Past events
Discoveries, Idea, Inspirations
Participants of creative workshops at the FALL festival will share their experiences, discoveries, ideas, and the results of their creative work. What texts, stories, and architectural models did they create in workshops?
Fireside Storytelling
When was the last time you could listen to stories being told by the campfire? Expect informal atmosphere and shared listening and reading experience. MC: master storyteller Justin Svoboda.
Apeirogon: A True Story
Colum McCann in conversation with Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin, the main protagonists of his celebrated Apeirogon. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. Their worlds fall apart after the conflict claims the lives of their daughters: ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers.
Dehnel, Němec: The Art of Writing on Art
How do writers bring the life and work of famous artists onto the page? How do they transform the composition, texture, paint or light into words? Jacek Dehnel and Jan Němec in conversation with Blanka Činátlová.
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.
