Past events
Literature on Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
True story. A novel written with an "eye" and brought to the screen. The film, directed by Julian Schnabel, is based on a book by the real-life story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine. After a sudden stroke, he becomes paralysed.
How to Write About War
Czech writers reflect on Russian aggression in Ukraine in many different ways. Is direct experience of war necessary for an artistic reflection on it? What role does empathy play in this process? Join us for an author reading and discussion aboard the airship Gulliver.
Matters of the Heart: Denemarková, Bellová, Šteger
We all have our favourite stories. Even writers themselves have their favourite writers – and their own particular literary matters of the heart. In this programme, our festival guests will share their favourite stories. Do you want to know what Bianca Bellová, Radka Denemarková, and Aleš Šteger enjoy reading?
Andres Serrano's Literary Inspiration
The work of the renowned American photographer Andres Serrano deals with social issues, sexuality, racial intolerance and dark aspects of human being. Join curator Otto M. Urban for a guided tour through both parts of the Infamous Beauty exhibition: a set of 60 works entitled Beauty, which feature a cross-section of the artist's oeuvre, and the more recent, complete series Infamous from 2019. The tour will be accompanied by reading of poems written by Andres Serrano himself!
Literature on Film: Leonora addio
Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, the Italian playwright, novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Recycliterature
An open art workshop for children aged 7 and up and adults, where we will breathe new life into discarded printed materials. We will focus on collage - combining text and photographic reproduction. By linking originally unrelated and fragmented texts and images, new, bizarre, humorous situations will be created.
The Universe of Art
An open art workshop for children aged 5 and up and adults relating to the book The universe of art and the current exhibitions of the DOX Centre.
Slam Poetry Night
Slam poetry. A genre on the border between poetry, theatre, and figure skating. A genre of performative poetry. Sometimes also an elocutionary contest or rhyming stand-up. Any label you try to give it will be wrong. To know what it is, you have to experience it!
ART/ificial: Art, Literature & Artificial Intelligence
The impact of AI on the art world is no longer fiction. How is AI affecting literature, art and human creativity today and what can the future bring? If art and literature is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?
