The main star of the Metronome Prague Warm Up event (September 10 – 12th) will be the British band Morcheeba. There will also be a magnificent tribute to the world’s most famous Czech rocker Ivan Kral, and other performers will soon be confirmed. The 2020 edition of Metronome Prague Festival was canceled due to the Covid situation and there had been hopes it could take place this June. If you are one of the patient holders of tickets purchased for the years 2020 or 2021, you will get the opportunity to purchase tickets at a discounted price. “This year we invite you to Metronome Prague Warm Up event, with the key encouraging slogan “We have to warm it up!”, said David Gaydečka, co-founder of Metronome festival. Tickets are available here at the ticket presale website GoOut.cz. British group Morcheeba has been on the global music scene since the 1996 release of their debut album Who Can You Trust?. Although it was created at a time when electronica dominated the scene, the group founded by brothers Ross (guitar) and Paul (electronics) Godfrey along with singer Skye Edwards was able to combine mainstream electronica with a number of other influences. Currently, the group is...
You would never believe that a place like this could be hidden right in the middle of the city centre. Skautský Institut is situated in the very centre next to the clock on Old Town Square and if you didn’t know that it’s there, you would probably never find it by accident. If you happen to be somewhere close and you want to run away from the big crowds and unaffordable prices, it is the right place for you to go. Skautský Institut is a coffee place, snack bar, reading room, and a lovely place for hanging out with your friends, but it hides away bigger ideas behind it than just this. People behind the bar are scouts, of course. They are chilled out and friendly, like the atmosphere in the café. It got its name from organizing many scout-oriented workshops, discussions, exhibitions, and other activities for adults and children about diverse topics, but they are also focusing on the history and position of scouts and the impact of totalitarian regimes on the community. If you feel like organizing your own public or private workshop about anything you have in mind but don’t have the right place for it, you’ve found...
Prague City wants to enrich its architecture with a new building for the Czech Philharmonic and Prague Symphony Orchestra. This August, Prague will hold an international architecture competition for the building which will house the Czech Philharmonic and Prague Symphony Orchestra. After the contest begins in August, the jury will evaluate the candidates and select those who will work on proposals in October. Three separate halls are envisioned for the building: a concert hall that will accommodate an audience of 1,800 people, a smaller hall for 700 spectators, and a multi-purpose hall with a 500-seat capacity. Representative of the capital Jan Čižinský commented on the project, noting that it will completely transform the area. Furthermore, he stressed how crucial it is for designs to take the surroundings into consideration. In other words, designs must ensure that the building is easily accessible to pedestrians and is connected to both urban and suburban public transport. Discussing the upcoming architecture competition, Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib shared: “The world’s leading studios will be approached and important Czech architectural studios will also get a chance to get involved […] The interest in competing was preliminarily confirmed by 23 foreign studios as well as a number of domestic...
Explore Prague’s famous and not-so-well-known gardens. The aim of the event is to raise awareness and appreciation for gardens and the art of landscaping. This weekend, June 12 and 13 will take place the Open Gardens Weekend (Víkend otevřených zahrad) around the Czech Republic. It will be possible to visit about 160 gardens and parks throughout the country. Some gardens can be visited free of charge. A number of parks and gardens are organizing rich accompanying programs including guided tours, children’s activities, concerts, etc. The complex includes five gardens – Ledeburská zahrada, Malá Pálffyovská zahrada and Velká Pálffyovská zahrada, Kolowratská zahrada and Malá Fürstenberská zahrada. They were formed in the 18th century, their decoration was contributed by famous artists of the Czech Baroque period and Early classicism and a number of terraces, pavilions, orangeries and glorietas reminiscent of Italian Renaissance gardens. Tours of the Chateau and Flower Gardens (Podzámecká zahrada and Květná zahrada) will be ready in Kroměříž, the castle in Libochovice and at Vrchotovy Janovice castle you will “get to know” the last Chatelaine Sidonie Nádherná of Borutín. A complete list of open gardens can be found here.
Once the dream of modern technology, sending messages and parcels zipping through miles of tubes, powered by air pressure, pneumatic dispatches have all but disappeared. The Prague Pneumatic Post was one of the world’s most long-lived parcel delivery systems using the technology, running since its introduction in 1889 until floodwaters damaged equipment in 2002. It is hoped that the system may yet get up and running again. At one time similar pneumatic post systems ran under Paris, Milan, Berlin, New York, and London. Already in decline from a heyday in the 1970s, the Prague system suffered a serious blow in 2002 when floodwaters put five of the system’s eleven main rooms completely underwater and caused extensive damage. As of late 2012, the system is still non-operational but recent plans for restoration may be underway thanks to a purchase by a Czech entrepreneur and pneumatic tube fan. Today pneumatic dispatch systems are increasingly rare; however, operational examples do exist. The Prague PTT still has pipeline networks throughout the Old Town, one of them being 5 kilometers long. The longest pipe connects the Main Post Office on the Wenceslas Square in the city center, next to the Prague Castle, the traditional seat...
The Liechtenstein Palace in Prague opened its doors to the public on Saturday, June 5, after a break of several months, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first guided tour in Liechtenstein Palace will take place at 9 am and the last at 4 pm on Saturday. Respirators are compulsory. The Liechtenstein Palace was built on the grounds of five city houses in 1591 and rebuilt in Classical style in the 18th century. The princely family of Lichtensteins gradually lost interest in the Palace and sold it to the Earl of Ledebour. Later on, the Palace housed many different institutions, until finally in the 1980’s it was acquired by the Academy of Musical Arts. It’s generally used for representative purposes by The Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. On the second floor, there are apartments, which stayed, for example, Spanish king Juan Carlos with his wife Sofie, British queen Elisabeth II, Japanese emperor Akihito with Empress Michiko. The halls and salons in the basement are used for working meetings and friendly gatherings. Between 1979 and 1991 the palace was renovated according to the project of architect B. Fuchse jr. and adapted to serve the purposes of the Government...
