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Since 1967 April 2nd has been the International Day of Children's Books. On that day in 1805, the world-famous Danish fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen was born. In the Czech Republic, the Komensky Pedagogical Library in Prague organizes a poll, where children send their votes for the best book they have read that particular year.

In this week's Arts, Dita Asiedu visits the "Centre of Europe around 1000 AD" exhibition, which not only looks at life around the year 1000 but also compares it to society and political relations today...

I bet I went to the very first Easter event that took place in Prague this year. It was held two weeks ago at Toulcuv dvur - or the Toulec farmstead - in the Prague 10 district, pretty far from the city centre. When I stepped off the bus, I was 100 percent sure about being at the right place - there were young families with little children streaming to the farm's gate. I could hear a noise that jousting knights usually make - and that was exactly the case! But apart from knights sitting on their makeshift paper horses, there were a lot of other

In this week´s Arts, Dita Asiedu looks at how young artists are faring in the Czech Republic and visits an exhibition of contemporary art at Prague´s House at the Stone Bell.

The 4th annual 'One World' film festival featuring documentaries on human rights starts in Prague on April 10th. One of the changes in the festival's programme this year is that selected films will also be screened outside Prague, in a total of 15 cities and towns throughout the Czech Republic. 700 films were entered in the competition, 80 of which will be screened at the festival, which is organized by the People in Need Foundation in Czech TV. Last year, the One World festival offered 90 documentary films from 36 countries on the theme of human

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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