“For many years now I have been connected with Café POTMĚ. I really look forward to seeing blind waiters and to playing around in the dark. When it’s dark everything sounds strikingly differently, more intense,” said singer Aneta Langerová about the project sponsored by the Endowment Fund of Czech Radio.
Praguers will have the opportunity to sup blacker than black coffee every day from 10:00 AM to 21:00 PM until 22nd June. Visitors to the café will be taken care of in absolute darkness by an experienced team of blind hostesses, guides and waiters. Visitors will be entertained by many supporting music shows on the roof of the café where apart from Vypsaná fixa, Ivan Hlas and Jiří Schmitzer there will also be a production by blind children.
Exhibition in gallery with lights switched off
This year’s innovation is the first exhibition in absolute darkness in history. Exhibition POTMĚ will be inaugurated on 8th June 2011 near by the café and it will be opened as well as the café up until 22nd June. The exhibition of twelve portraits of blind café owners called JSME STEJNÍ? will reveal a hidden secret of Café POTMĚ behind its door.
“The exhibition also holds a surprise for entrants, but I am not going to tell you what it is, you will have to come and see. I will only disclose that in the darkest dark you will be able to shine a torch on the exhibited photographs,” enthused Aneta Langerová about the exhibition. A private viewing will be on 8th June 2011 with the attendance of the artist photographer Martina Kaderková, benefactor of Světluška Aneta Langerová and photographer Jindřich Štreit.
How you can help the blind?
Donors can support the organisation Světluška at anytime during the year by sending SMS to 87 777 with message DMS SVETLUSKA (1 DMS = 30 CZK, Světluška will receive 27 CZK) or message DMS ROK SVETLUSKA (regular monthly support of Světluška of one DMS for the duration of one year). Světluška collection account “ten nines” 9999999999/0100 is also opened whole year.
