Festival ŽIVÉ MĚSTO

Young people that live, study or just spend their time in Prague 6 founded the civic association The City Alive in September 2010 in order to bring the place to life. Although Prague 6 is one of the wealthiest communities in the Czech Republic, there is no working cinema, its public space hosts no events and independent culture receives only minimal support. Several alternative venues with a regular program of events have emerged recently, but the public barely knows about them.
We understand „the city alive“ to be more than just high-quality housing. It also means rich cultural life, good neighborhood relationships etc. That is why we organized a non-profit multi-genre festival in autumn 2011 and also in autumn 2012 that brought Prague 6 to life with film screenings with discussions about urban issues, cultural events in the streets or a picnic in a park. The festival attracted many visitors, (see photo gallery).
The City Alive festival will take place for the third year in a row in Prague’s 6th district, mainly in Dejvice and Bubeneč, in the time between 21st to 22nd and 26th to 29th September 2013, organized by the civic association of the same name. We would like to revitalize cultural landscape in the public space particularly in the Prague 6th neighborhood.
The non-profit multi-genre festival with the subtitle Come Alive Together In Your Neighborhood, will this year focus its actions on train stations and back yards or gardens, and these meeting places will be liven with a multitude of site-specific actions. On the program are events as for example dancing on the railway station platform, an exhibition in the station’s waiting room or a guided walk focusing on Dejvice and Bubeneč backyard. "We are trying to treat this year’s festival as a local event among neighbors. The guided tours will include visits of several back yards, which will be introduced directly by the residents of adjacent houses, who will further with our help at some places prepare breakfasts or workshops, "said the organizer Tereza Mašková.
The festival will also include the Dejvice sections of neighborhood street fair/festival A Different City Experience, an open air screening of the film The Venice Syndrome (Andreas Pichler, 2012), garden flea market and or a neighborhood cross country run competition in Divoká Šárka. Jindřich Pinc, also an organizer, on the concept of the festival: "We are trying to make sure that our activities contribute to the debate over the use of urban public space and to keep the people’s interest in the vicinity they live in."
Our festival City Alive is meant for all age groups, both for residents of Prague 6th district, as well as for those from other Prague’s districts.The festival is a non-profit and low-budget activity; this year’s event is supported by the Prague City Hall and the municipality of Prague 6th district contributed to the neighbor fair Different City Experience. Another important partner is Cultural Center Klubovna. Admission to all events is free of charge.

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PROGRAMME 2013

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Saturday, 21st Sept. 2013
11.00 – 21.00 Different City Experience Dejvice
Address: Mařákova street
Summary: Neighborhood street festival held in cooperation with café Vypálené koťátko and Auto*Mat
Workshops: art workshops, guerilla-knitting, making of picture books, bicycle workshop, origami, and so on
Music: 13.00 Střídmí klusáci v kulisách višní, Vladimír Merta 15.00, 17.00 Inženýr Vladimír, 19.00 J; open-mic and local buskers
Games: 14.00-18.00 Scandinavian House (northern garden and board games); Agátin svět (creative kit)
Sport: 13.00-16.00 Sokol Dejvice; box
Competition: 12.00-14.00 for the best homemade bread
Dance: 18.00 salsa (including dance lessons)
More: application of makeup on the street, great food, get together etc.


Saturday, 21st Sept. 2013
12.00–23.59 INDUST´ROLL # 2
Location: Kunsthala-C
Address: Papírenská 1
Summary: An exhibition, titled Let me introduce, free art, from the other side, on the road, in my kitchen, nearest train station, uncertain project presents works by local and visiting artists, which are incorporated into new contexts of industrial environments, factories, tunnels, production facilities and studios unconventional form of site-specific installation. In the authentic "creative zone" of Bubenečská Kunsthala unexpectedly meet and mingle contemporary trends from different disciplines. Exhibiting art by: Linda Ernýgrová, Martin a Tomáš Zachovi, Martin Chloupa, Vladimír Větrovský, Adam Stanko, Helena Sequens and others. There will be an original mobile bar.

