Events for the week of August 19 - 23

We've highlighted five events for this week including The Great Beauty, Latino Anděl and Festival of Illustration.

Food’n Film at Manifesto Florenc on MONDAY. On the program this week is Paolo Sorrentino’s exquisite The Great Beauty.
Link to Facebook event.

Velvet Comedy Show at Czech Inn Bar on TUESDAY. An English-friendly improv show presented by Prague-residing as well as traveling comedians.
Link to Facebook event.

Latino Anděl on WEDNESDAY. From 8 AM till 8 PM, the pedestrian zone at Anděl will turn into a setting for a huge fiesta with meals and drinks from Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Guatemala and more. The festivity will be accompanied by the motifs of Cuban music and the sounds of fiery Spanish flamenco, listening to which one would find it difficult not to dance.
Link to Facebook event.

Vernissage of the Festival of Illustration in Artrafika on THURSDAY. A combination of drawings, illustrations, and comic art exhibitions; of workshops, music performances and author readings, of body art and paint battles, this event aims to cultivate and spread inspiration and creativity.
Link to Facebook event.

Summer is slowly approaching its end, yet the open-air beach parties are still going on! One of them will take place in Žluté Lázně on FRIDAY. Music, dancing, and refreshments - all in the best tradition of summer parties.

Link to Facebook event.

A Day Trip To Some Of The Best Castles by Shaun O'Banion
The results are in and the most popular Czech castles (based on the number of visitors) have been announced by the Czech state.
The upcoming TEDxUNYP event: Inspiration in a complicated world by Paul Lysek
What is TEDxUNYP? Who is invited? Why would one attend? These were the various questions going through my head when I spoke to Mark Anderson , TEDxUNYP Organizer & Licensee.
Films to Watch at this Year’s One World Festival by Brad McGregor
HBO’s The Sleepers Takes You Back to Prague 1989 by
If you’re familiar with award-winning HBO’s Chernobyl, then you will love HBO’s new mini-series The Sleepers.
JOJO RABBIT, shot in the Czech Republic, receives six Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and six BAFTA nominations! by Shaun O'Banion
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the best in cinema for 2019 and among the nominees was Taika Waititi’s JOJO RABBIT which stars Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, newcomer Roman Griffin Davis, and Thomasin Mackenzie.
WATCH: Hungarian PM Victor Orbán Booed at Reopening of Prague State Opera House by Caroline Marcela
On Sunday Evening, Hungarian PM Victor Orbán was received with jeers and boos from protesters as he attended the reopening of the State Opera House gala event. Protesters shouted out ‘hanba’, meaning shame in Czech as he exited his private car.
'Movie Barf Monday' - a weekly English friendly film night by Ryan Keating
Movie Barf and Edison Filmhub are thrilled to present 'Movie Barf Monday' - a weekly English friendly film night dedicated to screening a diverse variety of award-winning contemporary and classic films in the new Edison Filmhub cinema and bar located in Prague's old town.
The Prague Orgy - a new Czech film in English in Czech cinemas by Michal Kráčmer
LESS LIBERTY, BETTER FUCKS
Festival 4+4 Days in Motion by Eliška Míkovcová (4+4 Festival)
Festival 4+4 Days in Motion to start in Desfours Palace, this year’s slogan is Nobody Has Anything
Lunchmeat Festival 2019—Dark Stars on the Horizon by Tony Ozuna - (Photo Lunchmeat Festival)
Lunchmeat Festival returns to Prague at the end of September as the leading arena for cutting-edge electronic music and with more audio-visual punch than ever before. Their new motto is a challenge to the mainstream: “obsessed with audio-visual mindf**cks— & those who question the status quo.”