March 2009

Links roundup: What a dirty train station

by Michal Kašpárek on 03/28/2009

The most interesting links of the last two weeks:

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Venus of Dolní Věstonice and of Venus of Willendorf shown in Anthropos

March 27, 2009

Anthropos Pavilion of the Moravian Musem will launch an exhibition called “Prehistoric Art in Central Europe” on April 8. This is an unique opportunity to see original artifacts that are almost never shown to public.

Chinese cultural studies and Archeology of Near East launched at Masaryk university

March 25, 2009

The 3-year-long Bachelor of Arts (Bc.) degree programs are focused on educating students in many aspect of the fields – aesthetics, languages, geography, etc.

Collection of Joe Hloucha exhibited by Institute of Etnography

March 25, 2009

Joe Hloucha was the founder of the Japanese Studies in Czechoslovakia, who travelled to the Orient for several times in the first half of the 20th century. He collected thousands of artifacts; some of these will be exposited in the Institute of Etnography (Koblizna street 1) until September 5. Part of the presentation are black-and-white, [...]

Art Cinema to celebrate 90th anniversary on Friday

March 24, 2009

Exactly 90 years ago, on March 24, 1919, a very first screening took place in the current location of Art Cinema at Cihlářská street. This makes Art Cinema one of the longest-running cinemas in the Czech republic.

Biker's map of Brno

Biking in Brno: map of paths, trip ideas, safety advices

March 23, 2009

Brno certainly isn’t Copenhagen, but you can enjoy utility cycling and bicycle touring as well.

EU to pay CZK 200M for a cleaner Brno dam

March 18, 2009

The South Moravian Region will try to clean the Brno dam from dangerous anabaena bacterias.

Marilyn Manson to perform a concert in Brno

March 17, 2009

A controversial rock star Marilyn Manson will perform a concert at the Velodrom stadium in Brno on Wednesday, June 3.

Young father clashed with anti-abortion fanatics, now has a Facebook fanclub

March 17, 2009

As of March 19, 6:15 PM, the group is having 86 members and the number is doubling every 3 hours.