Sunday 22nd Sept. 2013
12.00–18.00 INDUST´ROLL # 2

Sunday 22nd Sept. 2013
13.00–19.00 Garden flea market
Location: KC Klubovna
Address: Generál Píka street (at the top of the intersection with the street Pevnostní)
Summary: The traditional flea market in the garden of KC Klubovna. This time only vendors from Pragues 6th district will participate Expect a unique atmosphere and enjoy a variety of delicatessen, buy clothes, objects found in attics of grandmothers' houses and other imported things. Bring along your children – there will be a workshop organized for them by a group of artists Máma mele (14.00-17.00).

Sunday 22nd Sept. 2013

14:00–20:30 DŮM / DĚLOSTŘLECKÁ 35

The site-specific project DŮM (A HOUSE) / DĚLOSTŘELECKÁ 35  - has started on 15th of September, when a chance came up to use the space in the unoccupied detached house in Prague 6.
The HOUSE will contain an interactive theater installation created in accordance with Marianna Stránská concept of with the work of filmmakers, musicians, dancers, artists, photographers and enthusiastic passers by. The connecting link of the various directions represents the author's intention to consciously motivate the viewer to actively participate in the work. We want to invite the audience to visit the HOUSE in DĚLOSTŘELECKÁ 35, where they can help us to bring the house back to life for one afternoon.
We will be dancing, eating, degusting, taking baths, listening to the sounds around us, lookING for secrets hidden in the cupboard or in the basement. Come back with us to the time of our childhood, into the dreams of the house and through the front door you come into the world of our own imagination.

Artists: Marianna Stránská, Kristýna Svatá, Kate Young, Jan Stránský, Dorota Špinková, Anna Brotánková, Tereza Gsöllhoferová, Pravdomil Toman, Jan Slezák etc.

Wednesday 25th Sept. 2013
14.00–19.00 Pevnostní 651
Location: Běhal Fejér Institute
Address: Pevnostní 651
Summary: An exhibition as a revival of the spirit of the old villa number 651 in the Ořechovka district, is a taste of artworks across free and applied art. Faded beauty, historical techniques in new artistic directions, crystal glass, the taste of dark visions ... Come sail through the atmosphere of this unique space ... Artists: Jan Bigas, Peter Fabo, Michal Kohút, Mark Paul Divo, Kurt Gebauer, Matouš Lipus, Markéta Jáchimová and others. (Between the 27th and the 28th the 29tth evening accompanying program will be held see at http://www.zive-mesto.cz/2013).

Thursday 26th Sept. 2013
13.00–18.00 50 m za krajní mezí (50 meters past extreme limits)
Location: train station Praha-Bubeneč
Address: Goetheho 4
Summary: Exhibition project prepared by artists connected to the Bubeneč studios. Young authors enliven the BubEneč station’s waiting room with site-specific installations and video projections.
Artists: Marie Hladíková, Martin Hrubý, Petr Krátký, Adam Stanko a Helena Sequens, Jonáš Strouhal, Hynek Vacek, Jan Zdvořák.

Thursday 26th Sept. 2013
20.15 The Venice Syndrome
Location: in the vicinity of Vítězné nám. and Technicka street.
Summary: Outdoor screening of the documentary The Venice Syndrome (Andreas Pichler, 2012), in German and Italian with Czech subtitles.


Friday 27th Sept. 2013
Hnízdo (Nest)
Location: train station Praha-Veleslavín
Address: Nad Stanicí
Summary: A train station is not just a place of departure it’s also a waiting place it is not seldom a temporary home - a sanctuary, so to speak. That's when you’ve missed the last train or if it is simply used as a convenient, publicly accessible area used by the homeless or even swallows. The nest is also a kind of object-absurd compromise that is offered to anyone as a "cosy" retreat, not as a compromise solution suitable for neither swallow nor for humans. At the same time the clutch is connected to the audio document homeless reality (not) creating a home. Author of the installation: Jan Kalivoda

Friday 27th Sept. 2013
13.00–18.00 50 m za krajní mezí (50 meters past extreme limits)
Location: train station Praha-Bubeneč
Address: Goetheho 4

Friday 27th Sept. 2013
DVORKY (BACKYARDS)
Several yards will be accessible to the public; a program is prepared in close cooperation with the locals.

