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Current AffairsMikulov’s summer art symposiums sampled at Malostranská beseda
Each summer, the south Moravian town of Mikulov hosts Czech and
international artists who come for an annual art symposium. Since the event
was first held in 1994, they have created more than 260 artefacts, some of
which are exhibited at the Mikulov chateau. But now, selected works from
the Mikulov collection of contemporary art have also gone on display at the
Malostranská beseda gallery in Prague. More
Czech HistoryMikulov museum displays historic scientific instruments from town’s 380-year-old Piarist school
The Regional Museum in Mikulov, in southern Moravia, has opened an
exhibition of historic scientific instruments once used at the town’s
380-year-old grammar school. The exhibition highlights the beauty of the
elaborate antique objects, and it also shows what role the school, founded
by the Catholic order of the Piarists in the middle of the Thirty Years’
War, played in the town’s history. More
Current AffairsOSCE conference in Prague addresses anti-Semitism in public discourse
Representatives of 56 member countries of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe met in Prague this week for a conference on
anti-Semitism in public discourse, hosted by the Czech Foreign Ministry.
The participants called for more decisive steps to combat expressions of
hatred and intolerance, and stressed the need for better data on
anti-Semitic incidents. RP talked to Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating
Anti-Semitism, about the Prague meeting. More
Current AffairsCall for Czechs to reclaim lost literary heritage by buying Franz Kafka letters
Preparations are being made to recover what is being dubbed a part of the
lost literary heritage of Prague and the Czech Republic. These are some of
the many letters written by world renowned author Franz Kafka of which
almost no examples are left in his homeland. More
One on OneDocumentary filmmaker Martin Šmok on a database of 52,000 testimonies of the Holocaust
The visual history archive of the Shoa Foundation of University of Southern
California contains more than 50,000 testimonies of holocaust survivors. A
year ago, Prague became one of three European locations where the complete
database can be accessed. The database should soon be extended by
testimonies from the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda, that will also be
made accessible from the Czech capital. In this edition of One on One, RP
talked to the Czech filmmaker Martin Šmok, who works with the foundation
and even shot filmed of the material. More
PanoramaA love of pork, Kafka and yo-yoing
In this week’s edition of Panorama: a taste of country life in Prague –
city hall organizes a pig slaughtering feast on Náměstí Míru. The Czech
capital boasts a unique and costly enterprise -a bridge leading from
nowhere to nowhere, and the European Yo Yo Championship raises the roof at
Prague’s Archa Theatre. More
Current AffairsJewish WWII veterans commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day
Several events were held in the Czech Republic on Thursday to commemorate
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 66th anniversary of
the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Several Jewish veterans
and resistance workers from the Second World War met at Prague’s Czech
Centre on Thursday afternoon to pay tribute to the victims of the Shoa, and
to remember their fellow fighters. More
Current AffairsNew drama-doc on Nicholas Winton story premieres in Prague
A new drama-documentary premiered in Prague on Thursday evening about the
incredible story of Nicholas Winton. Called ‘Nicky’s Family’, the
film retells the story of the British man who saved hundreds of Jewish
children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939. Winton was later
knighted for his efforts, and Sir Nicholas, now 101, was in Prague once
again to attend the premiere. More
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