Instant Composition and its sources Workshop with Kathleen Hermesdorf (US) and Zuzana Sýkorová (CZ) for professional/student dancers, mimers and actors with physical experience Sessions with Kathleen Hermesdorf are based on a detailed focus on the act of motion from the inside out. Through encouraging sensation, articulation, efficient power and creative investigation the goal is to establish state of awareness which leads to the ability to create extended three-dimensional instant choreography within a process of deeply integrated sound and motion. Sessions with Zuzana Sýkorová will explore the subject of interconnection of the inner and outer spaces. The sessions will focus on the work with physical experience as a source for own concept of the inner space and further links to the outer space. Within this process special attention is paid to deep functional anatomy, individual body organization, as well as going through specific physical experiences. August 2 - 7 CESTA |
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| IMPROVISING ORCHESTRA 33 musicians from Austria, Norway and the Czech republic play the result of their one-week rehearsal and workshop series presented by ÖNCZkekvist. July 30 Divadlo Jo, CESTA |
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| ÖNCZkekvist Improvised Music in the Context of Experimental Art and Today’s Society ÖNCZkekvist is an idealistic exchange and collaboration project of a new generation of improvising musicians who currently live in Austria, Norway, and the Czech Republic. A week of workshops, discussions, and jam sessions will be followed by concerts in all three countries. The participants (maximum 13 from each country) organize the project collectively. ÖNCZkekvist is a platform for exchange, learning, and collaboration in the field of improvised music and targets 18 to 25 year olds. Around 40 people will be involved in the workshop week and the performances that will take place between July 23 and August 3, 2010 in the Czech Republic and Austria. The main goal is to develop an innovative and unconventional way of musical cooperation and expression. July 23 to August 3 CESTA |
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Young girls can rock just as hard as anyone. We are creating a place where that is encouraged. In our one-week long camp we hope to open doors of opportunities, showing girls they have support and a place where they can make contacts, band mates and hopefully some long time friends with other girls who rock. Let us show young girls there is no stopping them, especially when they are encouraged and respected. Whether it’s a hobby or a dream, playing music is creative and educational. We should all do more of it. July 12th - July 17th CESTA |
10th anniversary FREE DIM FEST May 28 - 29 |
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| FREEWOMENSION DISCOTHEQUE DJka da'hil, DJka Deli KATess and MC Qu!do plus Le Dernier Dessert ft. Monsieur le Gateau and Madame le Chocolat March 6 mp7 |
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| ASK (EST) members: Andres Noormets (voice/text), Mart Soo (guitar, live electronics), Taavi Kerikmäe (keyboards, termen-vox, live electronics) is a group engaged in free improvisation, combining music with text. The concept of the trio is known to be unique: we perform music which originates solely from our public's wishes. Listeners can provide headlines, topics and key words which the trio then makes alive through improvisation December 1 MC Orion |
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2009 CESTA FILM SERIES |
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public presentations "FREQUENCY Between you and me. A Cross-Cultural Interactive Project" Jessica Serran (CA) - drawings, paintings Frequency Between You and Me is an interactive project premised on the notion that beneath and beyond cultural, social and personal boundaries an archetypal matrix of feelings and experiences exists that is universally accessible. This project aims to engage with and connect people from across the globe to that matrix and examine the lines between public and private. It begins with and revolves around the simple act of truthfully telling how we feel and makes its international debut here in Tábor. As an interaction, I have been setting up a table in town, in front of the Gymnasium for an hour each afternoon, sharing how I am feeling and inviting others to do the same. What follows is an installation, a room-sized painting that will reflect upon and reveal these interactions. "Music is Wonderful - at CESTA" Naomi Hamaguchi (JP) - installation "I am doing installation work, which comes from my great admiration for music." October 11 CESTA |
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UNDERCOVERED CESTA's 13th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations August 2009 |
| Andrew McCubbin & The Hope Addicts (AU) ANDREW McCUBBIN AND THE HOPE ADDICTS live and work in Melbourne, Australia. They are currently on their third tour in Europe, including several shows in the Czech Republic, promoting their new album, Blue. The Addicts' music represents the charm of Australian folk and sentimental European music, spiced with their original, emotional instrumentation. Their sound falls roughly between the unapologetic styles of Nick Cave and the Tindersticks, moving between traditional rock instrumentation while searchng an original course. August 23 MC Orion |
