Only Few Birches or the Encounter Festival as an Attempt to Meet Regularly Encounters among people are not something that happens automatically. It is possible to prepare optimum conditions in which these may happen, but without any guarantee. Even those who are at the same place at the same time may not necessarily meet knowing […]

SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER – A Phenomenon in Its Prime Was I joined the Theater Faculty JAMU in 1999 as a first year student of drama direction, and went to help prepare the tenth anniversary of the SETKÁNÍ / ENCOUNTER festival. I was eighteen years old and the theater world was unexplored territory for me – not only […]

The International Festival of Theatre Schools SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER in terms of financial collateral. The financial aspect of this festival, which began when three theatre schools of the former Czech and Slovak Federative Republic first came together in 1991, has always been determined by the possibilities of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, […]

As the Encounters Went by   In 1990, the cage fell apart around the then Czechoslovakia. Economic, political and social paradigms were suddenly changing. Artistic and aesthetic paradigms were changing in a more difficult way, not to mention the system of education. However, at the very beginning of the 1990s, there was a fundamental upheaval […]

It’s not about Marta, it’s about an encounter The specific of the festival as an event that brings another spacetime and for a limited period of time overturns daily routine, this is much more evident during student festivals. It not only influences the course of teaching of the organizing institution, but can also permanently influence […]

SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER wherever you look… “I can’t step back, I can’t look at it from a distance. I can’t detach myself from it and I don’t want to… I’m submerged, immersed, deep below the surface, in its roots, in the nucleus, in the core, I feel myself, still moving, in its very heart, I’m stuck… ” […]

Great Encounters of our time: Theatrical interventions, opportunities and interactions at Encounter Festival parties               „Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! When a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps         […]