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Great Britain and the breaking up of Austria-Hungary, the rise of Czechoslovakia and other successor states in 1918

Velehrad London 39 Lonsdale Road, London, United Kingdom

FEDERATION OF SLOVAKS IN GREAT BRITAIN Programme British attitudes to the breaking up of Austria-Hungary and the creation of new states  Professor Robert Evans, Oxford University Great Britain and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918  Dr. Vladimír Daniš, Federation of Slovaks in Great Britain The End of the Marriage: Explaining the Slovaks Decision to join... Read more »

How to become a Czech in one hour

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT Keen to learn something about the Czechs but too afraid to ask? This one-man show performed in English by Czech actor Tomas Vanek explains some of the cultural pitfalls from the Czech point of view. Beer, knedliky, Karel Gott and the Czech fashion for wearing socks with sandals are... Read more »

Pavel Haas Quartet: Smetana and Janacek

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

Janacek’s two highly personal quartets have earned their places as 20th-century classics of the medium, the first inspired by Tolstoy’s passionate novella The 'Kreutzer Sonata', about an extramarital affair, the second reflecting his own love for the married Kamila Stosslova. Bedrich Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Leos Janacek: String Quartet No. 1... Read more »

Prague and Innsbruck: the cultural patronage of the Archduke Ferdinand II

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

A lecture by Caroline Cannon-Brookes Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) was Regent of Bohemia for twenty years in the middle of the 16th century. Born the second son of the future Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne of Bohemia, he was highly educated and a cultivated humanist who established a sophisticated court in Prague which embraced both... Read more »

Jan Palach + Q&A with director Robert Sedlacek

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

On 16 January 1969, the Prague philosophy student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. He died three days later. He was 21 years old. Using available sources director Robert Sedlacek reconstructs the final months of Jan Palach´s life describing his path from an affectionate... Read more »

A Czechoslovak minister in exile

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Ladislav Feierabend managed the impossible: he was a member of the war-time Protectorate government and at the same time head of a resistance group in contact with Edvard Beneš in London. So when a messenger was captured and forced to reveal everything, in January 1940 Feierabend embarked on an escape worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.... Read more »

Revolution Begins at Home: The Women of Czech Dissent

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

An evening dedicated to women active in the Czech dissent movement and Charter 77 during the Czechoslovak communist regime of the 1970s and 1980s. Sociologist and gender scholar Marcela Linková and journalist Nada Straková will be joined by former dissident Kamila Bendová and DJ and writer Tobiáš Jirous to talk about the recent publication Revolution... Read more »

Smetana Piano Trio

Velehrad London 39 Lonsdale Road, London, United Kingdom

PROGRAMME Sergey Rachmaninoff: Trio elegico in G minor, No. 1 Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Trio Bergerettes H. 275 Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio in F-Minor op. 65 Jitka Cechova – piano Radim Kresta - violin Jan Palenicek – cello Tickets £10 to pay at the door. Places are limited, please reserve tickets soon at ludmilastane@gmail.com or text... Read more »

Katya Kabanova

Royal Opera House Bow Street, London, United Kingdom

Czech tenor, Pavel Cernoch makes his Royal Opera debut as Boris Grigorjevic. Born in Brno, Cernoch began singing as a child in the Cantilena Chamber Choir. He studied singing at the Janacek Academy in Brno and with Paolo de Napoli (his current teacher) in Italy. He made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in... Read more »

Amnesty International and Prisoners of Conscience in Czechoslovakia (CSSR)

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Susan Jenkinson will describe work at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in the team concerned with Prisoners of Conscience in Czechoslovakia (CSSR) in the 1980s. Julia Sherwood, who was also at the International Secretariat at that time, but in another team, will outline the case of her father, Prisoner of Conscience, Jan Ladislav Kalina,... Read more »



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