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| NOISE in TÁBOR an evening of contemporary sound art Crank Sturgeon (US) Core of the Coalman (US/CZ) Dead Labor Process (SCT) Hans Svoboda (US/CZ) August 12 MC Orion |
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| CESTA 2009 Artists-in-Residence
public presentations Margarita Garcia Faure (AR) Bivas Chaudhuri (IN/US) July 25 CESTA garden and exhibition room 1
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An evening with champagne and music by Relentless
saxaphone duet from France and Spain July 5 CESTA/Divadlo Jo |
| ROSVITA and JOE-K PLAN (E) a mix of electronic music, electronic snippets Shellac-style and instrumentals (Rosvita) two-piece instrumental chaos (Joe-K plan) June 27 MC Orion |
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| Queer Pride Parade and Festival in Tábor 2009 Simply stated, we want to celebrate and there couldn't be a better time. After the events of the Czech Queer Pride Parade in Brno in June 2008, the need to forge the tradition is imminent. Queer Rights are Human Rights, meaning inherited not granted. This celebration is not a protest. It is an opportunity to raise awareness, visibility and acceptance of the Queer community and issues related to this community in the Czech Republic. Yet, it is also a celebration for everyone, regardless of gender identity or sexual preference. We all need to be seen, to have our voices heard. We also want to share our celebration with supporters from around the world. It is as important to learn from stronger communities as it is to offer strength to developing communities. We invite you all to join us and make this celebration a true example of our unity and growth, not to mention a whole lot of fun! June 20 |
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KRK (USA) Sandbag Productions and CESTA proudly present an exclusive performance by the renowned double bass and electronics noise experts George Cremaschi and Matthew Ostrowski. March 21 MC Orion |
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| Freewomension Disco Benefit for the Queer Pride Parade and Festival in Tábor featuring DJka da'Hil and Djka DeliKATess ENTRY ONLY WITH DARK GLASSES AND 60 Kč! February 7 MC Orion |
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STAND with guests Taneční oddělení ZUS (Sezimovo Ústí) |
| Contemporary Dance Technique with Leyya Tawil (USA) "This technique class is based on the action, release, and energetic flight of momentum-based contemporary dance technique. Class begins with a somatic study in skeletal alignment and culminates in phrasework based on Dance Elixir repertory. Intermediate level, beginners welcome." January 29 Dance studio S.araH. Tábor, Žižkovo nám. 15 ![]() |
| Polish-Czech Cultural Exchange project Part II October 10 CESTA/Divadlo Jo BRAIN FOR HIRE Zbigniew Zielinski, Grzegorz Pleszynski, Wojciech Zamiara, Sławek Janicki Video art, documentary films, visual installations including painting and photographic work Brain for Hire features a group of artists who have been working for the last 13 years connected to the space, simply called Mózg [Brain]. Mózg, working presently as an artistic association, was created in the early ‘90s shortly after the end of the Communist period in Poland. About 30 artists from Bydgoszcz and Gdansk started independent activities in almost every artistic discipline; the most well-known of these disciplines in Poland and Europe is the music scene called the yass scene. Since its inception, Mózg has presented and hosted over 1,000 artists from all around the world and has created many international art projects. The artists connected with Mózg continue to present and perform in many concert halls and galleries throughout Europe, America, Asia and Australia. The main idea of this event is to measure the influence of an artistic activity on an audience and on the presenting artist themselves. How can art create a human personality, or rather, how does art affect the human personality. |
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| Polish-Czech Cultural Exchange project Part II October 11 CESTA/Divadlo Jo BRAIN FOR HIRE Zbigniew Zielinski, Grzegorz Pleszynski, Wojciech Zamiara, Sławek Janicki Experimental music, performance S/M Alex Švamberk - sampler, electronics, percussion Silvia Hromádková - voice, FX Jana Kneschke - violin, FX Craig McNolty - slide show After 1989 Švamberk widened his stride to include work with the industrial group Suicidal Meditations, a group that also claims Prague rocker Hank J. Manchini of the Nihilists and the late Czech industrial music pioneer Jaroslav Palát as members. This now historic Czech industrial band still operates as "S/M" with Švamberk and Silvia Hromádková at the helm. S/M has not fallen for the computer fashion, producing distorted sound walls and using metal percussions. Their production is varied and structured, though, thanks to a wider range of samples, including recordings from demonstrations, and also the use of other instruments, among them guitar, trumpet, saxophone, or trombone. Part I of the Polish-Czech Cultural Exchange project took place at Mózg on May 31, 2008 and featured S/M (CZ/US) and Etnoise orchestra (CZ/SK) This event is supported by |
