This week’s Highlights:
Feb 22-25: Žižkov’s Mardi Gras (Masopust)
Žižkov carnival celebrations include traditional parade of masks and great programme for both kids and adults.
On Saturday 8am-2pm you can enjoy markets on Jiriho z Podebrad square.
On Sunday 12noon-5pm there is a pork feast in U Vystrelenyho Oka Restaurant.
The whole The carnival parade takes place on February 25, 2020. It usually starts at Jiriho z Podebrad square, continues to Havličkovo square and ends at Viktoria Žižkov footbal arena. Then a horse carriage, musicians, artists, giant puppets of angels or pigs set off to request a “key” from the Žižkov Townhall. All participants can enjoy traditional specialities and goodies. The entrance is free.
https://www.facebook.com/events/601069313783484/
#mardigras #masks #traditions
Happening this Week:
Feb 17: Meet Paper Prague
This event is something special for all paper lovers! Are you planning on making your own notebook or diary? Come and get yourself a cutest paper of amazing quality!
https://goout.net/en/other-events/meet-papir-praha-2020/keocf/+vhvvo/
#DIY #creative #crafts
Feb 18-23: La Pelicula Film Festival
In February, the 15th LA PELÍCULA festival will offer works by leading Spanish directors such as Pedro Almodóvar and Pablo Berger. You can look forward to a number of acting stars, headed by Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, Spanish independent filmmaking, as well as Latin American films.
https://goout.net/en/festivals/la-pelicula-2020-prague/gatgf/+ahujp/
#film #festival #culture
Feb 21: The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler performed as a part of a global movement. It showcases the wide range of experiences that can stem from being a woman or simply having a vagina (as these two concepts are not always related) such as themes of sexual freedom, body positivity, rape culture and more. The play aims to take the audience out of their comfort zone and absolutely everyone, regardless of gender, is welcome to attend – laughing and crying are encouraged.
This play is a benefit production for local Prague NGO Konsent, and the majority of profits will go straight to them and the their work.
https://goout.net/en/plays/the-vagina-monologues/cbhif/+cphop/
#theater #explore #culture
Feb 21: The Prague Burlesque Show
“People are still living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility. But healing is near. The brand-new show of Prague Burlesque will speed up time for you. Supersonic Women will combat the skies to break the barrier of sound. Sonny Vargas and his aviatrixes are addicted to competition and speed. There’s no other weekly event in Prague, where decadence meets glamour – you’ll experience an explosion of erotica! Dive into an exotic world of showgirls, crooners and variety! A Duel in the sky! Prague Burlesque royalty, Sonny Vargas, the essence of a man, will kill you softly with his songs. Incomparable talents: Miss Cool Cat, Lady Mousellyca, Coca Valente and Hayley The Strange will all perform like missiles and together with the Ritzy Dancers, they’ll blow up the stage like a nuclear bomb. Lover boys, lover girls – let’s have the best time of our lives!”
https://goout.net/en/plays/the-prague-burlesque-show/ypywc/+lwxtm/
#theater #explore #culture
Feb 22: Pork feast at Smichovska naplavka
The bikini season is still quite far away so treat yourself with the Czech pork delicacies. Taste pork knuckle, sausages or freshly smoked bacon. You won’t regret!
https://goout.net/en/culinary/veprobrani-jaro-2020/vmthf/+ebsmp/
#food #pork #feast
Feb 22: Cross Temple: Bratři + Josef Sedloň + more
Explore one of the most interesting clubs in Prague – steam punk Cross Club. This event brings you the best experimental techno beats. Some of them even instrumental!
https://goout.net/en/parties/cross-temple-bratri+josef-sedlon+more/pcwif/+pneqp/
#techno #electronic #party
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 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 1: Alzbeta Jungrova: Exit Photography Exhibition
Alžběta Jungrová, a former reporter who photographed conflicts and places where nobody wanted to go, presents her free work from the last five years at the current EXIT exhibition. And it is definitely worth seeing!
https://goout.net/en/exhibitions/alzbeta-jungrova-exit/cxxff/+ykchp/
#art #photography #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