Cipiskoviste 2010

The Cipiskoviste Festival, last season of which has recently been declared "Event of the Year 2009" by the Sedmicka weekly, is approaching and on the weekend May 21 - 23 it will offer a unique programm mottoed "Summer... and that's it!" to the inhabitants and visitors of the town.

Carmina Burana May 22 at 21:00 on the Otava River - spot

The Festival is organized by the Pisek town, Culture and Tourism Department with endorsement of the Czech Tourism Office and in cooperation with other organizations.

Statues of sand

Friday May 21

Garden of the Culture House

• 8:30 - 11:30 Sand creative workshops for kindergartens
• 13:00 - 16:00 Sand creative workshops for families and children teams

Saturday May 22

Embankment at the Stone Bridge

• 11:00 Statues of sand in Pisek, vernissage
• 14:00 - 18:00 Sand creative workshops for older children and adults; registration required on www.cipiskoviste.cz until May 21 and 50 CZK fee, later available on the embankment

Sunday May 23

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge

• 16:00 Declaration of the best sand-sculptors

(Not only) for children

Friday May 21

Garden of the Culture House

• 8:30 - 11:30 Cheerful playing with VeTri Theatre, tales, songs and competition in sand castle construction
• 13:00 Listing with library - Tales of the Bee Bears, scenic reading of the Jiri Kahoun book suitable for children of younger school age
• 14:00 Performance of children from the Pisek nursery, dance performance set to music of a favourite fairy-tale
• 14:10 - 16:30 Fun-programm for families, afternoon full of records: bubble champions, whipcracking world champion, balloon show. Guest of the afternoon - Michaela Dolinová with her programm for children
• 16:30 Listing with library - Odd-feeders, scenic reading of the Pavel Srut book awarded Magnesia Litera 2009 Prize about mysterious creature eating socks and turning pairs into odds, for listeners of all ages

Saturday May 22

Garder of the Culture House

• 10:00 - 17:00 Cipiskoviste, playing with sand for your children

Palackého sady

• 10:00 - 14:00 Robot straight on or Cars in the Park, 10:00 start of the 1st round, 11:00 start of the 2nd round, 12:00 start of the 3rd round, 13:00 declaration of winners

Sladovna (in kindly weather in the courtyard)

• 10:00 How the Dog ripped up his trousers, puppet theatre performance of the Nitka ensemble
• 10:00 - 17:00 Handicrafts demonstration in courtyard: smith, wooden toys and skip-frogs
• 10:00 - 17:00 Workshops for children and adults: beads making, wiring, decorative cakes making, twist art
• 14:00 About Vendulka and Vitousek: theatre performance for children of the Prachenska scena ensemble

Park Na Trubach

• 13:00 - 16:00 Fairy-Tale Forest, fun wandering with twelve fairy stops and supporting programm, 30 CZK fee for children. Special CSAD bus for the Fairy-Tale Forest leaves from the Pisek main railway station at 12:50 via Nadrazni - Budovcova - Harantova - Na Trubach stops and returns at 16:15 in the same route. The supporting programm ends at 17:00.

Sunday May 23

Garden of the Culture House

• 10:00 - 17:00 Cipiskoviste, playing with sand for your children

Town Island

• 14:00 - 18:00 Children fun afternoon with Petra and her team, disco for children, "Cipisek singer and Cipisek dancer 2010", competition, 10 CZK entrance fee

Musical and other performances

Thursday May 20

Trojice Concert Hall

• 19:00 VERA LOVE and George Kay Band (Vera Love - singing, Georg Kozel - guitar, singing, Jerry Campbell - guitar, singing, Lada Malina - percussion), 160 CZK entrance fee

Friday May 21

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge

• 11:00 Pisecka ctyrka Josefa Novaka
• 14:00 Dechova hudba mesta Pisku (brass band)
• 16:00 Performance of the children choirs Mandelinky, Berusky, Zvonky (ZUS O. Sevcika Pisek), Zvonecek (DDM Písek), Javoricky (ZUS B. Smetany Plzen)
• 18:00 GANG ALA BASTA*
• 19:30 CHARLIE STRAIGHT*
• 20:30 GULO CAR*

Information on entrance fee to concerts signed * follows further.

Town Island

• 22:30 After party - music group CROSS, 10 CZK entrance fee

Saturday May 22

Sladovna (in kindly weather in the courtyard)

• 12:00 Kotva country band
• 15:30 Swing Trio

Trojice Concert Hall

• 19:00 Common concert of the Pisek Sonitus Choir and the mixed choir Zaboj Dvur Kralove, 50 CZK entrance fee

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge

• 21:00 CARMINA BURANA*, scenic performance of the Carl Orff's oratory together with fireworks and pyrotechnic show. Performed by Hradec Kralove Philharmony with Miriam Nemcova as conductor, Vysokoskolsky umelecky sbor Praha (Academical Art Ensemble Prague), historical dances company, Armentum historical fencing company, Inflamenus dancers with fire. Soloists: Monika Brychtova - soprano, Michal Vojta - tenor, Jakub Kettner - baritone, Marcela Hlobilova and Petr Jirsa - ballet

Town Island

• 22:30 After party - Beelee beat z Deellee, 10 CZK fee

Sunday May 23

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge

• 10:00 DUHA, innovative bagpipe music
• 13:00 LINE DANCE PARTY on the river with the Louisiana company
• 15:00 Pisek hobby groups: aerobics team of the J. Hus Primary School, Flash Dance Labut, children from the community centre Nadeje Pisek, AC SOLE aerobics team and STREET4ALL dance group
• 16:10 SBORISSIMO - performance of the DDM (House of Children and Youth) Pisek choir
• 19:00 JANA KOUBKOVA QUARTET*
• 20:30 LADA KERNDL and Jazz Friends Band*

Information on entrance fee to concerts signed * follows further.

