DFKH 2020

The sixth year of the festival took place from September 10 to September 12, 2020 and it was highly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The foreign guests who were supposed to attend didn’t know until the very last minute if they would be able to. Despite all the odds, the festival eventually did take place, even though some guests couldn’t participate. On the other hand, there were two important last-minute guests from Belarus – the Belarusian writer Alhierd Baharevich and the poet Julia Cimafiejeva, his wife – who came to Kutná Hora directly from Minsk where they participated in the protests taking place at the moment. The festival also presented companies and performing artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada and Russia.

Companies and performing artists

Divadlo T601 (Malá mořská pohádka), LokVar (Aucassin a Nikoletta, Krvavý román), Martin Macháček (Miriam Šedá), Divadlo Continuo (MONSTRUM_AND HERE I AM BLIND), Matija Solce (Pulcinella), Jakub Gottwald and Janis Povilaitis (NO MORE THEATRE!), Glej (Blueprint for Revolution), Theatre X10 (The Patricide), Matija Solce and Filip Šebšajevič (Being Don Quichotte)

Debates

The public perception of the cultural sector and its advocacy, hosted by Veronika Štefanová
Guests: Inga Remeta (SLO), Neïtah Janzing (CA), Adriana Světlíková (CZ), Marek Godovič (SK) a Pavel Šťourač (CZ)

Culture and dissent in Belarus, hosted by René Levínský and Siarhei Shupa
Guests: Alhierd Baharevich, Julia Cimafiejeva, Rufina Bazlova

Accompanying programme

Author reading of Belarusian writers Julia Cimafiejeva and Alhierd Baharevich
Screening of the play Left Dissidents, written by Andrey Ditchenko and Alena Shpak, directed by Vladimir Shcherban
Neïtah Janzing (Love Letters, writing letters to political prisoners)
Y: Garden Party (from the Y events, a series of curated evenings in the Theatre X10)
DJs FABIEN SANS and DUO KARMA