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SUMMARY:The Cunning Little Vixen
DESCRIPTION:The Cunning Little Vixen tells the tale of a clever vixen named Sharp Ears. Captured by a local Forester when she is young\, she later manages to escape his clutches\, but he is forever haunted by her memory. \nExploring man’s relationship with nature\, Janáček’s opera moves through the contrasting worlds of the Vixen and the Forester\, showing how one chance meeting can forever change the lives of both. \nThis new production is directed by up-and-coming director Jamie Manton\, following his acclaimed stagings of Paul Bunyan and The Day After for ENO’s talent development programme Studio Live. \nIncorporating elements of Moravian folk music\, Janáček’s dramatic score is conducted by ENO Music Director Martyn Brabbins. An outstanding cast includes soprano Sally Matthews as the Vixen\, soprano Pumeza Matshikiza as the Fox\, baritone Lester Lynch as the Forester\, bass Clive Bayley as the Priest\, with ENO Harewood Artists Claire Barnett-Jones (Dog)\, John Findon (Innkeeper)\, and Alexandra Oomens (Pepik and Woodpecker). \nTo book tickets see link below \nEvening performance 22\, 24\, 26 February and 1 March \nA Relaxed Performance of The Cunning Little Vixen will take place on 26 February 2022 at 14.30. This performance is ideal for anyone who benefits from a more relaxed environment\, from being able to make noise\, leave and enter the auditorium as you please. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-cunning-little-vixen-3/
LOCATION:English National Opera\, St Martin’s Lane\, London\, WC2N 4ES\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:A youthful view of Czech elections and populism
DESCRIPTION:A talk on Zoom by Nina Fořtíková\, a sixteen-year old Prague schoolgirl\, about the attitude of her generation towards Czech political life.  \nShe is not an average Czech teenager; when she was thirteen Nina joined a debating club which required wide reading on political matters.  \nNina submitted an essay Why people prioritise optimism over their freedom to the BCSA writing competition in which she analyses why right-wing nationalist politicians are becoming ever more popular.  \nShe attends one of Prague‘s international schools that teaches in English. Since autumn 2021 Nina has participated in an 18-month Microsoft programme\, Council for Digital Good Europe. This is a 15-member team of students aged 14-16 years from the EU\, UK and Switzerland. \nTo participate please email bcsa@bcsa.co.uk by Tuesday 15th February 2022. Login details will be sent to you in due course.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-youthful-view-of-czech-elections-and-populism/
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T193000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211226T192220Z
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SUMMARY:A Castle in Bohemia\, an Austro-Japanese Count\, and the Future of Europe
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM lecture: Martyn Bond\, a former foreign correspondent specialising in European affairs\, will speak about Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi\, better known on the Continent than in Britain. Few anywhere know that the man whom Hitler damned in Mein Kampf as a ‘cosmopolitan bastard’ travelled on a Czechoslovak diplomatic passport for twenty years between the two world wars.\nAs a young intellectual politicised by the Great War\, the Count sent President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk one of his early political articles arguing for better understanding between Czech and German speakers in the new republic. In September he went to see him in Prague and explained to the President his bigger plan for a peaceful union of all the nations of Europe in Pan-Europa\, a forerunner of today’s European Union.\nThe Count was an early pioneer of European unity and played an important role in the history of Central Europe but\, given his and his family’s German-Bohemian background\, is still underrated in the Czech Republic. His work in the movement for a united Europe deserves to be re-evaluated.\n\nBooking via Eventbrite link below\n\nThe event is free but please consider making a donation at:\nwww.czechfriends.net/payments
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-castle-in-bohemia-an-austro-japanese-count-and-the-future-of-europe/
ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of Czech Heritage":MAILTO:info@czechfriends.net
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20220126T131219Z
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SUMMARY:A new history of Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:What was society like in the Nazi ghettos?  \nA SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Dr Anna Hájková\, University of Warwick\, a free event see booking link below \n\nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt\, as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Today\, Theresienstadt is best known for the Nazi propaganda of the International Red Cross visit\, cultural life\, and children. But these aspects explain little what defined the lives of its 140\,000 inmates. The Last Ghetto offers both a modern history of this Central European ghetto and the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. In conversation with Professor Eric Gordy (SSEES UCL)\, the author will discuss how can we write a history of enforced society in the Holocaust. The discussion will also address the question of Jewish Councils and the place of Jewish and Holocaust history in wider Central European history.\n\nNote: This event will be delivered in person on UCL campus. Should circumstances change\, ticket holders will be notified in advance.