Bludný kámen
Bludný kámen is a group of people who are mainly engaged in mapping contemporary visual art and contemporary "experimental" music. For ten years it ran the House of Art in Opava, for six years it organised cultural activities in the University Club - Bludný kámen tea room in Opava, and it ran the Albertovec Gallery in the Opava region. Bludný kámen currently organises sound performances, the Pohyb-Zvuk-Prostor and Minimaraton electronic music festivals, and founded and runs the Cella Gallery and Hovorny in Opava.
The University Club - Bludný kámen Teahouse was founded in 1996 and soon became a kind of informal centre of alternative culture in Opava. Its activities were wide - concerts of ethnic music, jazz, contemporary classical music, folk concerts, alternative music concerts, author literary readings, poetry evenings, non-traditional theatre performances, lectures on literature, visual arts, Far Eastern philosophy, psychology, nature, etc. In 2003, as part of the privatisation of the city's housing and non-housing stock, the city sold the space at a discounted price to the University of Silesia, which immediately gave notice to the Bludný kámen tearoom (for the record, the University of Silesia leased the space to a company that set up and operated a 24-hour gambling hall there). After a few years the SU returned the premises back to the city, which managed to evict the gambling hall, but to this day the premises, which have been hosting interesting non-conformist cultural programmes and exhibitions of contemporary art since practically the second half of the 1980s, are closed. (2023)
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