“In retrospect, it seems that the entire path of Western civilization has led humanity and the planet onto a path of initiatory transformation… It seems that we are all entering something new, into a new development, into a crisis that accelerates maturity, into birth…” Richard TARNAS We are understanding the Máchov pilgrimage from Prague to Sněžka this year as part of the project Crossing the Threshold / on Death and Rebirth (dedicated to…
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May Máchov pilgrimage through Kokořín from Liběchov to Pustý zámek and via Olešno and Houska to Bezděz
“Enchantment is nothing more than a spirituality deeply rooted in the land.” Thomas MOORE As every year, this year too, with our little Máchov pilgrimage, we will welcome the May time of new spring and love and pay tribute to Karel Hynek Mách and the landscapes he loved so much – Kokořínsko and Podbezdězí. Just like last year, we will follow the route (46 km) leading from Liběchov through Tupadly to Pustý zámek and from there…
Pilgrimage of the Krkonoše Mountains: a journey of poetry with KH Mácha, Vladimír Holan and other poets
“Only the nights are, liberatingly bathed…” Vladimír HOLAN On Thursday, August 21st, as part of this year’s Krkonoše Pilgrimage, we want to celebrate the poet Vladimír Holan, the great heir of KH Mácha. Holan spent his childhood in Mácha’s region around Bezděz, which profoundly influenced his poetry. Like Mácha, he is a poet of the night, fascinated by the mystery of death. On Thursday, August 21st at 9 a.m. we will meet…
Wandering through the Iron Mountains
“Ronov evokes unforgettable memories in me…” Antonín CHITTUSSI “Only outdoors, where there are strong impressions, could in time create an almost artistic work…” Antonín SLAVÍČEK In the journey, organized as part of the exhibition project “Hay, straw. Work in the landscape and natural processes in art” (OG Vysočina in Jihlava), we will connect the places of work of two great Czech landscape painters. We will start it in Ronov nad Doubravou,…
Plants as our teachers
Organized by the civic association PILGRIM and the Czech section of the Budapest Club in cooperation with the Bioinstitute and the public benefit company GENGEL. “Everything around me lives, feels like me ….” Josef VÁCHAL The seminar is part of the “Traveling Universities of Nature” project. Our intention is to begin to re-learn interspecies relationships between us humans and other beings of nature, to learn to live and think in ecosystem terms in direct contact and sociability with nature – to develop awareness of integral…
"The Path of Poetry" from Charles Square across Prague to Ládví
“Future time? – Tomorrow?! – What's beyond it, it's just a dream …” Karel Hynek MÁCHA (May) Following the project Karel Hynek Mácha's Pilgrimage Route from Prague to Sněžka, in 2012 our association PILGRIM came up with the idea of creating an experiential journey across Prague that would present it as a city of poets and unique poetry and which…
May Máchov pilgrimage through Kokořín from Liběchov to Pustý zámek and further through Olešno and Houska to Bezděz
“Future time? –Tomorrow?! –What further, is it just a dream, or is sleep without dreaming? Perhaps sleep is also the life I live now; and tomorrow will change it into another dream? Or what I longed for here, and what the wide earth did not have, tomorrow will reveal to me? Who knows? –Oh, no one knows.” Karel Hynek MÁCHA As every year, this year too, our “little Mácha…