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The year-long efforts of our young theatre artists will culminate in the Festival of Theatre Studios, which will open on Victory Day, May 8, and run through mid-June. During the festival, they will premiere their productions on their home stages and we will welcome the regional Studios on the Theatre Studios Exhibition on May 30. You can support the festival with a voluntary admission via this QR code — thank you for all your support! FESTIVAL PROGRAMME: PRAGUE: 8. 5. 18:00 – premiere of Echoes of Paintings (Studio Prague 7) - Korzo, Trade Fair Palace NGP, Prague 7 How does art touch life? And how does life imprint itself on paintings? As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Memory of Nations project [...]

Discover what freedom means to you! Join us for a summer theatre workshop that is not just an ordinary suburban camp. Over the course of a week, you'll have an adventure, make new friends, and discover just how alive theatre can be when stories of eyewitnesses meet your own experiences. Through drama, discussion and making things together, we'll explore the theme of freedom - from its historical context to its relevance today. What to expect: getting to know each other and creating a safe space for sharing and experimenting dramatic games to unleash your creativity learning about authentic eyewitnesses' stories discussions on current issues and problems of freedom creative experiments to explore [...]

Are you interested in theatre and history and at least 55 years old? Do you want to creatively commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II? Join students from the Memory of Nations Gymnasium for a project day in the form of an intergenerational theatre workshop. When: 16th April 2025, 10:00–14:00 Where: Memory of Nations Gymnasium, Švédská 39, 150 00 Prague 5 What's in store for you: a joint examination of memories from the Memory of Nations database and from your own lives promoting intergenerational dialogue, understanding and cooperation creating inspiring theatrical etudes through dramatic exercises No previous theatrical experience is needed, just the will, courage and a small snack;) Attendance is free! Come chat with us, share memories and create! You can sign up [...]

Liberec Studio will present its performance as part of the Czech-Polish festival of young theatre JESTĚDYVADLO 2025. The performance will take place on Friday 14 March from 13:30 to 14:00. You are wormly invited! Title of performance: Ray in the Darkness Imagine you are fifteen years old, your childhood carefree-ness is ending and you, a little shaky and uncertain, are entering your adult years. You have to learn to walk in it, wondering what others will think of you if you don't walk confidently enough. Lots of things change, school, friends and your very perception of the world, and you need at least some reassurance at a time like this to safely seek the right direction. Now imagine a regime coming along [...]

"I'm 9 years old. My dad didn't come back, so my mom went looking for him. They found daddy dead, lying in the clover fields. He was clutching a clover in his hand. He was killed in the revolution on May 7, the day before the end of the Second World War," says Růžena, an eyewitness. Celebrating the end of the war - but what's inside? Memories come flooding back, as do the questions. How to find the meaning of life again? The play Clover fields from the series We Are Memory, based on the true stories of four eyewitnesses, reconstructs the moments of the liberation of Czechoslovakia. The young artists bring to life the memories of the survivors, showing the fear they had to live with, what they lost and [...]

Looking for adventure and want to immerse yourself in history in a fun way? Join the Memory of Nations' Theatre Studios, for youth ages 12 to 20. The summer semester begins on February 3rd! We are offering: a doorway to a world where history meets the performing arts an adrenaline-fuelled journey to discover incredible stories from the 20th century a shared exploration of what connects us to the people of history creating a theatre piece that grabs you by the heart awakening your hidden creativity and self-confidence meeting inspiring people and making new friends Studios are held once a week for 90 minutes, the summer semester begins on February 3rd, 2025 Locations: Prague, Brno, Liberec, Pardubice, Hradec Králové, Karlovy Vary, Chříč [...]

Experience the power of art and activism. Join us for the Czech premiere of I TRUST YOU, brought to you by Denmark's NORPOL. This groundbreaking documentary offers an intimate look into the lives of Russian artists and activists bravely fighting for freedom. Through a powerful blend of music, visuals, and personal stories, you'll witness the unyielding human spirit. Admission is free. Don't miss this limited engagement. Book your seats now! When: 28th November 2024 at 3 PM and 7 PM / 29th November 2024 at 6 PM Where: Dům národnostních menšin, Vocelova 602/3, 120 00 Vinohrady The performance I TRUST YOU starts after a stormy collaboration between director Daniel [...]

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! You can find the Facebook event here.