Events Archive

Announcement of PQ 2027

Prague Quadrennial Symposium: 'Technologies'

Staging the Czech Aria: Scenography in Bedřich Smetana’s Operas

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, ATI introduces an exhibition exploring the set design for the composer’s operas.

Focal Point: Artists and Culture after Covid

International conference where the outcomes of the bilateral project Post Covid Adaptation Models in Culture will be presented.

Focal Point: Sustainability as the Way of Existence

We cordially invite you to the international conference Focal Point: Sustainability as the Way of Existence, which we are organizing in collaboration with ATI – Arts and Theatre Institute and Studio ALTA on September 12 – 13, 2023. The conference will offer inspiration, successful case studies, and creative...

Conference perspectives of Theatre Studies 4

Czech Association for Theatre Studies in cooperation with the Czech Theatre Studies Department of the Arts and Theatre Institute, Department of Theatre Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Department of Theory and Criticism of the Academy of Performing Arts, AMU, Prague, Theatre Department of...

Dorota Sosnowska: New brutalism and Sara Kane’s dramas on Polish 1990s stage in context of political transition

Theatre Research Society, Czech Theatre Studies Department and Department of Theatre Studies at Masaryk University invite you to a public lecture.

COMPLEX IMPACT OF MUSIC ON PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES

In recent years, there has been increasingly visible research documentation of the impact of music cultivation on the development and condition of the human brain and psyche. In recent years, a large part of the professional public is also aware of the need for harmonious development of the personality of the young...

Maria Sibińska: Sami National Theatre Beaivváš

Daniel Echeverri: Integrating Brechtian Concepts in the Design of a Tangible Narrative: The Design Case of "The Non-myth of the Noble Red”

Focal Point: the Status of the Artist

The Theatre Institute in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Culture invites you to the international conference Focal Point: the Status of the Artist, which will present examples of measures for establishing the status of the artist in some European countries.

The Show Must Go ON/OFFLINE - Theatre and migration

The topic of migration has been a major source of debate across Europe, particularly in the past decade. The politicisation of this issue in many countries’ national conversations tends to reduce complexity and ignore the diversity and nuance of the migrant experience. The position of migrant artists is almost...

PQ Symposium WHERE ARE WE?

We are very happy to invite you to attend the PQ WHERE ARE WE?

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: International Cultural Cooperation in Times of War

How does the war in Ukraine affect the situation in the region? How is the response of Central and Eastern European countries specific? Will the Ukrainian culture be more present in the surrounding states than during peacetime, and will the perception of how non-Ukrainians look at it change? How does war change the...

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: Ecoscenography: conversations on sustainable theatre design and production

This international discussion explores the emerging concept and practice of Ecoscenography (ecological design for performance). Ecoscenography explores new aesthetics and artistic paradigms that are inspired by environmental philosophies and practices to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable...

Images in Motion: Freezing the Moment / Telling a Story

Thursday 4 November saw the opening of the exhibition of contemporary theatre photography Images in Motion: Freezing the Moment / Telling a Story, which is co-organized by the Ars and Theatre Institute and Czech Centre in Paris at the photography festival PhotoSaintGermain 2021.

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: "Alghoritmic Theatrum Mundi: Future of performance between pixels, algorithms and atoms?"

We will meet to reflect upon the future of theater, performance arts and rituals in an age of algorithms, data and various attempts to virtualize every atom and moment of our lived experiences. Will our genuine expressions and experience of human agency in wondering, experimenting and even disobedience survive in the...

Images in Motion: Freezing the Moment / Telling a Story

Thursday 4 November saw the opening of the exhibition of contemporary theatre photography Images in Motion: Freezing the Moment / Telling a Story, which is co-organized by the Ars and Theatre Institute and Czech Centre in Paris at the photography festival PhotoSaintGermain 2021.

The Show Must Go On/OFFline: “We said No. Students of Theatre Academies resist the misuse of power”

“We said No. Students of Theatre Academies resist the misuse of power”: New Edition of The Show Must Go On/OFFline International Discussion Series.

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: „Festivals in lockdown“

The Show Must Go On/OFFline series of international discussions continues with the topic “Festivals in lockdown”.

The last "Green Thursday" will part of the Rehearsal for Truth Festival in New York

The last episode of the Green Thursdays international discussion series will take place as part of the Rehearsal for Truth Festival. Organised since 2007 by the Václav Havel Library Foundation in New York, the festival honours Havel and focuses on socio-political themes in Central European theatre.

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “Healing (with) theatre”

Green Thursdays, a cycle of international, online discussions.

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “A Drama in Quarantine”

Green Thursdays, a cycle of international, online discussions

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “Contactless Communities”

Green Thursdays, a cycle of international, online discussions

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: „ZOOMing Theatre“

The new episode of international webinar series The Show Must Go ON/OFF-Line.

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: Digital audience

The fifth episode of "Green Thursdays" series of international online discussions.

