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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »