Delicious holidays: What do we actually celebrate on Easter?
Easter is here, and for many of us, it's just a few days off work. What should we celebrate during these holidays if their Christian meaning is foreign to us? Terén invites you to the second edition of its year-long project STÁTKY: VELIKONO°CE, where these questions are welcome. March 29 at 3 p.m. at the Brno City Council Club. Admission is free.
On Palm Sunday, the design studio besiidka (Nikola Chromečková and David Hotárek) will transform the City Councillors’ Club Brno into a laboratory for celebrating VELIKONO°CE. Visitors can come throughout the afternoon, pick up some yeast dough from the Brno bakery Těsto, and bake ceremonial pastries according to prompts, inspirations, and templates from besiidka. Not to fulfill tradition, but to ask questions that come to mind at this time of year.
"Together, we are finding a recipe, meaning, and form for how to celebrate Easter today," says Nikola Chromečková from the besiidka studio. "Traditions are a source of continuity and belonging for society, but that doesn't mean we can't rewrite them. That's why we are returning edible materials and ritual baked goods to the center of celebrations as a starting point for new forms of community gestures."
The resulting baked creations will become part of a shared ritual object, and participants will take home a zine with the recipe so that the ritual can live on.
Nikola Chromečková and David Hotárek – studio besiidka
Photo: Šimona Němečková
VELIKONO°CE will take place on March 29, 2026, starting at 3:00 p.m. at the Brno City Council Club, Mečová 5. The event is suitable for families with children and anyone who wants to find out what we can experience at Easter. Come with us and rewrite traditions to suit us! More detailed information about the program can be found on the Terén website. You can come at any time during the event, and admission is free.
About the project STÁTKY
STÁTKY is a year-round series of ten art projects tailored to Czech public holidays, organized by Terén. It explores the social significance of holidays and opens up space for their active, radical, and critical reinterpretation. Other spring STÁTKY events will include Labor Day on May 1 with the Fasáda collective and Victory Day on May 8 presented by Divadlo Setkání.
About Terén
Terén, a stage for contemporary live art and new forms of spectatorship, is a dramaturgical and production platform without its own ensemble or permanent stage. Since 2019, it has been operating alongside Husa na provázku Theatre and HaDivadlo in the Centre for Experimental Theatre.
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