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Lenka Lichtenberg is a Prague-born singer and composer living in Toronto. She has recently won the Juno Award, Canada’s highest music prize, for Thieves of Dreams, an album based on poetry written by her grandmother in Terezín during the Holocaust which she discovered in 2017 after her mother passed away. This past Sunday, Lichtenberg performed the songs to Czech audiences for the first time at a concert at the Maisel Synagogue in Prague. I met with her ahead of the show to discuss the album and I started by asking her if she had any previous knowledge of the poems before discovering them in her mother’s belongings:

Czech-born all-time tennis great Martina Navrátilová has just received an award in Prague, the silver medal of the president of the Senate. The 66-year-old said she was happy to be back – and glad that today’s young sports people don’t have to leave their native country.

A march set for Prague on Thursday aims to show solidarity with victims of sexual and domestic violence in Czechia. The organisers are also demanding change – specifically for the Czech government to ratify the Istanbul Convention.

The Platýz Palace is a grand building located on Prague’s Národní třída, not far from Jungmannovo náměstí. During its long history the palace served as a noble residence and an inn, before later becoming one of Prague’s first apartment buildings. Today Platýz’s tranquil courtyard offers visitors a welcome respite from the busy city centre.

Hundreds of people gathered at Prague Castle on Monday evening to break bread with their neighbours. Long tables were arranged in the shape of a heart around St. Vitus Cathedral for people to sit and share a communal feast together.

Researchers have announced a gruesome find at Prague’s Pankrác jail: the cremated remains of 80-plus communist-era political prisoners. The dead included executed opponents of the regime, though much remains unclear about the victims’ identities.

On June 13 and 14, 2003, Czechs voted overwhelmingly (77 percent) to enter the EU. We discuss that historic vote, and current attitudes to the union, with Martin Dvořák, Czech minister for European Affairs.

The annual microbrewery festival took place this past weekend in the Prague Castle gardens, highlighting 50 of the best microbreweries from every end of Czechia. Each year, the festival draws in thousands of beer lovers, local and tourists alike who are keen to try the budding new flavours of Czech brews.

The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, has just kicked off a working trip to Angola and Zambia. Czech foreign policy is increasingly focused on Africa and Mr. Lipavský says Europe needs to “bring a better offer” if it is to weaken Russian and Chinese influence on the continent.

A pair of white storks from Czechia have recently made international headlines. The unusual couple, consisting of two females, have been nesting on a chimney in south Bohemia, taking turns in caring for their two chicks. According to ornithologists, it is the first recorded case of a same-sex pair among white storks.