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SUMMARY:Baťa's Architecture of Belonging
DESCRIPTION:The Czech Centre London\, in collaboration with the Tomáš Baťa Foundation and the Bata Heritage Centre\, marks the 150th anniversary of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa’s birth\, founder of the global Baťa Shoe Company\, with an exhibition exploring his achievements and guiding principles and their realisation in East Tilbury. It reveals how ideas about work\, culture\, sport\, health and community were embedded in the design of the built environment. \n\nThe exhibition unfolds in two complementary strands. Desire to Create presents Baťa’s legacy as a comprehensive philosophy\, uniting work with service\, enterprise with education\, and personal development with responsibility towards others – not as a relic of the past\, but as a continuing source of inspiration. Baťa’s Architecture of Belonging brings East Tilbury to life through architectural drawings\, historic photographs and original artefacts\, evoking its distinctive modernist atmosphere. Together\, they trace how ideas were translated into built form – from vision to planning\, from planning to everyday life – creating a cohesive narrative of belonging\, work and community. \nOrganised by the Czech Centre London in partnership with the Bata Heritage Centre. \nOpening hours: Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm\, free entry
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/batas-architecture-of-belonging/
LOCATION:Vitrinka Gallery\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20280102T180000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260508T121346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260508T121346Z
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SUMMARY:Vojta Náprstek Reloaded
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Vojta Náprstek Reloaded commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Vojta Náprstek\, one of the most prominent figures of 19th-century Czech society. It presents Náprstek as a Renaissance man of his time—a collector\, philanthropist\, advocate of technological progress\, supporter of women’s rights\, and a natural “networker” who connected people\, ideas\, and continents. \nVojta Náprstek was an extraordinary personality of the 19th century\, who was able to repeatedly “restart” his life and bring new ideas inspired by the world to Czech society. A fundamental experience for him was a ten-year stay in the United States\, from where he brought not only valuable contacts\, but above all inspiration for building a modern\, open and educated society. After returning to Prague\, he became a significant promoter of technical progress\, a supporter of women’s education and an initiator of social changes that were significantly ahead of his time. \nThe exhibition in the Náprstek Museum offers more than 420 exhibits from the collections of the National Museum and loaned objects and presents not only Náprstek’s life story\, but also his wide network of collaborators and friends\, among whom were travellers such as Emil Holub and Josef Kořenský. The unique Dakota collection from 1856 is one of the most valuable documents of the North American Sioux culture in the European context. There are a number of historical domestic inventions that Náprstek enthusiastically presented to the public as symbols of a modern lifestyle—from early types of washing machines to the Papin pot. \nOpening hours 10-18 Tuesday\, Thursday- Sunday; 9-18 Wednesday\, closed Monday
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/vojta-naprstek-reloaded/
LOCATION:Naprstek Musem\, Betlémské náměstí 1\, Prague\, Czech Republic
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T180000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260428T095939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T095939Z
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SUMMARY:The Přemyslids a ruling dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The story of a dynasty that transformed the Czech principality into a kingdom and profoundly shaped the form of Central Europe comes to life in the National Museum’s largest exhibition of the year. It brings together more than 900 exceptional exhibits from nearly seventy institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad\, presenting the most extensive project dedicated to the Přemyslid dynasty in both a Czech and European context. \nVisitors will see rare treasures displayed only on exceptional occasions. Among the most significant exhibits is the Romanesque sarcophagus of St. Longinus\, which is being displayed outside Vyšehrad for the first time and likely once held the body of a monarch\, the Royal Crown of Środa Śląska\, textiles from the tomb of Saint Ludmila\, the funerary jewels of Přemysl II Otakar\, his sword\, and the personal ring of Přemysl I Otakar. \nThe exhibition located on the ground floor of the Historical Building of the National Museum tells history as a compelling story of power\, ambition\, family conflicts\, and a changing world. It follows the lives of princes and kings from legendary beginnings to the dynasty’s decline\, highlighting their influence on the Czech lands as well as on Europe of the time – it will guide you through four halls from the beginnings of the dynasty through the princely and royal eras to its legacy in the time of the Luxembourgs. It traces not only the development of the royal family\, but also the transformation of Bohemia and Moravia from the late 8th to the early 14th century in a broader European context. \nFor further information and ticket details see The Přemyslids. A Ruling Dynasty and Its Age – National museum
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-premyslids-a-ruling-dynasty/
