BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//British Czech and Slovak Association - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:British Czech and Slovak Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for British Czech and Slovak Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190411T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190308T181454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190308T181454Z UID:2561-1554974100-1555009200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Central European Symposium '1989 and Beyond: The New Shape of Europe' DESCRIPTION:The Fourth Central European Symposium entitled ‘1989 & Beyond: The New Shape of Europe’ will focus on three consequential periods\, looking at 1989 as a catalyst of change\, analysing the view from 2019 as a part of the European Union and further debating the future of Europe and its new perspectives. The symposium will gather academic speakers\, practitioners and experts from Austria\, the Czech Republic\, Poland\, Slovakia and the United Kingdom.\nThirty years after the events\, it is now possible and necessary to provide a historical perspective on the ruptures triggered in this decisive year\, and evaluate their significance. The speakers will reflect on a range of issues from a variety of Central European perspectives and consider how states and societies of the region fit in to Europe’s current crisis – and how they may contribute to its possible solution. The shape of the European Union is more in flux today than at any time in its history\, with the planned Brexit and negotiations for enlargement of the EU. What role will the Central European states and economies play in the new geopolitical landscape of an EU that expands eastward? \nRegistration is free but essential via Eventbrite link below \nProgramme:\n9:15-9:45 Registration\n9:45-10:15 Welcome and Introductions\n10:15-12:00 Roundtable ‘1989: Catalyst of Change’ \nDr Przemyslaw Zurawski vel Grajewski\nBarbel Strehlau\nProf Mary Heimann\nChair: Richard Bassett\n12:00-13:15 Lunch Break\n13:15-15:00 Roundtable ‘European Union – The View from 2019’\nDr Grzegorz Lewicki\nProf Jiri Priban\nZuzana Gabrizovz\nChair: Dr Jakub Benes\n15:00-15:30 Coffee\n15:30-17:15 Roundtable ‘The Future of Europe: New Perspectives’ \nDominika Cosic\nDr Erhard Busek\nEduard Kukan\nChair: Jakub Krupa\n17:15-19:15 Evening Reception at SSEES (Masaryk Senior Common Room) \nThis symposium is co-organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum London\, Embassy of the Czech Republic\, Embassy of the Republic of Poland\, and Embassy of Slovakia. \nPhoto credit: ID 25483991 © Charlieaja | Dreamstime.com URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/central-european-symposium-1989-and-beyond-the-new-shape-of-europe/ LOCATION:Bentham House\, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens\, London\, WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190409T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190130T133614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T213457Z UID:2459-1554838200-1554841800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Settling in Britain - three experiences. DESCRIPTION:Representatives of the younger generation will share how they built a life and career in their new home. \nZdenek Kudr is a co-founder of Bohem Brewery which brews traditional Bohemian lagers in north London where he has lived for more than eight years. Before that he drove trucks across Europe and played guitar as a hobby which led to the formation of a band. \nPeter Krajnak is UK country director at Slido\, a Slovak technology company that built an interaction easy-to-use platform for meetings and events. He moved to London as one of their very first employees to help grow the business there. \nHynek Martinec is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his studies he spent on term as an exchange student at Middlesex University. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and is held in the collections of the British Museum and the National Gallery\, Prague. \nImage: He Came Here To Paint This Picture\, 2015. Oil on canvas\, 150 x 250 cm\nCurtesy Parafin \nFree admission for members of the BCSA\, £5 for non-members\, full-time students free!\nRegistration is necessary for all on Eventbrite (see link below) or by e-mail to bcsa@bcsa.co.uk URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/it-can-be-done-three-experiences-of-settling-in-britain/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY CATEGORIES:BCSA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190408T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190421T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190402T103503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T103503Z UID:2619-1554717600-1555867800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovakian Artists in Britain DESCRIPTION:Czech Routes is the fourth in Ben Uri’s series of exhibitions designed to highlight the contribution of émigré artists to Britain since 1900\, succeeding previous exhibitions on German\, Polish and Austrian artists (2017-18). \nFeaturing the work of 21 painters\, printmakers and sculptors\, many of whom fled to Britain as racial and political refugees from National Socialism\, Czech Routes marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia on 15th March 1939 (the Sudetenland\, Czechoslovakia’s northern frontier\, having already ceded to Germany on 10th October 1938). Nazi occupation resulted in mass displacement and by December 1939 nearly 12\,000 refugees from Czechoslovakia were resident in Britain\, a figure comprising 6\,000 Czechoslovaks\, 3\,000 Sudeten Germans\, 300 other Czech minorities\, 1\,000 Reich Germans and 800 Austrians. Of those registered with the Czech Refugee Trust Fund – a voluntary charitable organisation responsible for ‘refugees whose prominence in opposition to Nazism and Fascism had brought their liberty and even their lives into danger’\, and who therefore needed ‘to be rescued’- 67% were Jewish. \nPortraitist and pioneering printmaker Emil Orlik made his first trip to Britain in 1898\, however\, the majority of Czechoslovak artists exhibited\, along with Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka and German photomontagist\, John Heartfield (both also featured)\, made forced journeys to the UK immediately prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. These include sculptor Anita Mandl and painter-printmaker Käthe Strenitz\, just two of the 669 Kindertransportees rescued by British humanitarian Nicholas Winton.