Photo Art Festival 

08 – 24 10. 2021 – Bielsko-Biała

International photographic biennale is taking place in Bielsko-Biała from 8 to 24 October. Most of the exhibitions are presented in Poland for the first time and the invited artists are well-known photographers from 20 countries in Europe, America and Asia. Invited artists come to Bielsko-Biała in person and take part in the so-called author’s marathon, i. e., a two-day meeting during which lectures, presentations, film screenings and discussions take place. The festival is accompanied by open exhibitions, multimedia presentations, shows, workshops and film reviews.

More info: https://fb.me/e/4YyZhedVc

Theatre festival WITHOUT BORDERS 

30 09. 2021 – 10. 10. 2021 – Český Tešín / Ciezsyn 

The 30th International Theatre Festival will present several high quality theatre performances from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Český Těšín and the Polish city of Ciezsyn. The main program will be accompanied by workshops, exhibitions, concerts and meetings with artists and authors. 

More info: www.borderfestival.eu

Tickets: www.borderfestival.eu/cs/program-festivalu-2021

Architecture Day

04. – 06. 10. 2021 – Žilina

In Žilina the festival will start on Monday 4 October with lectures on the Žilina form of functionalism and the colony of Svojdomov with the architect Dušan Mellner. On Tuesday 5 October you can join the walk around Art Nouveau gems that have been preserved in Žilina and on Wednesday 6 October we will meet in the Bulvár for a debate with the chief architect about its significance in the past and its potential for the future.

More info: https://bit.ly/3iwmIPh

World Music Žilina

07. – 08.10. 2021 – Žilina

Tradition of spring world music concerts in Žilina as part of the WORLD MUSIC Žilina festival has been, for obvious reasons, moved to autumn but the seventh year of the festival will once again bring all music lovers of different cultures two days full of high quality and extremely varied music. On the seventh and eighth of October visitors can look forward to Latin and Balkan bashavel performed by bands from various European countries.

More info: https://hudbasvetazilina.sk/sk/program

DJ WORKSHOP by Youth Office

every Saturday from 16. 09. 2021 – Žilina

Pivnica Rave and Youth Office present a series of DJ workshops at Stanička. Get to know the hardware and software used in music mixing and gain the know-how of mixing music on a computer, on a DJ controller, CDJ players and even mixing on turntables. 

More info: https://bit.ly/3CtC92f

Screening: Florence and the Medici 

06. 10. 2021 – Žilina

The exceptional Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was more than any other artist able to project into his works the lights and shadows of an era that will never be forgotten. From the beginning of his career he created under the wings of the powerful Medici family and established himself as a creator of an ideal beauty which found its maximum expression in such extraordinary works as Primavera and the Birth of Venus. Transfer yourself to the Renaissance Florence thanks to a film screening at the Rosenfeld Palace. 

More info: https://fb.me/e/1LiTcAN7d

Scam, cocaine, and handiwork

06. 10. 2021 – Žilina

A gangster comedy about five different guys with one common goal is reminiscent of Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction with its style, choice of environment and humor. The biggest boss decides to complete an old gig. All that is needed is to get a jackhammer and drill a hole in the wall of an old castle and take a big pile of cash which is hidden there since an old unfinished robbery. Everything would have worked if it weren’t for the beauty of Pamela and the fact that these tough guys are too peculiar. They do not have a rich intellect or a sense of humor and they have goosebumps from seeing corpses. However they fully compensate everything with rough talk and the power of fists. A series of exciting and funny events begin. 

Directed by: Eduard Kudláč 

More info: https://bit.ly/3CqbCmo

Legion Train

Till 10 10. 2021 – Ostrava

The legion train consists of 14 renovated wagons which represent a military eshelony (a troop train). During 1918 – 1920 tens of thousands of Czechoslovak legionaries were transported across Russia along the Trans-Siberian Highway and they often had to force the passage by fighting the Bolsheviks. The legion train consists of field post wagons, the teplushki (troop trains), medical, film, command, staff, armored, sales, tailoring, blacksmith (reconstructed in Slovakia), accommodation and two platform wagons. In all carriages, visitors will find an authentic reconstruction of equipment, legionnaires in period uniforms as well as original items and several hundred photographs on panels mapping the history of the Czechoslovak legions.

More info: https://www.csol.cz/legiovlak/legiovlak-v-ostrave-2021