68/89 - Art, Era, History
The International project 68/89 – Art.Era.History (Divadlo.Doba.Dějiny./ Kunst.Zeit.Geschichte) has been created as part of Zipp – Czech-German Cultural Projects, an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. To mark the fortieth anniversary of the year 1968, this project focuses on the cultural and social movements of the end of the 1960’s. It brings together historians and artists from Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia to uncover the events during and after this period in their complexity and with their inconsistencies and to examine cultural exchange and ideological misunderstanding between east and west. The project also looks at development after 1968, the role of the “68ers” during the fall of communism in 1989 and the significance of these historical events.

The partners of the project are the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Centre for Research of Contemporary history) in Potsdam, the Sophiensaele theatre in Berlin, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny, ÚSD (Institute of Contemporary History) in Prague, Centrum experimentalního divadla (Centre for Experimental Theatre)/Divadlo Husa na provázku (Goose on a String Theatre) (CED/DHNP) in Brno and the Kampnagel cultural centre in Hamburg.

Links
Misunderstanding 68/89

www.68-89.net
www.projekt-zipp.de





Café Amsterdam Festival: Presented by Archa Theatre in collaboration with the Netherlands Fund for Literary Production and Translation (NLPVF).
From the 16th to the 18th of November 2007, Archa Theatre was transformed into an Amsterdam literary café for the Dutch-Czech literary festival Café Amsterdam, organised by Archa Theatre in collaboration with the Netherlands Fund for Literary Production and Translation (NLPVF). The festival opened with Igor Malijevský and Jaroslav Rudiš’ "literary peepshow" EKG – On Love and Amsterdam, featuring authors Remco Campert, Tomas Lieske, Mustafa Stitou, Esther Ending, Miloš Urban and music by Esther Apituley (viola). The following two days, including interviews, author’s readings, an evening of poetry and a public debate featured authors Markéta Pilátová, Petra Hůlová, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Jan Urban, Frank Westerman, Mustafa Stitou, Radek Fridrich and Vít Janota.





Archa Theatre’s Berlin Reloaded festival showcases the best from Berlin’s progressive theatre scene.
As part of the “Czech-German Cultural Season”, Archa Theatre presented a showcase of Berlin’s progressive theatre scene. The project, Berlin Reloaded, saw productions from contemporary arts centres SophienSaele and Radialsystem presented at Archa. The showcase opened with the multimedia project Fear Lab, which made playful and unusual use of both low and high – tech multimedia technologies. The progressive Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Constanza Macras also appeared at Archa. Along with her dance group, Dorky Park, she presented their newest project I’m not the only one. The Berlin Reloaded showcase included a discussion on the current cultural situation and new trends on the Berlin scene.