The most interesting events of this week

Time of trips is not over yet! We bring you the most exciting events of this week, inspiration for exploring the Czech Republic and places to visit.

Week of Hispanic culture in Pilsen
A week focused on the culture of Spanish speaking countries, with the central theme of Hispanic Nations Day takes place in Pilsen. The program includes a parade through the historic town centre (on Tuesday 12th October 2010, at 3:30 pm), various performances, concerts, lectures, projection of Argentine films, Spanish dance classes, closing ceremony. Date of the event: 11th – 17th October 2010

Radio Autumn International Music Festival 2010
This year's festival includes a total of 6 concerts of classical music from the Baroque to never performed contemporary compositions in the Czech Republic and is going to welcome two foreign radio orchestras in Prague. All festival concerts will be transmitted by Czech Radio. The aim of the festival is to offer new and interesting repertoire, to promote Czech music culture, young artists, play the world and Czech premieres and promote lesser-known compositions to the public and radio listeners.
Date of the event: 12th – 15th October 2010

Monet—Warhol/ Masterpieces of the Albertina Museum and the Batliner Collection
Most of the artists featured in this collection are represented by the best of their work. The Prague exhibition "Masterpieces" is a rare Czech cultural event.
The major European Rita and Herbert Batliner Collection will join with the Albertina Museum to present 80 rare artworks, such as Monet's iconic Water Lilies, works by fauvists H. Matisse and P. Bonnard, German expressionist E. L. Kirchner, Russian avant-gardists El Lisicky and K. Malevich and surrealists R. Magritte and M. Ernst as well as works by post-war European and American artists of the second half of the 20th century, such as J. Dubuffet, Y. Klein, F. Bacon, R. Lichtenstein, A. Warhol and contemporary artists like A. Kiefer and A. Katz.
Date of the event: Oct 13, 2010 - Jan 7, 2011

First Czech-German Oktoberfest
A great celebration for the public will be held within the 20-year anniversary of the German school in Prague. You can enjoy Bavarian specialties and a rich program for children.
Date of the event: October 16, 2010 (2:00 pm - 9:00 pm)

By a steam train to Křivoklát or to a museum in Lužná near Rakovník
Set for a trip by a special steam express, which will run from Prague-Braník via Křivoklát to Lužná near Rakovník. At Křivoklát Castle you can see fencing tournaments, music performances and buy a craft product or Old Czech foods in a craft fair. At the railway museum in Lužná there can be watched the exhibition on the history of railway in Bohemia, a large collection of locomotives and railway cars, a model railyard and a narrow-track railway.
Date of the event: 16th – 17th October 2010

Exhibition of car models “The Boyhood Dream” in Pardubice
The exhibition of car models has been prepared by the East Bohemia Museum in Pardubice, in cooperation with the collector Mr. Vaclav Blazek.
Date of the event: 9th – 17th October 2010

Festival 4x4 Days in Motion
14th International theatre festival in Prague. The artistic groups and soloist, who visit this festival every year, are different not only by their nation but also by different genre - from contemporary dance, physical and visual theatre, to concert, video art, or verbal theatre. During past 14 years the festival presented 160 professional artistic groups from all over the world in Prague and every year it produces or co-produces several extraordinary local projects. The particularity of the festival is to enliven objects of the Prague architecture by theatre and presentation of international projects co-produced by Four Days.
Date of the event: 9th – 16th October 2010

OPENEON tour Prague
Nontraditional city exhibition of neons, which respond to cultural, social and political topics. Shop windows in Prague are the place of this exhibition. The project follows the recent world trend to put near art and design to the public by installing the exhibition directly in a public place.
Date of the event: May 10, 2010 - May 11, 2010