\n\nAbout the speaker:\nDr Anna Hájková is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her first book\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt\, came out in 2020 with Oxford University Press to popular and academic acclaim. Her article “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide“ was awarded the Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship in 2013. She is currently working on two projects: a study of transgressive sexuality in the Holocaust\, for which she is writing a trade book on the Neuengamme guard Anneliese Kohlmann\, and queer Holocaust history. Her work on queer history of the Holocaust has been published in Czech\, German\, British\, US American\, and Israeli newspapers\, and was recognized with the Orfeo Iris Award in 2020. She recently guest edited a special issue of German History on “Holocaust\, Sexuality\, Stigma”. Additionally\, she is working on a generational history of Communists in Central Europe.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-new-history-of-theresienstadt-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T200000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust survivor parents
DESCRIPTION:Barnet Libraries presents: An online evening with Francis Morton discussing the story of his Holocaust survivor parents George and Renée. \nFrancis’s parents lived in Czechoslovakia before World War 2 but came to England as Jewish refugees. His mother came to England in 1938 on a domestic service visa to undertake housework and childcare for a family in Cambridge\, while his father escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1940\, illegally entering Palestine and then being interned on Mauritius by the British\, before coming to the UK in 1942 as an RAF volunteer. \nFrancis uncovered their stories after finding some 500 letters written by family and friends during this period\, and his talk also covers the fate of those family members unable to escape from occupied Europe. \nto register use the Eventbrite link below
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/holocaust-survivor-parents/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211226T150000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211219T103455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211219T103455Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas in Bohemia
DESCRIPTION:Using the words of the favourite 19th-century English carol “Good King Wenceslas”\, Hannah French explores Czech music\, food and traditions with Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and Jarmila Karas. \nThe carol tells the story of the Bohemian king\, Saint Wenceslaus I going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Saint Stephen. During the journey\, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather\, but is enabled to continue by following his master’s footprints\, step for step through the deep snow.\nSaint Stephen’s Day – 26th December – celebrates the saint who is credited with being the first Christian martyr.\n\n“Bring me flesh and bring me wine”\n\nWhat is the traditional Bohemian Christmas fare? Hannah is joined by food-writer and philanthropist Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE to unpack some of the yuletide traditions still practiced in the Czech Republic today.\n\n“Ye\, who now will bless the poor\nShall yourselves find blessing.”\n\nAs a child\, Lady Milena\, with the help of Sir Nicholas Winton\, escaped Nazi-occupied Prague in 1939 on the last train to leave the city. That concept of deep selflessness and kindness is surely one Saint Wenceslas might have approved of!\n\nHannah’s other guest is singer and language coach Jarmila Karas\, and together they will also explore some of the traditional Czech music associated with Christmas and pieces related to Saint Stephen by Bach and Zelenka.\n\nThe programme will be available online shortly after broadcast\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q8n\n\nIllustration from a biscuit tin\, 1913\, V&A Museum
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/christmas-in-bohemia/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211220T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220131T233000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
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SUMMARY:Reading Havel
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this project is to bring closer the key texts of Czechoslovakia’s and the first president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel. \nWe approached prominent public figures who met Václav Havel and/or who are his supporters (whether in the Czech Republic or abroad) to read selected excerpts from his texts. \nThe invitation was accepted by Martha Issová\, Pavel Fischer\, Radka Denemarková\, Tomáš Halík\, Aneta Langerová\, Patrik Hábl and Taťána Gregor Brzobohatá. \nThe videos will be made available every Monday starting on 20 December 2021 until 31 January 2022 on the link below.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/reading-havel/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211217T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211217T213000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
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SUMMARY:Magdalena Kožená
DESCRIPTION:The Czech mezzo-soprano brings a characteristically varied programme\, with songs from her homeland as well as the German\, Russian and Hungarian traditions. Having previously championed the music of her compatriot Bohuslav Martinů\, she includes a song collection (1942) written during his American exile that was also a favourite of exiled foreign minister and fine amateur pianist Jan Masaryk. \nTickets £50 £40 £30 £25 £16 \nTicket bookings are subject to a £4 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket. \nProgramme \nJohannes Brahms (1833-1897) \nMeine Liebe ist grün Op. 63 No. 5 \nNachtigall Op. 97 No. 1 \nVerzagen Op. 72 No. 4 \nAnklänge Op. 7 No. 3 \nDas Mädchen spricht Op. 107 No. 3 \nUnbewegte laue Luft Op. 57 No. 8 \nAch\, wende diesen Blick Op. 57 No. 4 \nVergebliches Ständchen Op. 84 No. 4 \nAntonín Dvořák (1841-1904) \nEvening Songs Op. 3 \nWhen I was gazing \nWhen God was in a happy mood \nThe soughing of the trees \nI am that knight of fairy tale \nI dreamt that you were dead \nINTERVAL \nBohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) \nNew Chap-Book H288 \nModest Musorgsky (1839-1881) \nThe Nursery \nBéla Bartók (1881-1945) \nFalun (Village Scenes) BB87a
