ART BEAT
FEST 2008
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pictures from the event taken by photographers Adam Sykora and Lenka Drga
First Slovak and Czech Art & Music Festival in London
Saturday, 10th May 2008
12.00 am – 1.00 am
ARTSDEPOT, 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner,
North Finchley, N12 0GA, London
Art beat exhibition within a framework of the festival
contemporary
art exhibition featuring a group of selected Slovak and Czech artists
Sunday, 10th
May 2008
5.30 pm –
1.00 am
SHEPERDS BUSH
EMPIRE, Shepherd's Bush Green,
W12 8TT,
London
The first
Slovak and Czech Art & Music
Festival - Art Beat Fest 2008 is organized by TSM LONDON (www.tsmlondon.com) an international student
and travel agency based in London, established in 2004 as the first Slovak
professional and educational agency in UK.
London is one of the greatest cosmopolitan cities with
cultures from all around the world. One of the aims of the festival is to connect
the Slovak and Czech neighbours. And through art, music and a good spirit help those
who are the most in need.
Art Beat Fest is a unique cultural event, representing Slovak and Czech
art, music, culture and traditions in Great Britain and at the same time contributing to a deepening
of a relationship between British public, Slovak and Czech community.
The combination of art, dance, music and striking
performances will make this festival a real attraction and an unforgettable
weekend spent with your friends.
In
cooperation with the SUSCIPIO Foundation, the first day of the festival we will
be exhibiting pieces of modern and traditional art, which will also be
available for purchase. The foundation together with a director of the art agency Ad Astra Musica, Andrea Dudasova (www.dudasova.sk), will initiate a financial gathering to support completion
works of a first maternity home and kernels for guide dogs for blind or
visually impaired in Slovakia.
‘The
Art Beat Exhibition intends to bring together a selection of works from the
younger generation of Slovak and Czech artists, some of which now live in London. Despite their
different styles and approaches in their artistic practices, they all spent
their childhood in Czechoslovakia
and share what might be called a post-communist experience. This exhibition in
London provides exciting insight into the young Slovak and Czech art scene and
highlights the range of media in which the artists work including paintings,
photography, digital arts and objects ’ Lenka Drgova, a curator of the
exhibition.
Later in the day a workshop of Laci Strike, a famous Slovak dancer with
his dance group Street
Dance Academy
and the show of Misionáři played by the Prádelna theatre will keep you
entertained. The Saturday evening will culminate in the style of a big party
with an evening dance show hosted by DJ Pigg.
On Sunday the climax of the festival will be a mega
concert with famous names such as Zuzana Smatanova (SK), Anna K(CZ),
Gladiator(SK), Mnaga&Zdorp(CZ), Misha(SK), Tatabojs(CZ), Hex(SK), and a european
elite DJ Milan Krajčí 105kg with a formation Cocodrillz. The
concert will be hosted by Olga Záblacká and Johny Peťko, the favourite couple
of Slovak presenters; you will be kept entertained by a striking performance of
Laci Strike and his SDA. Thanks to a popular show of Slovak commercial TV
Markiza ‘On the roof‘ and a singer Olga Zablacka, all of us, in month of love,
will be able to recall legendary songs from a Czechoslovak cult move ‘ Fountain
for Zuzana’.
The takings will be donated to communities for chosen
charitable projects in UK,
Slovakia
and Czech
Republic.
More
Information
www.artbeatfest.co.uk
Tel. : +44 800 848 8410
Email: info@tsmlondon.com
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