The new President of Anglo-American University (AAU) will be professor Jaroslav Miller. He will assume his role at AAU on August 1, 2021. Prof. Mgr. Jaroslav Miller, M.A., Ph.D. comes to AAU from Palacky University in Olomouc, a highly research-focused institution, where he held the office of the President from 2014. At AAU, he will take over from doc. Ing. Štěpán Müller, CSc., MBA, who has successfully led AAU through the pandemic. Prof. Miller will be able to use his considerable experience of successfully leading a renowned university as well as his work at the Czech Rectors Conference, where he acted as Vice-Chairman, at AAU, a fully recognized Czech university with prestigious institutional American accreditation. “Alongside further academic and research development, one of my priorities is to provide a wider range of postgraduate programs. I will strive to strengthen AAUs involvement with civil society and develop further beneficial partnerships between the university and important institutions and organizations both in the Czech Republic and abroad. In addition, I will continue my predecessor’s efforts to ensure that AAU’s foreign students, who make up the majority of the student body, can study in the Czech Republic and at AAU under the same conditions...
A summer cinema will open under the Žižkov Television Tower for the third year in a row. The project called “Star Summer” starts on June 30 and runs until September 17. The Kalich Theatre invited acting stars from many Prague theatres, so you can enjoy the best of their staging under the stars. Thanks to a motorized retractable roof you don’t have to worry about the weather conditions and enjoy an undisturbed sociable evening. Kalich Theatre is one of the most active theatres in Prague. Its repertoire includes productions of contemporary drama, dance performances, concerts, and mainly musicals that made the theatre famous among Praguers. In the past, there have been played successful musicals such as Hamlet or the Pied Piper. Days and times might be different depending on each performance so please follow the program here. Ticket sales have already started from CZK 500.
An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling. Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project’s curator Stefan Litte told AFP. The documents exist thanks to Brod’s decision to break a pact with his friend Kafka, the acclaimed Czech Jewish author of “The Trial” and “The Metamorphosis”, who as he suffered from tuberculosis asked his writings be destroyed. But after the author died in 1924, Brod decided to keep the papers and in 1939 fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Tel Aviv with them in tow. The Prague-born Brod, also Jewish, published many of the works, playing a pivotal role in establishing Kafka as one of the 20th century’s key literary figures. Following Brod’s death in 1968, a multi-country legal soap opera — some might even call it “Kafkaesque” — entangled rights holders and academics for years. After years of court proceedings and searches, the fifth and final cache was located in a vault at the Zurich headquarters of UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, and released...
The “Kings of the Sun” exhibition, part of an international project documenting the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists, will remain at the National Museum through September. This exceptional exhibition, which has suffered repeated upsets to its schedule from the corona-virus pandemic, has had its end date pushed back by the organizers, thanks to the generosity of the lenders. Do take the opportunity to visit, once the government anti-pandemic restrictions loosen and museums become accessible again. Kings of the Sun The uniqueness of this exhibition, indicated by its insurance cover of CZK 1 billion, is underlined by the fact that never before have so many major artifacts been loaned abroad from Egypt as for the Kings of the Sun exhibition. The exhibition is unparalleled not only because of the previously unseen rare artifacts, never before exhibited in the world but also for its modern concept and design. The utilization of multimedia technologies and impressive architecture will allow visitors to experience the distinctive atmosphere of Royal Abusir. There are priceless exhibits here, from many of the world’s museums – be they the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, or from museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hanover, Heidelberg, Hildesheim...
The iconic Prague building has officially reopened its rooftop to the public. The rooftop will be accessible for three days – May 27, 28, and 29, then the organizers will draw up a regular schedule for the summer months. Lucerna Palace is a legendary place that made the history of the country and in some way changed the character of the whole city. It was inaugurated in 1909. The then builder and developer Václav Havel, the grandfather of the well-known president Václav Havel, raised the city to a metropolis with the building. Lucerna brought the inhabitants of the city interesting opportunities for the time. It was the opening of a cabaret, a Japanese tea room, a cinema or a large social hall for concerts. Legends of the world music performed in the grand hall. The Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and many, many others. The Great Hall in Lucerna is a prestigious and renowned venue for concerts for both Czech and foreign performers. We highly recommend going there at sunset: watching the sun hide behind the Prague Castle while bathing the Old Town in golden rays gives a whole new meaning to the expression ‘Golden Prague’! Opening hours are from 16:00...
“Czech is hard. You need to study grammar. You need to know the endings by heart.” Have you heard this? How many times? So many times that now it is anchored in your brain? Well, we have good news for you. You can anchor the language in your brain in a bit of a different way. “Why are we still studying languages focusing on grammar when 95% of people hate grammar? I know why. Because that 5% of grammar lovers will decide to study it and… become language teachers,” says Stephen Krashen. Stephen Krashen is a linguistics expert who, for the past 40 years, has been trying to show teachers that grammar explanations and exercises don’t work. Unfortunately, because this is the way we studied at school when we were young, today we believe we need grammar and rules. We don’t. We don’t learn the language. We acquire it. How do we learn to ride a bike? Children: Practice. Adults: Practice. How do we learn about history? Children: Read. Adults: Read. How do we learn a language? Children: Listen. Adults: Ehm,… study grammar? Why do we believe that learning languages has to be hard and a struggle? Sure, you...
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