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| Nitro Mahalia (A) - It is fresh, it is burning and it is definitely right up your alley. and L'Asino (A) - a rockbox full of flutter heart-beats September 10 MC Orion |
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| CESTA 2008 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: Manual for Lost Dreams
a visit to the in between, another Tábor |
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FREEWOMENSION DISCO
Women's Night |
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KRK (USA) Sandbag Productions and CESTA proudly present an exclusive performance by the renowned double bass and electronics noise experts George Cremaschi and Matthew Ostrowski. August 14 MC Orion |
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| Methylated Spirits (AU/DE) The Methylated Spirits are an uncomprimising Australian underground rock group residing in Berlin who specialise in Detroit inspired „garage-punk“. Despite the four members previous and current involvement in such acts as The Fatal Shore and Hugo Race and The True Spirit, as The Methylated spirits they are collectively dedicated to blasting their original punk influences (The Stooges, MC5, The Saints, Radio Birdman, Scientists, Velvet Underground) shamelessly into the early 21st Century. With a primative yet refreshingly crude back-to-basics attitude (bass, drums, guitar, vocals) they exude an authentically sleazy, provocative party groove relying more on a noisy, low-minded throb´n´feel than pre-programmed digital dance beats. plus CESTA 2007 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: "SNAPSHOTS" a video/dance project where an ipod and a digital camera collide with private and public spaces Nikol Mikus - videographer & Alyson Wishnousky - dancer July 27 MC Orion |
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Tumido (AT) Tumido, a duo consisting of drums and bass has evolved from years of cooperation between Bernhard Breuer und Gigi Gratt. Their cosmos of sound gives space to everything serving the moment. Technoid sounds meet punk, melancholy goes hand in hand with roughness, and progressive grooves hit improv on their rodeo through your soul. They base their musical concept on constant grooves, creating powerful walls, which are gradually growing and expanding. July 22 MC Orion |
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Baseball (AU) 2 girls and 2 boys. voice, violin, drum, guitar, bass, other voices...get ready for a “scorching set (of) percussive post-punk”. June 24 MC Orion |
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CESTA 2007 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: "Hotel Modest - A Poet's Cabaret" a rare collage of music and texts, freely adapted from Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus and their friends... with: Ivo and Iris Maly, Olga Lisitsyna, Radek Ružižka, Tereza Klimová and Markus Nieden Collected, designed, conceived of and directed for this unique and spectacular theater event by : Markus Nieden "Hotel Modest" proudly invites you to its exclusive premier in the city of Tábor, Czech republic! Take part in a romantically-rotten old hotel bar scene, hosted by some eccentric individuals and a dog, full of broken promises. Be prepared for some mind-refreshing genius thoughts, as well as some cold drinks, and let your heart shrink for a nice foreign guide garnished by some rare sounds of a blues guitar... Hotel Modest opens its cabaret bar to all who are ready for the delicate seduction of an extraordinary scenario! June 9 June 10 CESTA/Divadlo Jo This cultural event was generously supported by: The Czech-German FutureFunds CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor) The Cultural Department Of Karlsruhe-City,Germany |
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Lara Lepionka - Attention Shoppers work-in-progress Lara Lepionka will display three objects from her work on the Attention Shoppers project. Attention Shoppers is a public art project in collaboration with Shaw's Supermarket in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the United States. As the supermarket artist-in-residence, I photographed workers performing repetitive tasks, and informally interviewed them about their work. Using the photographs as templates, I am hand-carving the images of the employees into the Styrofoam plates that are used by the employees to package produce and meats. I will complete approximately six intricately carved plates where the carvings themselves reflect the repetitive, unseen labor of the workers. I will photogtraph the plates, print the images onto large banners, and display the banners at the check-out lines at the supermarket with accompanying literature abouit the project. More information about the final exhibition in the US will be available from CESTA. June 9 June 10 CESTA/Divadlo Jo |
