Culture and entertainment

• What do we call culture?

– culture or art includes products of human activities which enrich people in some way  (mainly psychically)

• Why do we need entertainment?
• it is well known thing among the people that we should divide our day into three parts – time to sleep, work and relaxing. It’s obvious that we can’t only work all day. And if so, we are soon become ill or depressed.
• relaxing is closely connected with entertainment. Entertainment is very important for us because:
• without entertainment our lives would be grey – we would be scowling workaholics without any joy from life
• we can be with our friends and family – when we go e.g. to the cinema, theatre or do something what entertains us
• we learn new things, meet new people – when we go e.g. to a museum o to a gallery we can find some interesting facts which we haven’t known before and it’s a great opportunity to meet people which are interested in the same things and to make new friends
• we get energy, we become refreshed – it’s a great chance to escape from our daily routine and visit a theatre or go to a concert
• it enriches us in spiritual way
• What kinds of culture and entertainment do you know?
• our world offers us a great variety of activities which can be in generally called culture and entertainment:
• we can go to the cinema
• plays in the theatre
• opera, ballet, concert of classical music
• TV
• concert
• reading a book, newspapers
• galleries
• sports and other hobbies
• going to a restaurant, going to a ball
• even shopping has now become a culture
• Which do you prefer and why?
• my preferences depend on my mood, on the time I want to spend with it and also on money I have
• if I am not exhausted in the evening, I like reading books because I can use my imagination a lot and also I often learn some interesting things.
• if I am tired after a long day, I just lay in my bed and watch some soap opera on TV. I know it is not a good example of high culture, but I don’t have to think about it and I get relaxed.
• I also like visiting museums, galleries or historical parts of some larger towns because I really love history, art and architecture. While walking I can admire the various style in which were the buildings built.
• on some special occasions like weddings or birthdays we go to some restaurant
• moreover when I have time I like going to the theater but not very often because it turns to be more exhausting than entertaining…
• during the ball season I love going to the balls
• Compare c&e in the past and today
• in the past, people had generally less time to spend with culture and entertainment. Also the options what to do were more limited.
• the most outstanding it was among the lower classes because they had to work very hard.
• during the year there were opportunities to entertain even for the poor people
• important events in the persons life (birth, wedding,…)
• traditional customs during the year – people were celebrating Christmas, Easter and other folk customs, traditions and religion played an important role in their lives
• they didn’t have TV so they read more books, or went to the theatre or just listened to the stories told by old people
• What culture event did you last go to?

– in March I visited a country ball in Kojetín. It was really nice….

• What do you miss in your town?

– according to my opinion, the amount of culture and entertainment in my town is really large. During summer we have so called Music Summer when a lot of bands come to my town to play their music or the feasts which are a part of our tradition. Also exhibitions are regularly organized. More over, every spring we have the annual theatre festival.