LOCATION:National Museum Prague\, Václavské náměstí 68\, Prague\, Czech Republic
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260517T114410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260522T084349Z
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SUMMARY:The Rescued Czech Scrolls
DESCRIPTION:A talk via Zoom by Jeffrey Ohrenstein about their history\, original and ultimate ‘homes’\, and an insight into Czech Jewish history. \nIn 1942 the Jewish communities of Bohemia and Moravia packed their Sifrei Torah\, gold and silver filials\, books and textiles and sent them to the Jewish Museum in Prague. \nIn 1963 Artia\, a company run by the Czechoslovak Communist government\, approached Eric Estorick an art dealer who frequently visited Prague\, to ask if he was interested in buying some Torah and other scrolls. He approached a client who discussed the situation with the Rabbi of the Westminster Synagogue. \nIn 1964 1\,564 scrolls arrived in London. The Memorial Scrolls Trust was set up and the scrolls have subsequently been allocated to communities and organisations around the world. \nJeffrey Ohrenstein was born in England\, but brought up and educated in New Zealand\, England and South Africa. His work necessitated extensive travel to the Far East as well as Europe. Jeffrey has been Chairman of the Memorial Scrolls Trust at Westminster Synagogue since 2015 and has made a point of visiting MST Czech scroll-holding communities in many countries. Helping to develop cross-community relations\, in March 2026 he participated in the unveiling of a permanent display of a Czech Torah in the Czech Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies\, ‘the first such development in the world’. \nIt may be possible to visit Westminster Synagogue and see some of the rescued Scrolls one morning or afternoon. Please contact events@bcsa.co.uk if you would like to do so. \nBCSA members and students enjoy free entry\, non-members £5 (Eventbrite fees will be added to the cost of your tickets at checkout). \nRegistration for this event is essential to receive the Zoom link\, see Eventbrite link below
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-rescued-czech-scrolls/
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260610T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260610T220000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
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SUMMARY:“Get to know you” social evening
DESCRIPTION:This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the British Czech and Slovak Association (members\, supporters and friends) to meet\, eat\, drink\, chat (maybe practise your Czech or Slovak) and get to know each other in a relaxed and informal setting. \nEveryone interested in Czech and/or Slovak matters is most welcome to join us. \nWe will be in one of the rooms at Bohemia House\, normally the first room on the left. \nFood and drinks are available for purchase. \nWest Hampstead has three stations served by the Jubilee line\, Overground and Thameslink.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/get-to-know-you-social-evening-5/
LOCATION:Bohemia House\, 74 West End Lane\, London\, NW6 2LX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260328T170328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260328T170328Z
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SUMMARY:Baťa: designed to belong
DESCRIPTION:Belonging is not accidental – it is designed. This panel explores how architecture shapes belonging – not just by providing shelter\, but by designing everyday life. \nUsing the Bata village at East Tilbury as a starting point\, it examines how modernist ideals\, industrial ambition and community planning combined to create a distinctive model of living. Historian Milan Balaban situates the settlement within the global story of Bata cities\, while architectural historian Gillian Darley reflects on its place in British modernism. Chaired by John Tusa\, the conversation links historical experiments in planned community to today’s questions of development\, identity and place-making. \nSPEAKERS:\nSir John Tusa is a British arts administrator\, author\, journalist and former presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight. Born in Czechoslovakia\, he moved to East Tilbury in 1939\, where his father was Managing Director of the British Bata Shoe Company factory. He is Co-Chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and was previously Managing Director of the BBC World Service and Director of the Barbican Arts Centre. He is the author of On Board\, Making a Noise and On Creativity. \nGillian Darley OBE is a widely published writer and historian who was President of the Twentieth Century Society from 2014 until 2021. She first visited East Tilbury\, in search of the Bata industrial village\, in the early 1970s\, when researching and photographing her first book Villages of Vision (1975\, reissued 2007). Ever since she has returned at regular Intervals. The village featured in her most recent book Excellent Essex (2019). In 2024 Gillian achieved a longed-for aim\, a visit to Zlin. \nMilan Balaban is a historian specializing in business\, economic\, and industrial history\, with a focus on the global Bata Company network. He is a researcher at the Information Centre Bata\, Tomas Bata University in Zlín\, and a lecturer at Palacký University in Olomouc. His work examines industrialisation\, company towns\, and corporate mobility in Central and Eastern Europe. He has published several books\, including Bata across Continents (2022)\, and articles in leading journals\, and lectures internationally on multinational enterprises and industrial modernity. \n  \nAdmission: £5 (+ Eventbrite fee) see booking link below
