a long flight and a first day in Prague

24 hours flying and three stops and finally I reached Prague and was tucked up in bed by 1030.
Its a lovely old style hotel in the old town. Very quiet and close to all the architectural wonders that are this amazing city.
The first visit this morning was to Meet Factory, I met with the Director, Jindra and her colleagues.
The space is an old glass factory, slightly out of town. It is not renovated, but they have high hopes. They have already raised some many million CZK to install heating and make some studios.
The program offers local and international residenciesn a gallery program and some film and performance.
The building is on a railway line as well, and opened in late 2007. This is a real 'meeting' place for artists and is really focused
On that. It is not an arts centre in the way that we are. But it has been driven by artists and has that feeling of artist community
About it. The artists can sleep there during their residencies for example.
They access govt money from the Dutch so that means a big exchange between
Czech and Holland.
Quite an amazing, and different model.