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kNIFE & fORK (US) kNIFE & fORK is a soundtrack for dreams, rife with symphonic textures, rhythm, dissonance and distortion, saturated in ethereal vocal melody and harmony. June 1 MC Orion kNIFE & fORK is led by Eric Drew Feldman and Laurie Hall who were introduced in 1995 after a PJ Harvey concert in San Francisco, an artist with whom Feldman was performing at the time. Eric Drew Feldman has played with everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Snakefinger, The Residents and Pere Ubu to the Pixies, Frank Black and PJ Harvey. He has also produced records by Frank Black, dEUS, Tripping Daisy, Sparklehorse, The Polyphonic Spree, and Charlotte Hatherley (of Ash) amongst others. kNIFE & fORK marks the first time he has ventured out with his own project. Laurie Hall is known mostly as bassist/vocalist/ songwriter with San Francisco underground band Ovarian Trolley, and currently in the female vocal group, The Hallflowers. In the Fall of 2004 kNIFE & fORK toured the U.S. and U.K. supporting PJ Harvey for the release of the debut album Miserycord. |
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Dandelion Wine (AU) Ethereal medieval post-dreampop from Melbourne April 22 MC Orion check out their music on MySpace |
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CESTA 2006 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: Yeşim Agaoglu, contemporary Turkish artist and poet wants to share some of the photographs she has taken in various different locations including Tábor during her residency at CESTA. The exhibition includes installations using the photographs and other collected objects. Turkish and Czech refreshments provided. October 31 CESTA, Ctiborův mlýn AND THE RAPUNZELS (Manuela Tessi, Anat Spiegel, Eva Pfitzenmaier, Alexandra Manasse, Yonathan Keren and Valentina Campora) present: video sketch of LO SPAZIO NUDO This is the presentation of our work in progress. The finished product will be a film titled Lo spazio nudo (the naked space). This movement and sound story is based on the idea of being alone in a space for an indefinite amount of time without any objects to distract you. The body and voice are the only means of entertainment. October 31 CESTA, Ctiborův mlýn The Rapunzels' residency is supported in part by |
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| 2006 CESTA FILM SERIES curated by Chris Rankin August 13, August 19, September 3 and September 10 Divadlo Jo, CESTA For program details click here or follow the poster |
| SABOT ZA VODOU Exhibition of photographs from Chris and Hilary's (Sabot) tour in Asia 2006. Photos by Chris Rankin. August 5 - September 5 Exhibition Opening Saturday, August 5 Café Bar Sedm, Tábor |
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| Sense of Fear CESTA's 11th Arts Festival of International, Interdisciplinary Collaborations August 2006 |
| Gangsta Soul Booty Shake Down DJ-ka da'Hil, DJ Mička and DJ Zobi July 14 MC Orion |
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| CESTA 2006 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: Paul Zografakis (USA) Public Sculpture “One Eyed Warrior” Žižkovo náměstí from June 26 to July 14 My public sculpture “One Eyed Warrior,” will utilize the statue of Jan Žižka, as I will fasten a large camouflage Eye Patch over the green fabric currently covering the monument during its restoration. Initially disheartened to see the focus of my project in Tábor swathed in green, I found the covering of the statue to be an inspiration, allowing me a uniquely contemporary approach to my subject and one less entrenched in the medieval symbols which I have found defining Tabor. I believe the addition of the eye patch will allow for an enjoyable public sculpture, which would again function as both a monument to Žižka, as well as a cultural point of interest and conversation for both the local residents and the many tourists visiting Tábor. This project is being realized during my time as an Artist-in-residence at CESTA and will be installed on June 26th. To see more of my work please visit artzog.com and July 12th Žižkovo náměstí Artist in residence at CESTA, Paul Zografakis, hosted an information table at the Wednesday Open Air Market. Paul was available to discuss his public work and artist practice. In addition, there was a surprise guest. |
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| Kačkala koncert and record release party for their new album VOX July 4 The Cemetery Chapel of St. Filip and Jakub, Tábor Afterparty with Freewomension DJs MCička Lexička, Dj-ka da' Hil and DJ Míčka Café Bar Sedm |
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| Familia Miranda (Chile) returns! The eclectic Chilean noiserockers blaze through Tábor again on their European tour. Don't miss their special post-rock stew spiced with South American flavors (and influences). Special mini-afterparty with Freewomension DJs MCíčka Lexička, DJka da'Hil and DJ Míčka June 15 MC Orion |
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| Freewomension Disco with DJ-ka da'Hil and DJ Míčka presents a night full of shocking celebrity scandals featuring the Freefemme Dancers and guests 86B210 (JAP) December 30 MC Orion prizes for best costume! |
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| Hoppy Kamiyama (JAP) with special guests Le Dernier Dessert Hoppy Kamiyama is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the Slide Geisha, Noise Violin, Digital Presidents, and tapes found in the garbage to create dense soundscapes both mesmerizing and discomforting. His range of influences runs from the Rolling Stones to Stockhausen to Frank Zappa. Long known in underground music circles from Tokyo to New York as an unpredictable composer of music, his compositions find a home in the “new music” or “experimental” genres. Le Dernier Dessert, featuring Madame le Chocolat, Madame la Creme and Madame le Gâteau, brings its trashy glamour drag cabaret extravaganza back to Tábor. November 30 MC Orion |
