See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
Czech film screening at 9 Picturehouse Cinemas in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Liverpool, Oxford, York and in London – Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Hackney. For date, time and booking link, click on the location. A powerful and striking portrayal of a close-knit village community on the Czech-Austrian border between the 1930s and the 1950s where everyone... Read more »
Czech film screening at 21 Picturehouse Cinemas in Ashford, Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Liverpool, Oxford, Southampton, York and in London - Brixton, Bromley, Clapham, Crouch End, East Dulwich, Finsbury Park, Greenwich, Hackney, Notting Hill Gate, Piccadilly Circus, West Norwood For local times, venues and booking see link below Three adult actresses posing as 12-year-old girls,... Read more »
A roundtable discussion to commemorate the birth of Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) online via Zoom. 27 November 2021 marks one hundred years since the birth of Alexander Dubček, icon of Czechoslovakia’s political reform movements in 1968 and 1989 and one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Slovak politics. SPEAKERS: MUDr. Pavol Dubček is the son... Read more »
As the festive season approaches, we thought our last regular "get to know you" meeting this year should be special. Join us to exchange your stories and experiences of Christmas, past and present, sample some traditional Christmas cookies and sing a few songs and carols. Everybody with Czech or Slovak connections or interests is welcome... Read more »
The Czech mezzo-soprano brings a characteristically varied programme, with songs from her homeland as well as the German, Russian and Hungarian traditions. Having previously championed the music of her compatriot Bohuslav Martinů, she includes a song collection (1942) written during his American exile that was also a favourite of exiled foreign minister and fine amateur... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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