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If you like classical music but don’t enjoy dressing up for events at big concert halls, you can now enjoy your favourite music from the comfort of your home in your slippers. A new project called Vážný zájem or Serious Interest brings classical musicians directly to your house or apartment. The only thing you have to do is sign up on a special website to connect with the musicians, invite some neighbours and friends to make up the numbers and make sure they have something to eat and drink after the concert is over.

The highly-respected Prague festival Days of European Film kicked off on Thursday, promising some of the best in recent European cinema. Among the cream of the crop this year are films like The Hunter, Mustang or Marshland (the last widely seen as Spain’s answer to the HBO series True Detective).

The annual festival of Arab culture, or Arabfest, got underway this week in the west Bohemian city of Pilsen. Now in its seventh year, the event offers a number of lectures by Czech and foreign experts, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and more. The title of this year’s Arabfest is Together, and it focuses mainly on the topics of migration and refugees.

The Shockproof Festival is on at Prague’s arthouse cinema Aero. The festival, known for its focus on B-movie action films, gore, exploitation horror and more, this year is focusing largely on the theme of epidemiology and outbreaks (don’t be surprised if a zombie apocalypse is just around the corner).

In June, Prague will see the arrival of a new music festival called Metronome. The announcement this week made many headlines not least because organisers have confirmed a number of excellent acts including legendary American performer Iggy Pop.

Czech fashion designers from Prague’s Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM), headed by curator Pavel Ivančic, won the main prize this week at London’s International Fashion Showcase. The event is part of London Fashion Week. The Czech installation, titled ‘Last Fata Morgana’ is the work of seven designers.

A lost composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri was recently discovered in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague. On Tuesday, the re-discovered cantata was performed to the public for the first time in years.

In today’s Arts we talk with a French Prague-based game designer Axel Droxler. He is the lead designer on two titles for the independent studio Dreadlocks, the popular debut Dex – set in a cyberpunk world – and the upcoming Ghost Theory, in which players take the roles of ghost hunters.

Prague’s Pop Art Museum in Husova Street recently launched a new exhibition mapping the history of Apple computers which changed the world and the impact of visionary Steve Jobs. On view, are key devices from the original Apple I by Stephen Wozniak, to the Macintosh, to the iMac. Some of the items on display are rare limited editions only ever produced in the hundreds or several thousands.

The Prague-based Spitfire Company is a highly-respected artistic ensemble producing some of the most cutting-edge theatre in the Czech Republic. Last autumn, the ensemble made headlines with the premiere of Vladimir Macbetin which we look at in this edition of the Arts.