Film Nights

Shakespeare and Sons Cafe (7.3.2010)

The back room in the Vrsovice cafe is now our little cinema. We project films twice weekly. Every Wednesday nights is Literature in Cinema and Sunday nights is New German Films. 20:00 at Krymska 10. All films that are not english-language will be titled in English. Entry is free, all are welcome. See the Shakes Movie facebook group or Shakespeare and Sons Bookstore and Cafe facebook site for a complete schedule.

Transit

SHAKESgalerie (18.2.2010)

Exhibit from artist Thomas Gegner to be gracing the humble SHAKESgalerie from 18 February onward. The tunnel is being dug, through the frozen ground, Vienna to Praha, we will have to wait and see what comes out on our side of things. see his work at: www.gegnergallery.com

The Prophet and the Bees

SHAKESgalerie (15.1.2010)

Latest exhibit in the SHAKESgalerie, the new space in the downstairs of our Mala Strana location. Featuring the latest work from artist Peter Le Couteur. Vernisaz 15 January at 19:30, all welcome. The work will be displayed until 15 February. The Prophet and The Bees, a series of large mixed-media drawings and sculptures by Peter Le Couteur, is the second exhibit to be installed in the new downstairs gallery space at Shakespeare's, Malastrana. Peter Le Couteur’s work investigates how we ‘read into’ images, transforming texture and landscape into text and nar...rative. Hidden clues, symbolic codes, and mythological and literary references fill these large, intricate drawings.

MICRO-FESTIVAL POETRY SERIES

Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 - Vrsovice (18.4.2009)

Reading starts at 7:00PM

Micro-festival Poetry Series

Pam Brown, Michael Farrell, Philip Hammial, Jill Jones, Trevor Joyce, Tomáš Míka, Kevin Nolan, Maurice Scully (English)

MICRO-FESTIVAL POETRY SERIES

Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 - Vrsovice (14.4.2009)

Reading starts at 7:00PM

Micro-festival Poetry Series

Pam Brown, Stephan Delbos, Vincent Farnsworth, Mike Farrell, Philip Hammial, Trevor Joyce (English)

Příběh dědka Všudefouse

Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 - Vrsovice (21.12.2008)

Příběh dědka Všudefouse

Sváteční mystérium inspirované postavou otce D. Štětinatý dědek Všudefous je na Vánoce sám. Nemá nikoho. Božena má Pepika, ale neví s kým. Pepik zlobí a chodí čůrat na sníh. Hvězdy svítí vysoko na obloze a dědka se zmocňuje neklid. Tento příběh je celoročně vánoční.

Scénář, režie: Anna Duchaňová

Hraje: Anna Duchaňová

Dramaturgie: Petr Pola

Scéna a loutky: Radka Mizerová, Anna Duchaňová

Poděkování: obci Velenovy, Michalu Němcovi-Jablkoňovi, Robertu Smolíkovi, Petrovi Chloubovi

Začátek představení: 17:00
Délka představení: 25 min.

Elizabeth Gross and Julie Doxsee Reading

Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 - Vrsovice (11.12.2008)

Reading starts at 8:00PM

Elizabeth Gross and Julie Doxsee Reading

Elizabeth Gross is a poet and artist who lives in Prague but calls New Orleans home. Her poems have appeared in The New Orleans Review and The Prague Revue, and her visual art has appeared in exhibits in Prague, New Orleans, and New York.


Born in London, Ontario, Julie Doxsee holds a PhD from the University of Denver, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently resides in Istanbul, Turkey, where she is a professor of writing and literature at Koç University. She is the author of the chapbooks The Knife-Grasses (Octopus Books 2006), Fog Quartets (horse less press 2007), and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books 2007). Forthcoming publications include the book Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2009).
In her debut collection, Julie Doxsee's finely wrought lyric poems create a world operating according to the rules of dream-logic. Both exquisite and unsettling, her poems twist the reader with every line break and surprise of language.

Praise for Undersleep:
Spare, bright, and sharp these poems spark, tossing up unexpected words, making strange connections, inventing vocabulary, and in general, cracking open the natural world and letting us watch it tick. Intimate and worldly at the same time, Julie Doxsee is a surprising and deeply gifted poet, and this, her first book, glows in the dark.

Adrian Hornsby Reading

VSE, classroom RB 101 (Rajska budova) (11.12.2008)

Reading starts at 7:30PM
VYSOKA SKOLA EKONOMICKA, classroom RB 101 -Rajska budova
nam. W. Churchilla 4
130 67 Praha 3

Adrian Hornsby Reading

Adrian Hornsby will read from his new book The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction

What if you built the whole mass of Western Europe in 20 years? What if 400 million farmers then moved in? What would it look like? How would it work? Would you be able to go to sleep at night? And if you did, would you dream of somewhere else ...?

China is in the midst of breakneck transformation. The last 30 years of astonishing economic growth and political and cultural reform have been driven by the world's biggest ever urban boom. The new China is now halfway built. Within the next 30 years China will most likely take centre-stage as a global superpower, with hundreds of millions of new urbanites flooding into the rapidly swelling cities. But this process - presenting no less than the construction of a new society - is taking place almost without time to think. Taking as its starting point the goal announced in China in 2001 to build 400 new cities of 1 million inhabitants each by 2020, or 20 new cities a year for 20 years, the book explores the hopes and hazards of dreaming on such a scale. The question being asked is in fact no less than how to build a new utopia. But is China mortgaging its present for a promised future, and doing so at the same time that current speeds of construction eclipse any real forward planning? The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture and urban planning, politics, economics, arts and culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of research to tackle the big contemporary questions, and to unpack the paradoxes at the heart of China's struggle for change.