Summer at Samova No. 1 (4th year)

Wednesday 2 July 2025

10:00 AM
Workshop – Kyano Portrait I
(for children)

4:30PM
Workshop – Kyano Portrait II
(for public)

Lecturers: Elena Tarábková a Martin Daniš. 

Using the cyanotype technique, we will create photographic portraits enhanced with artistic elements. Please send your photos, from which we will create the Kyano portraits, in advance to the address: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk by 20 June 2025. In your message, please state the date and time of the workshop you wish to register for. If you don’t have your own photo, photographer Lucia Kšiňanová will take one of you during the event. With the author’s consent, the photos will be non-competitively exhibited during Photo Day in the Courtyard 2025. You need to sign up at: na kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk.

Saturday, 5 July 2025

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Photo Day in the Courtyard
A competitive photo exhibition based on the “Photo on the Net” concept, combined with a photo marathon and a photo map exploring various interesting themes. This event is part of the “Nitra, Dear Nitra 2025” programme.

7:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Registration for the “Photo on the Net” competition

7:00 AM – 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM: Registration for the photo marathon and photo map

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Competitions and guided tours

4:00 PM: Announcement of competition results

As part of the photo challenge, we will print ten high-quality A4 photographs for ten selected photographers. These photographers will be chosen by a professional jury from submissions sent to kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk. The selected images will then be competitively entered into the photo exhibition on 5 July 2025.

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

4:00 PM
Wax Batik in the Courtyard
(for the public)

Join lecturers Elenka Tarábková and Martin Daniš to create fascinating batik patterns. Feel free to bring your own cotton clothing to the workshop.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Thursday, 17 July 2025

10:00 AM
Fabric Painting
(child visitor with accompanying adult)

With lecturers Elenka Tarábková and Martin Daniš, we’ll be making interesting colourful designs on fabric. You can bring your own cotton clothing for the workshop.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Thursday, 24 July 2025

5:00 PM
4-3-2-1… A Series of Discussions With Contemporary Slovak Writers

A discussion with writer Lukáš Cabala and popular moderator Dado Nagy.

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

4:00 PM
In the Colourful Circle
(for the public)

Lecturer: Elena Tarábková

Create circular compositions from natural and recycled materials.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Thursday, 7 August 2025

10:00 AM
Clutter Workshop II

A continuation of the popular workshop for children and their parents. We will create sound-making objects from various, no-longer-needed items.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

5:00 PM

Theatre for Children – Morgonrock Theatre: Zero Waste Plastic Hunter
Starring: Peter Gärtner and Lukáš Tandara

Zero Waste is a mythical warrior who rose from the flood of unsorted and non-degradable waste. He is a weathered wanderer, always present wherever illegal dumps or plastic-polluted watercourses need to be cleaned up. Standing against him is the corrupt magnate Consumencio Consumini, an addict of rustling plastic, a manufacturer of disposable plastic toys and flimsy plastic bags whose factories churn out tons of unnecessary waste daily. It’s an uneven battle; Zero Waste is growing old and knows he can never defeat Consumencio alone…

Friday, 15 August 2025

8:00 PM
Concert: Alt-folk Singer-Songwriter – ZABIŤ FRANTIŠKA

Singer-songwriter Zabiť Františka (Kill Frank) continues linearly from where his 2021 debut left off. He presents his second studio album, which won the Radio_head Awards 2024 in the folk music category. The ever-present bricolages of (pop)cultural references and his uniquely captivating vocal delivery open up themes for listeners such as the crisis of masculinity, the return of war clouds over Europe, the mortality of the soul, but equally articulate an unceasing hope for change.

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

4:00 PM
Pottery Wheel Modelling in the Courtyard
(for the public)

Wheel throwing with ceramist and educator Ján Harmady.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Thursday, 21 August 2025

10:00 AM
Modelling in the Courtyard
(for children)

Lecturer: Elena Tarábková and Martin Daniš.

We’ll use “natural stamps” to record sounds into clay.

Registration is required at: kultura@nitrianskagaleria.sk

Thursday, 21 August 2025

5:00 PM
4-3-2-1… A Series of Discussions With Contemporary Slovak Writers

A discussion with writer Barbora Hrínová and popular moderator Dado Nagy.