Prague Microfestival ****************************************************************************************** * Prague Microfestival Welcomes 24 Writers from 12 Countries ****************************************************************************************** In a spectacular new venue at Hybernská 4, Prague 1, Prague Microfestival is staging its b cultural showcase in nine years of running. 24 writers from 12 countries will read over 4 Artists, musicians, and performers from all over the world will show their work, from New from the Faculty of Arts’ literary presses. The festival is run and administered by studen University, with guidance from the International Arts Centre Prague (IAC) and Centre for C Cultural Theory at the Faculty of Arts. Prague Microfestival, however, remains proudly integrated with Czech culture. It is fully and delivers all performances in both Czech and English, staging Czech authors and artists belong alongside the best of international contemporary arts and writing. The festival wil highly regarded poets, including Molly Antopol, Michal Ajvaz, and Mary Caponegro, and inst collaborations from well-known contemporary artists such as Mark Divo, Paul Chaney, and Ja Michal Rataj. This year’s festival will also launch the first Prague Microfestival Prize for Poetry: Pra open poetry competition. Anyone can submit unpublished work, in either Czech or English. T enjoy a stage slot in the festival finale, publication in the festival zine, and a profess translation into either Czech or English (details for entry can be found on the website). Founded as a literary festival, Prague Microfestival continues to support local writing an bookfair will showcase Prague’s independent publishing, including TVAR, Psi Vino, Equus Pr Pragensia. Both Equus Press and Literaria Pragensia are based out of the Centre for Critic Theory at the Department for Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts an a wide variety of fictional and academic texts. Patrons will be able to drink beer and bro simultaneously, as the bar, open 16:00-00:00, is located among the books. Visitors can the bar into the MICROSHOW, a pop-up art gallery, or next door to the unique sound installatio Typlt and Michal Rataj. Prague Microfestival will also host a number of critical symposia: MICROLAB, an experiment themed as a science laboratory, will focus on Prague as a “petri dish” of influences, and and future arts theory and practice. This will take place on the upper floor of Hybernská daily. Emerging thinkers, students, and young academics will present and discuss their cur open slots remain: check the website for submission details. PMF will welcome activists an Greenpeace, Konsent, and A2larm to speak in the gallery, daily from 18:00-19:00. Centre-stage is reserved for the readings. The newly founded International Arts Centre (IA made the best of the venue, with the height and acoustics of a chapel, and the white walls features of a white cube warehouse gallery, staging writers and poets until 10pm, followed until midnight. Though incorporating writers, musicians and artists from around the world, PMF remains a s university-based project. Our enthusiastic and innovative team of interns are students fro Arts, many of who are Erasmus students from all around Europe and our leaders are partiall professors from the Faculty as well. As well as an arts space, PMF is a place for people to meet, and for all its international a friendly place for discovery and discourse. As a fully bilingual and inclusive arts expe amazingly diverse offering, it promises something for everyone. Prague Microfestival 9 takes place 18-21 May 2017 at Hybernská 4, 16:00-00:00. Website: http://www.praguemicrofestival.com/ [ URL "http://www.praguemicrofestival.com/"]