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/magdalena-kozena/
LOCATION:Wigmore Hall\, 36 Wigmore Street\, London\, W1U 2BP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211208T220000
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SUMMARY:BCSA Christmas social evening
DESCRIPTION:As the festive season approaches\, we thought our last regular “get to know you” meeting this year should be special.\nJoin us to exchange your stories and experiences of Christmas\, past and present\, sample some traditional Christmas cookies and sing a few songs and carols.\nEverybody with Czech or Slovak connections or interests is welcome\nFood and drinks are available for purchase. It would help if we could all have our meal together at the same time.\nWe shall aim to eat at around 8pm so please try to arrive by 7.30pm.\nIf you are planning to attend\, please send an email to bcsa@bcsa.co.uk so we can reserve the right room.\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/
LOCATION:Bohemia House\, 74 West End Lane\, London\, NW6 2LX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211130T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211110T140827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T184415Z
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SUMMARY:The life and legacy of Alexander Dubček
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion to commemorate the birth of Alexander Dubček (1921-1992) online via Zoom. \n27 November 2021 marks one hundred years since the birth of Alexander Dubček\, icon of Czechoslovakia’s political reform movements in 1968 and 1989 and one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Slovak politics.  \nSPEAKERS: \nMUDr. Pavol Dubček is the son of Alexander Dubček – the most prominent figure in modern Slovak history and icon of the Prague Spring (1968). Pavol Dubček studied medicine at the Comenius University in Bratislava. During communism he was not allowed to practice as a doctor. Today he works as a traumatologist in Bratislava. He is the president of the Alexander Dubček Association and still cherishes the message and ideals of his father. \nDr Wojciech Janik is UCL SSEES Library’s Area Liaison Coordinator and Area Liaison Librarian for Russia\, Ukraine\, Belarus and Eurasia. He is responsible for overseeing academic liaison and coordinates the work of the team of Area Liaison Librarians\, providing support for teaching and research at the School. \nDr Celia Donert is a historian of Central Europe in the twentieth century at Cambridge University. Her research seeks to explore the history of socialism\, nationalism\, gender\, and human rights in contemporary Europe from a transnational and global perspective. \nDr Thomas Lorman is a historian of Central Europe. Since 2010 he has taught at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published widely on Hungarian and Slovak history and also serves as editor of the journal Central Europe. His last two books are The Making of the Slovak People’s Party. Religion\, Nationalism and the Culture War in Early 20th-Century Europe and A History of the Hungarian Constitution: Law\, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe\, which he co-edited with Ferenc Hörcher. \nThe event will be chaired by Dr Peter Zusi (UCL SSEES). \nTo register use Eventbrite link below. \nThe occasion is co-organised by the Study of Central Europe seminar series at UCL SSEES\, the Slovak Embassy and the British Czech and Slovak Association. \nImage credit: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Photographer: Vladimir Benko \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-life-and-legacy-of-alexander-dubcek/
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211129T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211129T223000
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SUMMARY:Caught in the net
DESCRIPTION:Czech film screening at 21 Picturehouse Cinemas in Ashford\, Brighton\, Cambridge\, Edinburgh\, Exeter\, Liverpool\, Oxford\, Southampton\, York and in London – Brixton\, Bromley\, Clapham\, Crouch End\, East Dulwich\, Finsbury Park\, Greenwich\, Hackney\, Notting Hill Gate\, Piccadilly Circus\, West Norwood \nFor local times\, venues and booking see link below \nThree adult actresses posing as 12-year-old girls\, three fake girls’ bedrooms\, 10 days and 2\,458 sexual predators. Tasked with creating fake social network profiles\, the actresses chat or Skype with men of all ages who try to sweet-talk or browbeat them into taking off their clothes and sending them racy pictures. All conducted live on camera\, the documentary delivers the eye-opening\, gripping drama of the protagonists from casting and live chat accompanied by psychologists and others who monitor the interactions\, to face-to-face meetings with predators (watched by security and six hidden cameras). A radical social experiment highlighting the extent of the sexual abuse of young people on the internet in which the hunters become the hunted. Essential viewing\, not only for parents. \nBarbora Chalupová\, Vit Klusak\, Czech Republic 2020\, 100’   \nA Czech box-office phenomenon and the Grand Prize Winner at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.\nPart of Czech Centre Made in Prague UK Tour
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/caught-in-the-net/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211128T142000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211208T224500
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SUMMARY:Shadow country
