Dates

01.06.2021 / 14:00 - 18:00

Information

The first afternoon of June belongs to children in ALTA! From 14:00 to 18:00, come with your kids to join the workshops in the garden, to see a show about the Smallest of the Sami or just catch a marshmallow and roast it with the children during our afternoon play.


● INFORMATION FOR VISITORS ●

Free admission, for the show at 15:30, book a place here, at 16:30 here. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the show. We recommend arriving 30 minutes before the start of the show to check the documents.

Please observe the current hygiene measures.


● 14:00 – 18:00 | Workshops for children ● 

Child freindly city
VV openlab
Silly walk and dance workshop with Ostružina

● 15:30 + 16:30 | Johana Bártová: The Smallest of the Sami ●  

Beyond the polar circle, where frost and cold reign, live the Lapps. They have herds of reindeer, which they look after, and when the reindeer no longer have anything to eat, the herdsmen set out with them in search of new pasture. One day, the smallest of the Sami sets out on such a journey. He has no idea what awaits him, but he rushes headlong into adventure. The play was created as a graduation production at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre of the DAMU theatre school. It won second place in the 2019 Erik puppetry awards.

DIRECTION: Johana Bártová
DRAMATURGY: Československé klacky
MUSIC: Jakub Šulík, Matěj Šubera
SET DESIGN: Jakub Šulík
CAST: Jakub Šulík, Matěj Šumbera, Johana Bártová
First performed on 28 January 2019.

A simple but extremely functional staging idea (tiny puppets on a drum and only a minimum of other requisites) forms the basis for a tale of initiation about an outsider’s path to growing up and acceptance by society. It has a strong moral charge, but also a strong atmosphere and a wealth of elaborate puppetry tricks. One that stays in the memory is the playing with perspective – who says that already small puppets cannot be much, much smaller still?
— MICHAL ZAHÁLKA, Loutkář

JOHANA BÁRTOVÁ (1997) studied photography and applied media at the Higher Vocational and Secondary School of Graphic Art at Hellichova in Prague. This year she finished the bachelor’s programme at DAMU theatre school in Prague, studying direction and dramaturgy at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre. Her production of The Smallest of the Sami played at the Figuren theatre festival in Erlangen, Germany.

DRAMA LABEL, a platform founded by producers Johana Urbanová and Adam Svoboda, offers young Czech alternative and puppet theatre for the international market. It currently has a selection of eighteen productions, mostly from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU theatre school. The main aim is to help young artists to take part in international festivals and to allow them to present their work in an international context.

● In 2021, all events at ALTA are free! ●

During the pandemic, we did not have the opportunity to meet you in person and open ALTA to the general public. Now that we can do it, we want to be even closer to you. We decided that we would not collect any entrance fees for our programs in 2021, so that really everyone could come. Culture to all!