Concerts at Moravske Square
admission free
Thursday 12. 6. 2008
15: 30 - 16:30 Kumbalu
17:00 official opening of the festival
17:05 - 18:00 Čankišou
18:30 - 19:30 Son Caliente
Friday 13. 6. 2008
14:00 - 15:00 Lázok Brothers Band
15:30 - 16:30 Bagár Band
17:00 - 18:00 Bengas
Saturday 14. 6. 2008
14:00 - 15:00 Yellow Sisters
15:30 - 16:30 Nebiba
17:00 - 18:00 Ekvátor
18:30 - 19:30 Kititi
Concerts in the courtyard of the Špilberk Castle admission 250 CZK - buy in www.ticketportal.cz
Friday 13. 6. 2008
18:00 - 19:00 Mango Molas
19:15 - 20:45 United Flavour
21:15 - 22:45 Haydamaky
Accompanying Events in the J. Mahen Library
Kobližná Street 4
9. 6. 2008 at 5 pm - 3rd round of a photo contest "Russia and Moravia"
12. 6. 2008 at 5 pm - theatre play by Czeslaw Milosz - "Areas Not Spoken About"
13. 6. 2008 at 5 pm - author’s reading " Reflexions"
Cultural Events in the courtyard of Old Town hall Radnická St. 6
Saturday 14. 6. 2008
13: 30 - 14:00 - Koris - Hungarian folklore
14:30 - 15:00 - Zelňák - Languages Spoken in Brno 100 Years Ago - German singers group Brno
15:00 - 15:20 - Máša Kubátová - folk mini-recital
15:20 - 15:45 - Nikolaj Petruk - akordeon /Russia/
15:50 - 16:00 - Prometheus, dances from Macedonia 16:00 - 16:30 - Lyceum of Greek Women Living in the Czech Republic - workshop of Greek dances
Sunday 15. 6. 2008
16:00 - 16:30 - dance group Kytka, Bulgarian dances 17:00 - end of festival, refreshments
Accompanying Events in B. Bakala Hall
Žerotínovo Sq. 6, Brno
Foyer, exhibition "How the Foreign Students See Us"
Documentary films in the B. Bakala Hall:
Thursday 12. 6. 2008 18:00
Dark Side of the World, Petra Procházková, Jaromír Štětina / CR / 2000 / Dalai lama - The Power of Truth, Irene Greve / Denmark / 2001 /
Friday 13. 6. 2008 18:00
They and Me, Stéphane Breton / France / 2001 / My Dear Moslem, Kerstin Nickig / Poland, Germany / 2005 /
Accompanying Events in the Museum of Romany Culture Bratislavská St. 67, Brno
Thursday 12. 6. 2008 at 16:30
opening of the exhibition: "Life in Embroideries", textile works by Markéta Šestáková
Erna Hall of the Old Town hall
Radnická St. 10
Friday 13. 6. 2008 9.00-12.00
Workshop "A Fair School". About a better approach towards minorities in schools. Organized by the Human Rights Ligue and The Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic.
Exhibition in the foyer of B. Bakala Hall
"How do you see Czech Republic"
C H A N G E S O F T H E P R O G R A M
R E S E R V E D
Babylonfest is a project of European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. The aim of the festival is to show Brno as a multicultural city. By organizing a wide range of cultural and social activities we want to address as many citizens of both Brno and the South Moravian Region as possible and to make them familiar with culture of other nations and ethnic groups.
Dear friends, many thanks for your appreciation of Babylonfest 2008! We hope you can stay faithful visitors for the next year!
Team BKC
Three days of Babylonfest photogallery
Varied dance instrumental ethno beat taking inspiration from the music and folklore of various countries and genres. It combines motives of African, Arabic and Balkan music with rhythms of rock, jazz and ska.
Seven members of Čankišou music group became known among listeners in the Czech Republic and abroad thanks to their concerts full of energy and wild rhythms. Their concerts under the leadership of the voice of their impressive singer Karel Heřman become after a couple of minutes from the beginning a wild dancing party. Čankišou gave performances with their fusion of various ethnical influences based on rock music played on
a rich collection of exotic instruments in many countries of the world - from the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean to Pakistan.
A group of seven musicians Son Caliente play the most authentic Cuban salsa one can meet in this part of the world. No wonder: four of their members are Cuba natives, co-operating with virtuoso players from Italy, Spain and Brazil.
Friday afternoon will be devoted to the Romany music groups performing at Moravské Square. The groups of Lázok and Bagárovec families will represent the host city of Brno. The stars of the show will be Bengas from Prague. During last four years Bengas performed in many halls in Prague, Bohemia, Moravia and abroad. Their repertoire includes songs from Eastern Slovakia, csardas, Romany songs from Russia and Hungary, Balkan folklore, Arabic and Spanish rhythms plus original songs. All of this sang in Romany language.
Yellow Sisters are four sound magicians with a great musical experience. This female vocal a capella group crosses music genres easily - afro, soul, funky, r´n´b, jazz, reggae and world music.
World-jazz, afro-beat, rhythm and soul, dance and ambient musical kaleidoscope...
Multi-ethnic group, which came into being in a refugee camp. It consists of musicians from Iraq, Chechnya, Armenia, Gruzia, Hungary and Czech Republic. Their music is equally as colourful and multi-layered as their nationalities.
Kititi is a slightly new musical project of guitarist Elvis Kititi from Congo, known from a previous group Tchikuna.
A hypnotic sound of guitar is related to Central African musical style soukous.
The Slovak group Mango Molas plays music coming from afro-Cuban tradition enriched by influence of Western Africa, Arabic countries and Slovak folk melodies. In 2005 the group received Aurel Award, an award of Slovak Academy of Popular Music, in the Discovery of Year category. The concert repertoire of Mango Molas consists of their own compositions and also remakes and standards of afro-Cuban music (Tito Puente, Buena Vista Social Club etc.).
Temperamental Spanish musician Carmen has been active since her childhood in vocal groups and studied piano for eight years at a conservatory. A native from the Ivory Coast Djei has been since his early years of age surrounded by a fascinating African music. In his youth he moved to Paris, where he devoted himself to reggae, r'n'b, played the guitar, percussions and sang. In spring 2004 came into being in Prague together with Czech and Slovak musicians United Flavour.
Cultural influences of Spain, Africa and Central Europe make from the music of United Flavour an energetic mix, in which one can find elements of Latin music, reggae, dancehall, r'n'b, soul and hiphop. The group wants to show by their performances, that also people of different nationalities, from varied origins and denominations can co-operate together without any problems, violence or fight, and can enrich each other above all. Similar topics are also in the texts of their songs.
A Ukrainian group Haydamaky has been written about by enchanted West European reviewers: "This is Europe we did not know about before!" The group has recently returned from a triumphal West European tour, which lasted several months and led them from Italy to Germany and Scandinavia. They do not offer a copy of Western music, but their own visions of Eastern Slavonic one put on a rock base. All of this is an energetic and effective mix with other musical influences such as reggae and punk. Their music is often characterized as West Carpathian ska, Ukrainian dub and Hucul punk. Haydamaky became in their home country a voice of the orange revolution and abroad stars of many big festivals. Currently they are releasing their fifth CD with a respected German label Eastblok. The group also became an important cultural ambassador of Eastern Europe at events such as The Book Fair in Leipzig or WOMEX in Seville.
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