\nAlso represented are works by subsequent generations of Czechoslovakian artists including Irena Sedlecka\, who fled her country’s totalitarian Communist regime in the 1960s\, as well as those who\, between the 1970s and 1990s\, have made the positive decision to immigrate to Britain to study and develop professionally. \nThe exhibition showcases work drawn primarily from the Ben Uri Collection alongside external loans from important private collections. Featured artists include: Franta Belsky\, Jacob Bornfriend\, Dorrit Epstein (aka Dekk)\, Frederick Feigl\, Leo Haas\, Walter Herz\, Anita Mandl\, Emil Orlik\, Irena Sedlecka\, and Walter Trier\, in addition to contemporary multidisciplinary artists Tereza Bušková\, Míla Furstová and Tereza Stehlíková. \nCurated by Nicola Baird\, Research Officer at the Ben Uri Research Unit\, the exhibition will be accompanied by a publication and programme of related talks and events. Czech Routes marks the launch of the Ben Uri Research Unit (BURU) which will embark on an extensive research programme exploring and recording the contribution of Jewish and immigrant artists to Britain since 1900. \nOpen daily from 8th – 21st April and the following 4 Mondays to the 20th May \nFREE ENTRY \nImage: Freda Salvendy\, Prague\, Ben Uri Collection\, © Freda Salvendy Estate URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/czech-routes-selected-czechoslovakian-artists-in-britain/ LOCATION:Ben Uri Gallery & Museum\, 108A Boundary Road\, London\, NW8 0RH\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190302T122814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190302T122814Z UID:2544-1553711400-1553716800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:The Bell of Treason - the Munich Agreement and its aftermath DESCRIPTION:The Munich Agreement doomed the first Czechoslovak Republic\, paving the way for its March 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany eighty years ago. Chamberlain famously proclaimed ‘peace for our time’ on his return from the Munich conference\, while Daladier muttered: ‘the fools\, if only they knew what they are cheering’. The Czechoslovaks knew all along. As for the Germans\, they were not as united behind Hitler as is sometimes believed. P.E. Caquet\, author of the recently-published The Bell of Treason: the 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia\, will present these differing perspectives and explain how they made possible the tragedy that was Munich. \nProfessor Caquet is a historian at the University of Cambridge\, where he completed his PhD\, and is a senior member of the Cambridge College Hughes Hall. Prior to studying at Cambridge\, Mr Caquet lived for ten years in Prague where he pursued a business career. The Bell of Treason was published by Profile Books in the UK last year and is expected to be released in the USA and the Czech Republic this year. \nTickets £5 bookable via Eventbrite link below. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-bell-of-treason-the-munich-agreement-and-its-aftermath/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190327T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190113T170706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190113T170706Z UID:2414-1553709600-1553713200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain DESCRIPTION:‘Insiders/Outsiders’ Festival – free illustrated talk by Dr Jana Barbora Buresova \nAlthough Czechoslovakia was headline news in 1938/39\, little was known about its cultural heritage. Patriotic exiles in Britain therefore determined to preserve their cultural identity\, and to host multi-faceted events at the Czechoslovak Institute and elsewhere. The Communist-inspired Czechoslovak-British Friendship Club\, the Czechoslovak army’s SOKOL branch\, and regional clubs also played key roles within the Anglo-Czechoslovak community. \nDr Buresova is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, at the University of London. She has contributed to a number of publications\, and co-edited Exile and Gender II: Politics\, Education and the Arts (Brill\, 2017). Her book ‘Women Came Too! …’ regarding the experiences of Czechoslovak refugee women in Britain\, 1939–1950\, will be published by Peter Lang in 2019. She is currently co-authoring a work about the Czech Refugee Trust Fund. \nRoom 243 (2nd Floor)\, Senate House\, University of London \nContact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk (020 7862 8966) URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-celebration-of-czechoslovak-culture-in-wartime-britain-2/ LOCATION:Senate House\, University of London\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190323T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190323T160000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181224T155349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181224T155349Z UID:2335-1553353200-1553356800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Miro Jaros Live UK Tour DESCRIPTION:The first UK tour of Slovak singer Miro Jaros; his performance will offer children and parents the best of his work. The energetic show includes instructional songs so that playful children can learn useful things – how to care of animals\, toys\, to wash their hands and motivates children to move. \nThe concert is not suitable for children under 3 years of age and those who do not enjoy loud music. \nPlease note the performance is in Slovak. \nTickets £25 URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/miro-jaros-live-uk-tour/ LOCATION:Leicester Square Theatre\, 6 Leicester Place\, London\, WC2H 7BX\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190322T194500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190322T214500 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190212T170927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T171013Z UID:2507-1553283900-1553291100@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY: DESCRIPTION:This will be the first time the Three Lions have faced the Czech Republic since August 2008. \nTickets available from the website link below. