In Prague this Week: Feb 3-9

This Week’s Highlights:

Feb 5: Asian New Year’s Market

Is there a better way than to celebrate Chinese New Year with great food? I don’t think so! Come to Anděl (metro line B) and taste delicious food.

https://www.facebook.com/events/751747255332517/

#food #explore #celebrate

Jan 29-Feb 4: Future Gate 2020 Prague

Any sci-fi freaks? We have something for you! The 7th annual of the festival is entitled “Cyber revolution” and is devoted to the question of freedom of the modern man. The theme is inspired by current situation in some countries where citizens are restricted by state and technologies are misused to control people. Festival wants also to point our some other important topics: fake news, cyber attacks, restrictions of media, cyber bullying, etc. The theme will resonate in selected films, the accompanying program, lectures and discussions with experts.

Attractive look guaranteed by the sub-genre “cyberpunk”. It is cyberpunk that filmmakers, writers and artists portray the futuristic vision of our society, where advanced technologies are not used to the benefit of the individual, but often misused to overrun and control by all-powerful corporations. Regarding the film festival program the event wants to screen among the film legends Robocop, Total Recall, Johhny, Mnemonic and Matrix. These amazing films are very imporant not only for our topic but also because these masterpieces are milestones in science fiction genre.

https://goout.net/en/festivals/future-gate-2020-prague/kujdf/+cgbap/

#film #festival #sci-fi

Also Happening this Week:

Feb 6: Mucha Punk Folk Concert

You have probably never seen anything like this before! Czech folk-punk singer Mucha will make you laugh even if you don’t understand Czech because her performance is crazy and fun.

https://goout.net/en/concerts/mucha/vkxpc/+cvhgp/

#concert #music #punk

Feb 7: Eagles & Butterflies (USA) concert

U.K.-born, L.A.-based producer/DJ, Chris Barratt — aka – Eagles & Butterflies breaks all boundaries across the electronic music spectrum. His productions flow seamlessly through Downtempo, Techno, House and beyond, with releases on Innervisions, Bedrock, Exit Strategy, Sapiens and his own imprint Art Imitating Life. From remixing Underworld, RY X, Agoria, Moby, Andhim and Ludovico Einaudi, Eagles & Butterflies is the newest toast of the underground. He will perform on February 7 in Roxy in Prague.

https://goout.net/en/parties/eagles-and-butterflies-usa/mkkef/+endcp/

#electronic #music #party

Feb 7: Acute Dose + Good Times Only Concert

Wanna explore the Czech scene of alternative music? Come to club Varsava on Friday and listen to the original sound of indie groups Acute Dose and Good Times Only!

https://goout.net/en/concerts/acute-dose+good-times-only/mnggf/+lhoip/

#concert #music #indie

Not Only This Week:

Until Feb 10: Petr Sís: On Flying and Other Dreams

The exhibition project entitled On Flying and Other Dreams features five books by Petr Sís that focus on the subject of “inner” and “outer” freedom. The award-winning autobiographical book The Wall – Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain (2008) tells of imaginary and real walls, of a world where freedom remains a mere dream. In The Three Golden Keys (2007), the author returns to the Prague of his childhood. But this time it is a city that in a child’s eyes comes alive with legends, dreams, and stories. His version of the Persian poem The Conference of Birds (2011) as well as the books The Pilot and the Little Prince (2014) and Robinson (2017) touch upon universal questions concerning human freedom and its importance. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the exhibition is thus a message that individual freedom is a fundamental value that cannot be taken for granted, and that its gradual and inconspicuous erosion poses a real threat to contemporary society.

Petr Sís is an internationally renowned writer of children’s books, illustrator, graphic artist and a creator of animated films. He was born in 1949 in Brno and grew up in Prague. He studied painting and filmmaking at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He came to America in 1982, where he started illustrating for periodicals like New York Times and soon began writing books. Since then he has been living in New York with his family and regularly returns to his native country.

https://goout.net/en/exhibitions/petr-sis-on-flying-and-other-dreams/bcrse/+vhotn/

#art #painting #exhibition

Until Feb 16: 1989 Exhibiton

How did Czech photographers and artists capture the year 1989? The exhibition in the Trade Fair Palace seeks to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It also seeks, in hindsight, to examine the year 1989, which was a turning point in many respects; not only for Czech society, but also for photography.

The year 1989 was exceptional not only in terms of political events, but also for the medium that recorded them – photography. In that year, several exhibitions commemorated the 150th anniversary of the official announcement of the discovery of photography. Nobody could know that following the revolution, which came soon after, a wave of interest in eastern European art would surge for a short time and Czech photography would be presented abroad at several exhibitions.

https://goout.net/en/exhibitions/1989/truud/+ndnkm/

#art #photography #culture

Until Feb 22: Jakub Spanhel Exhibition – Five Lights above the Water

These twenty large format paintings, created periodically over the past two years, are loosely linked with Špaňhel’s earlier series of church interiors.
The paintings make reference to the Baroque period in Prague, fusing within themselves the artist’s sense for magical atmosphere, his characteristic style, and interest in a historical figure with a strong story…

https://www.arcimboldo.cz/en/gallery/jakub-spanhel-pet-svetel-nad-vodou

#art #painting #exhibition