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/bata-designed-to-belong/
LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260718T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260525T151629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260525T151629Z
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SUMMARY:Robota
DESCRIPTION:Robota is written by Ella Road (Black Mirror/Dr Who). This adaptation takes Karel Čapek’s prescient text and fuses it with cutting edge academic research and a wickedly dark sense of humour. \nDirected by Roy Alexander Weise (The Hot Wing King at the National Theatre\, Much Ado About Nothing at The RSC) and designed by Loren Elstein \, ROBOTA offers a provocative glimpse into the future. \nThe show will be the first fullscale production in the Schwarzman Centre’s theatre with a bold new take on the play that gave us the word “robot.” \nROBOTA collides theatre\, Sci-Fi\, and philosophy in a thrilling exploration of power\, progress and what really makes us human. \nmatinée performance 2pm 9 July\, sold out 8 July
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/robota/
LOCATION:Schwarzmann Centre for the Humanities\, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter\, Woodstock Road\, Oxford\, OX2 6GG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261023T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260428T101746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T101746Z
UID:12390-1792783800-1792791000@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Pavel Haas Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Elements of Moravian folksong combine with edgy modernism in the String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15\, written six years before Pavel Haas was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Pavel Haas Quartet\, champion of the Czech composer’s music since its formation in 2002\, places the work together with the yearning sounds of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’\, by Haas’s teacher\, Leoš Janáček. It is joined by two close colleagues in Dvořák’s folk-infused String Sextet for two violins\, two violas and two cellos. \nPavel Haas              String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15 \nLeoš Janáček          String Quartet No. 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ \nAntonín  Dvořák      String Sextet in A Op. 48 \n\n\nVeronika Jarůšková    violin\n\n\nMarek Zwiebel            violin\n\n\nŠimon Truszka           viola\n\n\nPeter Jarůšek             cello\n\n\n\n\nPavel Nikl                   viola\n\n\nIvan Vokáč                  cello
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/pavel-haas-quartet-11/
LOCATION:Wigmore Hall\, 36 Wigmore Street\, London\, W1U 2BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261206T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260428T103340Z
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UID:12397-1796585400-1796592600@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Magdalena Kožená
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena Kožená opens her recital with songs in her mother tongue. The Czech mezzo-soprano\, born in Janáček’s home town\, has few equals when it comes to touching the spirit and soul of his music. She and Malcolm Martineau move from a selection of Janáček’s haunting love songs to a sequence of pieces from the Mörike Lieder\, Hugo Wolf’s first great song collection. Vivid contrasts and striking imagery permeate their recital’s second half\, crowned by the songs Schoenberg wrote in 1901 for Berlin’s Überbrettl cabaret. \nLeoš Janáček                             Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs \nHugo Wolf                                  Mörike Lieder \nSergey Rachmaninov                Six songs  \nArnold Schoenberg                    Bretti-Lieder 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/magdalena-kozena-2/
LOCATION:Wigmore Hall\, 36 Wigmore Street\, London\, W1U 2BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270405T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270405T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260428T104908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T104908Z
UID:12403-1806953400-1806960600@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Czech Philharmonic
DESCRIPTION:The Czech Philharmonic\, conducted by the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Music Director since 2018 Semyon Bychkov\, perform orchestral highlights from Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride\, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and his Second Piano Concerto with pianist Seong-Jin Cho. \nWhen pianist Seong-Jin Cho first played with the Czech Philharmonic\, Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year in 2024\, he says ‘they instantly became one of my favourite orchestras in the world’.  He joins them for their third Barbican residency. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/czech-philharmonic-2/
LOCATION:Barbican Centre\, Silk Street\, London\, EC2Y 8DS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270406T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T192916
CREATED:20260428T105848Z
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UID:12405-1807039800-1807047000@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Czech Philharmonic
DESCRIPTION:The Czech Philharmonic\,  conducted by Semyon Bychkov\, perform Smetana’s Vltava from Má vlast\, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with pianist Seong-Jin Cho and Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/czech-philharmonic-3/
LOCATION:Barbican Centre\, Silk Street\, London\, EC2Y 8DS\, United Kingdom
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