Trojice Concert Hall

• 19:00 Concert performance of the D dur Mass called Luzanska of Antonin Dvorak performed by the Domino Tabor Children Choir and its guests, 50 CZK entrance fee

Tickets for concerts on the floating stage signed * (joint entrance fee for the complete programm of consequential performances of an evening) are available in the ticket office of the Pisek Centre of Culture - Culture House, Nabrezi 1. maje 1605, tel.: 382 734 711, www.ckpisek.cz - 150 CZK for all three evenings, 70 CZK for each individual evening. The tickets will also be available on the site - 180 CZK for all three evenings, 90 CZK for each individual evening.

Pisek monuments during Cipiskoviste

Electric Power Plant of the Royal Town Pisek

Friday and Saturday 9:00 - 23:00, Sunday 9:00 - 16:00

• The oldest common water power plant in Bohemia, in operation and by close view. Day and night visits of the museum including new exhibits. Entrance fee. Europromenade will be closed from 5 p.m., power plant will be accessible from the southern part of the Podskali street.

Adolf Heyduk Memorial

Friday and Saturday 9:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00

• Well-preserved art-nouveau appartment house of the Otava poet. Entrance fee.

Prachen Museum

Friday - Sunday 9:00 - 18:00

• Holder of the "European Museum of the Year 1996" degree. On Saturday May 22 free entrance within the International Day of Museums.

Friday 21:00 - 01:00

• Museum night 2010, free entrance, check special posters.

Sladovna

Friday - Sunday 9:00 - 17:00

• Cultural facility with several exhibitions and permanent expositions "In the footsteps of illustration" and "Radek Pilar Exposition" . On Saturday May 22 free entrance within the International Day of Museums.

Tower of the dean church

Friday - Sunday 13:00, 15:00, 17:00

• Sight-seeing with view from the tower for upto 10 persons, booking required on www.icpisek.cz. Groups may book other date and time.

Dragons between bridges

Saturday May 22

Embankment Nabrezi 1. máje between the Stone and the New Bridges

• 13:00 - 18:00 Dragon boats training and dragon boats for the public fun-trips. Registration of teams until May 15 (www.draci-lode.cz).

Sunday May 23

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge

• 9:45 Opening of the race

• 17:00 Declaration of the race results

Embankment Nabrezi 1. máje between the Stone and the New Bridges

• 10:00 - 17:00 III year of the dragon boats race for the challenge cup of the Pisek town

Frisbee

Friday May 21

Embankment in front of the Culture House

• 17:00 - 20:00 Promotional stand presenting sports with flying disc, information, opportunity to try it yourselves

Saturday May 22

Town Sports Facility and TJ Hradiste football field

• 9:00 - 18:00 Spring Spirit 2010: opening of the qualifying tournament for the Czech Republic Championship in frisbee ultimate

Embankment in front of the Culture House

• 10:00 - 17:00 Promotional stand presenting sports with flying disc (ultimate, discgolf, freestyle) by players of TJ Sokol Pisek and guests, video projection from the well-known tournaments, demonstration of various technics of throwing and catching, information on the sport, opportunity to try everything, competitions for children

Sunday May 23

Town Sports Facility and TJ Hradiste football field (here only until 15:00)

• 9:00 - 17:00 Spring Spirit 2010: final part of the qualifying tournament for the Czech Republic Championship in frisbee ultimate, final match with commentation from 14:00 in the Town Sports Facility

Embankment in front of the Culture House

• 10:00 - 15:00 Promotional stand presenting sports with flying disc, video projection from the well-known tournaments, demonstration of various technics of throwing and catching, information on the sport, opportunity to try everything

Gastronomy

Floating stage on the Otava River by the Stone Bridge, Friday May 21

• 11:00 Ceremonial presentation of the "Otavsky zlatak" beer produced for common project "Otavska plavba" of the Pisek, Strakonice, Horazdovice and Susice towns

Party tent at Fugnerovo namesti (nearby the Stone Bridge)

during all the period of Cipiskoviste

• We cook for Cipisek - traditional Czech and regional cuisine

Saturday May 22

• 13:00 - 14:00 Throwing a cream-cake on a live target
• 15:00 - 17:00 Pisek water sprite in action or what it is like when the underwater watcher of the Stone Bridge appears

Trips by steam train Cipisek (and by bus to the Cipiskoviste programm site)

Saturday May 22

• By steam train Cipisek from C. Budejovice (departure at 8:27), Hluboka (8:41), Zliv (8:50), Divcice (9:00), Cicenice (9:10), Protivin (9:24) and Putim (9:35) to Pisek (arrival at 9:41). CSAD bus transport to the town centre (Vystaviste) available, departure of the bus from the Pisek main railway station at 10:00.
• Trip by steam train Cipisek, departure from the Pisek main railway station at 10:09, return at 12:36. Train leaves via Cizova, Vraz, Cimelice, Mirovice, Breznice and returns back. After arrival the CSAD bus may be used via town centre (Budovcova) and the Fairy-Tale Forest at 12:50 .
• By steam train Cipisek back to C. Budejovice (departure from Pisek at 17:44). CSAD bus available for transport from the town centre to the Pisek main railway station, departure from Vystaviste at 17:15.

The programm is subject to alternation, more information on www.cipiskoviste.cz.

File date: 26.4.2010