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

Good Old Czechs

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

The screening of a new documentary film combining never-before-seen archive footage with the memories of fighter pilot Frantisek Fajtl and gunner Filip Jansky, both serving in the RAF during the... Read more »

London Czech connections walking tour

The English College Foundation is planning a sponsored walk to raise funds for scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, to enable them to study in the International Baccalaureate years at... Read more »

Václav Havel European Dialogues

UCL Gustave Tuck Auditorium Gower Street, London, United Kingdom

Session I: From Normalization to Loss of Norms: Václav Havel and the Forms of Democratic Backsliding The decades following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 were dubbed the period... Read more »

Václav Havel European Dialogues

Temple of Peace King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Session III: The Spectre of Dissent Still Haunts Europe In his essay The Power of the Powerless, Havel famously asked: What role does dissent play in society? What are its hopes?... Read more »

Emmy Destinn Gala Concert

St John's Smith Square Smith Square, London, United Kingdom

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Emmy Destinn Foundation. Featuring  young artists, the winners of the biennial competition The Emmy Destinn Young Singers Awards performing arias by Janáček, Dvořák, Smetana,... Read more »

In the Blood: Anna Fodorova

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Czech author Anna Fodorova will be in discussion with writer and literary critic Jude Cook plus readings by actress Lisa Rose. In the Blood is an unforgettable twentieth century family... Read more »

Jana Varga & The Company

Chapel Arts Centre St James's Memorial Hall, Lower Borough Walls, Bath, United Kingdom

Jana Varga is a Slovak-born singer songwriter now based in London, having trained and worked musically in France, the United States and elsewhere. Her well crafted songs are at home... Read more »

Smetana Vltava & Dvořák Symphony no 8

Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, United Kingdom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Vltava’ from Smetana’s Má Vlast – an evocative orchestral picture of the river that flows through Prague, filled with ebbing and flowing woodwind and strings.  Dvořák was staying at his... Read more »

Bethlehem Light

The Gate Picturehouse 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom

Karel Šejnoha (Zdeněk Svěrák’s alter ego), a well-known, aging writer, faces a writer‘s block. He has a head full of unfinished stories whose fictional characters start to appear in real... Read more »

The Cunning Little Vixen

Jacksons Lane Theatre 269A Archway Rd, London, United Kingdom

HGO, North London’s leading opera company, presents a fully staged production, with orchestra and fabulous young opera singers and children, of Janáček’s timeless and enchanting opera. Captured when young by... Read more »



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