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| CESTA 2005 Artists-in-Residence public presentations: Nancy Mladenoff (US): “tábor series” - new photographic work November 13 CESTA /Galerie 2 |
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| The HUB (USA) New York's dirty jazz gem or free jazz meets death metal November 4 MC Orion |
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| Health and Beauty by YukoMariko (Yuko NEXUS6 / Mariko TAJIRI [JAP]) a performance of sound experimentation and real-time video September 10 MC Orion |
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| Freewomension Disco featuring Dj Mička, Djka da'Hil and the Freefemme dancers August 5 P-klub Hotel Palcát, Tábor |
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| Kasane Nogawa (JAP): “Tábor” - exhibition of photographs | ![]() |
| Victoria Melody (UK): “Vent Cottage” - interactive video/audio installation | ![]() |
| Fiona MacDonald (UK): "Chata (mine)" - exhibition of photographs and drawings | ![]() |
| sean burn (british Isles): "válkaovocekristusvodadítě" (warfruitchristwaterchild) - a soundmap ov tábor comprising text / visuals / sound | ![]() |
| BuildingBloc (USA): “insides” - an exhibition of prisoner art and political posters from San Francisco, as well as books on social justice, housing and employment rights, and alternatives to prisons and police in the US. BuildingBloc (USA): “insides” - multimedia performance piece |
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| Východ/East - Japanese Week of Culture Films, exhibitions, performances, concerts and culinary demonstrations introducing traditional and contemporary Japanese culture October 4 - 11 CESTA's exhibition spaces and theater space Divadlo Jo, and many other venues in Tábor |
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| Peripheral Visions: CESTA's 10-year anniversary Summer Anniversary celebration featuring exhibitions, concerts, films, performances and other presentations from the diverse roster of participants at CESTA events from 1994 to 2003. It is a time for us to celebrate what together we have made happen at or through CESTA over the last ten years. June 1 - September 30 CESTA and many other venues in Tábor |
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Vein of the Sky
Closing performance of the August Buto dance workshop at CESTA,
directed by Ryuzo Fukuhara
August 28
Divadlo Jo (at CESTA)
1:1 meet in Tábor
Friends and supporter, editors and colleagues of 1:1 meet in Tábor
at CESTA. 1:1 is a transcultural, subjective and multilingual
magazine. More information about 1:1 available at www.etttillett.org.
August 22
CESTA
Vein of the Sky - third annual Ryuzo Fukuhara Buto workshop
Ryuzo Fukuhara has studied with Min Tanaka and has actively presented his own Buto works in Japan and internationally since 1989. He has already facilitated several workshops in France and the Czech Republic.
August 1- 27
CESTA
Garden Lantern Party to celebrate the Tábor premiere of Czech
Dream, the controversial documentary film by Filip Remunda and
Vít Klusák
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www.ceskysen.cz
(the film) www.hypermarket.ceskysen.cz (the hypermarket) |
Theater
Seven Festival
The fourth annual alternative theater and movement festival
Co-produced by CESTA, Café bar Sedm, DS Průvan and Cheiron
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September 6th and 7th, 2002
Café bar Sedm, Tábor
| "Layers of Wind" - Butoh performance This performance was the result of the Butoh workshop led by Ryuzo Fukuhara at CESTA for the entire month of August. Director : Ryuzo Fukuhara Dancers : Participants of the workshop, Matthieu Salvetat and Ryuzo Fukuhara September 1, 2002 CESTA, Tábor |
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"Layers
of Wind" - Ryuzo Fukuhara Buto workshop
1st - 31st of August 2002
CESTA, Tábor
Las
Garrapatas (D)
Contemporary versions of traditional folk songs from around
the world
August 7, 2002
MC Orion, Tábor
Forbidden
Fruits of Civil Society festival
Second co-produced multi-arts festival with FFCS (NL)
June 29 - July 6
CESTA, Cafebar Sedm, Orion, Vodařenská Věž gallery and other
venues around Tábor
Charles
Curtis Trio (US/D)
The trio set up for a more jazz-inspired version of their harmonic
contours.
June 16
Cafebar Sedm, Tábor
Charles
Curtis Trio (US/D), George Cremaschi (US)
The Charles Curtis Trio served up sine wave environments, prose
recitations, and repetitive rock grooves for an entrancing evening.
George Cremaschi 's solo contrabass masterful antics warmed up
the stage, and the ears.
June 15
MC Orion, Tabor
IL
TEATRO DELL´AGLIO (I) presents "BURLESQUEX"
This theater troupe from Bologna, self-described as influenced
by Teatr Novogo Fronta, performs an extreme broadcast of a televised
quiz-talk show that has as a special guest an alien coming from
the far galaxy XK-4, falling to Earth as a consequence of dramatic
and ambiguous circumstances.