DESCRIPTION:Czech film screening at 9 Picturehouse Cinemas in  Cambridge\, Edinburgh\, Exeter\, Liverpool\, Oxford\, York and in London – Crouch End\,  Finsbury Park\,  Hackney.  \nFor date\, time and booking link\, click on the location. \nA powerful and striking portrayal of a close-knit village community on the Czech-Austrian border between the 1930s and the 1950s where everyone must choose their allegiances when faced with shifting territories and conflicting ideologies. Marie\, a Czech\, is married to Karel\, an older German\, and lives with quiet dignity and kindness a happy family life. Persuaded by Karel she changes her nationality to German\, a decision they both regret when with the end of the war the village once again becomes Czech. Through the fates of individual villagers and their families Sláma\, inspired by a real case of the execution of Germans\, builds a tale of life-long neighbours who turn from allies to enemies. \nSeen by the director as a celebration of female sensibility and sanity\, this is an epic film based on an excellent script and filled with intimate intertwined stories\, stunning cinematography and nuanced acting. \nBohdan Sláma\, Czech Republic\, Slovakia 2020\, 135’\, English subtitles\nCast: Magdalena Borová\, Stanislav Majer\, Pavel Nový\, Barbora Poláková\, Csongor Kassai \nWinner of the main Czech Film Critics Award and of seven Czech National Film Awards.\nPart of Czech Centre Made in Prague UK Tour
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/shadow-country-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211127T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211216T224500
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
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SUMMARY:Havel
DESCRIPTION:Czech film screening at 10 Picturehouse Cinemas in  Cambridge\, Edinburgh\, Exeter\, Liverpool\, Oxford\,  York and in London – Crouch End\, Finsbury Park\, Hackney\, Notting Hill Gate  \nFor date\, time and booking link\, click on the location. \n\n\nHavel\, up close and personal: such is the new biopic by director Slávek Horák of the critically esteemed Home Care. Focusing on the period 1968 – 1989 and Havel´s personal life\, Horák explores Havel´s metamorphosis from internationally celebrated but persecuted playwright to banned and jailed human rights defender and finally to president of Czechoslovakia. But it is his relationship with his first wife Olga\, suffering from her husband’s infidelities\, that is at the centre of the story. \nSituations from his life such as the secret police witnessing his failed attempt to resolve a love tringle in a restaurant mirror his absurdist plays\, provide humour and emotion while Horák’s imaginative use of actual theatre settings to stage key moments from Havel’s confrontations with communist power document his public persona. \nAn excellent cast including Viktor Dvořák capturing Havel’s moments of uncertainty and weakness\, and Anna Geislerová as direct and decisive Olga\, complement a portrayal depicting not an icon but a flawed man who steps out of his comfort zone to become politically engaged. Watch out for news footage from Havel’s life under the end credits including the Rolling Stones in Prague castle. \nSlávek Horák\, Czech Republic 2020\, English subtitles\nCast: Viktor Dvořák\, Anna Geislerová\, Martin Hofmann\, Barbora Seidlová \nNominated for The Czech Lions 2020 Best Actress\, Best Actor\, Best Screenplay and the Czech Film Critics Awards\nPart of Czech Centre Made in Prague UK Tour\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/havel-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211126T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
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SUMMARY:Emmy Destinn Young Singers Awards 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Emmy Destinn Young Singers Awards competition was established in 2000 in London and takes place every two years. \n\n\n\n12th Competition Final  –  talented young singers performing Czech arias and songs. \nLara Harvey (mezzo soprano) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherin Hooper (soprano) \nSamantha Quillish (soprano) \nCaroline Taylor (soprano) \nNikola Uramová (soprano) \nSam Utley (tenor) \n  \nTickets £5 on the day at the venue (includes a glass of wine) \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/emmy-destinn-young-singers-awards-2021/
LOCATION:Velehrad London\, 39 Lonsdale Road\, London\, SW13 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T201500
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T132459Z
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SUMMARY:A marriage
DESCRIPTION:Love against all the odds. Can a meaningful relationship be forged online disregarding borders\, age and cultural differences? \nStrong willed\, charismatic Zdenka\, from the Czech Republic\, and Tabish\, IT engineer from Pakistan met playing online games on Facebook\, became friends\, fell in love and married. Five years later they still live their married life on screen\, Skyping every day except for their annual three week holidays in Sri Lanka. Tabish is younger than wheelchair user Zdenka and the Czech authorities won’t accept theirs is a genuine relationship repeatedly refusing Tabish an entry visa while his own family remains suspicious of the relationship. After years of trying to prove their ‘real love’ to the authorities\, a breakthrough in their case gives Tabish and Zdenka new hope that their dream of living together could finally come true. \nShot in traditional verité style\, the directors\, Czech Katerina Hager and Emmy award winning Pakistani director Asad Faruqi\, capture the couple’s spontaneity and love while exposing the social prejudices of the digitally connected but divided world we live in. \nsee booking link below \nKaterina Hager\, Asad Farugi\, CZ/USA 2021\, 74’\, English subtitles \nFor booking details see website link below \nPremiered at the 2021 HotDocs Festival in Toronto\nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-marriage/
LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211121T191500