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/2507/ LOCATION:Wembley Stadium\, Empire Way\, London\, HA9 0WS\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190319T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190104T120254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T114215Z UID:2362-1553020200-1553027400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:An illustrated talk on the history of Slovak music DESCRIPTION:Born in Slovakia\, Andrea Kmecova is a versatile pianist who entered the National Conservatoire of Music in Košice at the age of fourteen. She continued her musical studies at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Drama (VSMU) and then at Trinity College in London. \nFree admission for members of the BCSA\, £10 for non-members\, full-time students £5.\nRegistration is necessary for all on Eventbrite (see link below) or by e-mail to bcsa@bcsa.co.uk URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/an-illustrated-talk-on-the-history-of-slovak-music/ LOCATION:Slovak Embassy\, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BCSA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190318T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190323T193000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190210T181112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T181112Z UID:2495-1552937400-1553369400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY: DESCRIPTION:University College Opera is proud to present the British première of Bedrich Smetana’s Libuše. Returning to the newly refurbished Bloomsbury Theatre\, the cast and orchestra\, composed of both professionals and students\, will be led by musical director Charles Peebles and director Cecilia Stinton. \nComposed in 1871-72\, UCO reimagines Smetana’s Bohemian queen and her medieval court in the modern-day city\, where soaring skyscrapers promise glamour and wealth at a human cost. Born into a celebrated legal dynasty\, Libuše\, having inherited her late father’s firm\, is queen of the corporate world and obliged to assert herself as its leader\, working tirelessly to expand the firm and prove herself. A quarrel between her two most-valued senior partners\, Chrudoš and St’áhlav\, throws the stability of her company into jeopardy and Libuše feels the true loneliness of being a woman at the top. Who can give her the support she needs? \nRunning time: 3 hours with interval\nSung in Czech with English surtitles \nPerformances: 18/20/22/23 March 2019 at 7.30pm \nStandard: £25\nConcessions (60+\,U18\, non-UCL students): £17\nUCL Students + Staff: £9 \nTo book tickets see website link below. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/2495/ LOCATION:Bloomsbury Theatre\, 15 Gordon Street\, London\, WC1H 0AH\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190314T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190314T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190108T105515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T105515Z UID:2402-1552586400-1552593600@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Marie Schmolka\, the Forgotten Heroine Who Saved Thousands from the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:Anna Hajkova\, Martin Smok\, Rose Holmes & Alex Maws \nMost have heard the name of Sir Nicholas Winton\, a young British stockbroker who volunteered with the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia in 1938. But humanitarian rescue of thousands of refugees\, from Austria\, Germany\, and Czechoslovakia\, was a collective effort. And more often then not\, it was led by women.\nMarie Schmolka\, a Prague Zionist who was one of the main figures of European refugee assistance on the eve of the Second World War\, was one of these leaders. She co-managed the local Refugee Committee\, was the representative of HICEM in Prague and represented Czechoslovakia at the Evian Conference in July 1938.\nThis event\, commemorating the 80th anniversary of her arrest in the first days of the occupation of Czechoslovakia\, serves to raise awareness of Schmolka’s extraordinary role and biography. The Marie Schmolka Society seeks to draw attention and encourage scholarship for topics related to the role of women social workers during the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers:\nAnna Hajkova is associate professor of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick. Her book\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt\, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Together with Martin Smok\, she founded the Marie Schmolka Society: marieschmolka.org. \nMartin Smok is the Senior International Program Consultant of the USC Shoah Foundation. Besides authoring two major documentary film trilogies he curated several groundbreaking exhibitions examining Czechoslovak relationships with its Jews. He is currently finishing a biography of Charles Jordan\, a towering figure of the Joint Distribution Committee. \nRose Holmes is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck\, University of London. She is currently working on a digital history project on the history of trafficking. She completed her PhD at the University of Sussex on humanitarian work with refugees from fascism. Her research interests are on international humanitarianism and welfare\, and she has a particular interest in digital and public history. \nAlex Maws is Head of Educational Grants and Projects for the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, Britain’s largest dedicated funder of Holocaust educational programmes. In addition\, he serves as