16.45 Oheň splněných přání (Fire of wishes fulfilled)
Address: Koulova street 1 (enter from Kotěrova str.)

17.00–20.00 Neighbor’s meeting place
Address: Kafkova street 17
Summary: Tasting local foods, roasting sausages, viewing old pictures of the house and its surroundings from the residents’ archives.

Friday 27th Sept. 2013
17.00–20.00 Dancing hall
Location: train station Praha-Dejvice
Address: Václavkova 1
Summary: Dancing Hall under the roof of the platform begins to swing lesson, followed by a dance hall with music, where you will be able to practice dances learned, or just simply dance. Organized in cooperation with the Swing Busters.

Friday 27th Sept. 2013
21.30 Stroll with it!
Location: train station Praha-Veleslavín
Address: Nad Stanicí street
Summary: An experimental site-specific performance for two legs and four wheels in the magic location of the train station Veleslavín. The dance-theater project was created as an incentive of Carolina Gil and Jane Kovacevic Spiessova supported by the dance studio Emotion specially for the festival and will be shown only there. Let’s meet on the platform!


Saturday 28th Sept. 2013
DVORKY (BACKYARDS)
Several yards will be accessible to the public; a program is prepared in close cooperation with the locals.
10.00–14.00 Herbal breakfast
Location: a park in the inner yard on Lotyšská and Rooseveltova
Summary: a picnic at the Lotyšák will be somewhat greened this time. Bring herb spreads, herbal teas, herbal pastry and don’t forget your recipes. Additionally, while tasting new herbal delicacies you may acquire new plants. We will be swapping full-grown plants pots as well as cuttings for rooting.
14.00 Tiger, my friend
Meeting at: a park in the inner backyard on Lotyšska and Rooseveltova street
Summary: This happens when a successful duo turns into a half-hour performance. The teacher and choreographer Carolina Gilová relied when making choreography not only on her own judgment, but also on the imagination and creativity of several students, aged 10 to 17 years, from Studio Emotion.
Music: Dominik Renč: choreography: Karolína Gilová, sets and costumes: Zorka Velková; on motifs from William Saroyan book Tracy’s tiger.

Saturday 28th Sept. 2013
14.00–19.00 Pevnostní 651
Location: Běhal Fejér Institute
Address: Pevnostní 651

Saturday 28th Sept. 2013
13.00–21.00 50 m za krajní mezí (50 meters past extreme limits)
Meeting at: Praha-Bubeneč train station
Address: Goethe street 4
Summary: Od 19.00 exhibition, at the occasion of its half-time anniversary, accompanied by acoustic evening performance of the participating artists at the station.


Sunday 29th Sept 2013
10.00 neighborhood cross country in Šárka
Meeting at: next to the water reservoir Džbán past the vicinity of SK Aritma Praha
Summary: A 3.5 Km and a 7.5 km run in the Šárka countryside for enthusiastic amateurs, total beginners or athletes in training who enjoy a good competition and like to move. There will be special short routes for children. An additional category, neighbors, which offers a cross-country teams from the same street will be introduced. Registration 9.00-9.45, start at 10.00.
Following the cross a Barefoot (or else minimalistic shoes) workshop for beginners will take place.

Sunday 29th Sept 2013
13.00–18.00 50 m za krajní mezí (50 meters past extreme limits)
Location: train station Praha-Bubeneč
Address: Goetheho 4

Sunday 29th Sept 2013
19.35 Funebráci (The Undertakers)
Meeting at: platform of Praha-Dejvice train station
Summary: A bizarre performance by the theatre group Wariot Ideal will take place in the streets between the Praha Dejvice and Praha Bubeneč train stations. Four undertakes with the coffin on their shoulders followed by a funeral band are searching the town for a place to bury the deceased... Places are scarce all untilled plots have long been purchased by developers.
Their strength is shrinking under the weight of the coffin and they need a rest on their never-ending journey. The grim procession does not get a moment of peace – the coffin turns into a puppet theater or billiard table, the actors themselves into magicians and cabaret artist ... The story of four undertakers, two musicians on a winding journey towards their desired goal – the funeral, is full of traps and absurdity.
Arranged by: Jan Dörner, Milena Fabiánová, Jan Kalivoda, Michael Vodenka, Lucie Škandíková and Vojta Švejda.