See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.

BCSA 28th annual dinner

Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London, United Kingdom

Our twenty eighth annual dinner will be held on Friday 29 November in the heart of Bloomsbury. This highlight in the BCSA calendar is a wonderful opportunity for Slovaks, Czechs and Britons to mingle in a convivial atmosphere, to meet old friends and make new ones. Members and non-members alike will be made welcome at... Read more »

Concert of Czech music performed by the Richmond Duo

Velehrad London 39 Lonsdale Road, London, United Kingdom

Moshe Friedman, cello Margaret Bruce, piano with David Lewis, baritone PROGRAMME: TUCAPSKY: Cello Sonata (written for Moshe Friedman and Margaret Bruce) JANACEK: “In the Mist” for solo piano JANACEK: “Fairy Tale” for cello and piano INTERVAL TUCAPSKY: Meditation on an old folksong (written for Moshe Friedman) TUCAPSKY: Piano prelude no 19 (from the 24 Preludes... Read more »

Thomas Messer – my life with Guggenheim

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

A celebration of the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Czech National Trust (CNT) with a screening of the film “Thomas Messer - My life with Guggenheim" and an introduction of the project “Ticket to the New World”. Thomas Messer, a Czechoslovak emigré, was director and curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York... Read more »

BCSA “Get to Know You” Social Evening

Czech and Slovak National House 74 West End Lane, London, United Kingdom

Join us and have a fun evening chatting to friendly people. Czech and Slovak food and drinks are available from the restaurant and bar. Anybody with Czech or Slovak connections or interests is welcome to our monthly socials to meet, chat and get to know each other a little better in a relaxed and informal... Read more »

A remembrance of Jan Palach and concert by Smetana Trio

Velehrad London 39 Lonsdale Road, London, United Kingdom

Jitka Čechová – piano, Jan Talich – violin, Jan Páleníček – cello. Programme: Sergej Rachmaninov - Trio elegico No. 1 in G minor Bohuslav Martinů - Piano Trio in D minor č. 2, H 327 Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1   Tickets for the concert £10  paid... Read more »

Free Lunchtime Concert by Slovak musicians

St Martins in the Fields Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom

Representing the Embassy of Slovakia Performers Eva Bodorová Soprano Matthew Tomko Bass Jozef Janík Piano Programme Traditional Slovak Christmas Carols: Canite Jesu Infanti –  Poďme spolu do Betlema (Let’s go to Bethlehem, brothers) Dnešný deň sa radujme (Let´s be jolly today) Povedzte nám pastuškovia (Tell us, shepherds) Do hory , do lesa, valasi (To the mountains, to the forest) Dobrá novina, šťastná... Read more »

A discussion about the life and aspirations of Slovak students in Britain

Slovak Embassy 25 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Martin Hochel won second prize in the 2019 BCSA competition with his rather original essay on a little-covered aspect of 1989. He will be interviewed about his life and aspirations as a Slovak student studying in London. Brexit or no Brexit, he is aiming high. Martin is a student of  contemporary Central European history and... Read more »

Personal security in the age of AI

The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street, London, United Kingdom

Michal Pěchouček, professor  in computer science at the Czech Technical University (CTU) discusses the role of AI enabled cybersecurity problems and how we can increase our privacy and security online. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we live. We spend more time online, with more devices connected than ever before. How do we keep... Read more »

From the village to the city: urbanisation in Slovakia, 1896-1972

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

In his talk, Dr Lorman will explore how Slovak culture was initially characterised by its rural quality and alienation from the beginnings of mass industrialisation and urbanisation in Hungary (exemplified by the 1896 millennial celebrations in Budapest). He will examine how Slovak national identity was then substantially (but not entirely) transformed by similar processes of... Read more »

Rendezvous in Bratislava UK tour 2020

Rendezvous in Bratislava combines new music, a four-piece British Slovak band, comedy, cabaret and original 1940s photographs and recordings to share the life story of writer Miriam Sherwood’s grandfather – Jan ‘Laco’ Kalina. Laco Kalina was a dramaturg, satirist, collector of jokes and writer of cabarets, born in Czechoslovakia in 1913. A Slovak Jew, he survived... Read more »



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