Educational Advisor to the Holocaust Educational Trust and as a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). \nFree admission\, register on Eventbrite (see link below) by 14 March URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/panel-discussion-marie-schmolka-the-forgotten-heroine-who-saved-thousands-from-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190305T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190305T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181224T162106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181224T162106Z UID:2347-1551810600-1551817800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Britain and Bohemia in the 15th century: the English struggle against the Hussite movement DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr Mark Whelan\, an historian of late medieval and early modern Germany and Central Europe. He has held fellowships in Berlin\, Munich\, and Vienna\, and teaching posts at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, and the University of Manchester. He currently works at King’s College\, London\, as the German language and archives expert on the project ‘Bees in the Medieval World\, c.1200-1600’. \nThe kingdom of Bohemia obsessed contemporariess across Europe in the fifteenth century. Beginning in 1415\, when an international council burnt the Czech theologian Jan Hus\, his followers within Bohemia seized control of the kingdom and freed it from allegiance to king and pope\, threatening the ruling elites of Christendom and destabilising political and religious structures across the continent. These developments plunged swathes of Central Europe into brutal conflict\, and also saw Czech soldiers\, scholars\, and diplomats\, range from Scotland to Lithuania to gain support for the Hussite cause. This lecture focuses on the interactions between Bohemia and the British Isles in the fifteenth century\, including the transmission of texts and ideas between the two countries\, Czech attempts to enlist support for their cause\, and the often violent reactions of English rulers who denounced the Hussites as heretics and sought to crush them with military force. \nPrice £15 including a glass of wine (see link to booking form below). To pay at the door please notify events@czechfriends.net URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/britain-and-bohemia-in-the-15th-century-the-english-struggle-against-the-hussite-movement/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190303T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190304T010000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190210T180011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T181233Z UID:2484-1551600000-1551661200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY: DESCRIPTION:Includes four panel discussions: \nSocial inequalities: are we truly equal in Czechia and Slovakia. \nThe rule of law: can law protect liberal democracy? \nPublic healthcare crisis: are private providers the answer? \nThe future of the energy industry: how should it look in Central Europe? \nFor full details and to book see website link below. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/2484/ LOCATION:Sheik Zayed Theatre\, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190221T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190221T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190131T112342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T112342Z UID:2466-1550775600-1550782800@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:The Dark Side of Prague with writers Markéta Pilátová and Michal Sýkora and editor Pavel Mandys DESCRIPTION:Prague\, with its secret courtyards and magical atmosphere\, is revealed in a multimedia walk through its mysterious streets with leading Czech writers Markéta Pilátová and Michal Sýkora who wrap the beauty and history of the city into the noir genre and bring its shadiest/darkest corners to life. Extracts from the newly published Prague Noir anthology will be read by actors against a backdrop of the visual and musical Prague landscape to create an unmissable experience. Join the book’s editor Pavel Mandys\, writers Markéta Pilátová and Michal Sýkora in a discussion of the noir genre.\nPrague Noir is part of a popular book series published by Akashic Books dedicated to cities and noir. Prague\, like New York and Amsterdam\, now has a dedicated edition which not only introduces the noir genre in Czech literature but presents the crème de la crème of contemporary Czech writers in 14 stories. \n\nMarkéta Pilátová (1973)\nMarkéta Pilatová is a writer\, journalist\, children’s book author\, translator and hispanist. Her books have been translated into German\, Dutch\, Polish\, Portuguese and Spanish. Her novels The Yellow Eyes Head Home (2007) and My Beloved Book (2009) were nominated for the top Czech literary awards Magnesia Litera and the Josef Škvorecký Award. She also writes for children\, and her most acclaimed novels are The Fairy Vivivilla and the Shadows of Animals (2009)\, and Kiko and The Secret of the Paper Butterfly (2010) which was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award.\n\nMichal Sýkora (1971)\nMichal Sykora\, an assistant professor at Prague’s Academy of Theatre\, Film and Media Studies\, focuses mainly on British detective stories and modern fiction. He has written a two-volume monograph on Vladimir Nabokov and two other works of literary scholarship\, but is also an author of detective novels inspired by the British detective genre. Three of his books (The Case for an Exorcist\, Blue Shadows and It’s Not Over Yet) have been adapted for the screen and shown to great acclaim on Czech TV. \nPavel Mandys (1972)\nPavel Mandys has worked as a literary and film editor for the Week magazine and is now editor of iLiteratura.cz. He regularly contributes to the Czech press – Lidové noviny\, Hospodárské noviny and A2. Mandys co-founded and co-manages the Magnesia Litera Annual Book Award. He is the author of The Idiot and his Return (together with Saša Gedeon\, 1999)\, Prague\, City of Literature (2012)\, 2×101 Books for Children and Young People (editor and co-author\, 2013) and editor of Prague Noir (editor\, 2016). \nTickets: £5 + booking fee via Eventbrite link below URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-dark-side-of-prague-with-writers-marketa-pilatova-and-michal-sykora-and-editor-pavel-mandys/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190219T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181126T161835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T161912Z UID:2303-1550601000-1550608200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Amnesty International and Prisoners of Conscience in Czechoslovakia (CSSR) DESCRIPTION:Susan Jenkinson will describe work at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in the team concerned with Prisoners of Conscience in Czechoslovakia (CSSR) in the 1980s. Julia Sherwood\, who was also at the International Secretariat at that time\, but in another team\, will outline the case of her father\, Prisoner of Conscience\, Jan Ladislav Kalina\, imprisoned in Slovakia 1972-73. \nFree admission for members of the BCSA\, £10 for non-members\, full-time students £5.\nRegistration is necessary for all on Eventbrite (see link below) or by e-mail to bcsa@bcsa.co.uk URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/amnesty-international-and-prisoners-of-conscience-in-czechoslovakia-cssr/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY CATEGORIES:BCSA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190218T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190226T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190104T125216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T180341Z UID:2367-1550520000-1551211200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Katya Kabanova DESCRIPTION:Czech tenor\, Pavel Cernoch makes his Royal Opera debut as Boris Grigorjevic. Born in Brno\, Cernoch began singing as a child in the Cantilena Chamber Choir. He studied singing at the Janacek Academy in Brno and with Paolo de Napoli (his current teacher) in Italy. He made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in 2009 as Steva in Jenufa. \nRemaining performances on 18\, 21 and 26 February \nSung in Czech with English surtitles. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/katya-kabanova/ LOCATION:Royal Opera House\, Bow Street\, London\, WC2E 9DD\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190201T073000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190201T213000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20190107T181229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T181229Z UID:2397-1549006200-1549056600@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Smetana Piano Trio DESCRIPTION:PROGRAMME \nSergey Rachmaninoff: Trio elegico in G minor\, No. 1 \nBohuslav Martinu: Piano Trio Bergerettes H. 275 \nAntonin Dvorak: Piano Trio in F-Minor op. 65 \nJitka Cechova – piano\nRadim Kresta – violin\nJan Palenicek – cello \nTickets £10 to pay at the door.\nPlaces are limited\, please reserve tickets soon\nat ludmilastane@gmail.com or text 07468 570551 URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/smetana-piano-trio/ LOCATION:Velehrad London\, 39 Lonsdale Road\, London\, SW13 9JP\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190124T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181230T130921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181230T135334Z UID:2352-1548356400-1548363600@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Revolution Begins at Home: The Women of Czech Dissent DESCRIPTION:An evening dedicated to women active in the Czech dissent movement and Charter 77 during the Czechoslovak communist regime of the 1970s and 1980s. Sociologist and gender scholar Marcela Linková and journalist Nada Straková will be joined by former dissident Kamila Bendová and DJ and writer Tobiáš Jirous to talk about the recent publication Revolution Begins at Home: The Women of Czech Dissent (eds. Linková & Straková\, 2017) and the ways in which women engaged in the different currents of political and cultural resistance. \nPublished in 2017 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Charter 77\, Revolution Begins at Home: The Women of Czech Dissent is a collection of interviews portraying twenty-one women who weren’t afraid to stand up to the Normalisation regime in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and 1980s. By engaging in the struggle against totalitarianism\, they wanted to play their part in creating a better existence for themselves and their children. \nThese fascinating interviews conducted by the books´ editors Marcela Linková and Nadežda Straková contribute to our understanding of the ways in which women engaged in the different currents of the Czech dissident manifesto Charter 77 (the intellectuals\, the Christians\, the reform Communists and the cultural underground)\, in both\, large cities and in the countryside. The publication highlights the fact that one-third of Charter 77 spokespeople were women and seeks to create a more gender balanced discourse surrounding this part of Czech history. \nAn English translation is due in spring 2019. \nTickets £7.92 book on Eventbrite via link below. \nPhotograph from secret police archives taken by a secret police officer who was following Ivanka Hyblerová (code name balerina) in 1981 when she was nine months pregnant. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/revolution-begins-at-home-the-women-of-czech-dissent/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190122T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181126T160842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181126T164256Z UID:2297-1548181800-1548189000@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:A Czechoslovak minister in exile DESCRIPTION:Ladislav Feierabend managed the impossible: he was a member of the war-time Protectorate government and at the same time head of a resistance group in contact with Edvard Beneš in London. So when a messenger was captured and forced to reveal everything\, in January 1940 Feierabend embarked on an escape worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. He eventually joined Beneš’s government-in-exile as finance minister before returning to Prague in 1945. After the communist coup in February 1948\, Feierabend went into hiding until April when he was smuggled out of his homeland again\, this time with his family.