Norway

Therion is going to play in the Czech Republic to times: 5.11.2010 in Zlín at Masters Of Rock Cafe and 26.11.2010 in Prague at KC Vltavská.

With them will play:  Loch Vostok (Swe) + Leprous (Nor)

Švandovo Theatre, Štefánikova 57, Prague 5

Hedda Gabler – the last of Henrik Ibsen´s so-called women´s plays is still modern with its picture of the total disillusion.

Hedda is twenty-nine, she´s married – and unhappy. Her husband cares more about books and all the ghosts of her past are gathering…
 

Starring: David Punčochář, Jana Stryková, Apolena Veldová

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Viking horns will sound in Prague´s Abaton Club - on 26th September 2010 within the Heidenfest festival:

- Ensiferum from Finland

- German folk-black melodic metalists Equilibrium

- thrash-death Americans Swashbuckle

- folk metalists from The Netherlands, Heidevolk.

The main headliner: Twilight of the Gods (Tribute Band - Nor, Swe, Ire)

Sacred music from the 13th to 16th centuries brought alive by vocal quartet and jazz saxophone.

19 September, 7:30 PM, The National Memorial on Vítkov Hill (U Památníku 1900, Prague 3 - Žižkov)

In September this year, Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble release ‘Officium Novum,’ the sequel to their legendary 1994 recording ‘Officium.’ Taking chants, early polyphonic music and renaissance motets as their basic material, Garbarek and the Hilliards forged a sound that mixed reverence for early sacred music with contemporary instrumental virtuosity. ‘Officium’ was a surprise hit album and won plaudits worldwide, the New York Observer describing it as representing ‘the collapse of all existing barriers between classical music and jazz, and between sacred and secular music.’ ...

Get two free tickets for H. Hukkelberg's concert!

Young Norwegian singer Hanne Hukkelberg is coming to Prague and will give her first concert in the Czech Republic on 16th September from 19:30 at Palac Akropolis.
 

Hanne Hukkelberg (born April 1979) is a singer-songwriter from Kongsberg, Norway. Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth, she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz, rock and free jazz, and was a member of the influential doom metal band Funeral in high school (in which she contributed vocals on their second album, In Fields of Pestilent Grief).

Her debut album Little Things was released in Norway in 2004 with a subsequent worldwide release in June 2005 by Propeller Recordings and distributed by Sony Music. Little Things is notable for its eclectic array of instruments and its use of found sounds, such as bicycle spokes, dish brushes, wine glasses, and rain. Rykestraße 68 was released in September 2006 and awarded with a Norwegian Grammy. Hukkelberg contributed a song to the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
 

Date: 16th September 2010, 19:30
Venue: Big Hall, Palác Akropolis (Kubelíkova 1548/27, Prague 3)

Date: 16th September 2010 at 8 pm
Venue: Sir Toby’s Hostel (Dělnická 24, Prague)

The Norwegian band Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson will play in Prague on 16th. September from 8 pm at Sir Toby’s as part of their two week European tour.

Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson is a Norwegian post-rock band from Bodø consisting of seven musicians. They started in 2003 and have released two records, Unnoticeable in a Tiny Town, Invisible in the City in 2005 and Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson in 2010, for which they received brilliant critics both in Norway and abroad. This summer they played at one of the biggest music festivals in Norway, Øyafestivalen in Oslo. Their music is characterized as epic pop or post –rock with a sound ranging from tender to brutal combining electronic elements with guitars and jazzy beats.

Švandovo Theatre, Štefánikova 57, Prague 5
 

Stage version of a remarkable Norwegian movie combinates the psychological drama and the black comedy. Geirr had an accident two years ago and he was confined to a wheelchair since that. His wife Ingvild wants to save their marriage and invites a group of disabled led by a „positively thinking“ psychologist Tori. Geirr fights back her methods – and during one night lots of things happen: a Russian roulette, suicide attempts but maybe also the real healing of wounded souls.

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Answer correctly the following question:

Hanne Hukkelberg contributed the song Lucy to the soundtrack of the second film in epic fantasy series. What is the full name of the film, i.e. both the name of the series and the name of the second film?

Send your answers (together with your name and surname) to: info(at)skandinavskydum.cz. Deadline is on Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 12:00. Please write COMPETITION HUKKELBERG as a subject of your email. We will then chose by lot one answer whose author will get two free tickets for Hanne Hukkelberg's concert in the Palác Akropolis.

If you do not get the free tickets, you can come to the concert as well: Thursday 16 September 2010, 7:30pm, Palác Akropolis.
 

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.

DHL is now hiring fluent speakers of Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish for it's IT Service Desk in Prague. We're looking for customer-oriented individuals interested in working in a collaborative, multi-cultural environment and who have an interest in developing their career in the IT field.

Find out more at http://dhl.jobs.cz/it.