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T132226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T132226Z
UID:5614-1637514000-1637522100@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Shadow country
DESCRIPTION:A powerful and striking portrayal of a close-knit village community on the Czech-Austrian border between the 1930s and the 1950s where everyone must choose their allegiances when faced with shifting territories and conflicting ideologies. Marie\, a Czech\, is married to Karel\, an older German\, and lives with quiet dignity and kindness a happy family life. Persuaded by Karel she changes her nationality to German\, a decision they both regret when with the end of the war the village once again becomes Czech. Through the fates of individual villagers and their families Sláma\, inspired by a real case of the execution of Germans\, builds a tale of life-long neighbours who turn from allies to enemies.  \nSeen by the director as a celebration of female sensibility and sanity\, this is an epic film based on an excellent script and filled with intimate intertwined stories\, stunning cinematography and nuanced acting. \nsee booking link below \nBohdan Sláma\, Czech Republic\, Slovakia 2020\, 135’\, English subtitles\nCast: Magdalena Borová\, Stanislav Majer\, Pavel Nový\, Barbora Poláková\, Csongor Kassai \nWinner of the main Czech Film Critics Award and of seven Czech National Film Awards.\nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/shadow-country/
LOCATION:The Gate Picturehouse\, 87 Notting Hill Gate\, London\, W11 3JZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T131749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T131749Z
UID:5610-1637433900-1637440200@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:My sunny Maad
DESCRIPTION:When Herra\, a Czech woman\, falls in love with Nazir\, an Afghan man\, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in Afghanistan\, nor about the family she is about to join. \nWhile studying Economics in Prague\, blue-eyed\, blonde Helena falls in love with her schoolmate Nazir and a few months later moves with him to Kabul as his wife. Changing her name to Herra and swapping a single western-style of life for her husband’s large family in post-Taliban Afghanistan\, she quickly assimilates into the family dynamics. She adores the grandfather\, allies with her sister-in-law against her abusive husband\, and supports her teenage niece who is to be married against her will\, striking a balance between the sheltered life of a married woman in a burka with her work for the US Embassy. But it is Maad\, an abandoned child who she and Nazir adopt\, who brings love and sunshine to her family. \nLeaving politics in the background while focusing on the family relationships\, Pavlátová uses her skills as an award winning animator  (1993 Oscar Nominee\, winner at the Berlin and Annecy Film Festivals) to bring the touching story vividly to life letting Herra and Maad drive the narrative with their insightful matter-of-fact commentary. \nFollowed by Q&A with director Michaela Pavlátová \nsee booking link below \nMichaela Pavlátová\, Czech Republic\, France\, Slovakia 2021\, 81 mins\, English subtitles   \nFeature Films Annecy Film Festival 2021 Jury Award\nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/my-sunny-maad/
LOCATION:The Gate Picturehouse\, 87 Notting Hill Gate\, London\, W11 3JZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T131055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T131431Z
UID:5607-1637424000-1637431200@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Every single minute
DESCRIPTION:Are we doing enough or too little for our children? In this absorbing documentary Erika Hníková raises questions about raising children following hyper-competitive parents who devote all their time to maximising their son’s physical and academic potential. \nSwimming\, running\, piano lessons\, hockey practice\, endurance training\, bilingual language games\, bike riding and tennis; every possible exercise and training over and over again. This is the everyday reality for Miško\, a three-year old boy whose loving and hyper-competitive parents devote all their time to making him a future top athlete and successful human being according to the principles of the Kamevéda childrearing method – a complex approach to developing a child’s motor abilities and intellect. In their attempts to maximise their son’s potential\, not one minute is wasted. A busy schedule doesn’t spare time for friendship and social interaction for either of them but Miško\, who is expected to excel in everything\, surpasses his peers in academic and physical performance. Keeping her distance and leaving the audience to form their own opinion\, Hníková provokes discussion on the meaning of parenting today while following the family dynamic throughout the year in this absorbing documentary\, unique in depth and focus. \nFollowed by Q&A with director Erica Hníková. \nsee booking link below \nErika Hnikova\, CZ  / SK 2021\, 80’\, English subtitles \nSpecial Jury Prize at the 2021 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival\nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/every-single-minute/
LOCATION:The Gate Picturehouse\, 87 Notting Hill Gate\, London\, W11 3JZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211119T194500
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T130640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T130640Z
UID:5603-1637346600-1637351100@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Diary of a modern dad
