Welcome to the MADE IN PRAGUE Festival

The multi genre cultural Festival is back again for its 26th edition.

Over the years the festival has evolved into a prime platform for showcasing Czech culture in the UK in the broadest possible terms and strives passionately to contribute to strengthening our mutual cultural ties.

This year’s festival programme centres around personal stories, experiences and commitments conveyed through a wide range of vibrant and contemporary artistic expressions. There will be new film productions, many Czech and European film festival award winners; music, from the most famous classical composers performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to sizzling jazz and the latest beats of electronic music; poetry touching on the least expected scientific themes; but also creativity and innovation that embrace a promise to effectively tackle our present and most pertinent issues such as future sustainability, climate change and gender equality.

The festival will offer over twenty events and programmes in collaboration with many acclaimed British partners and venues, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BFI Southbank, Tate Modern, the Science Museum, The Royal Institution, the Picturehouse and Prince Charles cinemas to mention just a few.

I’m very pleased that the festival will echo also outside of London, reaching throughout the country via three Czech film classics with amazing scores by Zdeněk Liška on the BFI Player.  

Regardless of where you are, I hope your encounters with this year’s Made in Prague Festival will be profoundly enriching and heart-warmingly enjoyable. To accomplish just that I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Czech Centre’s endlessly dedicated team, our volunteers as well as many supportive partners without whom these wonderful “Made in Prague encounters” would not have been possible.

Přemysl Pela
Director of the Czech Centre