Culture News from Slovakia

(Tue 07 Feb 06) Freedom of speech is a respected principle but it loses its ethical, context when it is not connected with responsibility. This is the official stance...

(Tue 15 Nov 05) A concert called "Let's stop neo-Nazi!" took place in Bratislava on Saturday, exactly at the place where 21-year old student Daniel Tupy was murdered by...

(Fri 28 Oct 05) The "Slovak Exile" exhibition was opened to the Italian public at the Slovak Embassy and the Slovak Institute in Rome on Wednesday. The exhibition features...

(Mon 24 Oct 05) The renowned “Bratislava Jazz Days” festival ended in the Slovak capital on Sunday. Pee Wee Ellis, the American tenor saxophonist who helped James Brown "invent"...

(Thu 08 Sep 05) After a 60 year absence a German elementary school has made its return to Bratislava in September. The school opened its doors on Tuesday thanks...

(Tue 09 Aug 05) The Slovak Language and Culture Summer School at Studia Academia Slovaca officially began on Monday in Bratislava. A record breaking 190 participants have enrolled this...

(Mon 08 Aug 05) The Slovak Language and Culture Summer School at Studia Academia Slovaca officially starts on Monday in Bratislava. A record breaking 190 participants have enrolled this...

(Fri 05 Aug 05) An international folklore festival Janosikove Dni will take place in Terchova in northern Slovakia this weekend for the forty-third time. This traditional festival will host...

(Fri 22 Jul 05) An exhibition entitled Illustrations from the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) Treasure Trove will be held in the Bibiana Gallery from July 21-October 31 in...

(Thu 21 Jul 05) Last week, the public broadcaster announced its intention to close down its short-wave foreign language service and to downsize the staff of the radio station...