Meeting in the garden of the Arnold Villa

In the near future, major changes are awaiting the Arnold Villa, a hidden art deco jewel next to the Villa Tugendhat. The rescue plan to restore this monument involves the creation of a Centre of Dialogue, which will serve both the general public and scholars interested in the architecture of the 19th to 21st centuries. Part of the Centre will be developed as a garden café. At the close of the festival, we invite you for an informal meeting with our foreign and domestic guests and the festival organisers. We will provide some light refreshments but you are welcome to bring your own.

The Muroň-Vrtek-Kobiela Jazz Trio will play and, in collaboration with the Josef Arnold Cultural Centre, guided tours of the villa will be available throughout the event.

Come to the Villa Löw-Beer (Drobného 22) at 17:00 for a meeting with Ivo Hammer, who will show a newly discovered album of photographs of the Ernst Löw-Beer villa.

In collaboration with the Brno City Museum and with the Josef Arnold Cultural Centre.

18:00–20:00 Garden of the Arnold Villa, entry from Černopolní street next to house no. 47

Opening a trail to trace the footsteps of the Löw-Beer family; with a concert at Tugendhat House

Get to know those who built Tugendhat House, as well as the factory that became “Schindler’s Ark”, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s celebrated film Schindler’s List. Daniel Low-Beer, one of those who designed the new trail, will present its first two stations, two buildings indelibly linked with the fates of his family. From Villa Löw-Beer we will walk into the  Tugendhat House, where a chamber music concert will be held.
We’d like to invite you for a beer with Löw-Beers and performers after the concert.

Concert programme:
Leoš Janáček: Sonata for violin and piano
Erwin Schulhoff: Suite for violin and piano – selections

Performers:
Jana Vonášková-Nováková – violin
Libuše Pančochová – piano

In English, interpreted into Czech.

The capacity of the event is already full! Thank you for your understanding.

19:00 Meet in front of Villa Löw-Beer, Drobného 22

„Stand Out!“ – Opening evening of the festival

We start the festival by presenting the major points in this year’s programme. We will follow up on past years and show how Meeting Brno inspires beyond the borders of Moravia. The evening will be hosted by the president of the festival, Martina Viktorie Kopecká, who will invite a number of our festival guests for a conversation. Father Pavel Hověz will share the powerful story of the new Church of Blessed Maria Restituta in Brno-Lesná. The Benedictine nun Francesca Šimuniová and the prior of the Discalced Carmelites Pavel Pola will unveil the plans for a “reconciliation pilgrimage” from Prague’s Staroměstské náměstí to the White Mountain to mark the 400th anniversary of the battle. The evening will include a performance by the cimbalom band Pajtáš.

Martina Viktorie Kopecká – a minister of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, psychotherapist and crisis intervener. It was only thanks to a corporate job that she discovered what she did not want to do in her life, and started to seek her own path. Since 2013 she has been a member of the leadership of the World Council of Churches. Pope Francis awarded her a medal and invited her to attend the Synod of Bishops in the Vatican. She’s learning how to ride a bike. She writes her blog, A minister’s diary, and is one of the 33 Great Women from a Small Country; she drinks rum and likes Mickey Mouse.

Programme will be held in Czech only.

Free entry

18:00 Augustinian Abbey, Mendlovo náměstí 1