DESCRIPTION:Buoyant romantic comedy about non-traditional parenting and love inspired by a popular blog by Dominik Landsman describing his experience as a new father who decides to stay at home and look after his child. \nWelcome to my world\, welcome to hell’. The world and words belong to Dominik\, anaspiring young writer and now stay at home father. A pragmatic decision taken by him and Nataša when their one night stand turns unexpectedly into conception. Postponing his departure for a creative writing course in England for 12 months to look after their baby\, Dominik hopes to write his book while Nataša returns to her high paid job. Čeněk\, his new-born son\, soon turns this plan on its head and Dominik has to apply all his ingenuity just to survive. Based on a successful blog by Dominik Landsman describing the joys and troubles of a new father\, the real life situations accompanied by the dry first person commentary are pitch perfect and bring a lot of humour supported by a great cast utilising Mádl´s comic talent and Tereza Ramba´s recent experience of motherhood as young parents whose relationship changes with a growing love for their child. Stylized\, playful and fun.  \nsee booking link below \nJan Haluza\, Czech Republic 2021\, 101 min\, English subtitles\nCast: Jiří Mádl\, Tereza Ramba\, Lukáš Hejlík\, Ondřej Malý\, Pavla Tomicová   \nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/diary-of-a-modern-dad/
LOCATION:The Gate Picturehouse\, 87 Notting Hill Gate\, London\, W11 3JZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20210828T120435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210828T122623Z
UID:5401-1636745400-1636752600@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Vilém Tauský   Coventry: a meditation
DESCRIPTION:A programme by the Jubilee Quartet based on the moving work that Vilém Tauský wrote in November 1940 after going into Coventry with a Czech Free Army ambulance and seeing the smouldering ruins of the cathedral. Tauský was stationed in Leamington with the Czech Free Army [see his profile]. \n2021 Leamington Music Autumn Season \nTauský   Coventry: A Meditation\nMendelssohn  Quartet in A minor Op 13\nSchubert   Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ \nTereza Privratska and Julia Loucks violins\nLorena Cantó Woltèche viola\, Toby White cello \nTickets: £25 centre | £15 sides (see link below) \nConcert generously supported by the Low-Beer Trust
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/vilem-tausky-coventry-a-meditation/
LOCATION:Royal Pump Rooms\, The Parade\, Leamington Spa\, CV32 4AA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T220000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211020T113915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211020T122144Z
UID:5596-1636743600-1636754400@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Zátopek
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of a Czech Olympic icon and one of the greatest runners of all time\, Emil Zátopek\, who became a global byword for sportsmanship and generosity and who was driven into obscurity by the Communists after standing up for ‘socialism with a human face’. \nAn inspiring portrayal of the Czech Olympic legend Emil Zátopek\, one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time\, who won five Olympic medals\, set eighteen world records and redefined the limits of human endurance.  It´s autumn 1968 and in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia the Australian runner Ron Clarke visits the retired Zátopek\, his friend and role model\, to help him to overcome a crisis in his sporting career. With Zátopek in the midst of his own marital and personal crises\, they walk down memory lane recalling Zátopek’s athletic career from Zlín factory worker who had never taken part in a race to Olympic hero in Helsinki\, while mapping the inner journey of a single-minded man whose unprecedented athletic success made him part of Communist propaganda with devastating results. \nWonderfully portrayed by lead actors Václav Neužil and Martha Issová\, it is the relationship between Zátopek and his wife Dana\, champion javelin thrower\, which is at the heart of the story. As past and present alternate\, emotions and adrenalin run high culminating in a breathtaking reanactment of Zátopek’s 1952 Olympic gold hat-trick in Helsinki. \nFollowed by Q&A with director David Ondříček\, Václav Neužil\, Martha Issová and Kryštof Mucha \nFor booking details see Eventbrite link below \nPart of the 25th Made in Prague Festival \nAudience prize winner at the 2021 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival\nCzech entry in the best international film category at the 2022 Oscars
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/zatopek/
LOCATION:Vue West End\, 3 Cranbourn Street\, London\, WC2H 7NG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211107T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211107T163000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211012T143323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T143323Z
UID:5592-1636297200-1636302600@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Ecstasy
DESCRIPTION:A special screening of the digital restoration in 4K of Gustav Machatý’s 1933 defiant masterpiece: the UK premiere of this cult classic film.  \nProbably the most widely seen Czech film of all time\, it stirred controversy and uproar due to its portrayal of female nudity and suggestive sexual content and shot its director and the actress Hedy Lamarr to international recognition. Lamarr plays sexually frustrated newlywed Eva whose older husband is interested in anything but her. After returning to her father’s house Eva\, while swimming in the lake\, meets Adam\, a young engineer\, and starts an adulterous affair. \nExploring erotic desires and romantic themes already present in his previous films\, Machatý teams up with cinematographer Jan Stallich to transform a simple story into a visual feast of passion rich in symbolism\, using exquisite compositions\, thrilling montage and outstanding exterior photography full of unconventional shots. \nFinan Jones conducts the Silk Street Soloists performing a newly commissioned overture by Anna Vöröšová based on the original score by the film composer Giuseppe Becce. \nGustav Machatý\, Czechoslovakia 1933\, 90’ DCP\nCast: Hedy Lamarr\, Aribert Mog\, Zvonimir Rogoz   \nBest Director Award at the 1934 Venice International Film Festival and Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.\n25th Made in Prague Festival Opening Gala\nBooking open see website link below
