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National gallery confronts visitors with Rough School
An exhibition, subtitled Contemporary Graphic Art Confronting History, shows the less-known, less decorative and less usual works of graphic artists of one generation.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between August 4 and 13, including special mediaeval castle events, a Theresian historical festival, a yoga festival, a battle re-enactment, a film seminar, crafts workshop, new circus performance and workshop, a golf charity event, and a lot of music and parties, mostly open-air ones.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between July 28 and August 6, including an organ festival, a parkour meeting, a music festival, a folklore festival, a historical train ride, and a lot of open-air music or concerts at romantic, historical sites.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between July 21 and 30, including a castle festival, a parkour meeting, a hip-hop dance and music festival, a festival of minorities, a special run, rowing to harp music, a historical train ride, and a lot of open-air music or concerts at romantic, historical sites.
Bratislava Castle exhibition: Celts in Slovak territory
The first ethnic group known by name which lived on Slovak territory may have ended differently than previously thought, shows an exhibition presenting many artefacts, interactive features and models.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between July 14 and 23, including a box gala, a pole dance international event, a commemorative ride on an aerial lift in the High Tatras, an international folklore festival, a violin cocnert in high mountains, and a host of music festivals and concerts – early music performances at a medieval castle, a guitar festival, a saxophone quartet touring Slovakia, and many others.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between July 7 and 16, including open-air sport, religious and cultural events, a course of esperanto and an art symposium, a safari in a zoo, competitions in cooking, and a host of music festivals.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between June 30 and July 9, including historical festivals, traditional crafts, night tours of a castle, Obstacle Course Racing, celebrations of the Saints Cryil and Methodius, a vintage cars meeting, a folk festival and a lot of music, gastronomy, etc.
Mozart abducted in SND by young performers
The last premiere of the season and the restored Opera Studio piece, The Abduction from the Seraglio by W.A. Mozart, has been staged by young singers and a director who tapped into this genre for the first time.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between June 23 and July 2, including historical fencing bouts at a castle, shows of traditional crafts, music in an open-air museum, gold-digging in a museum, and a lot of dance and music, including open-air events.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between June 16 and 25, including an athletic tournament, a concert at a medieval castle, a medieval castle festival, a city art and design festival, a yoga day, an international film festival, an air show, and a lot of music and dance
Easy summer living in Bratislava
Some things have changed but the core of the Bratislava Cultural Summer remains for 2017 – including a host of music, dance, folklore, historical re-enactment, crafts and other events, as well as more information in English, expansion to surrounding areas and tourist-friendly features.
Returning to the roots
There is a saying that as long as the deceased are present in the hearts of those living they have not really died. The core of the current exhibition in the Jewish Community Museum in Bratislava aims to fulfill that, and also to bring those living closer to their roots and to the history of their families.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between June 9 and 18, including events for children (toddlers’ race), open gardens for visitors, a circus festival, a Western-style rodeo, exhibition of butterflies, and a lot of music – classical, jazz, folk, and more.
Eurokontext 2017 offers comparison in contemporary drama
For foreigners, drama is a less accessible genre and thus the Eurokontext theatre festival, which brings a selection of Slovak and foreign productions with English subtitles to Bratislava every second year, represents a unique chance to gain insight.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between June 2 and 9, including gospel music and a rose festival, an international theatre festival, a vegan cooking event, a city art festival, a relay run across the country, a train ride to UNESCO natural heritage sites, and a lot of music, dance, and more.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between May 26 and June 4, including a football match with veteran stars, a multi-media festival, a night run, a Slovak cycling championship, two exhibitions, and a lot of classical, jazz, folk, and other genres of music.
Meet 21st century Romeo and Juliet
Lovers of classical music, ballet and historicised theatre may protest, but the Romeo and Juliet piece recently premiered in the Slovak National Theatre (SND) digresses from Sheakespeare’s love story immortalised in Prokofiev’s music.
Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between May 19 and 28, including a dance show (tribute to Queen), two opera premieres, the first ever Slovak knife-and axe throwing championship, a nation-wide charity run with a benefit concert, a guest dance performance and a lot of music of various genres.
The only classically trained solo percussionist plays with Slovak Philharmonics
The woman who decided percussions were her true calling, studied them despite physical difficulties, discovered new horizons for herself and others and has become the first percussionist to play solos with classical orchestras (but not just them) comes to Bratislava.
- First Slovak Holocaust museum opens
- Finding a new home in Slovakia
- Fashion of communist era exhibited
- Easter traditions: public violence, or magic of life?
- Slovak films with English subtitles
- Searching for some hidden millions: Where to find the most valuable art in Slovakia
- Foreigners: Top 10 events around Slovakia in November
- We are partners, friends and Allies
- News digest: Bear suspected of killing man in central Slovakia
- News digest: 350 brown bears to be culled as Slovakia declares emergency
- Flats in Bratislava are getting smaller, otherwise no one would buy them
- From Mexico to Slovakia – finding a new life Audio
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- A paper that wasn’t supposed to last
- Unique underground museum in Košice reopens, major renovation set for next year Photo
- A paper that wasn’t supposed to last
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- From Mexico to Slovakia – finding a new life Audio
- We are partners, friends and Allies
- Bratislava satellite town breaks records and keeps expanding
- News digest: Bear suspected of killing man in central Slovakia
- News digest: Police brutality detailed, but MPs refuse to listen
- A deadly contagion has arrived in Slovakia: 30 years of stories from Slovakia
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- Trading McDonald’s for the front lines
- From Mexico to Slovakia – finding a new life Audio
- A paper that wasn’t supposed to last
- News digest: Bear suspected of killing man in central Slovakia
- Bratislava satellite town breaks records and keeps expanding
- Slovak dad drops everything for son’s NHL debut — even a flight
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak hits major Slovak cattle farm near Austrian and Czech borders Photo
- The Slovak-American who wants the world to witness the quality of Slovak wines
- France and Slovakia: Believing, loving, and working together
- Then … Now
- Dialects: can west understand east?
- Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
- Trading McDonald’s for the front lines
- News digest: 350 brown bears to be culled as Slovakia declares emergency
- Unique underground museum in Košice reopens, major renovation set for next year Photo
- Culture minister, Betliar Museum employees blame each other for problems
- Slovakia’s Gorals gain recognition. Historians say it is a joke. Photo
- Flats in Bratislava are getting smaller, otherwise no one would buy them
- We are partners, friends and Allies
- News digest: Police brutality detailed, but MPs refuse to listen
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