Y: Caring Catering
A social event. Connective.
Kutná Hora Performing Arts Festival, 16.–19. 9. 2026
Amidst the slow erosion of dreams of equality, progress and the end of planetary injustice, hunger, and suffering, we have to be frank: these are dark times. Adrift in the infinitely long twilight of modernity, we try not to lose face, to maintain our stance, to preserve at least a shred of dignity. Conformism, capitalism, corruption, apathy. We’re constantly trying to find words for the state of the surrounding world, but we, too, are drowning in the waters of powerlessness.
The art that interests us wants nothing less than to change the world. But isn’t that too great a task? How to confront a reality that is obsessed with power, pursued by the ghosts of trauma and failed revolutions, trapped in feelings of isolation, insufficiency, defencelessness, poverty? What lens will we choose for looking at such a world? And to what degree do we acknowledge our contribution to the world’s current trajectory?
During the Kutná Hora Performing Arts Festival, Y: Caring Catering focuses on the interior of the festival organism. Despite the darkness that surrounds and permeates us, it is necessary to mobilise our strength and create a space for encounters and shared pleasure.
CURATORS Anna Chrtková & Petr Dlouhý & Magdalena Malinová
GRAPHIC DESIGN Markéta Skalková
PARTNERS ArtMap, Artalk, Taneční zóna, art re use
