in Prague

Eurovision Winners Måneskin will play for the first time in Prague on February 28, 2022. The Italian rock band, who won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with their song ‘Zitti E Buoni’, are currently touring the European festival circuit. The concert will take place on February 28, 2022, in Prague’s Malá sportovní hala (Výstaviště), and tickets will be available from September 30 via GoOut. For the past few months, the band has been one of the most popular musical groups on Spotify and YouTube, the world’s two most-popular online music services. Their songs “Beggin’” and “I Wanna be Your Slave” both rank among the top 20 most popular songs in the world, hitting the charts in more than 30 countries each. And their three biggest songs were streamed more than 433 million times on Spotify in the month of July alone. They’ve also gone viral on TikTok, the music industry’s de facto hitmaker, and their respective followings on social media have mushroomed to more than 20 million people across the major platforms.  The band are set to announce a new song, ‘MAMMAMIA’ set for release on October 8. It is their first newly released music since their album ‘Teatro D’Ira...

 by Prague Morning Sep 30, 2021
Czech Novels

7 Contemporary Czech Novels Everyone Should Read

Czech literature has a rich tradition of questioning introspection that reaches back more than a century, to Franz Kafka’s existentialism, Karel Čapek’s sci-fi, and Jaroslav Hašek’s satire. Once the Soviets quashed the Prague Spring in 1968, however, Czechoslovakia’s authors were unable to freely publish fiction that could be perceived as critical of the regime. Many of them left for the West, but their writing remained focused on the land they left behind. After the Velvet Revolution, a flurry of novels finally saw widespread release, and three decades of capitalism have only shifted, rather than eliminated, the targets of critique. Here are seven novels by Czech authors published since 1989 that incisively, creatively, and memorably parse Czech society. Too Loud a Solitude (1989) Written by Bohumil Hrabal and translated by Michael Henry Heim “Not until we’re totally crushed do we show what we are made of.” For 35 years, Hrabal’s defiant narrator Haňtá has worked underground, recycling waste paper with his hydraulic press. He is not content, however, to simply crush bales for the paper mill, and instead crafts what he sees as works of art, homages to the written word. Haňtá also rescues books from the heaps he recycles, delivering...

 by Prague Morning Sep 27, 2021
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Music Festivals Prepare for 2022 After Two Years of Devastating Losses

This year, the nightmare for music festival organizers returned in the form of more lockdowns and the cancellation of even more events as new variants spread. After two years of hardship, organizers of the events are now trying to devote their energy and money to prepare for the new, hopefully, regular season of 2022. Preparation comes as it was recently revealed the losses of some larger festivals went up to millions of crowns. One of the biggest music festivals, Colors of Ostrava, had to cancel this year. Jiří Sedlák, the spokesman for the show held in Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, explained how organizations had no other option but to put a stop to the festival for yet another year due to the new Covid variants. “Last year, the organizers of Colors calculated a loss of more than 12 million crowns,” he said, speaking of the devastating effect. He has since tried to make money by organizing smaller and permitted events, either live or online. “We were able to survive only thanks to supporting from many sources – the fans kept last year’s tickets for this year, and thus helped us with sustainable cash flow. Further help came from our partners...

 by Prague Morning Sep 27, 2021

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