In Prague this Week: Mar 2-8

This Week’s Highlights:

Mar 5-14: One World Documentary Festival

Are you a documentary movies fan? You will be in heaven here! The biggest Czech documentary movies festival is finally here!

One World is one of the cornerstones of the People in Need organisation. Since its inception in 1999, it has become the most important festival of its kind in the world and in 2007 it won a special mention from UNESCO for its contribution to human rights education.

Every year, the One World Festival screens over a hundred quality documentaries from all over the world.

See the program here:

https://www.oneworld.cz/2020/programme

#festival #movies #documentary

Mar 5: National Gallery’s Grand Opening 2020

National Gallery in the Trade Fair Palace is opening its spring’s exhibitions and the best thing is, you don’t have to pay for tickets on this day. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see National Gallery at night and for free.

The event starts at 7pm and following exhibitions will be opened:

https://www.ngprague.cz/en/program-detail/grand-opening-2020

#art #explore #exhibition

Also Happening this Week:

Mar 2: Come and speak Czech Mondays – Educative Meetup at Žižkovšiška

This is a meetup for everyone who has lived in Prague for some time and wants to get serious about their Czech language skills. It doesn’t matter where you come from, everybody attending will be lead to chat in Czech.

Michael Thomas constructed a successful language learning method using audio recordings of a class, leaving space and time for students to try to compose the sentences themselves.

This Czech language lesson uses this knowledge to create a completely new approach to this. We assume that you have picked up a few words over the months or years you have lived here, maybe you read a book or two and maybe there is a Czech dictionary next to your toilet bowl.

Maybe you understand a little bit, but you are too lazy, shy or insecure to use this skill in conversation. Well, guess what – everybody attending is having the same issue as you, and yes – you can switch to Spanish or English or any language you prefer if you feel more comfortable that way, and maybe meet someone interesting and want to have a more complex conversation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2872174332802239/?event_time_id=3006445659375105

#czech #learn #explore

Mar 3-8: The Shockproof Film Festival

The Shockproof Film Festival stands for all forms of low-brow, bad taste, trash and fun outside of the realm of run-of-the-mill. Each year we present a fine selection of the most impressive, ludicrous, overlooked and bizarre in horror, extreme, action, gore, camp, B-, C- and even X-rated movies. Our festival brings cinema back to its original form of an attraction and an unforgettable collective experience. By that we do not just mean the obvious; that nothing can match the excitement you experience when you watch a chilling horror or pathetic schlock in the company of three hundred people in the same mood as yourself.

Aside from that, the most essential venue of Prague’s renowned cinema Aero features interactive screenings, where with the help of appropriately cheap and DIY-style tools the films enter the fourth dimension and takes form in the auditorium. Other times even movies which you might have seen already gain a new life thanks to our by now legendary creative simultaneous translations into Czech language. Instead of a quiet contemplation of the art of the moving image we bring you screenings, where the theatre vibrates with bursts of laughter or screams of terror. We also take the cinephilic adoration of classical film formats to a new level with screenings from archival media such as VHS or even VCD. Do not miss your chance to be a part of this wondrous ride.

See the program here:

http://www.otrlydivak.cz/english/films/program.html

#film #festival #cinema

Mar 6: African Acid Is The Future x Fuchs2 / Kosmospiel x Salo

If you ask around Berlin what are the most hot-tipped nights, chances are you’ll hear one phrase: African Acid Is The Future. The good news is that on Friday March 6th they are coming to Fuchs2 for a special all night long takeover. A sweaty affair indeed.

https://www.facebook.com/events/621322058663695/

#party #electronic #music

Mar 6: Hollar Room #18: Møreti, Psj, NCOL

Elsewhere in the world they have Boiler room, but in Prague we have Hollar Room. Come and check out this cool event taking place in the building of Faculty of Social Sciences (Charles University).

Performing:

Møreti [Luft, Ankali]
https://soundcloud.com/click-joe

Psj [Luft, Ankali]
https://soundcloud.com/psjx

NCOL [MIXTALES, Radio Punctum]
https://soundcloud.com/n-c-o-l

https://www.facebook.com/events/2445484519115204/

#party #electronic #music

Mar 7: Soup Fest

Are you a soup lover? Then you definitely have to come to this festival and enjoy this liquid deliciousness because they will serve you many options! You can try both traditional and also exotic soups.

https://goout.net/en/culinary/polivkovani-jaro-2020/mpthf/+tbsmp/

#culinary #festival #food

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