Tips for Thursday, December 8
Performance of the InDance Dance School, which in a unique way awakens the joy of dance in children and adults. Pop Ballet ensembles will also perform as a guest.
Švand’s theater: Rags, bones, skin
WHEN: From the 19
WHERE: Švand’s Theater in Smíchov (Studio), Štefánikova 57, Prague 5
FOR HOW MUCH: 380 CZK
Twenty years of cohabitation between the “black angel of poetry” Vladimír Holan and the “national clown” Jan Werich in the villa in Kampa… Villa in Kampa – U Sovových mlýnů 501/7, an apparent island of freedom in the gusts of history. Formerly Dobrovský’s, today Werich’s villa. From 1945 until his death in 1980, the “national clown and national rabbi” Jan Werich lived here. In 1948, half a year after the departure of Jiří Voskovec, the “black angel of poetry” Vladimír Holan moved into the ground floor. Twenty years of Hamlet and Falstaff living together. Too many words to the living and silence with ghosts. Exuberant parties and innermost prayers. Three perpendicular meters, that was the distance from one pole of Czech culture to the other at the time… Pavel Jurda’s play looks at the legends of Czech culture in its conflicts and solitudes.
Trahir: Baptism of the album
WHEN: From the 19
WHERE: Hells Bells Rockin’ Pub, Na Bělidle 27, Prague 5
FOR HOW MUCH: 200 CZK
“Finally! Bujaré welcomes our debut album in the form of its christening and the concert is here! So mark Thursday, December 8 in your diary and don’t forget the band with orgies and naughty rituals… A special guest, Slať, will help us celebrate,” the members invite stoner-doom band Trahir.
Gashi in Lucerna Music bar
WHEN: From 20
WHERE: Lucerna Music bar, Vodičkova 36, Prague 1
FOR HOW MUCH: 550 CZK
New York based rapper, singer and songwriter Gashi will be coming to Lucerna Music Bar as part of his European tour. Gashi was born in Libya and spent most of his life as a refugee moving from country to country. His family eventually settled in Brooklyn, where he settled into music at an early age. During his
Exhibition Klaudia Hlavatá: Inverted Shadow
WHEN: Daily until December 17
WHERE: Galerie Smečky, Ve Smečky 2091, Prague 1
Klaudia Hlavaté’s solo exhibition (1992) presents thirty of the latest collages. In them, the author deals with ambivalent themes such as then and now, childhood and adulthood or intimate and public, which underline the special tension and the fragmentary nature of the chosen technique. Together with the curator of the exhibition, Radek Wohlmuth, they decided to go even further and step out of the picture into the space of Galerie Smečky, which builds its dramaturgical plan right on the college campus.
The lights tell the story
WHEN: Daily 16-20
WHERE: Zluté lázně, Podolské nábřeží, 3, Prague 5
FOR HOW MUCH: From 150 CZK
The Christmas story of lights in the Yellow Spa will be illuminated by more than 400,000 LED lights and will offer an interactive 3D light program with the attributes of Christmas and Prague. Enter the decorated light park and open the first chapter of your Christmas story full of bright lights, joy, love and special moments. Let yourself be enchanted by the captivating light decoration in the Yellow Spa and experience the true festive atmosphere.
Museum of Fantastic Illusions
WHEN: Daily 9am-7pm (last entry at 6pm)
WHERE: Museum of Fantastic Illusions, Vodičkova 31, Prague 1
FOR HOW MUCH: From 179 CZK
Welcome to the magical world of optical illusions! Pavel Kožíšek’s Museum of Fantastic Illusions is a huge success among visitors and is now twice as big and x times more fun! Be part of a captivating exhibition of fantastic optical illusions and large-format trick paintings. Go for a unique experience in the funniest Czech museum, where you can also take great and funny photos and videos!
The world of jellyfish full of novelties for children and parents
WHEN: Daily 9-21
WHERE: OC Arkády Pankrác, Na pankráci 86, Prague 4
FOR HOW MUCH: From 170 CZK, adults 260 CZK
Svět Medúz was created as a completely unique global project, where under one roof the stunning life of jellyfish intertwines with audiovisual effects. On an area of over seven hundred square meters, you will find 38 aquariums in which over 30 species of jellyfish can be seen. Young and old visitors can also look forward to video mapping and unique attractions. Come for a unique experience that not only your children will appreciate.
Sweet Christmas at the castle
WHEN: Until January 8, daily 9-18
WHERE: Chvalský zámek, Na Chvalské tvrzi, Prague 9
FOR HOW MUCH: 60-90 CZK
The Christmas season inevitably includes sweet treats, candies and chocolate. There will be a Christmas exhibition called Sweet Christmas at the Chvalské Castle about how people ate at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The stylized interior of the historic confectionery, shop and factory with coffee containers, cans full of candies and desserts modeled after magazines from the 1930s will remind you of bygone times. On display will be long-forgotten confectionary tools, such as a hand-held ice cream machine, punches and candy molds, once-popular snowball molds or rare chocolate molds, as well as advertising materials and period documents with stories and facts related to sweets. with favors inherently come. Come and dream and smell it. Sweet Christmas!
Exhibition: Nikola Tesla
WHEN: Until December 11, day 9-18
WHERE: Exhibition site (Křižík pavilion D), Prague 7
FOR HOW MUCH: 90-300 CZK
A unique exhibition is coming from Belgrade to Prague about a genius scientist whose inventions accompany us in our everyday life to this day. You may not even know where you can find the link to Nikla Tesla: in remote control, no lighting, in X-ray enhancements and guided missiles. In 1880, his interest in electricity took him to Prague, where he attended lectures at Charles University… We must find a way to get electricity from sources that are inexhaustible, Nikola Tesla said 150 years ago… Do you want to see live how the famous Tesla transformer works ? Can you imagine how the power plant that tamed Niagara Falls works? And how did Tesla envision wireless energy transfer? The Serbian Nikola Tesla Museum will bring these and other functional models of his most important inventions to Prague, which you will be able to view every day from November 21 to December 11. The exhibition will reveal to you how the modern Prometheus, who changed the world with the help of electricity, lived and worked. What did he fight and what did he dream about? Meet Nikola Tesla, scientist, inventor, physicist and machine designer.