See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
UK premiere of a portrait of Milos Forman (1932–2018), Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984). Forman began his career as a New Wave filmmaker in the Czech Republic before emigrating to the US, where he lived an impoverished existence in the Chelsea Hotel. The director eventually found Hollywood... Read more »
Václav Havel - the dramatic genius, the persecuted dissident, the man of truth and ideals but also a lover of good beer and pretty women. A portrait of the first post-1989 Czech president presented as a modern-day musical, Velvet Havel is a multi-award-winning production from the cult Prague Theatre on the Balustrade. The title refers... Read more »
Bringing together those who made the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia. Expert testimony, analysis and discussion in front of a live audience. Held in the historic Temple of Peace, Cardiff Marking 30 years, one generation, since the end of Communist Party rule in Czechoslovakia. Leading figures from Czechoslovakia’s 1989 revolution reunite and remember how it was.... Read more »
a talk by Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE Lady Milena was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. Her father was recommended to leave Czechoslovakia the day before the Nazis invaded because he was both Jewish and a supporter of an anti-Nazi author. He was able to escape but left his wife and children behind. When she was... Read more »
In November the Dash Café will explore the impact of the 1989 revolution that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, 30 years on. Through the prism of artists, filmmakers and writers from across Czech Republic and Slovakia, we explore whether that extraordinary spirit of activism still exists today. Speakers including actress and director Tereza... Read more »
Everywhen orbits around two sides of life – the personal and the political. An often caring, gentle and well-meaning personal life is contrasted here with the reality of the social individual, who can often be sinister, vengeful and hateful. But how can we be critical to our own worldviews when they are created by those... Read more »
Inspired by a newspaper comic strip, the Welsh National Opera’s colourful production is charming, funny and profound in equal measure. It reunites director, David Pountney with WNO music director, Tomas Hanus who conducts Janacek’s blend of folk-like music and sophisticated orchestrations, gloriously evoking the vibrancy of nature. One afternoon deep in the forest, the forester... Read more »
Our twenty eighth annual dinner will be held on Friday 29 November in the heart of Bloomsbury. This highlight in the BCSA calendar is a wonderful opportunity for Slovaks, Czechs and Britons to mingle in a convivial atmosphere, to meet old friends and make new ones. Members and non-members alike will be made welcome at... Read more »
Moshe Friedman, cello Margaret Bruce, piano with David Lewis, baritone PROGRAMME: TUCAPSKY: Cello Sonata (written for Moshe Friedman and Margaret Bruce) JANACEK: “In the Mist” for solo piano JANACEK: “Fairy Tale” for cello and piano INTERVAL TUCAPSKY: Meditation on an old folksong (written for Moshe Friedman) TUCAPSKY: Piano prelude no 19 (from the 24 Preludes... Read more »
A celebration of the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Czech National Trust (CNT) with a screening of the film “Thomas Messer - My life with Guggenheim" and an introduction of the project “Ticket to the New World”. Thomas Messer, a Czechoslovak emigré, was director and curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York... Read more »
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