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/ecstasy/
LOCATION:Barbican Centre\, Silk Street\, London\, EC2Y 8DS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211022T104104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T104104Z
UID:5657-1636045200-1636050600@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Prague: Belonging in the Modern City
DESCRIPTION:A  SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Chad Bryant. \nVojtěch Berger was a carpenter\, a member of the interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party\, and an obsessive diarist who lived in Prague from 1921 until his death forty years later. For Berger and other party members\, including top Communist leaders\, Communism was much more than a political ideology or movement. It was world unto itself that offered radical leftists a shared sense of security and place following the horrors of World War I and the emergence of a hostile\, yet tolerant\, First Czechoslovak Republic. Berger’s self-documented life offers a rare window into Communist practices of belonging between the wars – participation in a wide range of associations\, marching on May Day\, and joining comrades for a drink at the local pub\, to name just a few. Eschewing terms such as “identity\,” Bryant argues that pursuing questions about how and where people pursue a sense of belonging offers more than just a fresh perspective on the interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party. They touch on broader themes in modern European history\, including the ever-present burden of creating for oneself a sense of home and community in the face of unrelenting change and dislocation. \nTo register use Eventbrite link below \nThis event will take place on UCL campus. Should circumstances change\, the event will be delivered online. \nChad Bryant is the author of the recently published Prague: Belonging and the Modern City as well as Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism\, winner of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. Bryant is Associate Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center. He is\, with Kateřina Čapková and Diana Dumitru\, embarking on a study of the Stalinist-era show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/prague-belonging-in-the-modern-city/
LOCATION:University College London\, Gower Street\, London\, WC1E 6BT\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="UCL SSEES":MAILTO:ssees-events@ucl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211101T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211126T233000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211020T121216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211031T171720Z
UID:5647-1635753600-1637969400@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jenůfa
DESCRIPTION:The first Royal Opera House production of Janáček’s opera since 2001 is now available to watch on demand until 14 November\n\nhttps://stream.roh.org.uk/free-titles/videos/jenufa\n\nIt will also be broadcast on 23 October on BBC Radio 3 @ 6.30pm and subsequently available for about a month see here\n\n\nphoto \nAsmik Grigorian (Jenůfa)\n© ROH | Monika Rittershaus
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/jenufa/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20211009T144644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T224459Z
UID:5546-1635359400-1635364800@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Czech protest music past & present
DESCRIPTION:An online Zoom talk by Daniel Majer about the political role Czech protest music has played in Czech and Slovak history from the Austro-Hungarian empire until today. \nFollowing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968\, Karel Kryl composed ‘Bratříčku\, zavírej vrátka’ (Keep the gates closed\, little brother) as his reaction to the occupation. In 1972 the Slovak dissident Ján Ladislav Kalina was given a two-year prison sentence for\, among other things\, playing a record of Kryl’s songs to friends in the privacy of his home. In the eyes of the law during the period of normalization\, that amounted to incitement. \nIn the early 1970s the Czech rock band\, the Plastic People of the Universe\, began using the lyrics of the poet Egon Bondy and other poets for their songs. In 1976 they were sent to prison for up to 18 months for performing at a festival which the court condemned as “an organised disturbance of the peace”.  The group continues to perform despite the death of its founder\, Milan “Mejla” Hlavsa. Their music is the focus of a new book in English ‘ A consumer guide to the Plastic People of the Universe’. \nIn 1989 Czech musicians\, many of them banned from performing or in exile\, played a significant role in toppling the communist regime. In 2007 the Czech daily MFDnes published the results of a poll to name the most important song associated with the Velvet Revolution. Marta Kubišová’s ‘Modlitba pro Martu’ (Prayer for Marta) won by a landslide.  \nDaniel Majer\, born in Britain of Czech and Slovak parentage\, will present musical excerpts from Brno where he is studying as part of his course in Czech and Spanish at Bristol University.  \nIf  you wish to participate please register with bcsa@bcsa.co.uk by 25 October
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/czech-protest-music-past-present/
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211015T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211017T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20210901T165800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210901T165800Z
UID:5426-1634292000-1634490000@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Lakes International Comic Art Festival
