- Moravian Gallery in Brno
- Technical Museum in Brno
- Brno City Museum
- Moravian Museum
- Museum of Romany Culture
- Brno House of Arts
- Mendel museum MU
- Museum of the Brno Region
- Diocese Museum
- Jiří Mahen Library in Brno
- The NPÚ ú.o.p. Brno
- Tourist Information Centre of the City of Brno
- Red Church
- HaDivadlo Theatre Gallery
- Guest: Brno Philharmonic
- Last minute: Wannieck gallery
Moravian Museum
Dietrichstein Palace, Zelný trh 8
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS:
The Foundation, Life and Decline of the Medieval Village of Bystřec
18.30 The Argentine Tango – dance show, workshop, live music / lecture room
18.30–22.00 Mr. Swing– swing and dance music of the 1930s and 1940s / courtyard
18.00–24.00 The Moravian Museum souvenir shop and Air Café are open
18.00 – 24.00 Mini Navy Club Midway – presentation of models of ships, aircraft, submarines and tanks from the Battle of Midway / lobby
Galerie Parnas in the Dietrichstein Palace
African Night with an invitation to the exhibition Adventures in Africa through the Eyes of Travellers (22.5.–31.12.2013)
18.00–18.30 Egyptian Dance – performance by an Oriental dancer
19.00–19.30 Cooking show, African food preparation, tasting African specialities
20.00–20.30 Lecture on interesting ethnicities in Africa – Mursi women with lip plates, ceremonies, rituals, photographs. Display of objects. African drummer drumming.
Bishops’s Court, Muzejní 1
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITION:
Botany Known and Unknown
18.00 Grand opening surprise / courtyard
18.00– 21.00 Tubabu – traditional rhythms of West Africa / courtyard
Noble Women’s Palace, Kobližná 1
EXHIBITION:
Cyril and Methodius – their life, times and work
18.00 Gaudeamus – choir compositions in Old Church Slavonic / Atrium, foyer
18.30, 20.00 Livada – Macedonian folk songs / atrium
19.00, 20.30 Cimbalom band concert and folk dance instruction / lobby
20.00 Guided tour of the exhibition Cyril and Methodius for people with impaired hearing
Anthropos Pavilion, Pisárecká 5
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
Invitation to the exhibition Adventures in Africa through the Eyes of Travellers (22.5.–31.12.2013)
Programme in the permanent exhibition:
18.00–22.00 Tomas Machek (Divadlo Líšeň) – theatrical narrator of African myths and fairytales accompanied by David Synák (Čankišou) on traditional African instruments – kalimba (thumb piano), balafon (traditional xylophone), valiha (Madagascan zither), djembe and n’tama (drums) and Jiří Bouda – kora (African harp), balafon, djembe
19.00–22.00 The Onotopude musical ensemble will provide ethnic music and shamanic drumming to accompany your tour of the permanent exhibitions on the origins of man and earliest culture
Programme in front of the Anthropos Pavilion:
18.00–22.00 Make Your Own Mask – interactive art workshop (not just) for the youngest visitors inspired by traditional masks of African tribes, led by Marika Bumbálková
18.00–24.00 DJ Liquid A – Ethno Music. Thematic interactive musical accompaniment throughout the museum night – a journey through all the styles of Africa backed by film projection
18.00–24.00 A Tearoom in a Yurt – refreshment in the form of tea specialities and traditional hookahs
18.30–19.15 Balafon duo – rhythmic/melodic experience on two African xylophones + special guest playing the djembe drum
20.30–21.30 KoraJungleJazz West African harp kora together with a guitar in a colourful mix of traditional and contemporary music
Leoš Janáček Memorial, Smetanova 14
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION:
From the Musical Life of Conductor Břetislav Bakala
18.30–19.00 I’ll Just Pluck Me Some More of That Tansy… singing together folk songs from Janáček’s collections, programme for children
19.30, 22.30 Concert by the Láska opravdivá men’s choir (artistic director Jan Špaček)
20.00–20.15 Guided tour of the exhibition From the Musical Life of Conductor Břetislav Bakala (Ondřej Pivoda – exhibition curator)
21.00 Concert by the Monteverdi kvintet song ensemble (artistic director Ondřej Pivoda)
Throughout the night (apart from the musical performances) there will be screenings of a documentary on Leoš Janáček and an animated version of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen