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TON, the renowned Czech furniture maker, celebrates 160 years of bentwood production. Join this free online panel discussion on Zoom with designer Florian Kallus from Kaschkasch Studio, Adam Štěch, the author of the publication +-160 Years, and Alex Gufler, designer and Artistic Director of TON, and explore the story of bentwood furniture from the radical invention of Michael Thonet to the... Read more »
The Barnes Community Players will perform rehearsed readings of this extraordinary play. Largo Desolato was written by Václav Havel and translated by Czech-born Tom Stoppard. The play speaks to our present obsession with “fake news” and our constant fear for our privacy. Havel struggled to accept the importance his words held for those who leaned... Read more »
This Zoom event will introduce Agneša Kalinová (1924-2014) - a Slovak-Jewish journalist, film critic and translator. Agneša's fascinating story has been captured in Mojich sedem životov, a book-length conversation conducted by the Slovak playwright, writer and social activist Jana Juránová, which was published by the feminist publishing house ASPEKT in 2012. Translated into Czech, German... Read more »
Working in partnership with the Czech Literary Centre, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced the addition of five Czech comic creators to the Festival’s line-up in October, including award-winning Kateřina Čupová and Václav Šlajch. The Czech Literary Centre is also supporting two international artists’ residencies in association with LICAF. Kateřina Čupová and Štěpánka Jislová will be working in Kendal before this... Read more »
An online Zoom talk by Daniel Majer about the political role Czech protest music has played in Czech and Slovak history from the Austro-Hungarian empire until today. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Karel Kryl composed ‘Bratříčku, zavírej vrátka’ (Keep the gates closed, little brother) as his reaction to the occupation. In... Read more »
The first Royal Opera House production of Janáček's opera since 2001 is now available to watch on demand until 14 November https://stream.roh.org.uk/free-titles/videos/jenufa It will also be broadcast on 23 October on BBC Radio 3 @ 6.30pm and subsequently available for about a month see here photo Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) © ROH | Monika Rittershaus
A SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Chad Bryant. Vojtěch Berger was a carpenter, a member of the interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party, and an obsessive diarist who lived in Prague from 1921 until his death forty years later. For Berger and other party members, including top Communist leaders, Communism was much more than a... Read more »
A special screening of the digital restoration in 4K of Gustav Machatý’s 1933 defiant masterpiece: the UK premiere of this cult classic film. Probably the most widely seen Czech film of all time, it stirred controversy and uproar due to its portrayal of female nudity and suggestive sexual content and shot its director and the... Read more »
The riveting story of a Czech Olympic icon and one of the greatest runners of all time, Emil Zátopek, who became a global byword for sportsmanship and generosity and who was driven into obscurity by the Communists after standing up for ‘socialism with a human face’. An inspiring portrayal of the Czech Olympic legend Emil Zátopek,... Read more »
A programme by the Jubilee Quartet based on the moving work that Vilém Tauský wrote in November 1940 after going into Coventry with a Czech Free Army ambulance and seeing the smouldering ruins of the cathedral. Tauský was stationed in Leamington with the Czech Free Army . 2021 Leamington Music Autumn Season Tauský Coventry: A... Read more »
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