DESCRIPTION:Working in partnership with the Czech Literary Centre\, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced the addition of five Czech comic creators to the Festival’s line-up in October\, including award-winning Kateřina Čupová and Václav Šlajch. \nThe Czech Literary Centre is also supporting two international artists’ residencies in association with LICAF. Kateřina Čupová and Štěpánka Jislová will be working in Kendal before this year’s weekend-long Festival\, and a similar exchange enabled graphic novelist Sayra Begum to work in Prague this summer\, and Rachael Smith\, the creator of Quarantine Comix\, is set to visiting the European capital later this year. \nRead more plus profiles of the five Czechs here \ntickets available from link below \nArt from Kateřina Čupová’s debut graphic novel\, Rossum’s Universal Robots\, an adaptation of Karel Čapek’s drama R.U.R
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/lakes-international-comic-art-festival/
LOCATION:Lakes International Comic Art Festival\, Kendal\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211003T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211003T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20210915T121633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T121633Z
UID:5487-1633287600-1633294800@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:My Seven Lives and More
DESCRIPTION:This Zoom event will introduce Agneša Kalinová (1924-2014) – a Slovak-Jewish journalist\, film critic and translator. Agneša’s fascinating story has been captured in Mojich sedem životov\, a book-length conversation conducted by the Slovak playwright\, writer and social activist Jana Juránová\, which was published by the feminist publishing house ASPEKT in 2012. Translated into Czech\, German and Hungarian\, this captivating narrative will  be published by Purdue University Press as My Seven Lives on 15 October 2021. \nAgneša’s daughter\, Julia Sherwood (who has translated the book into English with her husband Peter)\, will join the conversation from London and the book’s co-author and Agneša’s interlocutor Jana Juránová will speak from Bratislava. They will be interviewed by Peter Brod\, Agneša’s former colleague from Radio Free Europe\, who now lives in Prague. \nTo register use Eventbrite link below. \nThe event is a part of lecture series Literature by and about Czech and Slovak Jews organized by the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences\, New York Chapter\, with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association. \nThe lecture will be streamed on ZOOM\, recorded and available on YouTube.  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/my-seven-lives-and-more/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210925T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20210831T150659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T150659Z
UID:5416-1632592800-1632679200@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Largo desolato
DESCRIPTION:The Barnes Community Players will perform rehearsed readings of this extraordinary play.  \nLargo Desolato was written by Václav Havel and translated by Czech-born Tom Stoppard.  \nThe play speaks to our present obsession with “fake news” and our constant fear for our privacy. Havel struggled to accept the importance his words held for those who leaned on them during the troubled times of the Cold War; it might startle him to learn that they have transcended time and are still relevant.  \ntickets £10 see link below \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/largo-desolato/
LOCATION:Velehrad London\, 39 Lonsdale Road\, London\, SW13 9JP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T194500
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20210809T222839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T222839Z
UID:5332-1632162600-1632167100@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:TON Bentwood Furniture
DESCRIPTION:TON\, the renowned Czech furniture maker\, celebrates 160 years of bentwood production. \n Join this free online panel discussion on Zoom with designer Florian Kallus from Kaschkasch Studio\, Adam Štěch\, the author of the publication +-160 Years\, and Alex Gufler\, designer and Artistic Director of TON\, and explore the story of bentwood furniture from the radical invention of Michael Thonet to the present day.  \nDiscussing their personal stories with TON and the role of designers and master craftsmen in building a sustainable brand identity\, the panellists will highlight TON’s iconic designs and introduce a new collection.  \nChaired by Max Fraser\, Director of Spotlight. \nregister on Eventbrite link below to receive Zoom link \nAdam Štěch: +-160 YEARS; THE ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF BENTWOOD FURNITURE FROM BYSTŘICE POD HOSTÝNEM \nAdam Štěch documents the fascinating birth and dynamic development of the revolutionary wood bending technology through the combination of historical facts with personal stories\, famous names\, iconic products\, forgotten witnesses\, and little-known historical artifacts. The result is a visual and textual collage about the past\, present\, and future of bentwood in Bystřice pod Hostýnem. www.plusminus160.com \nTON | Four Seasons. – YouTube \nPart of the London Design Festival
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/ton-bentwood-furniture/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210918T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T232450
CREATED:20200801T181507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210713T164355Z
UID:3976-1631988000-1631998800@www.bcsa.co.uk
SUMMARY:Folkový recitál
DESCRIPTION:Music recital by Czech songwriter Slávek Janoušek. \ntickets £10 via Eventbrite link below \nBohemia House \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/czech-folk-music-recital/
LOCATION:Bohemia House\, 74 West End Lane\, London\, NW6 2LX\, United Kingdom
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