See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
„Ahoj občani!" ("Hello, citizens!") was how Karel Kryl greeted the audience after his emotional return to Czechoslovakia from exile in December 1989. An exhibition celebrating the legendary protest singer Karel... Read more »
This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the British Czech and Slovak Association (members, supporters and friends) to meet, eat, drink, chat (maybe practise your Czech or Slovak) and... Read more »
Jenůfa is keeping secret from everyone that she is pregnant by Števa, whom she loves despite his drinking and womanising. Jenůfa’s stepmother, Kostelnička, had a violent, alcoholic husband and tells... Read more »
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a little Czech Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the wartime Slovak State. Based... Read more »
This talk by Professor Mark Cornwall explores the subject of secret police surveillance in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Prof. Cornwall draws on his own surveillance file, asking why, when and... Read more »
Robert Bruce Lockhart had an extraordinary career. In 1918, he served as the British Government’s “Agent” in Bolshevik Russia and orchestrated a brazen plot to topple Vladimir Lenin’s regime. The... Read more »
Did you know that 4th February is the Day of Czechs Abroad? To celebrate in style, we are holding another BCSA Pub Quiz. This is your chance to show off... Read more »
An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 with Sheku Kanneh-Mason followed... Read more »
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov perform Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia and Mariella Labèque followed by Mahler's Symphony No 5. Mozart wrote his concerto for... Read more »
The ‘hero’ of Janáček’s 1920 satire is the sausage- and beer-guzzling Brouček, a complacent, commitment-averse landlord. Over two acts he travels to both the moon and the fifteenth century. Thinking the... Read more »
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