Compact archive June 14, 2007

The Senate of the Czech Republic will start soon a series of concerts and cultural events within the Cultural Summer in the splendid area of the Wallenstein Garden in the Lesser Town in Prague.

Concerts will be held every Thursday evening in the Sala Terrena from 21st June until 16th September 2007. Everybody can enjoy the concerts in the illuminated garden and what’s more, there is no entrance fee. The Cultural Summer is held under the auspices of the Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Republic Premysl Sobotka.

During the final concert of the Cultural Summer visitors can meet Czech senators and see the exhibition Albrecht von Wallenstein And His Times. For more information about the programme write to infocentrum@senat.cz.

Read concert of Snoop Dogg in 2008

Famous rebel Snoop Dogg will perform for the first time in Prague. His concert in Prague Sazka Arena will be a part of his European tour.

Snoop Dogg, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., is a famous American rapper, record producer and actor. His debut album Doggystyle (1993) was sold in more than 1.5 million copies in the world. He has been nominated eight times for Grammy Awards.

Tickets for his Prague concert, which will be held on 11th July 2007 (20:00), can be bought via Sazkaticket (until 9th July) for 1.190 CZK, 1.150 CZK and 990 CZK.

Genetic tests made by Genomac International L.t.d revealed that only 51% of Czech people have genetic characteristics that are typical for Slavonic people. Other Czech people have Romanic, Germanic, Jewish, Finno-Ugric or other ancestors.

The test of DNA can show what places on the earth our distant ancestors came from or whether we are descendants of any noble families. The tests are made from saliva samples sent to the laboratory. The whole process takes few weeks and it costs 2450 CZK.

The Genomac company has already tested 5,000 people and made a data bank from the results. People with similar genetic profile can contact their ‘relatives’ through this data bank. According to the director of Genomac Marek Minarik, scientists will be able to say soon what illnesses we are predisposed to with our genetic profile.

George Michael’s concert planned for 2nd June was cancelled due to an accident of one of the trucks transporting the equipment for the show. The organizers of the concert planned to give a substitute date for the concert, probably at the end of summer, but finally there be no concert at all.

The undamaged tickets can be returned at the place they were bought. The full refund of the ticket price will be given by the Ticketpro agency from 25th June 2007.

Already this weekend, on Saturday 16th June to be exact, you can visit many museums and galleries for free or for a symbolic price during the Prague Museum Night. Besides current or long-term exhibition, there is a rich additional programme in all the institutions.

Visitors can see e.g. the newly opened Museum of Charles Bridge showing the history of this famous monument, the halls of the National Library in Prague, or exhibitions in one of the buildings of the Prague City Gallery.

As for the additional programme, the Rudolfinum will offer concerts of Dvorak’s symphony performed by the Czech Student Orchestra conducted by Marko Ivanovic (starts at 20:30 and 22:30). Police Museum will show police motorcycles or Sherlock Holmes cases. You can chose from more than 70 events that evening.

There is a free transportation between the institutions. More information about the institutions, their programme and the transportation can be found at www.muzejninoc.cz or in a form of a leaflet in front of the National Museum and Rudolfinum tomorrow and on Saturday.