\nHis daughter\, Hana Ludikar\, will share the remarkable details of this story with us. Bring your friends with you to enjoy this rare opportunity. \nFree admission for members of the BCSA\, £10 for non-members\, full-time students £5. \nRegistration is necessary for all on Eventbrite (see link below) or by e-mail to bcsa@bcsa.co.uk URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/a-czechoslovak-minister-in-exile/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY CATEGORIES:BCSA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190117T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190117T213000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181206T190908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181206T190908Z UID:2321-1547751600-1547760600@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Jan Palach + Q&A with director Robert Sedlacek DESCRIPTION:On 16 January 1969\, the Prague philosophy student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. He died three days later. He was 21 years old. \nUsing available sources director Robert Sedlacek reconstructs the final months of Jan Palach´s life describing his path from an affectionate son\, a devoted friend\, a sensitive and thoughtful philosophy student to the Torch number 1. The resulting film is an impressive and atmospheric memento successfully portraying an uncompromising young man who brought the ultimate sacrifice in a hope to rouse the nation from lethargy. \nRobert Sedlacek\, CZ / SR 2018\, 120 mins\nCast: Viktor Zavadil\, Zuzana Bydzovska\, Denisa Baresova\, Kristina Kanatova\, Jan Vondracek \nTickets: £7 + booking fee via Eventbrite (see link below) URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/jan-palach-qa-with-director-robert-sedlacek/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190108T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190108T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181008T154245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T145354Z UID:2180-1546972200-1546979400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Prague and Innsbruck: the cultural patronage of the Archduke Ferdinand II DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Caroline Cannon-Brookes \nArchduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) was Regent of Bohemia for twenty years in the middle of the 16th century. Born the second son of the future Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne of Bohemia\, he was highly educated and a cultivated humanist who established a sophisticated court in Prague which embraced both the Habsburgs and the Czech nobility. He oversaw renewals to Prague Castle and the Cathedral\, and promoted the Renaissance style. This is to be seen in the star-shaped Hunting Lodge Hvezda outside Prague\, which he is reputed to have designed. These ideas were soon taken up by the Czech nobility. Following in the Habsburg tradition\, the Archduke assembled an important library and formed a great collection of portraits\, armour and a cabinet of curiosities which he took with him when he moved to Schloss Ambras in the Tirol\, in 1567. These collections undoubtedly served as an inspiration for his nephew\, the Emperor Rudolf II\, who subsequently acquired them. In recent years many of these have been brought back from Vienna and have recently been displayed in an exhibition devoted to the Archduke Ferdinand II shown both at Ambras and in Prague. \nCaroline Cannon-Brookes is an art-historian\, trained at the Courtauld Institute\, and teaches at the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. She has led many tours to the Czech Republic to which she is a regular visitor. \nTickets £15 including a glass of wine URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/prague-and-innsbruck-the-cultural-patronage-of-the-archduke-ferdinand-ii/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181210T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181210T213000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20180707T133016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180707T133016Z UID:1893-1544470200-1544477400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Pavel Haas Quartet: Smetana and Janacek DESCRIPTION:Janacek’s two highly personal quartets have earned their places as 20th-century classics of the medium\, the first inspired by Tolstoy’s passionate novella The ‘Kreutzer Sonata’\, about an extramarital affair\, the second reflecting his own love for the married Kamila Stosslova. \nBedrich Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D minor \nLeos Janacek: String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ \nLeos Janacek: String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ \nTickets £40 £35 £30 £25 £18\nBookings are subject to a £3 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/pavel-haas-quartet-smetana-and-janacek/ LOCATION:Wigmore Hall\, 36 Wigmore Street\, London\, W1U 2BP\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181204T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181011T094704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181127T102925Z UID:2189-1543948200-1543955400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:How to become a Czech in one hour DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT \nKeen to learn something about the Czechs but too afraid to ask? \nThis one-man show performed in English by Czech actor Tomas Vanek explains some of the cultural pitfalls from the Czech point of view. \nBeer\, knedliky\, Karel Gott and the Czech fashion for wearing socks with sandals are just a few topics that are touched upon. \nThe BCSA is delighted that the Royal Theatre and Club Chic in Vinohrady\, Prague