See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.

Little Otik: Jan Švankmajer

BFI Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, United Kingdom

Surreal Czech comedy horror featuring a log baby who develops dangerous habits. An infertile couple living in an apartment adopt Otik, a log child. However, they soon discover it reciprocates their love in an increasingly dysfunctional and aggressive way, leaving them worrying for anyone or anything that crosses its path. Švankmajer’s live action/stop-motion tale is... Read more »

Surviving Life: Jan Švankmajer

ICA The Mall, St. James's, London, United Kingdom

Extended introduction by Gareth Evans Eugene leads a double life – married to Milada, he also dreams of the beautiful Evgenia. Trying to swap his dreary life for a dream life, he seeks help from a psychoanalyst, who, under the disapproving gazes of Freud and Jung framed on her wall, attempts to interpret his experiences.... Read more »

The Czechoslovak Kindertransport 1939

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

The Czech and Slovak Embassies are hosting an educational and social gathering to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Kindertransport. This gathering is an opportunity for Czech Kinder, descendants, researchers, and the general public to come together and hear about the movement of unaccompanied children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. Descendants will be... Read more »

The Emil Zátopek Run

Linford Christie Athletic Stadium Linford Christie Road, London, United Kingdom

The Thames Valley Harriers (TVH) athletic club and the Czech Centre (CC) have the pleasure to invite you to the third London charity run, organised in the name of the brilliant Czech runner Emil Zátopek, to raise funds towards the Zátopek Athletic Fellowship supporting young athletes in Western London. BEST RUNNER OF ALL TIME RETURNS... Read more »

War With The Newts

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

A brand new adaptation of Karel Čapek's timeless theatre classic, adapted & directed by Kazue Horimasu. The Great Depression, commencing in 1929, ravaged not just the USA and Europe, but the entire globe. Humanity found survival by exploiting the highly intelligent Newts. Eventually, the thriving human race became dependent on them. Yet, the Newts initiated... Read more »

Škampa Quartet

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

The Škampa Quartet are long established as favourites at the Wigmore Hall. This leading Czech ensemble offers two works central to the repertoire: Mozart’s 1785 quartet (one of his set dedicated to Haydn) opening with a celebrated dissonance, and the second of the quartets eventually issued by the self-critical Brahms at the age of 40.... Read more »

Tribute to Czech women composers

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Vítězslava Kaprálová and Geraldine Mucha (wife of Jiří Mucha) are two of the seven women composers whose work is being celebrated in a unique tribute, brought to London fresh from its premiere at the International Music Festival Český Krumlov by the talented young violinist Elizabeth Jiřičková and pianist Barbora Brabcová. With a meticulously researched programme... Read more »

The Czech Connection

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

An illustrated talk by Caroline Cannon-Brookes will explore a range of historic links between Britain and Bohemia and their varying impacts. Amongst the topics included will be John Wycliffe and Jan Hus; Baron Waldstein’s travels in Elizabethan England; Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen; the English influence on 18th century Bohemian parks and gardens; and King... Read more »

Bat’a Tilbury Open Day

Bata Heritage Centre East Tilbury Library, Princess Avenue, East Tilbury, Essex, United Kingdom

Smetana Trio

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

The Smetana Trio perform three Czech composers: the ensemble’s namesake’s trio (1855, revised 1857), Dvořák’s pupil and son-in-law Josef Suk’s 1902 work inspired by Julius Zeyer's epic poem Vyšehrad and Martinů’s 1951 Third Piano Trio. Josef Suk                 Elegie Op. 23 Bohuslav Martinů     Piano Trio No. 3 in C Bedřich... Read more »



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