Central Europe Review: politics, society and culture in Central and Eastern Europe
Vol 2, No 7
21 February 2000

E V E N T S:
Coming Up in the UK

Andrew James Horton

In this week's Coming Up section we have:

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Signs of the Times


Political Posters from Central Europe 1945-1995

A double exhibition and symposium to celebrate the breadth of political and artistic ideas explored together in the form of the poster.

Imperial War Museum, London, until 7 May 2000
Manchester Metropolitan University, until 7 April 2000

With a staggering range of posters, this exhibition encompasses everything from high Stalinist kitsch to anti-regime subversion and everything in between. Whilst some of the images conform to what we might expect from a Communist poster, there are some surprising discoveries to made as well.

Click here for CER's review of the London exhibition

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Austrian Events


Film

Funny Games by Michael Haneke
Channel 4
Tuesday 7 March 2000, 11:35pm

Haneke's disturbing critique of on-screen violence comes to the box! Funny Games tries to bring back to brutality and suffering their real qualities rather than glorifying them cinematically. Although nothing much happens in shot, the action is enough to put you off violent films for life.

Click here and here for Kinoeye articles which discuss Funny Games

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Czech Events


Architecture

E-Area: Architectural Vision for Prague
3 March - 31 March 2000
Czech Centre, 95 Great Portland Street, London
Phone: 0171 291 9920

An ultra hi-tech, new-age architectural project for the 21st century. E-area is the designs for an ambitious new cultural, scientific and educational centre in Prague which will use only the very latest in technological and design techniques. Amongst the building's many futuristic functions will be rooms will simulate conditions at the eye of a hurricane and the inside of the womb.

Art

Konfrontace
14 March - 14 May 2000
Czech Centre, 95 Great Portland Street, London
Phone: 0171 291 9920

Czech and British contemporary art at the Czech Centre, in an exhibition covering new and old works. The title of the show is homage to a series of impromptu exhibitions of works by underground artists that took place in the 1980s, often being held in make-shift galleries converted from barns or abandonded buildings.

The current exhibition also explores the links between British and Czech artists through the British Council's Window Gallery in Prague, which was founded in 1993, and contains works by three generations of contemporary artists of both nationalities who have exhibited at the gallery.

Czech Culture in the UK

The Czech Cultural Centre in London has a full calender of Czech events in the UK. Look here if you want to see a full calendar of Czech related events in London.

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Hungarian Events


Hungarian Culture in the UK

Check out the website of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. As well as listing events of international importance, the site also carries details of their support network for Hungarian au pairs working in the UK and Catholic mass in Hungarian.

Look here if you want to see a full calendar of Hungarian events in the UK.

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Polish Events


Polish Culture in the UK

Check out the website of the Polish Cultural Institute in London.

Look here if you want to see a full calendar of Polish events in the UK.

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Romanian Events


Romanian Culture in the UK

There is the website of the Romanian Cultural Centre based in London. Click here if you want to see a their diary page.

If you are a Romanian academic or student working in the UK or have links to Romanian studies you might be interested Romanul's site. It aims to give wider support to educational, scientific and cultural issues and has pages devoted to the Romanian community's acitivities in the UK. Click here to have a look.

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Slovak Events


Slovak Culture in the UK

The Slovak Embassy in London now has a full calendar of Slovak events in the UK, including items on and off their premises (amongst other things).

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Compiled by Andrew James Horton

 

 

THIS WEEK:



A Failed Protest

Martin Mejstřík
'89 Student Leader

Revolting Students?

Glory or Glorification
Book Review


REGULAR COLUMNISTS:

Sam Vaknin:
Faustian Financiers

Catherine Lovatt:
Dirty Elections


FEATURES:

Haider or History?

Aquatic Chernobyl

Balkan Burden


NEWS:
No Croatia this week
» Austria
» Bulgaria
» Croatia
» Czech
» Estonia
» Hungary
» Latvia
» Lithuania
» Poland
» Romania
» Serbia
» Slovakia  New!
» Ukraine


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USA

Poland


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First Symphony

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KINOEYE:

Leander Haußmann
Sonnenallee

KINOEYE ARCHIVE


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After the Rain: How the West Lost the East
By Sam Vaknin

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Feature Essay
Hungary's Self-image


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