In Prague this Week: Feb 24 – Mar 1

This week’s Highlights:

Feb 25: Žižkov’s Mardi Gras Parade (Masopust)

Žižkov carnival celebrations include traditional parade of masks and great programme for both kids and adults.

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

Feb 25: Honest Guide Student Meet Up!

YES! Another meet up and this one has a FREE welcome drink so keep on reading! 

We will be making a new video about students and studying in the Czech Republic so we would like to ask STUDENTS to come and help us film a new video about their experience!:)

Both international students as well as Czech university students are welcomed and will be part of the video. You’ll also have a chance to meet other international and Czech students from various Czech universities so you can share your thoughts with them.

This meet up is co-organised with an organization “Study in the Czech Republic”, which you know from our video, and will take place in Vnitroblock. The space is limited so please register here:
https://www.dzs.cz/en/study-in-the-czech-republic/honest-guide-student-s-meet-up/

https://www.facebook.com/events/2696906717072944/

#discussion #meetup #lecture

Also Happening this Week:

Feb 25: Landscape Healing + discussion with 3RW Arkitekter

Landscape Healing / Richard John Seymour / Norway 2019 – Landscape Healing is a cinematic documentary film following the largest act of rewilding in Norway, by BAFTA-nominated film director Richard John Seymour. The film follows the process of healing these wounded landscapes, the removal of explosives, polluted earth, and the strange and curious practices that had to be pioneered for a project that has never been attempted before.
Filmed throughout 2019 across Norway, Landscape Healing documents the processes of deconstruction, decontamination, and restoration of natural systems back to a state that can both be given back to the public as a safe place, but also where nature has been restored as much as possible to its original condition.
Landscape Healing tells a story of using a public labour resource – the military – to carry out a monumental work. A department traditionally associated with destruction, now rebuilding our ecosystems and environment. If these efforts are successful, there will be no evidence of their work, such is the paradox of rewilding.

https://goout.net/en/other-events/landscape-healing+discussion-with-3rw-arkitekter/meoif/+lffpp/

#discussion #film #screening

Feb 25: Kosheen Concert

Electronic music legend Kosheen, led by Sian Evans, returns to the stage. Finally they are also coming back to Prague. Don’t miss the opportunity to dance to this group very much loved by Czech people.

https://goout.net/en/concerts/kosheen/jbgdf/+gctxo/

#concert #music #electronic

Feb 26: Little Women + Debate 

¨The screening of movie “Little Women“ and the following debate with Šárka Gmiterková will be part of film event “Mental Hygiene of Aleš Stuchlý”. Little Women / Greta Gerwig / USA 2019 / 135 min. – Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on their own terms.

https://goout.net/en/other-events/little-women+debate-with-sarka-gmiterkova/tucjf/+onxqp/

#discussion #film #screening

Feb 28: Fritz Kalkbrenner Concert

Distinctive Berlin producer and analog master Fritz Kalkbrenner returns after a year with new True Colors Tour. He plans to present bits of his sixth album True Colors that will be released on his label Nasua Music just after his Prague show. New single ‘Kings & Queens’ serves as a sneak peak of his new sound. The song has a beautiful atmosphere and great vocals by Fritz himself. He is now ready to perform for the fourth time at ROXY and as expected with full house! Will it happen again on February 28?

https://goout.net/en/concerts/fritz-kalkbrenner+support-gunjah/jgobf/+cljto/

#concert #music #techno

Feb 28: 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 29: GriZ concert

Mar 1: Milky Chance + support: Mavi Phoenix

Many dreams of the German musician folk usually fall flat at the starting line, if you were to look at how most fair against their other countrymen in history. You have that metal wall of Rammstein that sticks in front of most onlookers living outside of their borders, oh and there’s Kraftwerk. Who would have imagined a mainstream global success story for two young, German men, with their first single Stolen Dance which have more than half a billion views on youtube. Mind the Moon, Milky Chance’s third record, is out this November. The new tracks are an easy listen with catchy melodies and a laid-back vibe – but there is depth that hooks the listener beyond the first impression. Milky Chance collaborated with Tash Sultana or Elderbrook on the upcoming record. Milky Chance will be perform in Forum Karlin Club on 1 March 2020.

https://goout.net/en/concerts/milky-chance+support-mavi-phoenix/ajtue/+bwmbo/

#concert #music #contemporary

Not Only This Week:

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