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Reading Havel

The aim of this project is to bring closer the key texts of Czechoslovakia's and the first president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel. We approached prominent public figures who met Václav Havel and/or who are his supporters (whether in the Czech Republic or abroad) to read selected excerpts from his texts. The invitation was accepted... Read more »

Christmas in Bohemia

Using the words of the favourite 19th-century English carol “Good King Wenceslas”, Hannah French explores Czech music, food and traditions with Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and Jarmila Karas. The carol tells the story of the Bohemian king, Saint Wenceslaus I going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant... Read more »

Holocaust survivor parents

Barnet Libraries presents: An online evening with Francis Morton discussing the story of his Holocaust survivor parents George and Renée. Francis's parents lived in Czechoslovakia before World War 2 but came to England as Jewish refugees. His mother came to England in 1938 on a domestic service visa to undertake housework and childcare for a... Read more »

A new history of Theresienstadt

What was society like in the Nazi ghettos?  A SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Dr Anna Hájková, University of Warwick, a free event see booking link below Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt, as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as... Read more »

A Castle in Bohemia, an Austro-Japanese Count, and the Future of Europe

ZOOM lecture: Martyn Bond, a former foreign correspondent specialising in European affairs, will speak about Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, better known on the Continent than in Britain. Few anywhere know that the man whom Hitler damned in Mein Kampf as a ‘cosmopolitan bastard’ travelled on a Czechoslovak diplomatic passport for twenty years between the two world wars.... Read more »

A youthful view of Czech elections and populism

A talk on Zoom by Nina Fořtíková, a sixteen-year old Prague schoolgirl, about the attitude of her generation towards Czech political life. She is not an average Czech teenager; when she was thirteen Nina joined a debating club which required wide reading on political matters. Nina submitted an essay Why people prioritise optimism over their... Read more »

The Cunning Little Vixen

English National Opera St Martin’s Lane, London, United Kingdom

The Cunning Little Vixen tells the tale of a clever vixen named Sharp Ears. Captured by a local Forester when she is young, she later manages to escape his clutches, but he is forever haunted by her memory. Exploring man’s relationship with nature, Janáček’s opera moves through the contrasting worlds of the Vixen and the Forester, showing how... Read more »

Black Peter

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Oscar-winning Czech filmmaker Milos Forman (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest, A Blonde in Love), the Czech Centre presents a new 4K restoration of his stunning debut feature film Black Peter which helped launch the famous Czechoslovak New Wave, and was premiered at the... Read more »

Czech Music with the Pražák String Quartet

Royal Pump Rooms The Parade, Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

Programme Josef Suk                  Meditation Leoš Janáček           Quartet No 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ Karel Janovický        Quartet No 4 (UK première) Antonín Dvořák         Quartet in G Op 106 Pražák String Quartet of Prague  Jana Vonášková and Marie Magdalena Fuxová... Read more »

Jenůfa

David Evans Court Theatre Station Road, Tring, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Set in a rural Czech village, it tells the story of a woman’s efforts to protect her stepdaughter who has borne a child out of wedlock. Leoš Jánaček’s rich music propels the plot forward to its dramatic conclusion. Aylesbury Opera has assembled a fine cast to perform this most watchable of operas. The opera will... Read more »



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