See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
The Bata Shoe company, one of Czechoslovakia’s most successful companies, founded a satellite factory and a garden city in East Tilbury beside the Thames. John Tusa's father was the managing director from 1939 to 1969. This is the story of the company's success, Bata's vision and ambition, and the people who worked for him. Sir... Read more »
Sacred baroque music for four solo voices and continuo by forgotten Czech-born masters, Jan Dismas Zelenka and František Tůma. Programme Miserere Mei Deus - Tůma Settings of 10 sub tuum praesidium, ZWV 157 - Zelenka Stabat Mater - Tůma Apollo of the Arts Lucinda Cox, soprano Tristram Cooke, countertenor James Robinson, tenor Edmund Saddington, bass... Read more »
Bianca Bellová in conversation with Glen James Brown to celebrate the launch of The Lake. Followed by a drink reception and book signing. Winner of the 2017 EU Prize for Literature, writer Bianca Bellová discusses her highly topical book The Lake with Glen James Brown to celebrate the book’s English-language publication by Parthian Books. Set in a fictitious country with references to... Read more »
An online Zoom event. If you wish to participate please register at bcsa@bcsa.co.uk. Login details will be shared only with those who confirm their attendance. Czech-born British GP, Dr Eva Hnízdo will introduce her book Diagnosis London, published in Czech in Prague in 2020, and her novel Why didn’t they leave?, which was published in... Read more »
A chance to see a rarely screened film directed by Martin Fric and starring Hugo Haas and Adina Mandlova. A light hearted romp mainly set in and around a Prague music publishing shop. A young composer falls for the publisher’s daughter but the road to love is complicated when he gains employment at the shop... Read more »
A screening of the film by Sean Ellis followed by a talk by George Bearfield, author of Foursquare: the Last Parachutist to commemorate 80 years of Operation Anthropoid. British director Sean Ellis' Anthropoid is the latest film adaptation of the operation’s story, starring Irish film stars Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan. George Bearfield is the... Read more »
Míla Fürstová’s mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Czech Centre’s Vitrínka Gallery charts the course from Míla’s graduation from the Royal Collage of Art, to her becoming the youngest ever elected Academician at the Royal West of Academy in Bristol, being collected by the V&A and Her Majesty the Queen, to her commission by Coldplay and... Read more »
A crash course in urban planning discussing many pressing issues facing current cities from suburbanisation and neglect of public space. Increasing problems of space in urban environments have forced us to realise that solving small-scale building problems does little to improve the quality of life in a city. Czech / Japanese architect Osamu Okamura and... Read more »
An event celebrating the publication of The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka in English translated by Alex Zucker. It will feature the co-editor of the book Erin Plunkett from The University of Hertfordshire and the originator of the translation project Graham Henderson, CEO of the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation. The COVID pandemic and the war... Read more »
Screening of the Czechoslovak film Atentát (The Assassination) offers a unique period view of the course of Operation Anthropoid, filmed in 1964 just 22 years after its execution. This will be followed by a talk about the paratrooper training within the Special Operations Executive (SOE) by Gillian Halcrow daughter of British Lt. Col. Ernst van... Read more »
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