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31/05/2026

Singing Folk and sacred songs in Central Europe have long been held in the space between everyday life and ceremony.
They were sung at tables, in churches, at work, at funerals and celebrations.
Sometimes quietly and almost incidentally, sometimes so that they filled the entire space.

Many of them were not known from the notes, but from repetition. From the voices of parents and grandparents, from the rhythm that returned with the seasons and together gatherings.

In singing together, one stops for a moment to orient oneself only according to oneself. Breathing synchronizes with others. Individual voices remain different, but they create something that one person alone cannot carry.

Perhaps this is why these songs have such a special power in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. They carry layers of languages, faith, migrations and historical turning points, and yet they often seem familiar even to a person who does not fully understand the words.

Sacred singing brought a rhythm that transcended the individual.
Folk songs, on the other hand, preserved small stories of landscape, work, relationships, and loss.
But these two worlds often intertwined more than it seems.

It wasn’t just about music. It was more about a way to be together for a while.
How to create a space in which one doesn’t have to speak for oneself. And perhaps that’s why singing keeps coming back to this space — even today, in new forms.
Because some things are easier to share with a voice than to explain with words.

🔴Don’t forget that applications for the summer school are open until May 30, 2026.
Open call has been extended until 6th of June, 2026 for participants from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

🔴Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/462e2s39

🔴All expenses, including travel, accomodation and meals, are fullz covered.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼The project is supported by a grant from the International Visegrad Fund

31/05/2026

IVANA MER (* Banská Bystrica)

is a singer, songwriter and composer who has long been dedicated to working with the voice as a tool for perception, connection and personal expression. She completed an intensive internship at the Roy Hart Theatre in France focused on discovering vocal potential and studied with a number of foreign teachers working with subtle vocal methods.

She has led workshops and individual voice lessons in Europe and Argentina and collaborated with performers, actors, dancers and musicians at home and abroad. In addition to her own work and concert activities, she currently focuses primarily on sacred music and liturgical singing.

🔴Don’t forget that applications for the summer school are open until May 30, 2026.
Open call has been extended until 6th of June, 2026 for participants from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

🔴Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/462e2s39

🔴All expenses, including travel, accomodation and meals, are fullz covered.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼The project is supported by a grant from the

31/05/2026

The voice is one of the few things that a person carries with them at all times. It cannot be separated from the body, and yet it can transcend the space in which it is created.

In Central Europe, the voice has always had many forms. Singing at the table, lullabies, choirs in churches, songs sung at work, but also the voice that rises when something needs to be said out loud.

Sometimes it connects.
Sometimes it breaks the silence.

The voice can carry memory and resistance at the same time. Folk songs that have survived changes in regimes and borders.
Whispers in kitchens.
Chants in squares.
Sentences that were not allowed to be uttered for a long time.
Even those that finally came too late.

A voice associated with change.
With demonstrations, revolutions, protest songs and small everyday acts of dissent.
Not always strong.
Not always pure.
But present.

At the same time, the voice is something very fragile.
It can fail, break, get lost in fear or fatigue.
That’s why there’s a special tension between courage and vulnerability in it.

And then there’s another layer of the voice — the one that doesn’t have to explain anything.
A mere vibration, a tone, a breath.
Something that you feel in your body before you understand it.

Maybe that’s why the voice keeps coming back as one of the most powerful symbols of this space.
Because it reminds us that some things begin the moment someone decides to speak.
And others when someone else joins them.

🔴Don’t forget that applications for the summer school are open until May 30, 2026.
Open call has been extended until 6th of June, 2026 for participants from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

🔴Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/462e2s39

🔴All expenses, including travel, accomodation and meals, are fullz covered.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼The project is supported by a grant from the International Visegrad Fund

29/05/2026

The pig used to be part of the household almost as naturally as a well or a stove.
It was the embodiment of the promise that the winter would be survived.
It was as if the fact that it was an animal was completely forgotten.

In Central Europe, a special world of rituals developed around it.
Slaughtering, feasts, joint work, but also the silence before Christmas Eve, when one does not eat so that one can catch a glimpse of the golden pig.

Something between hunger and desire.
Between lack and the idea of abundance.

The pig always carried a physicality that could not be completely pushed aside.
Blood, fat, the smell of morning glory, hands frozen with cold.

The idea of abundance that returns precisely at the moments when something is missing.
An image that does not appear directly, but remains somewhere on the edge of expectation — like a gentle golden flash on a winter evening.
Like the tinkling at the bottom of a piggy bank with the promise of wealth.

🔴Don’t forget that applications for the summer school are open until May 30, 2026.
Open call has been extended until 6th of June, 2026 for participants from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

🔴Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/462e2s39

🔴All expenses, including travel, accomodation and meals, are fullz covered.

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼The project is supported by a grant from the

26/05/2026

Good news ✨
The open call for the Central European Summer School of Imagination has been extended until June 6, 2026 — for participants from Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.

If you have been thinking about applying, this is your sign to take a little more time and send us your application.

🔴 All participation costs, including travel, accommodation, and meals, are fully covered.

