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Moving Center Literary Festival – Prague, Amsterdam


  • House of National Minorities Vocelova Vinohrady, Hlavní město Praha, 120 00 Czechia (map)

An exciting international festival of ideas

The Moving Center Literary Foundation (in cooperation with the House of National Minorities & Rue Paré Community) present a full series of readings, concerts, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings, and a dance performance

Featured in this festival is the European premiere of Julian Semilian’s 2024 documentary on Andrei: Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu – official selection of the Cannes Film and River Run Film Festivals, 2024. Experimental filmmaker Julian Semilian is a film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist & and Andrei’s dear friend and fellow Romanian exile

Featuring an international collection of voices, this festival promises to inspire Presenters include:

  • Andrei Codrescu (RO/USA), acclaimed author and poet

  • Czech & Dutch premiere of the documentary Fish Have No Psychiatrists, and a Q&A

    with the director, Julian Semilian (USA)

  • Christine Otten (NL), author of The Last Poets

  • Derek Sayer (CA), author of The Coasts of Bohemia and Prague, Capital of the 20th Century:

    A Surrealist History ...and many more
    For details (including schedules and prices), visit moving-center.org

Curated and hosted by Lucien Zell

Prague, October 10-11, 2024: House of National Minorities Vocelova 602/3
120 00 Praha 2

Amsterdam, October 12-13, 2024: Ru Paré Community Chris Lebeaustraat 4 1062 DC Amsterdam

Full Program Information here

+420 608 619 489 | lucien@moving-center.org | https://moving-center.org