Slovo úvodem - Ljudmila

15.00 – 15.50 Literary Hall (right wing)
Literature for Children
Hosted by: Ludek Janda. Participants: Svetlana
Makarovič, Andrej Rozman-Roza, Iva
Procházková.
Children are the keenest and most serious
readers. And the most demanding as well—
can a clever author get away with anything?
How does reading survive the increasingly
aggressive competition of the multimedia
culture? A discussion with imaginative authors
of literature for (not only) children.
16.00 Kino Evald, Národní třída 28, Prague 1
www.cinemart.cz
Film: Zvenenje v glavi (Headnoise). Director:
Andrej Košak. Based on the novel of: Drago
Jančar. 2002, 90’
Hot summer 1970, Livada state prison. Keber,
a Vietnam veteran arranges with the prison
governor a viewing of a long awaited basketball
match between Yugoslavia and the
USA. During the match a guard provokes the
prisoners, Keber smashes the TV against the
window bars and an uprising starts. For four
days prisoners take power, establish their
committee and choose a leader. They come
up with six demands…
16.00 – 16.50 Literary Hall (right wing)
Contemporary literature in new member states
of the EU
Organized by Študentska založba
17.00 – 17.50 Literary Cafe (balcony)
Reading: Poetry of the City
Hosted by: Alexandra Büchler. Participants:
Jana Putrle Srdić, Tone Škrjanec, Edward
Pasewicz, Semjon Chanin, Sergej Timofejev
and Kateřina Rudčenková.
The city has provided endless inspiration to
modern poetry. What is urban poetry like
in the 21 st century? Poets from Ljubljana,
Poznan, Prague and Riga read poems inspired
by their fascination with the city.
In Slovenian, Polish, Russian and Czech.
19.30
Rozinteater: street performance outside the
Národní dům
20.00 Národní dům
Reception for all the participants of the fair,
music: Fake orchestra
From hot samba to free jazz, from African
lullabies to jaunty polkas—Fake orchestra,
one of the favorite Slovenian late-night bands,
can do it all. Come and be surprised!
Friday, 6 May
During the day Rozinteater: two street performances
in the city centre.
13.00 Movie – right wing 4
Film: Varuh meje (Guardian of the Frontier)
Director: Maja Weiss. 2002, 100’
For their summer holidays, three students—
Alja, Žana and Simona-- decide to take a
canoe trip down the Kolpa river, the river
which divides Slovenia from Croatia. They
are unaware that they are being watched by
the Guardian of the Frontier, a conservative
local politician, and the self-styled defender
of traditional Slovenian values. As the girls
float deeper into the woods, cracks develop in
the three girls’ relationship. With nowhere to
turn, the girls must decide: what is a border
worth crossing and what is just an imaginary
line?
14.00 – 14.50 Big Hall (central hall)
New Europe
Hosted by: Pavel Šaradín. Participants: Drago
Jančar, Aleš Debeljak, Michal Viewegh.
What constitutes Old and what New Europe—
and when was Europe first spoken of as an
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