Slovak Philharmonic off for South Korea
On 24 and 25 November, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra is performing a concert in Bratislava that will be played next week in Asia. Informing about the tour is its chief conductor Daniel Raiskin:
Slovak Phil Korea
Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.
Slovak film on Roma settlements wins in Czechia
The latest film by Jaro Vojtek, The Third End of the Stick, has won the Best V4 Film Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. Four stories from Roma settlements in Spiš, eastern Slovakia, want to break the prejudices between the Roma community and the majority population. The film was co-produced by RTVS.
Launch of Slovak book in London
On 28 November, the launch of a book by a Slovak author will be held in London. Heather Trebaticka and John Minahane’s translation of "A Long Night's Stories" by Rudolf Dobiáš was reissued in the UK in 2023. Rudolf Dobiáš, dubbed “the Slovak Solzhenitsyn” was sentenced to 18 years in labour camps on political charges in 1954. His career as a writer took off no sooner than after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The launch of the new translation of the book will be accompanied by the opening of an exhibition of the Slovak painter Fero Guldan in the Velehrad cultural and charity centre for the Czech and Slovak ex-pat community in the London borough of Barnes.
Slovak art in Minneapolis
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s. That’s the title of the show that opened in Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis on 11 November. The exhibition presents experimental artworks made in 6 European countries of the former eastern bloc. According to the organisers: “the show features artworks rarely seen in the United States” bringing together works by nearly 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. „While it presents select canonical figures from the region, the exhibition foregrounds lesser-known practitioners, particularly women artists, artist collectives, and those exploring embodiment through an LGBTQIA+ lens.“ It is possible to see also Slovak conceptual and experimental art icons Milan Adamčiak, Július Koller and Jana Želibská in Minneapolis until March 2024.