June 7
Cafebar Sedm, Tabor
Hearn
Gadbois (USA) - solo improvised drumming with drums and influences
from South America, India, Africa and Iran
February 17
Dobrá Čajovna, Tábor
the
Philadelphy Experience (A) and Blank (CZ)
January 3
MC Orion, Tábor
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"Book
your own music tour" workshop with WAAWE members Patrik Kučera
and Pepa Sejk (CZ)
November 11
CESTA
Cooking workshop with professional chef Christopher Rankin (USA)
November 3
CESTA kitchen
Black
and white photography workshop with Václav Zemol (CZ)
October 27
CESTA
La
Familia Miranda (Chile) concert
October 7
MC Orion, Tábor
Kačkala (CZ/USA) concert
five-piece all-women's a capella group sings their own brand
of cowgirl tunes at the first concert of their first European
tour
September 14
Cafe bar Sedm, Tabor
CESTA
meets Čimelice: third artists' exchange between CESTA festival
participants and Čimelice Art Center's artists-in-residence
August 19
Čimelice castle, Čimelice
Exhibition:
paintings by Latvian painters Baiba Mázere (watercolors) and
Nikolajs Drozdovskis (pastels, acrylic)
co-presented by CESTA and the Czech Institute for International
Meetings (CIFIM)
August 18
Castle Měššice, Tábor
"Want
to make your own homepage?" - HTML workshop for beginners with
Elli Rieder and Timo Heidschuster (A)
August 12
CESTA office
Jazz
workshop "1anda2anda3anda4" with George Cremaschi (USA) - contrabass;
Greg Goodman (USA) - piano and Olve Strelow (D) - drums
July 15
CESTA
Theater
Seven Festival
The Third annual alternative theater and movement festival
Co-produced by CESTA, Cafebar Sedm and Cheiron T
June 22 and 23
Cafebar Sedm, Tábor
Blackfire
and the Jones Benally Family from the Navajo tribe in Arizona
(USA)
Political text and grunge rock from Blackfire and traditional
dances from the Navaho nation by the Jones Benally Family, and
discussions about the Free Leonard Peltier Campaign and the
current political fight over the sacred Big Mountain territory
June 4
Cafebar Sedm, Tábor
Žlutá
Ponorka Award Ceremony
Having been chosen as the winner of this annual national award
for contemporary music production, CESTA presents three Tábor
music groups as part of the celebration ceremony. Sabot, Waawe,
and Deverová chyba will help claim the prize for CESTA.
February 24, 20:00
Divadlo Archa, Prague
2000
Soup de Null (D) - concert
Lexa Walsh (USA): 'Hidden Histories' - interactive
visual arts exhibition
Divadlo Průvan (CZ/USA): 'Moře plny vody' - theater; Kačkala (CZ/USA) - concert
George Cremaschi (USA) - music; Hideko Kawamoto (JAP) - music; Chris Mann (AUS) - language arts; special presentation of festival; artists at Zamek Mešice
Abdelali Dahrouch (MOR) - video, Chris Mann (AUS) - language arts, George Cremaschi (USA) - music; collaborative presentation as part of the opening of the Radio Jeleni project at the Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague
Die Sterne (D) - concerts in Brno and in Tábor as part of the annual medieval city festival 'Meetings of Tábor'
Toychestra (USA/CZ) - concert
'An Evening Of New Independent Video By West Coast Women' - screenings of new short videos and films by women filmmakers from the West Coast of the USA; featuring Miranda July, Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Katherine Williamson and Carolyn Cooley
Zu (I) - concert
Para-Neuro
(CZ/FIN) – concert
Co-coordination of and presentation at the annual
NOTA (Association of non-profit organizations in Tábor) exhibition
as part of the national event '30 Days for the Non-profit Sector'
Free
Weekly Percussion lessons: a series of lessons for beginners
featuring Hilary Binder (USA) on modern drumming techniques
and Rostislav Bartoš (CZ) on jazz drumming techniques
Coiner (D)/Sabot (USA) - this special tour to Balkan States featured collaborations between the two groups and interviews with alternative culture producers in Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia
Cafe9.net (International): 'Whose Europe is it Anyway?' panel discussion - CESTA representatives helped make up the 15-member international panel - one of a series of discussions as part of the cafe9.net interactive and multi-site exhibition
Olga Samborska (UKR): 'Art and Sciences: Cross-borders' Points' - seminar on genetic engineering in the arts and the artist's responsibility in the use of genetic engineering in art works
Ken Byers (UK): slide presentation of his own art works-in-progress
'Residency
Centers for the Arts: Needs, Problems and Discoveries' - A Roundtable
Discussion: roundtable participants included administrators
of or participants in Artists-in-Residency programs in Great
Britain, Czech Republic, and the US.
Sedmička Theater Festival/Pel-mel: Second annual co-produced theater festival again in cooperation with local associations Cheiron T, Cafebar Sedm and Divadlo Průvan. Czech and international acts presented new and alternative theater and dance productions
'CESTA
meets Čimelice Part I': the first of a planned series of exchanges
between the artists at CESTA's festivals and events and the
artists-in-residence at Čimelice, the Foundation and Center
for Contemporary Arts' residency facility.
