Literature at Night
Do you know what it feels like to listen to poetry being read out at a cemetery? We do! Join Katarina Richterova at the literature night which brought book readings to very unusual places.
Do you know what it feels like to listen to poetry being read out at a cemetery? We do! Join Katarina Richterova at the literature night which brought book readings to very unusual places.
The beginnings in a foreign country are never easy, says Nina Varon, a Slovak who moved abroad some 15 years ago. In her case, it was poetry that helped her channel her feelings of displacement. All of ...
Making fun of politicians was a big thing two decades ago as comedians and entertainers were free at last to make jokes of our top representatives and their flaws. Now, more than 22 years of free speech ...
Rozalia is a proud owner of a University diploma from ethnology and cultural anthropology. However, she can’t seem to make use of it, as all the jobs she was educated and trained for are taken. Is getting ...
One year after early parliamentary elections, seven months before regional ones and a year before those for the European Parliament, the Slovak political scene is bubbling with activity, namely political ...
The Polish - Slovak relations are great, however there is always a „but“ at the end of that sentence.Katarina Richterova travelled across northern Slovakia and southern Poland, with fellow Slovak and Polish ...
At a time when adults all around the world are told they should quit, that it’s causing irreparable damage, and that it’s hard to get off this train, kids are taking up the habit of smoking.In fact a recent ...
The Saints Cyril and Methodius came to the lands of Great Morava where Slovakia now sits in the year 863. These two missionaries brought with them Christianity and literacy which still play a key part ...
The Czech Republic was hit hard by the recent high waters in the Danube River, which flows right through the heart of central and Eastern Europe. Bratislava, Slovakia’s largest city however escaped relatively ...
On 21st August 1968, the Warsaw Pact Troops invasion of Czechoslovakia caught many people by surprise. It was unexpected and violent, and brought on a very oppressive regime which ruled in the country ...