The cultural year in Schwandorf is to culminate in a Bavarian-Czech festival weekend. It is planned for May 2021.
February 11, 2021
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Schwandorf.The Centrum Bavaria Bohemia and the city of Schwandorf are still planning the Neighbors Week in Schwandorf – with various adjustments to the pandemic situation. Neighbors Week takes place from May 14-16, 2021. This is the climax of the Bavarian-Bohemian Cultural City project, in which a series of cross-border music, art and educational events have taken place since August 2020, according to a CeBB press release.
Neighbors’ Week presents and connects cultural life along the Bavarian-Czech border. “Ideally, we can offer visitors music and dance performances, exhibitions, demonstrations of handicrafts, cultural information and gastronomic specialties, and of course, we can introduce cultural institutions that operate across borders,” said CeBB director Veronika Hofinger. In view of the planning uncertainty due to the pandemic, the CeBB is also preparing for the event that the Neighbors Week cannot take place as planned. The preceding industrial culture symposium in the second half of April is planned as an online event from the start.
Six regions are represented
Neighbors’ Week introduces the cultural life of the six neighboring regions – on the Czech side the regions Karlsbad, South Bohemia and Pilsen, on the German side Upper Franconia, Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria. The event takes place on the park area of the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in the Fronberg district and admission is free.
CeBB Schönsee
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Facility:
The Centrum Bavaria Bohemia in Schönsee acts as a bilingual contact and information center.
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Activity:
Cultural and meeting events take place here throughout the year.
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Internet:
The CeBB website www.bbkult.net offers comprehensive information on cultural life on the Bavarian and Czech borders.
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The Neighbors Week originally planned for May 2020 had to be postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic and will only take place this year. In Schwandorf, the almost one year long program of the cultural city of Bavaria-Bohemia ends with the festival. Since August last year, around twenty cross-border cultural events have taken place in Schwandorf, which were prepared by local associations, institutions and cultural organizations in cooperation with the city of Schwandorf and the Centrum Bavaria Bohemia in Schönsee. “Thanks to her, the cultural life of our city has been enriched with a welcome international element,” says Susanne Lehnfeld, head of the cultural office in Schwandorf, praising the cross-border initiative.
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