See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
A Zoom lecture by Dr Mark Whelan. The coming of the Black Death to Europe was a defining epidemiological event, killing anywhere between twenty-five and eighty percent of the continent’s population in the years 1347-1351. With Covid-19 sweeping the globe, interest in past pandemics and the historical comparisons they may provide has never been higher.... Read more »
A talk via Zoom by Daniel Low-Beer, a grandson whose surviving relatives never returned to their homeland. Before the Munich Agreement and the Nazi horrors descended on Czechoslovakia, Jews were central to the cultural and economic life of Brno. The Low-Beers were industrialists, textile producers, diplomats, movers and shakers, who were building the new republic... Read more »
Free Zoom talk with an introduction by Philip Ingram, MBE On the anniversary of the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, George Bearfield will provide an overview of the book’s story and share photographs from his grandfather’s collection, many of which have never been seen before. This will be followed by... Read more »
Join us for the premiere of a tour of one the prime examples of Brutalist architecture in London and discover what’s hiding behind the facade of the Czech Embassy. Owen Hatherley, architecture critic and author of Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings, will guide you through the recently refurbished London Czech Embassy from its spectacular... Read more »
One of the great pioneers of Modern architecture, Adolf Loos, between 1907 and 1932 enriched the architectural environment of Pilsen for affluent Jewish clients. They had in common not only commercial, social and family ties, but also a desire for lavish, impressive interiors which he unquestionably satisfied. Born in Brno in 1870, he was famous for the 'Raumplan'... Read more »
Smetana From my Homeland JB 1:118 Martinů Three Madrigals H313 Dvořák ‘Song to the moon’ from Rusalka Op 114 Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 in A Op 81 Olga Eckert and Mafalda Galante violins Maria João Antunes viola Griff Wadkin cello Beth Haughan piano Tickets: £15 (inc. glass of wine) to book see link below The Sonia & Harry Hyamson concert... Read more »
Eva Cato, née Rotenstein, was born in Czechoslovakia 13 years before the outbreak of World War Two. An only child growing up in a small town in Slovakia with her mother and grandparents, she witnessed the encroachment of anti-Semitic hostilities and regulations on the life of her small Jewish community. Escaping to Hungary in 1942,... Read more »
A documentary about Klára Kolouchová, the first Czech climber to conquer K2. Klára is a mountain climber, a mother and a woman, and she is going to climb K2. To be a woman in a man's world is not easy but Klara pursues her dreams. She has already climbed Mount Everest, the deadlier K2 is... Read more »
Energised by Janáček’s exuberant rhythms, The Cunning Little Vixen captures the joys, thrills, fears and sorrows of our existence – whether or not we have a tail. Vixen lives by her instincts and by her wits. Something about her strikes a chord in the Forester. They first meet when she is just a cub. He takes her... Read more »
UK premiere of a new Czech animation film telling the story of a friendship between a little mouse and a fox. Following an accident, little mouse Whizzy and and the fox Whitebelly meet up in animal paradise. In this new world, they must relinquish their old animal instincts and follow a path to a new... Read more »
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