The 15th edition of the Theatre World festival in Brno ended last Tuesday, 28 May, attracting record crowds of over 11,500 combined, scoring high in audience appreciation, and recording numerous sold-outs and an average attendance of…
The Rosnička festival returns for the 14th year this year, from 28-30 June. Located in Svitavy, in the Pardubice region, the festival melds various genres and modern beats with the picturesque natural backdrop of a lake and forest camp. We…
Next Tuesday, 4 June, from 6 pm, a new exhibition by sound artist Tomáš Šenkyřík will open at Brno’s House of Arts on Malinovského Náměstí, running until 14 July. In his work, “Soundscapes of Brno”, Šenkyřík attempts to capture the sounds…
For the 25th year, the cave system at Moravsky Kras will play host to a cycle of concerts during the next week. The jubilee will be celebrated through five evening concerts, the Magical Tones of Macocha, from 5 to 9 June, starting every…
This month, the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University presented the 24th edition of their film festival. Beginning in 2000 as a showcase of short films made by insiders of the faculty, this festival has been providing both the…
Czech Theater has announced two final additional performances of Václav Havel’s The Garden Party on 1 June, at 3 pm and 7 pm. Czech Theater’s co-founder Anne Johnson shared some inside information with Brno Daily about the production. What…
Next Saturday, 1 June, Ghettofest returns for the 13th time to the streets of Brno-Zabrdovice, known unofficially as “Brno’s Bronx”, with a day of music, dancing, and cultural entertainment centred around Bratislavská and Kaznice, the…
Summer is coming, and with it the Rosnička festival in Svitavy, back for the 14th year this year. The festival will take place from 28-30 June, with the picturesque backdrop of a lake and forest camp around Svitavy, in the Pardubice region…
The rich program of Brno’s Theatre World festival (‘Divadelni Svet’), which started last Friday, 17 May, is continuing this week, until next Tuesday, 28 May. Brno National Theatre (NdB), Husa na provázku Theatre, Brno Municipal Theatre,…
Brno has recently joined the Mucha Trail, a project by the Mucha Foundation – which maintains the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of works by Alfons Mucha – to connect and valorise important places connected to Alfons…
The Film Festival of the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (FFFIMU) is returning this Friday, 17 May, for its 24th year. The theme of this year’s edition is “You will remember this”. FFFIMU is a festival of short student films,…
Brno is the geographic centre of Europe, and later this month it will also become the international centre of theatre and culture, when the Theatre World (Divadelni svet) festival will infuse many theatres and performance spaces throughout…
One need not know much about international fashion to recognize the name Coco Chanel. It comes up so often: the casual chic; the “little black dress”, which has become a staple in every woman’s closet; the Chanel bag, with the famous…
Billie Eilish will perform at the O2 Arena in Prague next year, on 1 June 2025. The 22-year-old U.S. singer will come back to the Czech capital for the first time since 2019, when she performed in the same stadium with her debut album…
61-year-old Seal, an icon of UK pop, soul, and dance music, will perform in Pardubice’s Enteria Arena on 16 October 2024, as part of a world tour celebrating 30 years since his seminal albums Seal I and Seal II. Seal is one of the most…
Divadlo DIP, in coordination with the Memory of Nations Institute in Brno and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU), is welcoming everyone to participate in their latest theatre project “Troublesome classmates”. For some time now,…
From tomorrow, 23 April, a collection of unique documents about the history of Moravian book culture will go on display in the large hall of the Moravian State Archives at Brno’s Palachovo náměstí, under the name “The power of ink:…
The novel ‘Hella’, a literary debut by Russian studies scholar and writer Alena Machoninova, telling the story of Czech Jewish woman Helena Frischerova (1906–1984), who spent ten years in a Soviet gulag, received the Magnesia Litera 2022…
Organisers of the year-long Brno Jazz Festival recently announced a big name for the autumn part of the festival: California’s Kamasi Washington. The cult saxophonist will present his new album ‘Fearless Movement’ at the JazzFestBrno…
The annual Brno Art Week festival will take place in Brno next week, 22-28 April, connecting galleries and public spaces with a focus on visual contemporary arts. This year the main questions of the festival will revolve around how to…
Kino Art’s upcoming English-friendly programme will include two screenings of “Forest Killer”, a minimalist crime drama based on real events, following the final year in the life of one of the Czech Republic’s most notorious Czech serial…
The Setkani/Encounter Theatre School Festival is returning to Brno from 16-20 April, this year with the theme of “The Storm”. The idea for the festival was born during the Velvet Revolution. In the early 1990s, the Theatre Faculty of the…
From Monday until the end of April, Brno will host the 14th Days of Polish Culture festival. The ceremonial opening will take place at 6pm on 8 April in the Jiří Mahen Library, with the participation of representatives of the City of Brno…
Our series, “We are the night” presents artists, promoters, production managers, label owners and others who are bringing the music world of the Czech Republic forward, from the past to the present and the present to the future. This week…
Antonín Dvořák is among the most famous names connected to the Czech lands; a new version of his most famous opera, Rusalka, will premiere at Janáček Theatre this Friday. The production has a star-studded cast. The role of Rusalka will be…
The winner of this year’s One World (‘Jeden Svet’) International Human Rights Film Festival is Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly’s ‘Life is Beautiful’, about life in exile in Norway. The jury prize for directing went to Kumjana Novakova…
From 4 April, the Days of European Film (DEF) festival takes over Kino Art in Brno with a colourful selection of the most recent award-winning films by renowned directors as well as fresh debuts, including scoundrels, grave robbers, rocker…
A press conference was held yesterday to celebrate the symbolic return of the Břetislav Bakala Hall to the city, and its new role as the home of the Bolek Polívka Theatre, in the presence of Brno Mayor Markéta Vaňková, deputy mayor René…
Jeden Svět (“One World”), the annual human rights film festival, has returned, taking place in 48 cities around the Czech Republic. The Brno program kicks off this evening in Fleda, and runs until 28 March in several venues around the city…
Next week, on Tuesday, 19 March, the first major Brno exhibition of the Mexican artist Jimena Mendoza, Cuerpo V (“Body V”) will be unveiled at the House of the Lords of Kunštát. Mendoza has created a brand new installation for Brno,…