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

Atentát

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Screening of the Czechoslovak film Atentát (The Assassination) offers a unique period view of the course of Operation Anthropoid, filmed in 1964 just 22 years after its execution. This will be followed by a talk about the paratrooper training within the Special Operations Executive (SOE)  by Gillian Halcrow daughter of British Lt. Col. Ernst van... Read more »

The Robot at 100: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Future

University of Chichester, Cloisters Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane, Chichester, United Kingdom

The University of Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction hosts an international, interdisciplinary conference marking the centenary of the first staging in English of Karel Čapek’s seminal play R.U.R. The play saw the first appearance of the term robot which comes from the Czech word robota meaning ‘forced labour’ that has its roots in the... Read more »

Extreme (the new norm)

The Cockpit Gateforth Street, London, United Kingdom

A satirical reflection on the pandemic by the Slovak Theatre in London. ​One day you are enjoying your favourite ice cream on a family holiday, the next day you find yourself in a national lockdown. Life is unpredictable and it shapes us to be flexible but over the past two years, we lived through another... Read more »

Pongo Calling

From his truck, rising online star Štefan Pongo streams his political rants and creates social media movements that go viral, in support of Romani people across Europe.   When the president of the Czech Republic makes a remark that Romani people are ‘socially unadaptable’ and refuse job opportunities, truck driver Štefan Pongo initiates a social media... Read more »

Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

A thrilling record of the legendary Czech rock climber’s career and his preparations for the debut of the climbing competition at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Adam Ondra is one of the world’s best climbers. He has scaled some of the world’s most challenging heights. A shy introvert who has become an icon of... Read more »

Poetry Across Borders

Brewery Arts Centre 122A Highgate, Kendal, United Kingdom

Two Czech poets, Kateřina Rudčenková and Milan Děžinský, will be reading from his collection A Secret Life (recently published by Blue Diode Press) whilst Kateřina Rudčenková will be reading for the first time in the UK from her Dream of a Journey: Selected Poems (Parthian, 2021). Kateřina Rudčenková (1976) is a poet, prose writer and playwright. She... Read more »

Julian Nicholas, Emil Viklický, Petr Dvorský: One, Two, Three

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

The ‘sizzling tenor sax‘ (Jazzwise) of Julian Nicholas joins pillar of the Czech jazz scene pianist Emil Viklický and leading Czech bassist Petr Dvorský for a concert featuring a selection of jazz classics and individual favourites celebrating their 30 year long musical partnership. Revelling in the joy of making music together, Nicholas, Viklický and Dvorský who have just come together... Read more »

Farewell Comrade: Theresienstadt music

Temple Church Church Court, London, United Kingdom

Music written in the shadow of death, Theresienstadt 1941-1945. We all know that where words fail music can speak yet it is still remarkable to think that during times of unimaginable horror the musicians held in Theresienstadt were able to garner any creativity at all, let alone enough to compose works as meaningful and moving... Read more »

Julian Anderson – Prague Panoramas

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

British composer Julian Anderson  will discuss Czech cultural influences in his new Second  Symphony "Prague Panoramas" inspired by famous panoramic photos of Prague by legendary photographer Josef Sudek. The piece commissioned by the BBC  will have its first full performance at the BBC Proms on the same evening at 7.30pm (see separate listing). The BBC... Read more »

Semyon Bychkov and the Labèques

Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom

Distance and enchantment: whenever Julian Anderson creates a new work, we’re in for a musical experience that ruffles through memories as it ravishes the ears. His keenly awaited Second Symphony takes its cue from old photographs of Prague: a city dear to conductor Semyon Bychkov, and to the exiled Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, whose exuberant... Read more »



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