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

In the Blood: Anna Fodorova

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Czech author Anna Fodorova will be in discussion with writer and literary critic Jude Cook plus readings by actress Lisa Rose. In the Blood is an unforgettable twentieth century family saga set in 1980s London, Prague and Munich against the backdrop of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. It explores the impact of history... Read more »

Jana Varga & The Company

Chapel Arts Centre St James's Memorial Hall, Lower Borough Walls, Bath, United Kingdom

Jana Varga is a Slovak-born singer songwriter now based in London, having trained and worked musically in France, the United States and elsewhere. Her well crafted songs are at home in the broad Americana genre but their roots run much deeper. Jana’s natural musicianship is founded in her classical music training, and further influenced by... Read more »

Smetana Vltava & Dvořák Symphony no 8

Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace, London, United Kingdom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Vltava’ from Smetana’s Má Vlast – an evocative orchestral picture of the river that flows through Prague, filled with ebbing and flowing woodwind and strings.  Dvořák was staying at his summer resort when he wrote his Eighth Symphony, and you can hear the bird song and thunderstorms of a summer’s day in Bohemia in the... Read more »

Bethlehem Light

The Gate Picturehouse 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom

Karel Šejnoha (Zdeněk Svěrák’s alter ego), a well-known, aging writer, faces a writer‘s block. He has a head full of unfinished stories whose fictional characters start to appear in real life lobbying for their stories to be finally completed. Each and every one of them demands something. The photographer Matěj wants the beautiful but unapproachable... Read more »

The Cunning Little Vixen

Jacksons Lane Theatre 269A Archway Rd, London, United Kingdom

HGO, North London’s leading opera company, presents a fully staged production, with orchestra and fabulous young opera singers and children, of Janáček’s timeless and enchanting opera. Captured when young by the forester, and brought up by him as a pet, sharp-ears escapes back to the wild – but her life continues to interplay with that... Read more »

Occupation

The Gate Picturehouse 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom

Voted the Best Czech Film 2021 by the critics, this black comedy thriller fuelled by vodka, cigarettes, and cowardice hilariously investigates Czech-Soviet relations. After a premiere, the theatre group is celebrating in a bar when an uninvited guest crashes the party. A drunken Russian officer has come to sell a can of petrol, but soon... Read more »

The Makropulos Affair

The Welsh National Opera is on a UK tour with its new production of Janáček's opera conducted by their Czech music director, Tomáš Hanus. The enigmatic diva Emilia Marty looks younger than her years. The secret of her youth, a magical elixir of life taken centuries ago. For over 300 years she has lived many... Read more »

Smetana Vltava & Dvořák Symphony no 7

The Hexagon Queen Walk, Reading, United Kingdom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Vltava’ from Smetana’s Má Vlast – an evocative orchestral picture of the river that flows through Prague, filled with ebbing and flowing woodwind and strings.  Dvořák’s Symphony No.7. infused with Dvořák’s Czech heritage, this Romantic symphony combines soaring string themes, roaring brass, atmospheric percussion and dancing woodwind. It was first performed on 22... Read more »

Smetana Vltava & Dvořák Symphony no 7

Hull City Hall Queen Victoria Square, Hull, United Kingdom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs ‘Vltava’ from Smetana’s Má Vlast – an evocative orchestral picture of the river that flows through Prague, filled with ebbing and flowing woodwind and strings.  Dvořák’s Symphony No.7. infused with Dvořák’s Czech heritage, this Romantic symphony combines soaring string themes, roaring brass, atmospheric percussion and dancing woodwind. It was first performed on 22 April 1885... Read more »

Somewhere Over the Chemtrails

The Gate Picturehouse 87 Notting Hill Gate, London, United Kingdom

The friendship of two volunteer firefighters who more often quench their thirst than put out fires, is put to the test when, during Easter celebrations, a van crashes into the village fountain and the driver is nowhere to be found. Convinced of a terrorist attack, lonely widower Brona grabs the opportunity to prove his worth... Read more »



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