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October 2015
Article Title: THE AFRICAN PIGEON (HOLUB)
Source: RESPEKT Weekly, No. 41/2015, Culture, Page 64, October 05 - 11, 2015/Katerina Mazdrova
Dr. Marie Imbrova gave this interview on the occasion of the 140th anniversary, when the Czech explorer, physician and ethnographer Dr. Emil Holub as a first men recorded the Victoria Falls into maps.
The entire Katerina Mazdrova's interview with Dr. Marie Imbrova on Dr. Emil Holub, the Czech explorer's trips to Africa, held in October 2015, available in Czech language only, is situated below.
Link: www.respekt.cz
July 2015
Article Title: "ZIMBABWE IN ART" IS IN THE TEPLICE SECONDARY SCHOOL
Source: The Teplice Daily, Home News, Page 6, July 9, 2015/Tomas Pokorny
Teplice - A unique exhibition "ZIMBABWE IN ART" will be launched today during the vernissage at the Teplice Secondary School Teplice and will run until August 31...
...Imbrova Marie (born in 1960) is a professional African Studies Expert that has long lived and worked at Czech Embassies and her diplomatic career ended after returning from Zimbabwe...
...Among her favourite authors are undoubtedly Lazarus Takawira, the legend of Zimbabwean sculpture, a significant representative of unique monumental style and a precisely processed material...
...From contemporary Zimbabwean painters, she presents personalities who have already achieved a reputation outside Zimbabwe and their works are very interesting for collectors. The oldest of the foursome is Voti Thebe, an original painter from Bulawayo...
... Mercy Moyo belongs among the tough female authors, which in this decade, established herself in the USA and South Africa...
...Just a little older is David Chinyama, whose artistic development is very dynamic, marked by his frequent working trips abroad...
...A relatively young Barry Lungu found currently an extraordinary support from the South African gallerists and his gouaches are heading into private collections in the Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand.
The mentioned foursome proves that contemporary Zimbabwean painting is a modern, multi-layered and experimental. It represents a generation of artists who are not afraid to go their own way.
July 2015
Article Title: IN THE TEPLICE SECONDARY SCHOOL WILL BE HELD A UNIQUE EXHIBITION "ZIMBABWE IN ART"
Source: e-teplicko - The Teplice Region Online Daily, July 6, 2015, 12:24 p.m./Tomas Pokorny
Teplice - In the Teplice secondary school will be held a unique exhibition "ZIMBABWE IN ART" of a quartet of Zimbabwean authors that Marie Imbrova, an African studies expert, presents in the Czech Republic.
Marie Imbrova (born in 1960) is a professional African studies expert that has long lived and worked at the Czech embassies and ended her diplomatic career after returning from Zimbabwe. The existential problems of the generation of talented Zimbabwean artists in the past decade and her conscious effort to support the activities of renowned exhibition galleries in Harare, where she lived with her family for three years, led to her targeted search and support of extraordinary Zimbabwean authors whose works she bought into her private collection. Following a permanent return to the Czech Republic, in December 2008, she presents them gradually on the exhibitions and to the Czech public...
The Tomas Pokorny's entire article can be found here (available in Czech language only).
April 2015
TV Documentary Movie: TO GO AFTER YOUR DREAM! - RADKA TESAROVA (RADU TESARO), THE PAINTER
Source: The Czech Television, The CT Art Channel, a TV Documentary Movie from the Series of the Director Hana Pinkavova GO AFTER YOUR DREAM!, April 16, 2015, 09:50 pm/Hana Pinkavova
From the shooting of the TV documentary movie
"TO GO AFTER YOUR DREAM! - RADKA TESAROVA (RADU TESARO), THE PAINTER", Photo: The Czech Television 2015
On April 16, 2015, the Czech Television broadcasted on the CT Art Channel a TV documentary movie about the painter Mrs. Radu Tesaro, whose creation Marie Imbrova is monitoring and supporting in the long term.
Link: www.ceskatelevize.cz
February 2015
Article Title: WE ARE FULFILLING THE PROMISES ALSO AFTER CHRISTMAS - THE TENGENENGE FRIENDS CLUB HELPS THE CHILDREN IN AFRICA TO GAIN THE BASIC EDUCATION
Source: Roudnicke noviny, The Monthly for Roudnice nad Labem and the surrounding villages, Pages 20-21, February 2015/Dr. Marie Imbrova
Already ten years, I have a bit of inverted rhythm of living the year. While most of my friends focus on summer vacation, I plan, already in the meantime from the Christmas Day to New Year Day my journey to a small Tengenenge in Zimbabwe.
My presence in the community and my work with children alongside the only local teacher (to which, incidentally, the Tengenenge Friends Club in the Czech Republic for the fifth year pays her payout) brings me joy and deprives me common European insights as to that something is not functioning or does not exist.
In Tengenenge, I just have only that what I bring with me or buy in the capital, and then the responsibility arising from my promise of a decade ago, that I will ensure for local children access to the education, which I think, is for them and the whole village decisive. They are the children of sculptors, who since their childhood knew how to wield a chisel, but they went to school sporadically. They did not know enough English, had no money for their school fees and did not even have their birth certificates - simply, they were not citizens of their own country and so it was not counted with them. In ten years, most of these things were rectified and not only this, within the village we have built a nursery, which has already acquired the official status of the pre-school children facility and the children can complete in it the zero buffer stage.
Then every year in February (we are in the southern hemisphere and there the school year starts after the summer holidays this month) a dozen of our children, some with our financial aid, starts the nearest school, which is eight kilometers on foot through bush. And regularly in this period also I appear in Tengenenge ... I check the status of the local library (founded by donations from my friends), buy new textbooks and arrange repairs of the nursery building and then mainly I get acquainted with the new school children in our nursery and I start working as a teacher's aide. With parents in the evening by the fire, we are discussing what can be done this year, where we, as the Club, can help and what is beyond our current possibilities. In sum, we make futher promises ... And we fulfill them.
Now, before my March journey, I want to thank the citizens of Roudnice, a Roudnice Advent Markets contribution travels with me to the nursery in Tengenenge, which will be used to repair its building.
Link: www.roudnicenl.cz/mesto/roudnicke-noviny
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