Praha

Twenty most successful images from a competition of the same name announced by The Scandinavian House and The Club of Icelandic Fanatics.
 

Monday 31th May, 18:00, Café Nordica, Zlatnická 10, Prague 1

 
Entrance: voluntary contributions. Until 30. 9. 2010.

The Scandinavian House in cooperation with the Municipal Library of Prague and the Embassy of Estonia and the Embassy of Sweden invites you to the opening of Ilon Wikland's exhibition.

Date: 17th August 2010, 6 pm
Venue: Municipal Library of Prague (Mariánské square 1, Prague 1)

Until 16th September 2010. See the invitation here.

The festival of Nordic culture takes place in Prague in the first half of October 2010. The Scandinavian House in cooperation with many other partners will welcome the Nordic Days festival there. Everybody interested in Nordic culture can enjoy more than ten cultural events - among them: an exhibition of the young Norwegian artist Anders Grønlien, screenings of the Finnish films based on Arto Paasilinna's novels, a lecture on Greenlandic literature, a discussion on translating Nordic literature into Czech and a lecture on travelling in Iceland. The festival will welcome two great Nordic guests - the Danish writer Erling Jepsen (the film Frygtelig lykkelig / Terribly Happy - awarded at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary 2008 - is based on his novel) and one of the most famous contemporary Swedish writers Per Olov Enquist. In the middle of September the website www.skandinavskydum.cz will launch competitions for free tickets for parts of the festival (theatre performances) and a more detailed festival programme will be announced.

Aerofilms and the Scandinavian House present: A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann; direction: Hans Petter Moland, Norway, 2010, Norwegian version / Czech subtitles, 103 min).

In the cinema Světozor (Vodičkova 41, Prague 1) from 22nd April 2010, 7pm.

Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. He has no special wishes and makes no demands, and also gives little thought to what he does. If he’s given some food and a place to sleep, he will give people what they want in return. Whether this may be a little affection or a killing. Ulrik has killed some people and also crippled several. It’s all part of the job when you’re a gangster. Just like doing time.Now Ulrik is out again, reluctantly… and Jensen is waiting on the outside. He’s a boss with professional pride, and it is important for Jensen that Ulrik kills the snitch that ratted him out. ...

“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…

15th June 2010 at 6 pm

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, room nr. 209, Nám. J. Palacha 2 (Jana Palacha Square 2), Prague 1
Entrance: voluntary contributions.

In English with Czech subtitles

The exhibition Fortuna – to be honest, it moves is about believing in your dreams and giving happiness a chance. 

Nobody wanted to believe what Galileo Galilei said about the world: „To be honest, it moves.“ In everyday life we struggle with our hopes and fears. Our dreams can lose balance or change, but they never fade away. The ultimate fortune is to exist. It is enough. 

The exhibition involves digitally collected photo paintings which are printed on canvas. 
The paintings are for sale.
 

31st March, 6pm, Café Nordica, Zlatnická 10, Prague 1.

Until 31st May 2010.
Entrance: voluntary contributions.

Ojanperä´s another exhibition opening in the Czech Republic - 3rd April in Kolín: Anam Cara.

A two-day set of three film screenings based on Knut Hamsun's books. On the first day, the screening will be started by a lecture on Hamsun's work by Martin Humpál. 

Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. In 2009, it was celebrated the 150th anniversary of the author's birth in Norway.

You will see these films: Hunger, Pan and Hamsun.

In Norwegian, only with English subtitles.
 
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, room nr. 209, Nám. J. Palacha 2 (Jana Palacha Square 2), Prague 1
Entrance: voluntary contributions.

First day: TH 27th May, 16:45, lecture by M. Humpál and films: Hunger and Pan
Second day: MO 31st May, 17:00, film: Hamsun

What was the life story of real Sinuhe? How did the author describe the world of ancient Egypt? Finnish egyptologist Jaana Toivari-Viitala from the University in Helsinki and the Finnish Academy will answer these and many more questions during her lecture on Waltari's Sinuhe the Egyptian in the View of the Finnish Egyptology.

Sinuhe the Egyptian is the most famous historical novel written by Finnish author Mika Waltari. For the long time it has been a pearl among Finnish classical literature. For many Finns, as well as for many Czechs, Sinuhe was their first contact with ancient Egyptian culture and many readers fell in love with ancient Egypt after reading this book. In Sinuhe the Egyptian Mika Waltari masterly combined fiction and ancient Egyptian sources and created magnificent complex story in which the original Egyptian texts, which inspired him, are still recognizable.

Meeting with Nordic guests of the 16th International Book Fair Book World Prague 2010 and with translators of Nordic literature. Discussion, author and scenic reading.

You will meet Maria Peura (FIN) and Mikael Niemi (SWE) and their translators Vladimír Piskoř and Zbyněk Černík.

In Finnish and Swedish, interpreted into Czech. Entrance free.

Friday 14th May 2010, 6.30pm

Club K4, Celetná 20, Prague 1

The Scandinavian House and EXIL, o.s. invite you to the Estonian cultural evening on the occasion of the exhibition opening: eestory.cz - one Estonia, six photographic objectives.

Within the exhibition opening there will be a photo presentation, a short lecture on Estonia and a bit of Estonian music.

29. 1., 6pm, Café Nordica, Zlatnická 10, Prague 1. Until 31. 3.

You have an opportunity to see the pictures that students have been creating since 2008 in Estonia during their Erasmus in Tallinn. The main goal of this exhibition is to bring Estonian culture and customs into the Czech Republic and spread them between people who would like to get to know a little bit more about the northeast Baltic country, the land of beautiful nature, extraordinary architecture, specific music, entertaining dance, brilliant food and necessary Skype. Eestory is held in six cities of the Czech Republic, Ostrava, Praha, Brno, Olomouc, Zlín and Holešov during 2010. More information are available here.