The organisers of the Pohoda music festival in western Slovakia have suspended this weekend’s event prematurely, after strong winds during a storm on Friday evening knocked down one of the big tents and damaged other festival tents,…
The British documentary ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things’ by Mark Cousins won the Grand Prix (Crystal Globe) in the main competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this weekend. For his portrait of one of the most important figures of…
The Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) has prepared a birthday video for Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928), the celebrated composer who the academy is named after. The video was released today, 3 July 2024, on the 170th anniversary of…
A new concert has been added to the autumn programme of JazzFestBrno. On 29 September, at Sono Centrum, the U.S. trumpeter Randy Brecker, winner of seven Grammys, and Gustav Brom’s Radio Big Band will play a joint concert celebrating 100…
Although the theatre season is coming to an end, the Brno National Theatre (NdB) is planning a rich summer programme of opera and ballet, starting on 1 July with the world-famous opera Carmen. Spectators can also look forward to an opera…
Cyndi Lauper, the U.S. pop/rock icon known for classic hits such as “Time After Time”, “True Colours”, and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, will perform at Prague’s O2 Arena on 23 February 2024, as part of her farewell Girls Just Wanna Have…
Canadian pop-punkers Sum 41 have announced their final headline tour, “Tour of the Setting Sum”, after almost 30 years together. The tour will arrive in Prague on 10 November, with a concert at the O2 Arena. Since the release of their 2001…
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…
The courtyard of Brno’s Old Town Hall will host two special top-class jazz concerts today and tomorrow, as part of the JazzFest Brno festival, featuring both established veterans of the Czech jazz scene, and performing arts students…
A new art exhibition will go on display at Spilberk Castle in the coming days with the title “Sculptures in the Castle II – Martin Skalický”, presenting the monumental work of Martin Skalický from the last seven years, including some of…
People working in the culture sector may soon be able to apply for official artist status, which will be accompanied by financial state support. Yesterday, the Czech Chamber of Deputies endorsed a government amendment setting out the…
Gender — whether viewed through traditional male and female roles or through investigation of other gender definitions — has always served as fodder for creativity. Virginia Woolf’s novel ‘Orlando’ dealt with this topic a century ago. Now,…
Brno music festival Pop Messe, a progressive festival of contemporary popular music and technology, featuring artists from the pop, electronic, rap, and indie scenes, will take place from 25 to 27 July, with performances from over 50…
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:…