has agreed to this London performance. URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/how-to-become-a-czech-in-one-hour/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY CATEGORIES:BCSA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181124T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181124T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181115T112322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181115T112610Z UID:2273-1543082400-1543093200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Great Britain and the breaking up of Austria-Hungary\, the rise of Czechoslovakia and other successor states in 1918 DESCRIPTION:FEDERATION OF SLOVAKS IN GREAT BRITAIN \nProgramme \nBritish attitudes to the breaking up of Austria-Hungary and the creation of new states  Professor Robert Evans\, Oxford University \nGreat Britain and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918  Dr. Vladimír Daniš\, Federation of Slovaks in Great Britain \nThe End of the Marriage: Explaining the Slovaks Decision to join Czechoslovakia in 1918   Dr. Thomas Lorman\, SSEES University College London \nThe First World War\, Great Britain and the Creation of the Kingdom of Serbs\, Croats and Slovenes  Dr. Bojan Aleksov\, SSEES University College London \nRomania in geopolitical European context (1918-1920)  Dr. Marusia Cirstea\, University of Craiova    \nBreaking up Austro-Hungarian economy: sudden or gradual?   Dr. Tomas Cvrcek\, SSEES University College London  \nWe are looking forward to seeing you\, please express your interest by 20th of November 2018 to secretaryfederacia@gmail.com enter your name & surname URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/great-britain-and-the-breaking-up-of-austria-hungary-the-rise-of-czechoslovakia-and-other-successor-states-in-1918/ LOCATION:Velehrad London\, 39 Lonsdale Road\, London\, SW13 9JP\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181123T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181123T223000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20170417T090802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T144421Z UID:789-1542997800-1543012200@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:BCSA Annual Dinner 2018 DESCRIPTION:Our twenty seventh annual dinner will be held on Friday 23 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 a drinks reception including Czech Budweiser Budvar lager\, enjoy a three-course dinner with wine\, hear our speaker and the results of our annual writing competition.\nThe raffle features a number of very desirable prizes including flights to Poprad with a three-night stay for two in Aqua City Resort\, close to the beautiful Tatra Mountains or a Danubius Hotels ‘Taste of Piestany’ relaxing stay for three nights. For visitors to Prague\, win two-nights’ accommodation at the Cloister Inn or tickets for a performance by the Prague Shakespeare Company. Continuing on from last year’s auction of Banksy street art\, there will be an opportunity to bid for a limited edition print of contemporary artwork by the Connor Brothers. \n18.30-19.30 drinks reception\n19.30-22.30 dinner \nspeaker: Sir Michael Burton\, BCSA president \ndress code: lounge suit \nTickets: BCSA members £47.50\, non-members £57.50\, full-time students £40.00 \, tables for 10 £475.00 \nBooking closes on 19 November (see Eventbrite link below) URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/bcsa-annual-dinner/ LOCATION:Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel\, 9-13 Bloomsbury Street\, London\, WC1B 3QD\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BCSA Events ORGANIZER;CN="BCSA":MAILTO:bcsa@bcsa.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181122T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181122T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181012T125103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T125103Z UID:2208-1542913200-1542920400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:The Velvet Revolution + discussion with Pavel Seifter and Jiri Priban DESCRIPTION:A testimony to the heady days following the 17 November 1989\, this edited footage of interviews and news journals successfully evokes the atmosphere of the 30 days which paved the way to democracy in Czechoslovakia. \nCasting students and former dissidents led by Vaclav Havel in the main roles it chronicles the Velvet Revolution\, when riot police crushed a peaceful student rally in Prague and the subsequent protests that ended the Communist era in Czechoslovakia. Edited within ten days at the end of the revolutionary  year\, this is cinema vérité at its best and an opportunity to revisit the unfolding of history. \nFollowed by discussion with Pavel Seifter\, former Czech Ambassador to the UK\, Charter 77 signatory and founding member of the Magic Lantern Civic Forum\, and Jiri Priban professor of sociology and philosophy of law\, Cardiff University and a 1989 student leader. \nPetr Slavik\, Jiri Strecha\, 1990\, 69 min\, English commentary \nTickets £7.92 via Eventbrite link below URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-velvet-revolution-discussion-with-pavel-seifter-and-jiri-priban/ LOCATION:Czech Embassy cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181120T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181112T154105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T154105Z UID:2267-1542733200-1542740400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Cooperation in the Home Affairs Agenda after Brexit DESCRIPTION:Join UCL SSEES as we host Minister Jan Hamáček (Czech Minister of the Interior)\, for this discussion and a reception afterwards. \nWith Brexit fast approaching states need to continue working together in order to reassure the public that their safety is paramount. Brexit may to certain aspects weaken\, but definitely not break off all ties between the UK and the EU. Due to the termination of the UK´s participation in many of the EU´s instruments\, both sides will experience a drop in the current level of cooperation\, which will to a degree also apply to police cooperation. We have to bear in mind that global and organised crime networks will adapt to the new conditions and circumstances at least as flexibly as the legitimate actors. Therefore\, the key challenge for us in the near future will lay in the search to creatively compensate for these new risks and lost opportunities by strengthening security cooperation at a bilateral level as well as in EU-UK relations. We must not let this opportunity slide by us. \n  URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/cooperation-in-the-home-affairs-agenda-after-brexit/ LOCATION:UCL SSEES\, 16 Taviton St\, London\, WC1H 0BW\, United Kingdom ORGANIZER;CN="UCL SSEES":MAILTO:ssees-events@ucl.