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The Club for Old Prague brings together people with a love of old Prague. The group's main goal is to protect Prague's architectural heritage and qualities as a city. The Club for Old Prague has an illustrious history and has just celebrated its 102nd birthday. To find out more about its roots Alena Skodova spoke with one of its members, the architect Martin Krise:

In this week's Arts, introduces you to a Czech-Chilean cellist who visited Prague earlier this month and gives you a pre-view of a contemporary dance performance at the Ponec theatre this week...

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Last week, the experimental Archa theatre in Prague organized a very special event to welcome the Chinese New Year, the Year of Horse, which began on February 11th. On that day two and a half billion people in China and East Asia welcomed in the new year. It's a spring holiday, a kind of combination of European Christmas and New Year's celebrations. It is a time of year when most families get together and many people travel long distances to be with their nearest and dearest.

Hello and thanks for joining me, , for another edition of the arts and before I introduce you to a new book by Ivan Klima that's hit the Czech and is soon to hit the U.S. shelves, it's a happy belated birthday to musician Ivan Mladek who turned 60 on February 7th this year.

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On Friday, January 25th , Prague's Oriental Institute celebrated its 80th birthday. In light of this occasion, decided to pay its Director, Josef Kolmas a visit, to find out more about the institute's history and function...

By: While in London, Agatha Christie's play 'The Mouse Trap' has been on without interruption for nearly 50 years, in Prague, the Theatre In Dlouha premiered this world famous play last Saturday. Director Jan Borna said his goal was to stage the well-known play in a fresh and innovative way.

In this week's arts programme, looks at the International Dance Week, which was organised by the Dance Centre Prague and featured performances and seminars from various Czech and foreign dancers...

St. Catherine's church - a Baroque building dating back to the 18th century - has long been abandoned, a forgotten landmark hidden away in Prague 2. A civic association calling itself "Prague 2 for Itself" came up with a bold plan to revitalise the whole area - the church and the adjacent garden - and open it to the public. At first, everything went smoothly, but last month the plan to revitalise the area was suddenly turned down by the Prague City Hall. By .