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Drastic
Measure and WAAWE
Former
members of the legendary A Subtle Plague kick off their first
European tour while local heroes WAAWE wind up theirs
Kino Svet
November 5th 1999
Deverova
Chyba, GNU and Songs for Emma
healthy Friday night out for all fans of good music
Orion Rock Club
October 8th 1999
Violent
Dwarf - "A Sin in Progress"
Experimental dance/theater trio from San Francisco presents
its sins in progress up close and comfortable
CESTA Tuesday, October 5 1999 Movement/Voice workshop with Violent
Dwarf and Alena Blahova
Svaty Jakub kostel, October 6 1999 Dance/theater performance
'Halla',
Arts and Music Tour 99
CESTA's co-production with Telakka Culture Center from Tampere,
Finland
Presentations of new, innovative Finnish films, sculptures and
music
Svaty Jakub kostel Tabor, September 25th 1999
CESTA, September 26th 1999
Toychestra
in Tabor
All-female wonder band from SanFrancisco/Oakland California
play their toys for children of all ages
Orion, Tabor
Saturday September 11th 1999
First
Annual Alternative Theater Festival in Tabor
CESTA's co-production with Divadlo Pruvan, Cheiron T, and Cafebar
7
Two days and seven acts of live experimental theater and who
knows?
Cafe Sedm, Tabor
3-4 September 1999
'How
was it in China ?'
Sabot Concert and Photo Exhibition of the famed tour to Shanghai
Cafe bar Sedm, Tabor
August 14th 1999
E55
Rallye
Tabor
Saturday August 7th 1999
Parapet
Theater and George Cremaschi concert
CESTA, Tabor
July 15th 1999
Sabot
Silk Road Tour To China From
Tabor, Czech Republic to Shanghai, China
March to June 1999
GGG
seminar : Globalsation, Gender, Genetech
CESTA, Tabor
May 3 - 9 1999
Ninewood
/ Rube Waddell concert
Orion, Tabor
April 29th 1999
Laddio
Bolocko / Woodoo Toys concert
Orion, Tabor
March 9th 1999
‘Farewell
to Sabot’ Party before their Tour to China
Exhibition at CESTA and concerts/performances
Kino Svet, Tabor
February 20th 1999
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1998
Cesta at Forbidden Fruits of Civil Society Festival:
The CESTA staff traveled to Utrecht, Netherlands to participate
in group discussions with a number of other arts and social
organizations at the FFCS festival.
Cesta
at Vankovka:
CESTA joined a symposium in Brno, CZ to discuss the changing
laws for non-governmental organizations (NGO's) in the Czech
Republic. Over 30 organizations were represented. Also discussed
were common challenges and network strategies.
Free Weekly English Lessons
Women's Café
Concerts,
Exhibitons, Theater:
Ruins (JAP), Sunshine (CZ), A Subtle Plague (USA/D), Gnu (CZ),
Sabot (USA), Paed Conca (CH), "Food": Exhibition by
Lexa Walsh (USA) and Lucy Skaer (GB), Ici Meme (F)
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1997
Womens Café
English Conversation Dinner
Concerts:
Dut (Basque), Otolithen (CH), Deverová Chyba (CZ), Huevos
Grande (CZ), Savana (CZ/USA/UKR), Sunshine (CZ), Belly Button
(F), Maki (F), Tomy (F), Paska (FIN), Dul Schicksal (NL), Mat
Callahan (USA), Sabot (USA)
The
Forbidden Fruits of Civil Society Festival
April 27 - May 2, 1997
A co-production with the FF of CS from Utrecht, Netherlands
which included artists from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia,
Germany, United States, Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Daily events included a theater workshop, an improvised music
workshop, an exhibition at the local Voda¿enska Vz
gallery and a mural painting project along the major thoroughfare
of Tábor. The murals were later exhibited at a local
elementary school. Nightly there were concerts, theater and
spoken word events. Eighty people were housed at CESTA for the
event.
Lesbian
Mothers' Weekend
September 26 - 28, 1997
An event produced by Promluv; a safe place for lesbian mothers
and their children to come together, play, relax and share ideas.
E55
Rally
August 29 - 31, 1997
In collaboration with Tacheles, Berlin; a weekend "race"
along the E55 highway which connects Berlin with northern Austria
via the Czech Republic and Tábor; explored the connection,
physical and sociopolitical, between East and West; CESTA was
used as a rest stop, an information center and for on-line live
video documentation.
The
Week of Tolerance
July 20 - 25, 1997
Produced in conjunction with SOHO (Association of Homosexual
Citizens in the Czech Republic); Participants from Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and United States shared ideas about
tolerance through workshops, discussion groups and through the
creation of collaborative video pieces. There were also events
open to the public including a film screening, a theater performance,
a concert and an open poetry reading. A presentation of the
work produced by the participants closed the week.