The project is supported by a grant from the International Visegrad Fund 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

We are looking forward to meeting you in this shared space of imagination, learning, and exchange.

24/05/2026

In the countries of Central Europe, time was long measured not only by the calendar but also by recurring gestures, celebrations, and small acts of everyday life.

Rituals that brought a person back to their place, season, and other people.

Some were small and everyday.
Air the bedding through the window. Sunday lunch. Lighting candles when it gets dark early.
Others came several times a year — celebrations connected to the harvest, winter, the arrival of spring, pilgrimages, holidays, or moments when it was necessary to pause together for a moment.

Many of them arose from very practical needs.
But over time they began to carry something more than just function.
A way to remind oneself that a person is not separate from the landscape nor the cycles that transcend them.

Even today, there is something familiar in these gestures.
Branches in a vase in spring. The smell of wax and smoke. Long tables.
Pastries baked according to recipes that no one remembers exactly anymore.
Repetition that does not feel empty but holds life together in a comforting way.

Rituals perhaps were never just about faith or tradition.
It's more about the need to create moments in which a person knows where they are.
And with whom.

In the space between Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary, much has changed, but the need for a shared rhythm has not disappeared.

Today, it often just searches for new forms. Perhaps that is why these customs still hold such power.
Because they remind us that not everything has to be constantly new.
And that some things make sense precisely because they return again.

🔴 Don’t forget that applications for the summer school are open until May 30, 2026.
🔴Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/462e2s39
🔴All expenses, including travel, accomodation and meals, are fullz covered.

29/12/2025

Děkujeme všem příznivkyním*cům Institutu úzkosti a přidáváme malé shrnutí toho, co nám rok 2025 přinesl:

⭐ Zahrada živých forem se rozrostla o nové záhony, trvalky, keře i krásný biotop. Díky Denise Tomáškové za realizaci a vedení workshopu a Nadaci Partnerství za podporu!
⭐ Změny v týmu IÚ:
💞 tým opustila skvělá Zlatka Borůvková - děkujeme za spolupráci!
💞 máme radost, že se k nám přidala Bára Ciprová na specifickou pozici kurátorka/zahradnice
⭐ Proběhly Letní škola FAVU (Slavonice) a AVU (Zámek Lešany)
⭐ Započaly jsme dvouletý projekt "School of Exploring Central European Imagination" podpořený Visegrad Fund’s
⭐ Díky podpoře Go and See jsme uskutečnily mini rezidenci v Les Orangeries des Bierbais a s Ivanou Momčilovič startujeme nový mezinárodní projekt "Nature Prescription". Máte se na co těšit!

✨Ať je Váš rok 2026 ve znamení duševní pohody a klíčení nových idejí🌱

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PF 2026!✨
As a thank you to all supporters of the Institute of Anxiety, we are adding a short summary of what 2025 brought us:

⭐ The Garden of Living Forms has grown with new flower beds, perennials, shrubs, and a beautiful biotope. Thanks to Denisa Tomášková for organizing and leading the workshop and to the Partnership Foundation for their support!
⭐ Changes in the IÚ team:
💞 The wonderful Zlatka Borůvková has left the team—thank you for your cooperation!
💞 We are delighted that Bára Ciprová has joined us in the specific position of curator/gardener.
⭐ The Summer School of FAVU (Slavonice) and AVU (Lešany Castle) took place.
⭐ We have started a two-year project called "School of Exploring Central European Imagination" supported by the Visegrad Fund.
⭐ Thanks to the support of Go and See, we have organized a mini residency at Les Orangeries des Bierbais and are launching a new international project called "Nature Prescription" with Ivana Momčilovič. You have something to look forward to!

✨May your 2026 be marked by mental well-being and the sprouting of new ideas🌱

Animation: Jan Brož
Drawings: Jan Lastomirský, David Böhm
Photo: Oskar Helcel

17/09/2025

International Visegrad Fund reportuje z prvního partnerského workshopu, který předchází Škole středoevropské imaginace, která proběhne v naší režii příští léto ve spolupráci s organizacemi ze Slovenska, Maďarska a Polska ✨

17/09/2025

Biotop v Zahradě živých forem je téměř hotový! 🐝
V nejbližší době nás čeká ještě zprovoznit kořenovou čističku a břehy obložit kameny a osadit keři.

Za vedení nedělního workshopu nabitého informacemi o tom jak vybudovat vlastní biotop děkujeme Denise Tomáškové. Za úžasné nasazení děkujeme všem účastnicím a účastníkům, které*ří s námi navzdory nepřízni počasí biotop vybudovaly*i💪🏽: Jítě, Jirkovi, Šárce, Zdeňkovi, Martině, Zuzaně a Josefovi.

Děkujeme také Oskaru Helclovi za dokumentaci, a za to, že také přidal ruku k dílu. Velké díky Emě Bartošové za neskutečné dobroty, které nám dodaly fyzickou i psychickou energii🫜🏋🏻‍♀️

A v neposlední řadě děkujeme za finanční podporu Nadaci Partnerství, bez které by to celé nebylo možné. Děkujeme!☀️

Za Zahradu živých forem,
B & B

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