PRESS RELEASE
TWELFTH-NIGHT EVENING CELEBRATION
On 6th January 2011 a traditional „Twelfth-night evening celebration“ took place in the historical setting of the Czech Houses of Parliament buildings.
Representatives of media and financial partners and other important guests, including the Dutch Ambassador in the Czech Republic, His Excellence Jan C.Henneman, met with presenters of the Znojmo Grape Festival.
The introductory welcome speech was given by the Director of the Festival, Ladislav Jíša, and the Vice-Chairman of the Agricultural Commission Pavol Lukša. in the Czech Houses of Parliament.
Ladislav Jíša also outlined the basic proposals for the 13th year of the Znojmo Grape Festival, which will take place this year from 13th to 16th September.
7th January 2011
Press Section
MTRF Znojmo Grape
The international festival of TV and radio programmes and commercials on gastronomy “The Znojmo Grape” was initiated in 1999 and is now in its 13th year.
By choosing gastronomy as its main theme, we have filled a niche in the variety of international festivals and facilitated the presence of renowned foreign producers who have done important work in the field of gastronomy, such as the BBC, TF1, RAI, ORF and others.
In the 12th year, some 300 programmes from 18 countries entered the competition.
From the first year, we have been focusing intensely on accompanying events, such as public projections of competing programmes, exhibitions of leading Czech painters and illustrators, concerts, tastings of wines from top Czech and foreign wine producers, and since the fifth year also junior sommelier and barmen competitions.
This year, 2011, we shall continue our series of open-air events in the town´s largest square, the Masaryk Square.
We follow up on the tradition of National Days on which we present the culture, gastronomy and ethnic specialities of selected countries. Each country´s promotion films will be screened at the same time.
In the 7th year, when we started these national afternoons for the first time, we had made use of an already running collaboration with countries like Vietnam and Slovakia, while at the same time enlarging the TV section by other interesting regions like Mongolia. In the year 2006, we had The United Kingdom, Lower Austria, Croatia and Flanders. The year 2007 followed up with Hungary, China and Austria, 2008 Estonia, France and Latvia, 2009 Sweden, Rumania and the Czech Republic, 2010 Egypt and Italy.
We believe that our events will draw a large local and visiting audience to the Festival town and its Masaryk Square.
For the embassies of the respective countries, the festival will provide a podium, kitchen facilities, sound and projection equipment and security guards. It will also provide accommodation for each country´s organization team and presenters, and also local transport.
The countries presenting their gastronomy and culture this year will be The Netherlands and Mexico.
JUDr. Ladislav Jíša
Festival Director
The international festival of TV and radio programmes and commercials on gastronomy “The Znojmo Grape” was initiated in 1999 and is now in its 13th year.
By choosing gastronomy as its main theme, we have filled a niche in the variety of international festivals and facilitated the presence of renowned foreign producers who have done important work in the field of gastronomy, such as the BBC, TF1, RAI, ORF and others.
In the 12th year, some 300 programmes from 18 countries entered the competition.
From the first year, we have been focusing intensely on accompanying events, such as public projections of competing programmes, exhibitions of leading Czech painters and illustrators, concerts, tastings of wines from top Czech and foreign wine producers, and since the fifth year also junior sommelier and barmen competitions.
This year, 2011, we shall continue our series of open-air events in the town´s largest square, the Masaryk Square.
We follow up on the tradition of National Days on which we present the culture, gastronomy and ethnic specialities of selected countries. Each country´s promotion films will be screened at the same time.
In the 7th year, when we started these national afternoons for the first time, we had made use of an already running collaboration with countries like Vietnam and Slovakia, while at the same time enlarging the TV section by other interesting regions like Mongolia. In the year 2006, we had The United Kingdom, Lower Austria, Croatia and Flanders. The year 2007 followed up with Hungary, China and Austria, 2008 Estonia, France and Latvia, 2009 Sweden, Rumania and the Czech Republic, 2010 Egypt and Italy.
We believe that our events will draw a large local and visiting audience to the Festival town and its Masaryk Square.
For the embassies of the respective countries, the festival will provide a podium, kitchen facilities, sound and projection equipment and security guards. It will also provide accommodation for each country´s organization team and presenters, and also local transport.
The countries presenting their gastronomy and culture this year will be The Netherlands and Mexico.
JUDr. Ladislav Jíša
Festival Director