Events: April 2013
March 2013
May 2013
Václav Havel’s Anticodes
12/03/13 – 07/04/13 Exhibitions
An exhibition composed of the most interesting visual poems from Václav Havel’s Anticodes. The Václav Havel Library is putting on the show in cooperation with the National Theatre on the occasion of the publication of a newly expanded edition of the Anticodes collection and the premiere of a theatrical production of Anticodes by the Laterna Magika ensemble at the New Stage. The exhibition runs until 7 April 2013.
Jan Bačkovský: How Else
26/03/13 – 28/04/13 Exhibitions
Jan Bačkovský (born 1957, Hradec Králové) is a member of the generation of painters of the 1980s and exhibited in Confrontation group shows. Between 1979 and 1985, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of monumental art under Professor Arnošt Paderlík. He originally focused on figural painting, before gradually switching to the abstract expression that he devotes himself to today. More
Czech Underground IV. Jan Macháček: Czech Underground Music
April 3, 2013, 10:30
The Czech Underground is a series of lectures organised by the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library. Its aim is to explore the collective memory of the underground phenomenon in modern Czech history. Speakers will include those who were directly involved in underground activities.
Magnesia Litera II.
April 3, 2013, 19:00
The Litera civic association presents readings by authors nominated in several categories in this year’s Magnesia Litera book awards at the Václav Havel Library. Jiří Hájíček (from 8.00 PM), Věra Koubová, Anna Blažíčková and Jakuba Katalpa will take part in this reading.
Magnesia Litera III.
April 10, 2013, 19:00
The Litera civic association presents readings by authors nominated in several categories in this year’s Magnesia Litera book awards at the Václav Havel Library. Alena Dvořáková, Jakub Řehák and Pavel Horák will take part in this reading.
The Hunter in the Dissent
April 10, 2013, 19:30 Participation on local events
A screening of Krystyna Krauz’s documentary about Václav Havel, Our Vašek, in which the Ústí “hunter” appears. František “Čuňas” Stárek will be a guest at the screening, which will also be accompanied by a lecture by historian Martin Krsek entitled The Ústí hunter as a source of inspiration to the famous. The event is being held by the statutory town of Ústí nad Labem in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library.
Czech Underground V. Petr Placák: "České děti" and other activities of the opposition
April 17, 2013, 10:30
The Czech Underground is a series of lectures organised by the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library. Its aim is to explore the collective memory of the underground phenomenon in modern Czech history. Speakers will include those who were directly involved in underground activities.
Magnesia Litera IV.
April 17, 2013, 19:00
The Litera civic association presents readings by authors nominated in several categories in this year’s Magnesia Litera book awards at the Václav Havel Library. Milan Děžinský, Jaroslav Žváček and Jiří Dvořák will take part in this reading.
Monodrama II. Bohumil Hrabal – Jarmilka
April 18, 2013, 19:00
The second evening in a series of staged readings of chamber pieces by Czech and foreign writers is dedicated to Bohumil Hrababl. His novella Jarmilka (1952) is a rawly realistic fragment of the biography of a character from the Poldi smelting works in Kladno as well as an unsanitised account of the building of socialism in Bohemia at the turn of the 1940s and ‘50s. Director Vojtěch Bárta, dramaturge of the Činoherní studio theatre in Ústí nad Labem.
Miloš Havel – Czech Film Magnate
April 22, 2013, 19:00
Ceremonial presentation of Krystyna Wanatowiczová’s book “Miloš Havel – český filmový magnát” (“Miloš Havel – Czech Film Magnate”) (Václav Havel Library Editions, volume 6) in conjunction with screenings of the films “Zajatý hlas” (“Captive Voice”, Jiří Lehovec) and “Šťastnou cestu” (“Bon Voyage”, Otakar Vávra). Admission costs a token CZK 30. The ceremonial evening is part of the project This is Lucernafilm!
This is Lucernafilm!
April 22, 2013, 09:00
A day of films produced by Miloš Havel, the uncle of President Václav Havel, held on the occasion of the publication of Krystyna Wanatowiczová’s book “Miloš Havel – český filmový magnát” (“Miloš Havel – Czech Film Magnate”) by the Václav Havel Library and the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the National Film Archive. More
VHL Film Marathon IV: The Theatre Work of Václav Havel and his Associates
April 23, 2013, 18:00
In the 1960s, Václav Havel became an important figure in the Prague theatre community. While his own work was, unfortunately, not frequently recorded on film, the inspirational environment of the 1960s studio scene – which was close to Václav Havel – did now and then make it on to the screen, as did the young playwright himself, who mainly spoke about theatrical work. More
Czech Underground VI. Viktor Karlík: Czech Underground Fine Arts
April 24, 2013, 10:30
The Czech Underground is a series of lectures organised by the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library. Its aim is to explore the collective memory of the underground phenomenon in modern Czech history. Speakers will include those who were directly involved in underground activities.
120 Years of Lidové Noviny
April 25, 2013, 17:00
A literary-historical seminar on the subject of Lidové noviny (The People’s Newspaper) as a 20th century cultural phenomenon. Jiří Holý: Lidové Noviny Literary School. Contexts and Overlaps. Daniel Řehák: Between Brno and Prague. An Intimate Picture of the Double-Centred Editorial Staff of LN Between the Wars. Lucie Peisertová: Gellner as Caricaturist in the Context of the Period. Jaroslav Med: Views from the Other Bank. LN in the Fire of the Cultural Battle of the First Republic. Jiří Peňás will moderate the seminar
Czech Underground VII. Krystyna Krauze: Czech and Polish Underground
April 30, 2013, 10:30
The Czech Underground is a series of lectures organised by the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library. Its aim is to explore the collective memory of the underground phenomenon in modern Czech history. Speakers will include those who were directly involved in underground activities.
KW: Personal Apocalypse
April 30, 2013, 19:00
Opening of an exhibition of KW’s paintings. Music: DIRT More
KW: Personal Apocalypse
30/04/13 – 26/05/13 Exhibitions
Igor Korpaczewski (born Prague, 1959), who studied at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts between 1983 and 1989, ranks among the most unmistakable solitary artists of the ‘80s generation. He focuses systematically on the different options offered by figural depiction, which occasionally results in work that is even conceptual. Operating under the pseudonyms KW and Q, he has taken part in many projects, both at home and abroad, since the 1980s. For two decades he has been an assistant at Jiří Sopek’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts, where his marked influence on a younger generation of artists can be seen. More