Estonia

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.

25th - 29th August 2010, Prague

Fresh Film Fest is an international film festival. In 5 days more than 150 films will be screened in competitive and non-competitive sections at 7 venues.

You can enjoy these Nordic films at the festival: ...

The Karlovy Vary IFF presents annually for the first time in the Czech Republic more than 200 new films from the whole world. Among them many Nordic (as well as the very first Greenlandic film in history) and Baltic films will be presented on the 45th IFF Karlovy Vary that takes place from 2nd to 10th July 2010. ...

Jaan Kaplinski is an Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic. Kaplinski studied languages and linguistics at Tartu University, graduating in 1966, and has worked as a translator, editor, and sociologist.

The discussion will focus on Kaplinski's work, Estonian literature, culture of Finno-Ugric peoples and intercultural relations.

In Estonian, interpreted into Czech.

WE 12th May 2010, 19.00

Skleněná louka (attic), Kounicova 23, Brno

Entrance: voluntary contributions.

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.

The Scandinavian House is going to show another set of Scandinavian films in the Atlas cinema in Prague (Sokolovská 1, Prague 8) in December (11th - 14th). All the films are in original languages with Czech subtitles and they start at 8pm.

11th Dec.   Dís (IS)

12th Dec.   The Great Day on the Beach / Den store badedag (DK)

13th Dec.   The Last Viking / Den sidste viking (DK/SE/EST)

14th Dec.   Life Hits / Råzone (DK)

In the cooperation with Cinemart a Swedish film Let the Right One In is going to be shown there as well (in Swedish with Czech subtitles):

14th Dec., 18:00 Let the Right One In / Låt den rätte komma inn (SE)
15th Dec., 14:30 and 20:00 Let the Right One In / Låt den rätte komma inn (SE)
16th Dec., 18:00 Let the Right One In / Låt den rätte komma inn (SE)

Praha Kino Atlas, Sokolovská 1, Prague 8, within the set of Scandinavian films

Czech subtitles

The son of a Viking Harald is being left behind in his village with only the women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king because he is demanding control over their ships. But the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannize the population.

The Scandinavian House in the cooperation with the Municipal Library of Prague and other partners presents 1st one-day festival of Baltic literature and film - Baltfest2009.

You will meet Liana Langa (Latvia), Arvo Valton (Estonia) and Kęstutis Navakas (Lithuania).

Date: Friday 23rd October 2009
Venue: Municipal Library of Prague, Small hall, Mariánské náměstí 1, Prague 1.

There will be an exhibition of photographs of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in the foyer of the Central Municipal Library from 16th October to 7th November.

Program: ...

14th - 17th May 2009, Industrial Palace Prague - Holešovice Exhibition Grounds

Nordic and Baltic guests at the 15th International Book Fair - Book World Prague 2009: ...

Dates and location: 
Prague: 26th March – 3rd April 2009 
Czech and Moravian regions: 6th – 19th April 2009
Slovakia: 30th March – 30th April 2009

The Prague's Febio Film Festival is the city’s biggest international film festival. Febiofest was founded in Prague in 1993 and in following years gradually expanded to a number of cities in the Czech and Slovak Republics. In the Czech Republic, the attendance of the Febiofest reached 124 116 viewers last year.

In this year's event, a special retrospective will focus on contemporary Danish film. In a special section called “Denmark after Dogma” will be screened films as: ...