The days after - an international online theatre studies conference

Through the Lens of Karel Čapek’s Plays R.U.R. and The White Plague: Ethical Dilemmas of Industrial and Post-industrial Societies in 20th and 21st Century Theatre

Search Inside Yourself (SIY)

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “Uncompressability” Green Thursdays, a cycle of international, online discussions episode 4

CEENTRAL PARTY DIGITAL

How to use bandcamp? And how to monetize digital music distribution? CEEntral Party Digital to be online and for free

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “Theatre as a Cultural Institution” Green Thursdays, a cycle of international, online discussions episode 3

The next theme of Green Thursdays is “Theatre as a Cultural Institution.”

The New Reality for Culture

Search Inside Yourself (SIY)

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: “A Third Theatrical Reform?” Green Thursdays - a cycle of international, online discussions - episode 2.

There’s much more to digital culture than the mere recording of theatre productions. Globalisation and the internet have already transformed our perception of “being together.” In the digital boom, people share not only the physical spaces in which they find themselves, but the entire online space. How do...

The Show Must Go ON/OFF-line: A Green Deal for the Performing Arts Green Thursdays - a cycle of international, online discussions - episode 1.

In the first episode of the “Green Thursdays” cycle, we will focus on a theme that has been present in the international scientific and cultural community for decades.

PQ: Call to Performance Design Educators and Students

PQ STUDIO: Common Design Project Special Edition

The exhibition of the playbills Please Enter Our Theatre at the National Museum

Are you interested in what is hidden in the word playbill and what else can rich collections of the Theatre Department of the National Museum offer to the visitors? You should not miss the exhibition Please Enter Our Theatre you can see at the New Building of the National Museum from December 13, 2019.

The exhibition of the playbills Please Enter Our Theatre at the National Museum

Are you interested in what is hidden in the word playbill and what else can rich collections of the Theatre Department of the National Museum offer to the visitors? You should not miss the exhibition Please Enter Our Theatre you can see at the New Building of the National Museum from December 13, 2019.

Prague’s Theatre Night to take place in more than 45 locations on Saturday, 16 November

THEATRE AND FREEDOM: Paradigm Shift(s) in the Independent Theatre Culture in Europe after 1989

The year when we remember the 30th anniversary of political changes in Central and Eastern Europe calls upon looking back on 1990s ideas and hopes. It is independent theatre, which was a key platform for the attempts for their implementation not only at aesthetic and artistic, but also at social and political levels...

AUDIENCE.LAB: DISCOVER the TEENAGERS

Focal point: Culture of Mobility in the Time of Climate Change

What is the impact of the international exchange in culture on the climate of our planet? How does it influence today cities and how can we measure it? How can public institutions give a boost to sustainable mobility within their funding programmes? Discuss and share your ideas how to cultivate international cultural...

Focal Point: Czech Dance in Data

Since 2016 the ATI has performed extensive research of Czech dance and related fields. It publishes the data in the “Czech Dance in Data” edition. Many interesting findings was the impulse for the authors to organize a conference where figures of ballet, contemporary dance, nonverbal theatre and contemporary...

Střed zájmu: Cooperation Asia-Europe

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Arts and Institute would like to cordially invite you to the meeting regarding cultural cooperation between artists and cultural workers fro Europe and Asia.

Too soon Too late to remind us of the important year of 1918 as part of the annual celebrations

The in situ performative exhibition Too Soon Too Late is part of the cycle 100 Years on: 1918 European Dreams of Modernity, prepared by the Brussels cultural centre BOZAR for 2018 in association with cultural institutes, or permanent representations and local partners in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary,...

Lecture and Innovation and Creativity

We would like to invite you to the lecture and workshop Innovation and Creativity organized by the Academy of the Arts and Theatre Institute. The lecture “How to Innovate. Models and Principles for Getting New Ideas” takes place on 22nd May, the workshop called “Innovation Sprint. Strenghtening Creativity in...

Czech theatre photography

Theatre and theatre artists tried to enforce social changes, they were close to the pivotal moments of Czech history, they helped form, cultivate and implement the Czech language and culture, and they have succeeded in directly influencing the political development of the state on the way to democracy a few times.

The SALON of Czech and Slovak Scenography 2018

The Salon of Czech and Slovak Scenography 2018 presents works by Czech and Slovak scenographers and opens the way for their complex reception and reflection. It is a platform, where professionals and scenography students (as wide as the concept can be – light and sound design, costume design, video art and other...

Iva Němcová exhibition

The exhibition presents works by the prematurely deceased extraordinary Czech scenographer Iva Němcová (1980–2015). It is a unique opportunity to have an insight in the creative process of her exquisite and inspiring, yet unfinished work.

Permeable Boundaries symposium

The celebrations of the 50th PQ culminated at the international meeting of curators and scenographers, which took place from 12th to 14th October 2017 in Prague. The symposium, which is characteristically called Permeable Boundaries, took place in the former Federal Assambly, which created imaginary political...

Focal Point: ART CRITICISM – A PUBLIC AFFAIR?

International seminar on the current state of art criticism. Organised by the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) in cooperation with the Arts Council Norway and supported by the EEA/Norway Financial Mechanism.