Marie Imbrova, Ph.D. - Official Website - Archive 2009

Press and Media in 2009:

December 2009

Article Title: OUR NEIGHBOR HELPS AFRICAN CHILDREN

Source: iPeruc.cz - Peruc Pages - Internet Magazine Not Only About Peruc, December 30, 2009/Plazik st. and Jaromir Tlusty

Surely, you know Dr. Marie Imbrova, which leaves, already for many years, our region for Africa and she helps there, in the recent years, mainly children from Tengenenge community. This year, she told about it in Patek Castle, in Libochovice and other places...

...On the Internet it is located the website www.tengenenge.cz, which is dedicated to Tengenenge and help to the local children, as it is organized by Dr. Marie Imbrova...

You will find the entire article at www.iperuc.cz (available in Czech language only).

October 2009

Article Title: TALKS WITHOUT FRONTIERS, THIS TIME WITH MARIE IMBROVA

Source: WHERE AROUND THE CZECH REPUBLIC - Tourist Magazine, October 25, 2009/Editors

The International Czech Club, a civic association, is organizing already more than five years in the Prague Municipal Library meetings named "Talks without frontiers" ...

On Monday November 23, we invite again to "Talks without frontiers", this time with Marie Imbrova. The meeting is named "My Children from Tengenenge" and will be given to the children of the sculpture colony in Zimbabwe, whose health and education, Marie Imbrova is looking after. The meeting with the projection will be held in the Prague Municipal Library, on Mariánské Square from 5 p.m. ...

Marie Imbrova found the sense of her work in Zimbabwe, in the Tengenenge Artists' Colony near a stone mine, where amazing artworks are created ...

You can find the entire article at www.kampocesku.cz (available in Czech language only).

September 2009

Radio Interview: YOU WILL FIND AFRICAN ART NOT FAR OFF LOUNY

Source: CZECH RADIO, CR - North, North Bohemian Atlas Edition, September 12, 2009, 10:10 a.m./David Hertl

Many great and interesting things are often born as a work of random. And so it was even in the case of the two interesting people whose fates intersected at the right time and in the right place.

The first one is a Louny antiquarian Pavel Rudolf Vejrazka, who was preparing for this year the opening of a new gallery. It is located in the Cerncice near Louny in the building of a former school. At the time when its renovation was finishing and it was considered about what will form the permanent exhibition, Marie Imbrova, a former consul in Zimbabwe and African studies expert, returned from several years residence in Africa, who lives permanently already in the Louny Region. To Bohemia, she also brought a large collection of African sculptures, which at the time of her engagement in Africa she diligently shopped - among others in the legendary village of Tengenenge, where dozens of sculptors are working on. But she also brought the works of a significant Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira, who lives and works near Harare. As Marie Imbrova says herself, you can see now a substantial part of her collection just in the new Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice near Louny ...

You can listen to the entire David Hertl's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.rozhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).

July 2009

Article Title: EMIL JULIS GALLERY INVITES TO VISIT

Source: Louny Region Weekly PRESS, Volume 14, Number 30, Page 5 - Culture/Advertising, July 29, 2009/tu

A brand new Emil Julis Gallery in the former school building in Cerncice, which was solemnly inaugurated on June 13 of this year, is again attracting its fans to visit. On Sunday August 16, the spouses of Vejrazka who are the house owners, are organizing an Open Door Day with a friendly informal gathering. You can enjoy the presentation of Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira's sculptures from the Dr. Marie Imbrova's collection ...

You can read the entire article at www.arsys.cz (available in Czech language only).


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July 2009

Article Title: SCULPTOR LAZARUS TAKAWIRA IS SATISFIED WITH THE PUBLICATION

Source: SVODOBNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 18, Number 29, Page 3, June 22, 2009/red

Less than two weeks after the opening of the private Emil Julis gallery in Cerncice and the contemporaneous baptism of the book on sculptor Lazarus Takawira's work, fifty copies of this publication found themselves even in Harare.

Twenty of them were handed over by the Czech Embassy at the end of Czech EU presidency to the friendly European missions, and the remaining thirty pieces received the main protagonist of the book - Lazarus Takawira - as a gift.

In addition to the undisguised joy and pride over the fact that the publication on him was issued in the Czech Republic, he appreciated also the fact that Dr. Marie Imbrova prepares the official Zimbabwean launch of this book in Bulawayo on September 26.

Even the new Zimbabwean Minister of Education and Culture has already promised his participation in this ceremony ...

You will find the entire article at www.svobodnyhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).

