See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
The Czech Centre (CC) and the Thames Valley Harriers (TVH) athletic club have teamed up to celebrate Zátopek’s centennial anniversary by organising the Emil Zátopek Run to raise funds for the new Zátopek Athletic Fellowship that will be awarded to promising young athletes in the disadvantaged local community. Distance: 5k, 3k, & 2k Categories: U11... Read more »
A guide to the development of the ownership of historic houses in Czech lands since 1918. From the formation of Czechoslovakia, when the first president T.G. Masaryk abolished aristocratic titles, and his land reform deprived many estates of their main source of income, the lecture will cover every stage of the turbulent events that changed... Read more »
Founded in 1994, the Czech ensemble raised its profile via competitions such as the London International String Quartet Competition in 2006, when it also took the audience prize, as well as other successes in Prague (2005), Banff (2007) and Bordeaux (2010); in 2008 it received the Alexander Zemlinsky Advancement Award. Recordings of works by Dvořák... Read more »
Mozart felt that the people of Prague appreciated his music more than anyone else, and many of the most influential and highly-regarded composers of his era were Bohemians. This dynamic programme is framed by two vibrantly dramatic G minor symphonies, and it also features three arias and a startlingly visceral scene from Benda’s melodrama Medea. Programme... Read more »
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 war. Taken from their published work Fajtl’s and Jansky‘s precise observations and poignant reflections are voiced by two actors retelling their experiences from escaping their... Read more »
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 the English College in Prague. In the past such scholarships have funded talented students from the Roma community or who were raised in children’s homes.... Read more »
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 of ‘Normalization’: a chilling term intended to designate a return to the efficient social controls that had been the norm across the Soviet Bloc prior... Read more »
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? Can dissidents actually change anything? Though focusing on the power and the powerless in communist Europe in the 1970s, Havel's distinction between the forces of... Read more »
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, Mozart and Puccini. Caroline Taylor soprano ... Read more »
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 saga set in 1980s London, Prague and Munich against the backdrop of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. It explores the impact of history... Read more »
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