Czech Centre’s Window Gallery & Czech Embassy London (outdoor exhibition) An outdoor exhibition of striking black and white photographs by four-time World Press Photo winner Antonín Kratochvíl. Highly expressive, evocative photographs provide a cross section of Kratochvíl’s work featuring show-business celebrities such as David Bowie and Bernardo Bertolucci as well as war and human catastrophes.... Read more »

Featuring paintings by Alfons Mucha, Toyen, František Kupka, Gustav Klimt and other artists, this online video series introduces selected works from the collections of the National Gallery in Prague presented by art historian Veronika Wolf. Join every Sunday at noon and discover paintings that have shaped Czech cultural history on the Czech Centre London website, You... Read more »

Comparing making a film about exile to a highly painful but necessary visit to the dentist, Bokova, herself an émigrée, sets out to explore various aspects of emigration, its effect on people’s lives and the impossibility of stepping into the same river twice. As one of her protagonist says: “You return to your 30s but... Read more »

Inaugural Online Conference of the UK Czechoslovak Studies Network University of Oxford. The day will bring together researchers on the region to discuss current projects, establish connections, and spotlight areas for collaboration. Following our call for papers, we welcomed proposals for papers from researchers of all disciplines within the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For... Read more »

Music recital by Czech songwriter Slávek Janoušek. tickets £10 via Eventbrite link below https://bohemiahouse.london/      

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 »