See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
Bianca Bellová in conversation with Glen James Brown to celebrate the launch of The Lake. Followed by a drink reception and book signing. Winner of the 2017 EU Prize for Literature, writer Bianca Bellová discusses her highly topical book The Lake with Glen James Brown to celebrate the book’s English-language publication by Parthian Books. Set in a fictitious country with references to... Read more »
An online Zoom event. If you wish to participate please register at bcsa@bcsa.co.uk. Login details will be shared only with those who confirm their attendance. Czech-born British GP, Dr Eva Hnízdo will introduce her book Diagnosis London, published in Czech in Prague in 2020, and her novel Why didn’t they leave?, which was published in... Read more »
A chance to see a rarely screened film directed by Martin Fric and starring Hugo Haas and Adina Mandlova. A light hearted romp mainly set in and around a Prague music publishing shop. A young composer falls for the publisher’s daughter but the road to love is complicated when he gains employment at the shop... Read more »
A screening of the film by Sean Ellis followed by a talk by George Bearfield, author of Foursquare: the Last Parachutist to commemorate 80 years of Operation Anthropoid. British director Sean Ellis' Anthropoid is the latest film adaptation of the operation’s story, starring Irish film stars Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan. George Bearfield is the... Read more »
Míla Fürstová’s mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Czech Centre’s Vitrínka Gallery charts the course from Míla’s graduation from the Royal Collage of Art, to her becoming the youngest ever elected Academician at the Royal West of Academy in Bristol, being collected by the V&A and Her Majesty the Queen, to her commission by Coldplay and... Read more »
A crash course in urban planning discussing many pressing issues facing current cities from suburbanisation and neglect of public space. Increasing problems of space in urban environments have forced us to realise that solving small-scale building problems does little to improve the quality of life in a city. Czech / Japanese architect Osamu Okamura and... Read more »
An event celebrating the publication of The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka in English translated by Alex Zucker. It will feature the co-editor of the book Erin Plunkett from The University of Hertfordshire and the originator of the translation project Graham Henderson, CEO of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation. The COVID pandemic and the war... Read more »
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 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 »
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 »
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