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

Launch of new website about Sir Nicholas Winton

An online presentation by Barbara Winton of the new website she has curated about her father Sir Nicholas Winton  www.nicholaswinton.com Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 and died on 1st July 2015 aged 106. He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before... Read more »

The Czech Lands through the eyes of Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank, a well-known television art and architecture historian, will share his impressions of the Czech Lands online via Zoom. Dan's  travels have taken him to the Czech Lands where he filmed two of his television broadcasts. It might have been his friendship with Jan Kaplický, as well as with Eva Jiřičná, that inspired his... Read more »

Imperial Baroque, Vienna and Prague

An online talk on Zoom by Caroline Cannon-Brookes Following the deadly scourge of plague in 1679 and the relief of the Turkish Siege in 1683 the Viennese, with improved security, embarked on a great building programme which would provide visible proof of triumphant Catholicism and the Imperial Ideal. Two important Baroque architects emerged at this... Read more »

Czech Philharmonic livestream concert

PROGRAMME Robert Schumann Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 54 (34') — Intermission (10') — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian" (32') PERFORMERS Kirill Gerstein    piano Semyon Bychkov  conductor Czech Philharmonic Marek Eben   host To be broadcast on Czech Philharmonic social media and ČT... Read more »

Once upon a time in East Slovakia

EUNIC London in collaboration with the EU Delegation in the UK present the third edition of the In Short, Europe short film festival, taking place online from 7-16 May. A lonely 40-year-old cesspit worker living a quiet life in a village with his dexterous dog and essential beer supply finds his quality of life threatened... Read more »

Sh_t happens

EUNIC London in collaboration with the EU Delegation in the UK present the third edition of the In Short, Europe short film festival, taking place online from 7-16 May. The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the... Read more »

The Black Death in Bohemia: a medieval pandemic

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 »

The Low-Beer Story behind Schindler’s List and Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic

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 »

Foursquare: The Last Parachutist

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 »

Brutal Beauty: A Video Tour of the Czech Embassy in London

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 »



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