July 2009

Article Title: DR. IMBROVA HELPS ARTISTS' COLONY - A TENGENENGE LOOK-IN

Source: Louny Region Weekly PRESS, Volume 14, Number 28, Page 2 - News/Current Affairs, July 15, 2009/MI, tu

The short several-day stay in Zimbabwe in June this year used Dr. Marie Imbrova from Cernochov for the further discussions with the National Cultural Council and she was introduced to the new Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Zimbabwe. With regard to the previous cooperation with many local artists she proposed to the Zimbabwean side also the other options on how to use its experience.

An important aim of her journey afterwards, it has been traditionally Tengenenge. Since her last visit in January 2009, the number of preschool children increased to 50 and all greeted her visit with joy. In addition to food, books and notebooks, Dr. Imbrova paid the salary of the only local teacher until the end of September and has promised further financial support.

About the history of Tengenenge, the life style of this extraordinary art colony and especially about the future of children Dr. Imbrova will lecture on Saturday, August 8 from 2 p.m. at the Castle in Patek nad Ohri. The admission to this lecture will be voluntary and as well as the profit from the African mini-bazaar, where they will be offered beads, pendants, wooden and stone animals, bowls and baskets, will be destined to purchase additional supplies for the Tengenenge children.

Link: www.arsys.cz

July, 2009

Article Title: AFRICA IN LOUNY - CERNCICE...

Source: Magazine "PRESTIGE Clubs and Circles", No. 2009/2, Page 35/MI

That impossible? But yes! Always when enthusiastic authority on Africa Dr. Marie Imbrova enters into something, all is going well with her. And so, not very long after her return to the Czech Republic from Zimbabwe, where she has been working in the Czech Embassy, she organized an exhibition of the sculptures of the African artist Lazarus Takawira from her private collections. She exhibited them in cooperation with the gallery owner Mr. Pavel R. Vejrazka in the newly opened Emil Julis Gallery in Cerncice together with the paintings of the most prominent Louny's painters from the gallery owner's fund.

The ceremonial varnishing day took place on June 13, 2009 and among the present guests there was a suite of artists including Prof. Z. Sýkora and Emil Julis's widow (standing lady with canes) and other members of family. The large importance for the exhibitor herself had also the fact that some sculptures of this Zimbabwean artist the Queen Elisabeth II has in her collection, too and that she has reacted to the invitation by a letter. That this enterprise had an atmosphere, you can make sure taking a look at the published photographs.

Something more about African sculptures you will learn at marie.imbrova@post.cz

During the INTWASA Arts Festival in Bulawayo, the second largest city of Zimbabwe, Dr. Imbrova together with her photographer Eric Gauss baptized on September 26, 2009 the publication "The Spirit of a Woman", devoted to the work of the sculptor Lazarus Takawira. The mentioned book is the last skilled piece of work of the Australian fine arts reviewer Mrs. Celia Winter-Irwing that has deceased in June this year. Seeing that the publication printed in the Czech Republic introduced itself in Zimbabwe officially for the first time, it has mainly interested expert public and fine arts collectors. The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare filed it into its official sale.

June 2009

Article Title: STONE ZIMBABWEAN SCULPTURES FROM THE FAR-AWAY AFRICA ARE THE FIRST EXHIBITION - IN CERNCICE THEY PAID HONOURS TO THE POET EMIL JULIS

Source: Louny Region Weekly PRESS, Volume 14, Number 24, Page 1, June 17, 2009/tu

... The African studies expert Dr. Marie Imbrova offered the first temporary exhibition. It is a part of her private collection of Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira's sculptures. The baptism of a new book on this artist was also a part of the Cerncice Gallery's Opening Ceremony ...







You will find the entire article at www.arsys.cz (available in Czech language only).

June 2009

Article Title: WITHOUT LONG DELAYS ...

Source: SVODOBNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 18, Number 24, June 17, 2009, Page 1/tos

A ready-made cultural bomb exploded in Cerncice near Louny in the form of The Emil Julis Gallery's opening. At the same time, the exhibition of Zimbabwean sculptor Lazarus Takawira's sculptures, owned by Dr. Marie Imbrova, started and the book on the sculptor was christened ...

You will find the entire article at www.svobodnyhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).

March - April 2009

Article Title: MY CHILDREN IN TENGENENGE

Source: Journal "Cesky dialog - Czech Dialogue", Connecting Czechs at Home and Abroad, No. 03-04/2009/Dr. Marie Imbrova

There are many beautiful places in the world that have an extraordinary charm, they are characterized by their uniqueness and are close to our heart ...

