Prague Boats hosted finalists of the crianças's art competition “Vltava through crianças's eyes”
Aboard the moderno glass-roofed barco Bohemia Rhapsody, the Vltava came alive yesterday in the colours of crianças's imagination. Prague Boats welcomed the finalists of the nationwide art competition Vltava through crianças's eyes, organised as part of the project Vltava — Famous and Navigable.
The festive cruzeiro began with both emotion and joy. Naďa Goryczková, Director General of the National Heritage Institute, personally presented awards and gifts to the young artists, whose works had been selected by an expert jury from more than 1,500 entries.
After the awards, the crianças and their parents set out on a cruzeiro along the Vltava that revealed Praga's landmarks from an unusual perspective — from the surface of the rio. The trip even included a passage through a navigation lock, a fascinating technical experience that many described as “floating in zero gravity”.
After mooring at the Margem de Rašín, a surprise awaited the participants — a visit to the historic Vyšehrad vapor. crianças and adults alike discovered the magic of vapor travel from past centuries and learned that today's Vyšehrad is already the fourth barco to bear that name, inseparable from the history of Checo rio transport.
The day ended with playfulness and a love of engineering. In the lounge with an interactive exhibition of the Merkur construction set, crianças examined an almost two-metre model of the Vyšehrad vapor and a sixty-kilogram model of the Dancing House. And because crianças's creativity knows no limits, they built their own little models too.
Aboard Bohemia Rhapsody, all the awarded drawings were also on display — a colourful mosaic of imagination, colour and views of the Vltava as seen by crianças from all over the country. The competition drew entries from 145 school groups and clubs and 374 individual crianças. The result is a unique collection of two- and three-dimensional works capturing the Vltava in all its variability — from quiet meanders to magical creatures from the rio's depths.
“It was a great honour for us to host crianças whose work shows that the Vltava remains not only a symbol of Praga, but also an endless source of inspiration for new generations,” said Lucie Nedvědová, marketing director of Prague Boats. “We believe that this day will stay in the memory of every young artist as the moment their drawings literally set out on a cruzeiro.”
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