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Yellow Sisters | a cappella, alternative, jazz | Wednesday 3/24 8.30pm Starý Pivovar Club
Four voices, four hearts, four attitudes how to embrace melody, rhythm and mood to make music. Yellow Sisters are illusionists of sounds walking with ease through various genres of music like soul, funky, r´n´b, world music, jazz, and reggae.
entry 80 CZK
Zuby nehty | alternative from Prague | Friday 3/26 8.00pm Starý Pivovar Club
The group Zuby nehty is known under this name since 1987. Its history however began in 1980 when Pavla Slabá (bass, vocal), Hana Řepová (drums, vocal) and Marka Míková (piano, vocal) founded Plyn (The Gas), later changing its name into Dybbuk in 1983. At that time, two other women joined the group – Kateřina Jirčíková (flute, sax, vocal) and Eva Trnková (guitar). All the members are songwriters. In this formation, the group has appeared in hundreds of concerts and festivals.
In the beginnings of the group, critics described their style as punk or the New Wave, later on as hard core or ”women power“. The musicians consider their music out of such categories and call it classical.
Entry 90 CZK
English discussions
3/24 8.30pm The Small Hall of B.Bakala Centre – film 10 Conditions of Love and debate with expert in China Pavel Šindelář
3/25 6.00pm The Small Hall of B.Bakala Centre – film Moving to Mars: a Million Miles from Burma and debate with co-founder of Burmiese center and activist Sobe Soe
Exhibitions
Jiri Mahen Library
3/15 – 3/30
Exhibition “People of Water”; author Radek Burda
In these photographs, you can see people living on the edge of society. These people are so underprivileged that they cannot afford to buy or even rent an appartment . Instead, they are forced to live in these strange house-boats with no electricity. They are living on recycled trash. Contrary to belief, these people are perfectly happy living in those dwellings and with their own way of life.
Café Trojka
3/25 – 4/4
Exhibition “Famine in Burma”; vernissage with the director of Burma Center in Prague, Ms. Sabe A. Soe
This exhibition focuses on the fate of the people from the Chin state, Burma. This particular area was most affected by famine.
Atrium of the Faculty of Social Studies
3/15 – 4/2
Exhibition “Lives of the Others”; author Svetlana Mazepna
This exhibition shows the fate of eleven immigrant women who are residing in the Czech Republic. It contains true stories and allows you to learn more about the life of women from countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Japan. The exhibition also shows photographs and passages from their diaries.
Stary Pivovar Club
3/24 – 3/31
Exhibiton “Forgotten Worlds”; author Jan Sibik
In September 2007, Jan Sibik visited the MSF Centre of Kala Azar Disease in Kenya, and a refugee camp’s health center in Uganda. He was able to catch two worlds on camera, the first one being a life with “black fever” in the area called Western Pokot, and the second that tells us stories of the internally expatriated people in Northern Uganda.
Stary Pivovar Gallery
3/10 – 3/31
Exhibiton “With an Elephant in Zambia”; author Drahomir Stulir
In this exhibition you are able to meet Zambian children playing games and learning or working in the slums of Lusaka, Zambia. The photographs were taken in September 2008 for the non-profit organization called ijovu (NGO). The exhibition was created to help to break down the stereotypes of African children who are known only as victims of poverty.
Bretislav Bakala Centre
3/22 – 3/30
Exhibition “Real Help”
This exhibition contains twelve colour photographs that represent several projects of the non-profit organization known as, “People in Need.” These projects are financed by a long-term campaign called “Skutecna Pomoc” or “Real Help”. The photographs were taken in countries such as; Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia.