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British Czech and Slovak Association
EventsThis page has details of forthcoming events that are organised by the BCSA or may be of interest to BCSA members.If you know of an event that is relevant to the BCSA then please email the details to us at webmaster AT bcsa DOT co DOT uk. BCSA "Get to know you" social, Wednesday 10 September, between 7pm and 11pm, Czech and Slovak National House, West HampsteadThis is an opportunity for anyone interested in the BCSA (members, supporters and friends) to meet, eat, drink, chat and get to know each other. We usually have about a dozen people there at various times during the evening just sitting around and talking. In recent conversations we discovered common acquaintances, learnt what is happening in Zilina and found volunteers for a volleyball team.We have booked one of the rooms at the Czech and Slovak National House for the evening. All you have to do is turn up any time between 7pm and 11pm. Food and drink is available from the restaurant and bar. Our socials are held on the second Wednesday or each month (apart from July and August) and the next ones are on 10 September, 8 October, 12 November, 10 December and 14 January. email us for details of our social events. BCSA Annual Dinner is planned for Friday 28 NovemberOur Seventeenth Annual Dinner will be held on Friday 28 November, 7pm for 7:30pm at the Radisson Edwardian Marlborough Hotel, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1.email us for details of the Annual Dinner. Rituals, until 23 August, Gallery one one one, LondonThe upcoming exhibition at Gallery one one one will feature two distinct solo shows, under the common motif of the ritual. Rituals will be first UK exhibition by internationally acclaimed American artist Jason Dodge. For her show in the lower space, emerging artist Tereza Buskova will premiere a new film and photographic screen prints, a project commissioned by the David Roberts Art Foundation.www.galleryoneoneone.com Exhibition 40cm², until 28 November, Cochrane Gallery, London.The British Society of Master Glass Painters is holding a members' exhibition that includes work by a Czech artist.The principal exhibition venue is the Cochrane Gallery in London adjacent to Central St Martins College of Art and Design.bsmgp.org.uk Zuzana in Paris Studio by Hynek Martinec, until 16 September, National Portrait Gallery, LondonCzech artist Hynek Martinec was awarded Young Artist Award on the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting.www.npg.org.uk CAREERS IN EASTERN EUROPE, Recruitment Summit, 27-29 June, LondonThe Careers in Eastern Europe Recruitment Summit is a unique invitation-only event held in London. Directors and Senior Managers from up to 30 top multinational and leading regional companies travel to London to meet and interview top talent for their operations across Russia & CIS, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and the rest of the Eastern European region.www.globalcareercompany.com/careers-in-eastern-europe/ Czechoslovak Memorial Day, Sunday 29 JuneSunday 29 June: a Czechoslovak Memorial Day will be held for “Veteran’s Day” at Wingrave, Bucks, in co-operation with the Wingrave & District British Legion, starting with a Church Service.Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008, Prague, July 2-9Who: The founder of the European Spring/Summer Institute and the Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology, the Prague's Centre for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP), has teamed up with professors from Poland, USA and UK to launch a Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008.www.cdpe.cpvp.cz Libor Novacek (piano), 4 July 7:30pm, St John’s Smith Square, LondonUniversal Declaration of Human Rights 60th Anniversary Concert. Box office: 020 72221061.www.sjss.org.uk THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER: London visits on Saturday, 5 JulyVisits are being arranged to the Temple Church, Fleet Street and St John's Gate and the Grand Priory Church, Clerkenwell, to discover something of these two monastic orders of military knights, founded in the 12th century. St John's Gate houses the museum of the Order of St John, and tells the story of the Knights Hospitaller who fought in the Crusades and founded states in Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta. The cost of the day including entrances and lunch will be £ 36 per person. Contact The Friends of Castle Sychrov, 3, King's House, 400 King's Road, London SWIO OLL.email: friendssychrovuk AT hotmail DOT com Wihan Quartet concertsThe Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985 and heirs to the great Czech musical tradition, continues to this day with its original four members. The Quartet’s outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech heritage and of the many classical, romantic and modern masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire is widely acknowledged.www.wihanquartet.com Friday 22 August 2008 at 19:30 Y Tabernacl (The Tabernacle), Heol Penrallt , Machynnleth Wednesday 3 September 2008 at 15:00 Martin Randall Music Festival, Eszterházy Palace, Sopron Thursday 27 November 2008 at 20:15 Radlett Music Club, The Radlett Centre, Radlett Sunday 14 December 2008 at 19:45 Teeside Music Society, St Bernadette's Church, Nunthorpe 24th World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), 8 to 14 September, Ruzomberok, SlovakiaThe 24th World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) will take place between 8 and 14 September 2008 in Ruzomberok, Slovakia at the Catholic University.www.svu2000.org/svu/?p=60 THE PRINCE DE LIGNE, THE ROHANS AND BOHEMIA, Wednesday, 12 November.6.45pm, Austrian Cultural Centre, LondonBohemia, the heart of Europe, through the eyes of the wittiest courtier of his time Lecture by Dr Philip Mansel by courtesy of the Director at the Austrian Cultural Centre, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7 on Wednesday, 12th November 2008.6.45 for 7pm and followed by drinks. Philip Mansel, author of Prince of Europe: Charles-Joseph de Ligne, will discuss how the Rohans were influenced by the Prince de Ligne in choosing to live in Bohemia. Contact The Friends of Castle Sycbrov, 3, King's House, 400 King's Road, London SWIO OLL.email: friendssychrovuk AT hotmail DOT com Other events listingsCzech events in the UK are on the Czech Centre website, www.czechcentres.cz.Events aimed mainly at the younger Czech and Slovaks in the UK are on the Pohyby website, www.pohyby.co.uk. Events involving Czech and Slovak music or performers are on the Dvorak Society website, www.dvorak-society.org.
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