This week’s Highlights:
Feb 15: Suchdol’s Masopust (Shrovetide/Mardi Gras Parade)
The participants will gather at Sucholské square, from where the parade will lead towards the Elementary school, Brandejs farmstead, Starosucholská restaurant and finally it will „clash“ with the parades from Roztoky and Únětice at Holý vrch.
https://www.prague.eu/en/event/22627/suchdol-s-shrovetide-parade?back=1
#masks #traditions #explore
Feb 15: Karlin Masopust (Shovetide/Mardi Gras Parade)
Karlín masopust celebrations will offer theater fairy tales and workshops for children as well as a rich cultural program for adults. The parade of masks will set off from Kaizlovy say at 1 p.m. and the programme at Karlin square starts at 2 p.m.
https://www.praguest.com/en/february-in-prague/masopust-mardi-gras
#masks #traditions #explore
Feb 15: Holešovice market’s Mardi Gras Fair
Come to Holesovice’s market and taste the traditional pork delicacies.Traditional carnival festivities will be held in front of Hall 22 at the Prague Market. The program includes concerts or production of carnival masks.
#fair #food #explore
Happening in Prague:
Feb 11: Semester Welcome Party of Czech University of Life Sciences
This is a unique opportunity to meet Czech students from the University of Life Sciences. They are organizing unique welcome party with great DJs.
https://goout.net/en/parties/vitani-semestru-na-czu/ihxgf/+mnokp/
#party #djs #explore
Feb 13: Polemic & Medial Banana
Polemic and Medial Banana, two icons of Slovak ska and reggae, join forces and set out on a joint club tour in spring 2020, which will include concert at the Lucerna Music Bar on 13 February. The union of these bands was one of the highlights of the Uprising festival, where they performed they new anthem Staré časy, which started the whole cooperation. During a spectacular joint show, both bands will play their biggest hits and showcase the latest albums. Everything under the sign of mutual respect, which reigns between the two groups. Get ready for a great concert experience!
https://goout.net/en/concerts/polemic+medial-banana/igjef/+abdcp/
#concert #ska #reggae
Feb 14: Anjunadeep Release Party: 16BL + Jody Wisternoff + more
No plans for Valentine’s day? Don’t worry we got you covered. You can dance off your broken heart on this electronic party. To mark the release of Anjunadeep 11, the latest in the acclaimed compilation series, Jody Wisternoff is joined by label legends 16BL and Martin Roth at Prague’s Roxy on Friday February 14th.
https://goout.net/en/parties/anjunadeep-release-party-16bl+jody-wisternoff+more/vlchf/+nrflp/
#party #djs #techno
Feb 15: Pork Feast at Kuchyň
Wanna try typical Czech dishes? On Saturday February 15th, the tables in Kuchyn will be covered with pork feast delicacies of all kinds. And it will be up to the guests to eat it all. Visitors can „stuff theirs bellies“ with liver sausage, blood sausage, bratwurst and meat from the grill all for a single price.
Practical information: The pork feast will take place on the terrace and guests can reserve their table inside here.
https://goout.net/en/culinary/pork-feast-at-kuchyn/tqeif/+adfop/
#feast #food #explore
Feb 15: Ankali x Wildt: Vlada, Eva Porating & Mutuju, Krygr & Astra
Tucked away behind a railway track in Holešovice sits a tiny inconspicuous building – Wildt ‹‹necessary movements only›› It comprises two dancefloors and while the inner rooms are dedicated to night time parties, the one-of-a-kind garden is the best summer afterhour spot in town ‹‹trainspotting the elderly›› The place is run by a dedicated crew of friends who share a penchant for stripped-back sounds and every once in a while we join forces with them to throw a party in Ankali ‹‹sunglasses at night but also in the morning›› On this occasion we invite Vlada, a Moscow-based ‹‹not orient yet›› artists and Arma 17 affiliate who is bringing a temperate selection of psychedelic minimal trax, mildly-bubbling acid and mellow deep house cuts ‹‹as heard at nachtdigital›› Two of our residents, Mutuju and Eva Porating, will be warming up the floor before Vlada takes over, and Wildt’s boys Denny Krygr and Kirill Astra will take care of the rest ‹‹sleep is commercial››
https://www.facebook.com/events/744572466033127
#party #djs #techno
Not Only This Week:
Feb 13-18: Nordic Film Festival
Nordic Film Club is organizing a traditional presentation of the cinematography of Nordic and Baltic countries already for the tenth time.
The festive opening of the festival will take place in the Lucerna Cinema in Prague at 6 p. m. on 13 February 2020 (Thursday). During the opening, a Finnish drama The Human Part will be screened. It is a movie by Juha Lehola filmed according to a book of the same name written by Kari Hotakainen. Pekka tells his parents and sisters he is a successful businessman, while conning strangers for money and scraps of food. What happens when parents come to visit their child?
Void, a movie featuring many stars, will bring us to Finland as well. The comedy-drama tells a lot about the love relationships of the times we live in, about creation, artists and the price they pay in private life, about the conflicts between true art and commercial kitsch. The drama Time Out speaks about a changing problematic relationship between a father and his son. The Land of Hope is a love story taking place in Finland during 1945–1952. The movie describes the influence of women in the renewal of the country during and after the war. Dogs Don´t Wear Pants, a romantic comedy from the background of a SM salon is a movie about love that is a little bit different.
Revenge of the Necromancer is a new absurd comedy with funny horror elements from Denmark. It is a story of a weird Satanist named Jimmy, his high school friends and one long-dead Necromancer. Protection from the army of the undead can be equally troublesome as a budding high school romance.
The King´s Choice is a Norwegian historic movie. A biographical drama inspired by real events describes three days in April 1940 when the king of Norway is given ultimatum from German armed forces: either he gives up or he dies. The royal family is running away from the city with Nazi soldiers behind.
Videoman, a Swedish thriller, tells the story of two alcoholics keen on VHSs and a desperate hunt for a thief of a rare video-movie. Phoenix is a family drama on mentally unstable relatives and a tragedy that is to be kept in secret.
https://goout.net/en/festivals/nordic-film-festival-2020-prague/lifif/+khfop/
#festival #film #culture
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
Until Mar 29: Devětsil 1920-1931 Exhibition
The first and only exhibition of the Devětsil Art Association in Prague City Gallery took place in 1986, more than 30 years ago. František Šmejkal prepared it in collaboration with Rostislav Švácha and Jan Rous. Subsequently there was a number of partial or monographic exhibitions of the Czech visual avant-garde of the 1920s, e.g., Devětsil in Brno or Josef Šíma’s early work, but it has never before been presented as a whole with new research findings.
https://goout.net/en/exhibitions/devetsil-1920-1931/cupye/+ggwno/
#art #painting #exhibition
Until Apr 12: David Claerbout: Olympia
Olympia is a computer-generated replica of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, which finds itself in a time-space devoid of human intervention and entrusted to the cycles of nature. Following the original “ruinenwert” theory, in which the stadium’s own decay has been pre-incorporated, Olympia invokes a cycle of creation to dissolution by the slow force of nature. Although the human element has been removed, it is re-introduced through the work’s synchronicity with our own life cycle. Olympia can be regarded as an attempt to measure biological duration against imaginary duration. By “biological duration” one can understand the lifespan of a human being, and by “imaginary duration” one can understand ideological time: the illusion to witness one thousand years.
https://goout.net/en/exhibitions/david-claerbout-olympia/tiwef/+wjldp/
#art #explore #exhibition