For me such a place on the planet, where I feel happy and meaningfully, is the Tengenenge Art Colony in Zimbabwe. Its history is fascinating, and not very long, it can be covered by one human life. In 1962, a white tabacco grower, Tom Blomfield, faced, in the then Rhodesia, a crisis caused by the international embargo on the export of tobacco and considered how to dispose of his large farm and its workers. Finally, he took courage to the unbelievable step. He sold all the fields and kept only a quality stone mine and he moved with his workers to its foothills. At the same time, he called them on trying to sculp the stone and he retained them an absolute freedom both in the subject and in the final processing. He settled himself in the new village and he called it Tengenenge – which means in the local language a Place of the Beginning ...

You can find the entire article at www.cesky-dialog.net (available in Czech language only).

March 2009

Radio Interview: MARIE IMBROVA - ZIMBABWE IN CRISIS

Source: CZECH RADIO, CR 2 - Prague, Programme: By Finger on the Map, March 11, 2009, 1:50 p.m./Jitka Slezakova

Recently, an African studies expert and former Consul Dr. Marie Imbrova returned from Zimbabwe. Who are the people of this country and how do they deal with the profound crisis that is already fretting them for a number of years? The editor Jitka Slezakova questioned.

You can listen to the entire Jitka Slezakova's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.rozhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).
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Photo: Vera Luptakova

March 2009

Radio Interview: MARIE IMBROVA - ZIMBABWE

Source: CZECH RADIO, CR - Pardubice, Programme: We Have the Guests, March 5, 2009, 10:05 a.m./Jitka Slezakova

On Thursday, March 5, Dr. Marie Imbrova, an African studies expert, will visit the broadcasting studio. Together with her we shall visit the African state Zimbabwe. Marie has been working in Zimbabwe as our consul until December 2008. She will share with us her unforgettable experiences - for example, from the life of the local children - in the show "We Have the Guests" ...

You can listen to the entire Jitka Slezakova's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.rozhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).

March 2009

Article Title: WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF ZIMBABWEAN CHILDREN

Source: Chrudimka.cz, Cultural Information Portal for the Eastern Bohemia, March 2, 2009, 10:32 p.m./Nada Gutzerova

On Friday March 6, 2009, Dr. Marie Imbrova will be lecturing on Zimbabwe from 6.30 p.m. in Vodni zdroje Chrudim. Our former consul, who worked in Zimbabwe until December 2008, will try, throughout the world of local children, to bring near the life in a country, which is ruled for 25 years by President Mugabe, whose government led the country to the brink of bankruptcy. She arrives to Chrudim shortly after returning from her private trip to Zimbabwe, where she went to hand over a humanitarian assistance to children from the Tengenenge Art Community ...

You will find the entire Nada Gutzerova's article at www.chrudimka.cz (available in Czech language only).

January 2009

Magazine Interview: ABOUT CHARITY WITH MARIE IMBROVA: "I DIFFER CHARITY AND HELP FOR ADULTS ..."

Source: TRAVEL FOCUS, Selected Magazine With A Focus Not Only On Luxury Travel, No. 1/2009, Page 10 - Interview
/Topí Pigula

Dr. Marie Imbrova was born in 1960. She graduated from African and Orient studies at Charles University, where she earned a Doctorate in Philosophy. She worked as a chatelaine of the Libochovice State Castle and later as a professional worker in the Louny District Museum. For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she worked for 11 years, but as she herself says "inter alia that I would get to Africa" On the Black Continent, she worked in several countries in the diplomatic services. Currently, she wants to devote to charitable activities in Africa and to be "a part-time grandmother" ...

You can find the entire Topí Pigula's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova at www.travelfocus.cz (available in Czech language only).

January 2009

Article Title: ONE HUNDRED MILLION BANKNOTES CIRCULATED IN THE LIBRARY

Source: SVODOBNY HLAS - Louny, Postoloprty, Zatec and Podborany Region Weekly, Volume 18, Number 2, January 14, 2009, Page 1 and 2/tos

On Friday, January 9 in the late afternoon, Dr. Marie Imbrova, who for years worked at the Embassy in Harare, lectured in Louny Library Auditorium on the situation in Zimbabwe. A distinguished guest was the painter Zdenek Sykora, which was interested not only in the creation of local sculptors. Premysl Rabas, MP, who lived in the area, also came.

Zimbabwe is undergoing through a severe crisis. It was a relatively progressive African country with a developed network of schools, which reported in 2000 to 97 percent literacy of all citizens, but now it falls to the bottom of its economic development, and the majority of the population is already suffering from hunger...

You will find the entire article at www.svobodnyhlas.cz (available in Czech language only).

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