Films that can compete with YouTube

Today, films have an increasingly harder task of competing with short videos on YouTube – fighting cats under a Christmas tree are among the most popular, especially among young people.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between November 25 and December 4, including a cappella concert, a LGBTI film festival, a top show on ice, as well as a lot of world, jazz and classical music, concerts, etc.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between November 11 and November 20, including African jazz, opera with puppets, lecture on modern lifestyle, Scrap Metal Art fest, classical music, exhibitions, etc.

Photos in old and new

The Month of Photography, in its 26th year, offers some tried and proven Bratislava-based venues and events in the month of November, but also brings novelties in both of these categories.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between November 11 and November 20, including adventure and travel festival, the Night of Theatres, a fashion show, lots of music, and more.

IFF Bratislava focuses on City, Croatian films and the US election

The 18th year of the International Film Festival, Bratislava (IFF) brings an extra day, 26 more films and a host of guests and accompanying events.

Totalitarian regimes commemorated by the Freedom Festival

Festival Slobody / The Freedom Festival 2016 is a multi-genre festival that tries to revive and keep alive the memory of two totalitarian regimes, The Fasicst Nazi authority during World War Two and later the communist administrtation which ended in November 1989.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between November 4 and November 13, including classical music and jazz, modern dance, a film festival, exhibitions, and more.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between October 28 and November 6, including Halloween/ghost night, a lot of classical and rock music, modern dance, a fashion show, and more.

Slovak Press Photo winners exhibited

The prestigious competition for photo journalists, Slovak Press Photo, has announced the winners and opened an exhibition of their works. In its fifth year, it saw several changes.

Competition of young painters opens to public

The Maľba / Painting competition has been organised for 11 years, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary there is a big bilingual (Italian and English) book presenting the winners for 2006-2015.

Dalai Lama: The change will take a long time but we need to start it now

The Bratislava public lecture by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, on the afternoon of October 16 was a true stadium-filler, both symbolically and literally.

Bratislava Jazz Days 2016 for wider groups than just hard-liners

Jazzman and organiser of the festival Bratislava Jazz Days, Peter Lipa, opened the press conference by noting that these days, there is too much music everywhere and that he personally tends to switch it off.

Foreigners: Events around Slovakia

Tips for performances and other events in the Slovak regions between October 14 and 22, including multimedia festival, a lot of music - for example top jazz , a cat show, an opera premiere, contemporary dance, or exhibitions.

Ode to chamber music continues

Although now events are more dispersed throughout the year, the traditional festival of chamber music, Konvergencie, is still at the end of September.

Bratislava lives 20 years of dance

Slovak festivals are experiencing a period of anniversaries – and one of them is the 20th edition of the Bratislava in Movement event. Its programme is not jam-packed, but rather filled with big names and foreign highlights.

SNM exhibition shows early Europe divided but also united

The Legacy of Charlemagne exhibition at Bratislava Castle depicts project Europe in the early Middle Ages.

Theatre festival: Ode to Joy – or the EU’s true face

The Divadelná Nitra theatre festival, now in its 25th year, focuses on the issue of how modern society in Europe is connected.

World Music Festival truly established