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181117T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181023T140050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181024T164409Z UID:2237-1542463200-1542470400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:The Legacy and Lessons of 1968 DESCRIPTION:Fifty years ago\, Czechoslovakia was about to enter a period of ‘normalisation’ following the invasion of that country by the Soviet Union and its allies. Mike Waite (author of Communism and Democracy) and David Parker will draw upon their recent publications to reflect upon the significance of this event for the communist movement and socialism for which it was both a major set back and a turning point. It acted as a spur to Eurocommunism\, to rethinking the relationship between Communism and Democracy and to new strategies for the achievement of Socialism.\nMike will offer some overall perspectives on the significance of 1968 as a turning point for left wing politics and prospects.\nDavid will draw on the remarkable correspondence of his Communist father with a disillusioned Czech – conducted in defiance of the censors from 1968 to 1971- to illustrate the human and political costs of ‘normalisation’\, the aspirations of the two men for a better future and the continuing relevance of their thoughts about how to get there. \nFree to attend – all welcome URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-legacy-and-lessons-of-1968/ LOCATION:Marx Memorial Library\, 37a Clerkenwell Green\, London\, EC1R 0DU\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181113T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181125T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20180913T164027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T154407Z UID:2139-1542137400-1543176000@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Rendezvous in Bratislava: a time travelling new piece of music theatre DESCRIPTION:Miriam and her granddad are making a cabaret together. They’re the perfect double act: He’s got the stories\, she loves telling them\, and they both have a flair for the theatrical. The only problem is – they’ve never met. And he’s been dead for 37 years. \nLaco Kalina was a dramaturg\, satirist\, collector of jokes and writer of cabarets\, born in Slovakia in 1913 and died in Germany in 1981. He survived the fascists only to be imprisoned by the communists\, who believed he was a threat to the regime. \nUsing his autobiographies\, jokes and scripts\, we present this generationally challenged duo: a contemporary cabaret featuring original music and real live Slovaks.\n \n2018-19 UK tour  for full details of venues and booking details see website link below \n19 & 20 Oct Peterborough Platform 8 (www. jumpeduptheatre.com) \n26 & 27 Oct Wigan Arts Festival (www.wiganarts.com) \n3 Nov Torbay Doorstep Arts (www. doorsteparts.co.uk) \n8 & 10 Nov Thanet Looping the Loop (www. loopingtheloopfestival.org.uk) \n13-24 Nov London Battersea Arts Centre (www.bac.org.uk) \n25 Nov Exeter Phoenix (www.exeterphoenix.org.uk) \n30 Jan Reading South Street Arts (www.readingarts.com/south-street) \nCreated by Miriam Sherwood. Music by Thom Andrewes and Will Gardner \nDeveloped at Battersea Arts Centre and supported by Arts Council England\, Unity Theatre Trust and JW3 URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/rendezvous-in-bratislava-a-time-travelling-new-piece-of-music-theatre/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181107T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181027T103345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181027T103345Z UID:2252-1541615400-1541624400@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Book launch – Blood\, White and Blue DESCRIPTION:Urbane Publications invites you to the launch of Blood\, White and Blue. \nAll are welcome. \nJoin the author James Silvester\, as he presents the first in a new series of books featuring Lucie Musilova. A half Czech spy\, Lucie fights for a country that hates her as the spectre of Brexit looms. \nJames is the author of the ‘Prague Thrillers’ series – Escape to Perdition and The Prague Ultimatum. \nPlease RSVP Matthew Smith matthew@urbanepublications.com URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/book-launch-blood-white-and-blue/ LOCATION:Meditatio Centre\, St Mark’s Church\, Myddleton Square\, London\, EC1R 1XX\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181102T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181104T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T080455 CREATED:20181008T152753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T152734Z UID:2174-1541183400-1541361600@www.bcsa.co.uk SUMMARY:Made in Prague Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Friday 2 November \n6.30pm President Blaník \n8.20pm Barefoot plus Q&A with Zdeněk & Jan Svěrák \nSaturday 3 November \n4.00pm The White World According To Daliborek \n6.30pm Insects \n8.30pm Bear With Us plus Q&A with Tomas Pavlicek & Ivana Chylkova \nSunday 4 November \n2.00pm Angel of the Lord 2 in Czech only plus workshop for children \n4.15pm Cervena \n6.05pm Winter Flies \n8.00pm The Interpreter plus Q&A with Martin Sulik URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/made-in-prague-film-festival/ LOCATION:Regent Street Cinema\, 307 Regent Street\, London\, W1B 2HW END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR