Karel Cudlín: PASÁŽE / PASSAGEWAYS

The Jewish Museum in Prague has planned for you to coincide with the exhibition

If the photography of Karel Cudlín or the topic of nomadism interest you, if you are a fan of the magical alto of Kateryna Kolcová or just curious about what’s new in the contemporary New York music or Prague literary scenes, you will not want to miss the programs the Jewish Museum in Prague has planned for you to coincide with the exhibition

Karel Cudlín: PASÁŽE / PASSAGEWAYS

(Robert Guttmann Gallery, U Staré školy 3, Prague 1, from April 22 to June 6, 2004)Looking forward to seeing you there, Michaela Hájková, curator of the cycle Jewish Presence in Contemporary Visual Art

All programs are at the Robert Guttmann Gallery and start at 7:00 p.m.; admission is free

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April 27, 2004

Lider fun dor tsu dor (Songs from Generation to Generation): a musical recital by Kateryna Tlustá-Kolcová

Vocalist Kateryna Tlustá-Kolcová’s repertoire consists primarily of Jewish songs. Originally from the Ukraine, she studied ethnomusicology at the University of Kiev. She has lived in Prague since 1994 and is a graduate of the Jan Deyl Conservatory, where she studied singing.
In addition to her frequent concert appearances (solo recitals as well as with the group Spiritual Quintet and Vladimír Merta), much of her time at present is devoted to the study of interpretations of Yiddish songs.

Kateryna Kolcová has recorded two CDs: the first, Yedid Nefesh, contains songs in Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew; the second, Karev Yom (Day is Near), comprises Hebrew liturgical songs which in Kateryna’s lovely, enthralling alto take on an entirely unique sound.

May 11, 2004

Loners, Tradition and Joy: a generation of radical Jewish musicians from the USA in extracts from music and film. An original intersection of Jewish tradition and the music of Cuba, American big band, electronic music and that of the postmodern avant-garde. Selected and discussed by Pavel Klusák, among those included are Mark Appelbaum, Jewlie Eisenberg, Ted Reichman, Raz Mesinai, and the spiritual father of the New York scene, John Zorn.

Pavel Klusák is a critic of contemporary music. He is an editor for the weekly magazine Týden, regularly contributes to the music review HIS Voice, and has a weekly radio show, “Úhlopříčky,” on Czech Radio 3 – Vltava.

June 1, 2004

Joshua Cohen, Róbert Gál and Vít Kremlička: readings in English, Slovak and Czech

Joshua Cohen (1980 New Jersey, USA): selected stories, in English

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey, U.S.A., and, after stints in New York and Israel, he now resides in Prague. He has worked as a journalist and editor for many publications, including Sequenza 21, the Prague Pill, New York Press, and as a foreign correspondent for the Jewish Forward. He has contributed fiction to various journals, including Modern Word, Est, and the Prague Literary Review. Joshua Cohen's fiction includes numerous uncollected stories, a book entitled Jewish Novel, and a collection of stories entitled The Quorum, forthcoming from Twisted Spoon Press in 2005.

Róbert Gál (1968 Bratislava): new texts, in Slovak
Aphorist and philosopher, Gál is the author of Epigraffiti, Znaky a príznaky and, in English translation, Signs & Symptoms (Twisted Spoon Press, 2003).

Vít Kremlička (1962 Prague): selected texts from his work in progress Manael, in Czech
A writer of poetry, prose and, at times, journalism, from 1982-1985 Kremlička was a member of the band Národní třída (CD Je třeba si zvykat / Vlhkost v nočním autobuse, Black Point, 2000) and from 1986-1988 he played in the heavy-metal group His Boys–Jeho hoši. Before 1989 his work was published in samizdat and he was a co-founder of the influential cultural journal Jednou nohou (later Revolver Revue) as well as the Informační servis (later the weekly Respekt). He has published widely in journals, magazines and newspapers. His books include two volumes of prose: Lodní deník (for which he won the Jiří Orten Prize in 1991); Zemský povídky (Hynek, 1999), three volumes of poetry: Cizrna (Torst, 1995); Staré zpěvy (Revolver Revue, 1997); Amazonia (Klokočí/Knihovna Jana Drdy, 2003), and one collection of poetry and prose encompassing his work from 1995-2001: Prozatím (Petrov, 2001). Translations of his work have appeared abroad in a number of publications and a collection of his writing is forthcoming in English from Twisted Spoon Press.