An evening with the acclaimed Scottish poet, novelist, translator and critic Christopher Whyte, focusing on his latest book of Gaelic poetry Ceum air Cheum / Step by Step (2019, shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year), in conversation with Petra Johana Poncarová. Readings in Gaelic and English. Ceum air Cheum: cruinneachadh de dhàintean […]
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Nina Power & Daniel Miller on “Performing Naughtiness”
1. Performing Naughtiness, Nina Power Humour in the internet age is in trouble. The ‘Alt-Right’ appears to have a monopoly on laughter in the form of memes, jokes, ‘edgelordism’, disrespect for the po-faced and an ability to make rare steaks out of liberal sacred cows. The left have responded by taking up a cliched ‘humourless’ posture, often regarding words […]
11th PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL 2019
PRAGUE MICROFESTIVAL (PMF) is an annual festival of the arts, combining contemporary writing with art, film, theory & performance. PMF is fully bilingual (CZ and EN), and presents readings by the best authors of contemporary poetry and fiction. Every year, PMF welcomes renowned and underground authors from across the world, staging them alongside film projections, music, […]
Prague Microfestival
Prague Microfestival (PMF) is an annual festival of the arts, combining contemporary writing with art, film, and performance. PMF is fully bilingual (CZ and EN), and presents readings by the best authors of contemporary poetry and fiction. Every year, PMF welcomes renowned and underground authors from across the world, staging them alongside film projections, music, […]
Taiwanese Painter Lo Ch´ing (羅青): Exhibition and Reading
Lo Ch’ing (羅青) is one of Taiwan’s most important contemporary poet-painters. The exhibition presents 18 high-quality reproductions of his works.
Slovenian night at Prague Microfestival
Saturday night of Prague Microfestival will caress every curious soul who seeks the advent of the Slovenian literary heavyweights! The evening entirely devoted to Slovenian literature will kick off with readings from five contemporary authors: Katja Gorečan, Andrej Hočevar, Gregor Podlogar, Boris A. Novak and Alenka Jensterle Doležal. Followed by an exciting list of young […]
Prague Microfestival
Welcome to the 8th Prague Microfestival, this year taking place at the legendary Vzorkovna Bar on Národní. The festival will kick off on Friday with a fascinating translocal fusion of anglophone and Czech Prague-based authors such as Phil Shoenfelt (UK), Thor Garcia (US), Markéta Baňková (CZ). Louis Armand (AUS) will be launching his long-awaited Prague novel, […]
Meeting with Ukrainian Writers
Meeting with three contemporary Ukrainian writers: Teodozija Zarivná, Oleh Kocarev and Maksym Kidruk. Extracts from their work shall be read and the writers shall discuss not only their art but also the cultural and literary situation in the Ukraine.
Mahmoud Darwish, World-Renowned Palestinian Poet
Celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Mahmoud Darwish, the most eminent Palestinian poet, featuring readings of his poems in several languages: Czech, English and French. The special guest will be the renowned Syrian literary critic and expert on Darwish’s oeuvre, the Paris-based Subhi Hadidi, who will discuss the Palestinian poet’s significance in […]
