Dates
| 27.09.2025 / 14:10 - 22:00 |
| 28.09.2025 / 14:00 - 19:00 |
| 29.09.2025 / 18:00 - 19:00 |
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What’s hiding in the city? And what’s waiting just beyond? URBANIA takes over streets and squares, crossroads and parks, urban getaways and escapes beyond the city. Moments that turn the familiar upside down. Come discover the city as a living organism and catch the wonders happening only a step away from the center.
SATURDAY 27.09.2025
Unkulunkulu: escapescapescape
A staged experience ~ performative trip to Stará Hora
a time for slowing down, contemplation, and wonder
“Nature is not distant from us, not something separate, other than us. It is not just matter, not merely the material of birds and flowers, but matter as desire. Nature is embodied longing for connection. The senses are tools of this longing; they speak to our own desire to connect.”
Andreas Weber
The shared journey from Prague’s Main Station to the site is part of the experience. The walking route is 3.5 km; including the train ride, the trip takes about 4 hours. Further details and instructions will be sent to participants by email after purchasing a ticket.
Capacity is very limited!
Duration: 240 min ~ 72 km
Language: Slovak / English
For English speakers: If you’d like to join the experience in English, please let us know as soon as possible. We can arrange an English version for you up to one day before departure.
Meeting point: 14:10 in front of Luxor Bookshop at Prague Main Station.
The train ticket is included in the price of admission.
17:00 / Nová libeňská synagoga
David Kumermann: Libeň / guided tour of the exhibition (in Czech language)
A guided tour of the exhibition of photographs by David Kumermann in shop windows and public spaces around Rokytka. The exhibition presents Libeň through the eyes of a photographer who has been following this district for over twenty years. The selection of images was created organically from thousands of shots, focusing on everyday situations and people’s relationships to the places they live in. The city is not just a backdrop here, but an active participant in the action. The photographs oscillate between document and poetry – Libeň residents can read them as if in a chronicle. At the same time, visitors from outside can enter the story of this changing urban landscape through the images.
FREE ENTRY
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18:00 – 22:00 / Square of Elsnic
Azolla Collective: THE DREAM SQUARE
The Dream Square is a project by the Azolla Collective, where together with you we explore public space and dream about its future. With the support of Studio ALTA, Kreativní Praha, the Prague 8 City District, local organizations, and active neighbors, we create participatory events, installations, and performances made specifically for the Square of Elsnic.
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18:15 / Welcome at the Square of Dreaming, collective reading of the text “The Great Welcome”, zine launch
18:55 / Performance light.dusk.shadow – PREMIERE
19:30 / Community dinner under the open sky and performative reading
20:40 / DJ set with Nikolay Tretyachenko
FREE ENTRY
SUNDAY 28.09.2025
14:00 / garden of Studio ALTA
Tilman Aumüller & Christopher Krause: Schools of Transmutation = a speculative fiction game
A speculative fiction game about sustainable futures.
What if animals were paid for their work? What if artificial intelligence belonged to the users? And what would fashion look like if nothing were thrown away?
While sustainability is often reduced to pragmatic solutions, the speculative fiction game “Her Shadow Resources” focuses on imagination. The participants invent wonders that change the future of a neighborhood. Using methods of experimental pen-and-paper role-playing games, they reflect on what other ways of living together they can imagine. As they tell stories together and plans fail, the players experience how a world unfolds unexpectedly through the interplay of diverse perspectives.
14:10 / Prague Main Railway Station
Unkulunkulu: escapescapescape
A staged experience ~ performative trip to Stará Hora
a time for slowing down, contemplation, and wonder
18:00 / outside in front of the Studio ALTA
Boys* in Sync: Kleist & Krise
Boys* in Sync is taking the audience on a guided tour, researching residential areas built in the 1950s to provide green and affordable housing, inspired by the Athens Charter.
200 years ago Heinrich von Kleist wrote “The Earthquake in Chile”, a short novel about a young couple whose love is socially forbidden and a society that tries to learn from a crisis. Only through the catastrophe of an earthquake are they able to escape execution and find shelter in a community of survivors outside the ruins of the destroyed city.
Exploring its socio-political topography, stepping in and out of theatricality, Boys* in Sync is using the architecture as well as Kleist’s novel to raise the question: What does it need to build a community?
MONDAY 29.09.2025
18:00 / in front of the ALTA Studio, we will continue to the Rokytka river
Dorota Michalak & Alica Minar: Lush blast
Can dance mend our ties to the land and intimately connect us? “Lush Blast” is a walking performance in an urban park, exploring the relations between natural and artificial, wild and domesticated. Tree trunks and limbs, crumbling mountains, roaring rivers, vibrating chains. Four performers guide the audience through varying atmospheres, from evocative songs to acidic humor, asking what remains of the wilderness in and around us. Using their physicalities and voices, they morph their presences in a quest to become something other than human, inviting us into a sensual feast and a cruel battlefield. After spending time in the Carpathian Wilderness, the choreographers want to re-articulate power as a vital force rather than a tool of control.
