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Looking for a creative program for the fall break? Sign up for our theatre workshop, which we are organising in cooperation with Akademie Vitae. Led by experienced lecturers, participants will explore history using stories from the Memory of Nation collection. They will work through the story of Nicholas Winton and the children he saved from the Nazis in theatrical exercises that will become stage etudes. These will then be performed in a short final performance for family and friends on Wednesday afternoon. The camp fee includes lunch and two snacks. When? 28th - 30th October 2024, 9:00 -16:00 Where? See you at the premises of Škola Vitae in Prague 11 (and the surrounding area) For whom? Ages 11-15, minimum capacity Application form [...]

Post Bellum - Memory of Nations Theatre is the main partner of the alternative theatre production Preacher: Přemysl Pitter by Krajinou přílivu. Participants of our theatre studios are direct actors of the production, which will premiere on October 4, 2024 at the Synagogue on Palmovka (Ludmilina 601/4, Prague 8). Reprises await our young actors on October 6 and 7, and then twice in November. We warmly invite you! More information and tickets can be found on the website of Krajinou přílivu.  

On the Memorial Day of Sokolism on October 8th, we invite you at 17:00 to the Sokol Hall in Jablonec (Fügnerova 1054/5) for a performance by the Theatre Studio of the Memory of Nations Liberec called Ray in the Darkness. The performance is inspired, among other things, by the stories of Jan Šolc from Liberec and Ilona Bláhová from Jablonec nad Nisou. The main theme of the play, the script of which was created by the students of the studio themselves, is the search for support on the threshold of adulthood in the backdrop of a totalitarian regime. Admission is free. We would like to thank the Liberec Region, the Statutory City of Liberec and the Sokols from Jablonec nad Nisou for their support and kind cooperation. We look forward to seeing you! Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/8285563824856966/?ref=newsfeed 

Theatre Studios take place once a week for 90 minutes. In the week of September 23-26, you can come to an open lesson in Prague and decide for yourself whether you want to continue attending the Studio or not. Prague 1, Prague 4, Prague 6, Prague 7, Prague 8, Brno, Liberec, Pardubice, Hradec Králové, Plzeň, Karlovy Vary Registration form: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSf.../viewform We look forward to seeing you!

On Saturday 7 September 2024 there will be a reprise of the performance by the Liberec Theatre Studio The children who stayed. It will start at 12 PM (ATTENTION, CHANGE OF SCHEDULE! Time 12 PM applies) during the Harvest Festival at the Wohlmann farm (Václavice 35, Hrádek nad Nisou). Come and have a look! Dear audience, We would like to introduce you to the story of Hilda, a girl coming of age at the turn of war and peace in a country that is moving from one totalitarianism to another. How does it feel to be a young person in a world that is changing so radically and rapidly? How can he feel when his surroundings do not accept him and all the certainties he had disappear? These are the questions we have asked ourselves [...]

We have completed all three rounds of this year's Summer Theatre Workshops for Children and Youth. They focused on the theme "The Will to Change the World" and were inspired by the story of Nicholas Winton and his mission to save Jewish children from World War II. Under the guidance of our lecturers, the young theatre artists created three performances in which they worked unconventionally with space, some moving among the audience or creating living sculptures that transformed into enlivened characters. The participants became tight and creative teams, and their last days were not without great emotion and many hugs. The participants, the audience, and even us from the Memory of Nations Theatre left with a stronger Will [...]

Dance, laughter, but also months of hard work and creative effort. Shared characteristics that connect completely different theatrical performances that took place as part of the Festival of the Memory of Nations Theatre Studios. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our talented students and instructors for transforming their efforts into absolutely unique productions. A special thanks to Koláčové království for the great refreshments and KytkyodPepy for the beautiful flowers for our theatre instructors. Finally, we also thank all the venues listed below where live art could take place. The studios have premiered at Divadlo v Dlouhé, the National Gallery in Prague, Divadlo pod Palmovkou, Divadlo Na Fidlovačce, KC Kaštan, Divadlo Drak in Hradec Králové, the Theatre Education Atelier [...]

The international theater education project "Over the Fence" in collaboration with the theater group Das Letzte Kleinod, took place in two phases. The first part was held in Prague. Participants created materials through independently conducted interviews, from which a performance inspired by the events of 1989 emerged. Young artists gained valuable experiences, discovered a new city, and formed friendships. They met again in Stützerbach, where the second part of the project took place. It was concluded with a final performance in the city of Hof, where, on October 1, 1989, the first train from Prague arrived. The professional theater performance was composed of individual meetings between Czech and German children that took place in Prague and Saxony. We thank [...]

The theme of the festival is emigration in its internal and external forms. Like a line, it permeates all theater performances and thus frames the destinies of people who were forced to leave their homes in order to preserve their freedom, the historical memory of their ancestors, or just to escape for a while from the outside world that surrounded and tormented them so that they could immerse themselves in the world of art or into their thoughts. [...]

The Memory of Nations Theatre and Das Letzte Kleinod invite you to join an international theatre project focusing on the escape of East German citizens to West Germany via the Prague embassy in 1989.