Otevrena
Kulturni Sit (Open Cultural Net)
June 1997 - ongoing
A network started with local youth center Cheiron T, Club Orion
and the Bunkr Nightclub; publishes an alternative arts and culture
calendar and meets monthly to plan collaborative events for
the future.
"5
Nights at 716"
February 1 - March 1, 1997 (held at the 716 live/work space
in Oakland, California)
An exchange of artists with the Function facility in Oakland,
California; The month-long event included a variety of theater,
music and film performances as well as an installation based
on a collaborative work produced at CESTA during the Orient
to Occident festival in 1996. Each Saturday evening guests gathered
at the long time underground performance space for a gourmet
vegetarian dinner followed by the evening's presentation. Proceeds
benefited Function, CESTA and travel expenses for one Artist-in-Residence.
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Improvisational
Music Series
Womens Café
Concerts:
Danke (A), Rhythm Activism (CAN/NL), Las Halmas
(CH), Maly Dùm (CZ), Sunshine (CZ), Bebras (D), Kearney
Fleischmann Trio (D/USA), Stau (D), Belly Button (F), Lolamai
(F), Prohibition (F), Shock Exchange (UK), A Subtle Plague (USA),
Sabot (USA), W.O.O. (USA)
ahoi!/Projekt
Rollfähre
May 18 - June 26, 1996
In cooperation with K.U.A. (A); CESTA selected several artists
for this series of benefit performances and exhibitions to publicize
and support the struggle of a small ferry in Vienna to keep
its route open.
Alte
Molkerei: Internationales Kunst und Kulturfestival im Stuwerviertel
August 3 - August 18, 1996
In cooperation with K.U.A. (A); CESTA selected several artists
for this international arts festival in Vienna.
Freier
Begegnungsschacht (F.B.S.)
September/October 1996
A group of German traditional journeywomen and men which selected
CESTA as the site for their 1996 congress. Part of their congress
was devoted to contributing their skills towards the design
and construction of a new roof for the CESTA building. Their
presence before, during and after the festival was invaluable.
Not only did they volunteer their labor for the roof construction,
but also graciously offered their time and experience in the
stage construction for the festival itself, and generally offered
help wherever it was needed. A special note about the F.B.S.:
The exchange with this group of journeywomen and men was outside
the normal exchanges we host. Two members of the F.B.S., who
had arrived much earlier than the others, extended their generosity
by offering their skills towards the construction of other needed
items before and during our Orient to Occident Festival, which
took place immediately preceding the roof project. But all of
them, no matter what craft they practiced, lent themselves freely
during their stay at CESTA. The project could not have been
done without them and all of us at CESTA give our thanks to
the F.B.S., not only for the magnificent work they accomplished,
but also for the experience of mixing the spirit of the arts
and the spirit of handicrafts which gave every one of us a greater
appreciation of all forms of creative expression.
Orient to Occident in Hamburg
September 6th, 1996
An exchange with Fakt e.V. (D); brought some of the participating
artists from Orient to Occident to Hamburg to present their
works for a second time within a different context. Fakt e.V.
organized an event in which 14 of the collaborating artists
performed. In addition to the performances two installations
were shown as well as a video documentation of the works of
other participants who couldn't come in person. All performing
artists decided to do something different from their Tábor
presentation including forming new collaborations.
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1995
Poetry Series
Improvisational Music Series
Womens Café
Concerts,
Film Screenings, Theater:
A Subtle Plague (USA/D), Anna Maria (CZ/USA/Ukraine),
Bedlam Rovers (USA), Paed Conca (CH), Distract Vibes (NL), La
Mano (USA/Ukraine), Láskat (CZ/USA), Headshrink (GB),
Hedonist (USA/D), Otolithen (CH/NL), Primitive Action (NL),
Rhythm Activism (CAN), Sabot (USA), Sunshine (CZ), Vo 100 Sex
(CZ), Alyce Wittenstein (USA)
One Night of Czech "Underground" Artwork and Music
May 26, 1995
A performance series organized by CESTA as part of a three-day
festival at the Kino Teatr Tecza in Warsaw, Poland.
"Open
Forum of Underground Culture"
With BAD KARMA (F).
Open forum :
With the city of Tábor and other Tábor
cultural organizations resulting in an information week on drug
abuse and AIDS education including literature, performances,
exhibitions and free AIDS testing.
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1994
Improvisational Music Series
Womens Café
Open Community Meeting
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1993
Concerts:
A Subtle Plague (USA/D), Tribe 8 (USA), Elsa
(Ukraine)
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