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SUMMARY:BCSA Christmas concert
DESCRIPTION:A full house at the Slovak Embassy enjoyed an evening of  chamber music performed by Diversions. The programme included pieces by the well-known Czech composers Bohuslav Martinu and Antonin Dvorak and Gustav Mahler\, born near Jihlava on the border between Bohemia and Moravia.  It was also a rare opportunity to hear a work by Erwin Schulhoff\, born in Prague to a German-Jewish family who began his musical studies at the Prague Conservatory when he was 10 years old. \n  \nProgramme \nBohuslav Martinu                   Sonata for flute and piano \nGustav Mahler                         Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden \n(arranged by Arnon Zimra from the last movement of Symphony no. 4) \nAntonin Dvorak                       Sonatina for flute and piano \nErwin Schulhoff                       Susi \n  \nGenevieve Usher soprano \nChiawen Kiew flute \nEd Cooke clarinet \nChris Underhill piano \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/bcsa-christmas-concert/
LOCATION:Slovak Embassy\, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:BCSA/LSESU Bridging the generations
DESCRIPTION:Different generations\, different experiences: the BCSA staged an intergenerational event on 30 October\, in conjunction with the Czech and Slovak Society of the London School of Economics Student Union. A full house at the Slovak Embassy heard four speakers talk about their sometimes dangerous journeys from communist Czechoslovakia to Britain\, and the kind of welcome they received when they got here. This compared with the experiences of the newer arrivals\, who had largely come since the accession of the Czech and Slovak Republics to the EU in 2004.\nThe four speakers were:\nKarel Sling\, the son of Otto Sling\, who was one of the accused in the Stalinist show trials of the early 1950s and was shot in 1952. Karel signed Charter 77\, suffered for it and emigrated to Britain in the 1980s.\nProfessor Gerta Vrbova who spoke of her discovery when she came to Britain that there were different types of freedom: here she could travel where she liked\, make friends with whom she liked\, say what she liked\, but also as a woman she felt much less free than she had been in Czechoslovakia\, where women had many more opportunities. She praised the British for their tolerance\, but not for the difficulty of finding childcare so she could work.\nEduard Strouhal escaped across the Austrian border in 1948\, with the help of reusable forged ID to get past the Russians\, and of Austrian police who (literally) looked the other way. As a refugee he had to take work allocated him by the Ministry of Labour\, which included a stint clearing unexploded mines and ammunition from an Army training range on the North Yorkshire moors.\nDr Jana Buresova arrived in Britain in 1952 at the age of two\, coming from a Displaced Persons camp in Germany\, where her mother had been placed following the 1948 communist coup in her home country. As her mother expected repatriation\, Jana’s early childhood was ‘very Czech’. She had always seen herself as Czech\, though sometimes she felt that Czechs thought she was English (while the English thought she was Czech).\nA common theme was that for many\, or even most\, of those who came to Britain to escape communist Czechoslovakia\, their time here was intended to be temporary. They expected to return home once things changed for the better. But as the years wore on they realised that this was not to be. This found a kind of echo in the contributions from the younger members of the audience. They had come here as students\, or for an international experience\, or to earn money\, and they expected to return home or at least to move on elsewhere before too long.\n[Edward Peacock]\n[photograph\, speakers left to right – Karel Sling\, Professor Gerta Vrbova\, Eduard Strouhal\, Dr Jana Buresova
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/bcsalsesu-bridging-the-generations/
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SUMMARY:An illustrated talk by an Anglo-Czech artist
DESCRIPTION:Jan Mladovsky presented his work in the context of contemporary visual art. He studied art at the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague and then at the Slade School of Art\, University College in London where he has been living since 1968. In addition to the famous Serpentine Gallery and Riverside Studios in London\, he has exhibited at venues in Japan\, Iceland\, Italy\, Germany\, France\, the Netherlands and in his native Czechoslovakia. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/an-illustrated-talk-by-jan-mladovsky-an-anglo-czech-artist/
LOCATION:Slovak Embassy\, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BCSA Events
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SUMMARY:Roughing it in Prague: a talk by Rob Humphreys
DESCRIPTION:Rob’s introduction to things Czech and Slovak was through the children’s games his father (a lecturer in Czech and Russian at Leeds University) brought back from trips behind the Iron Curtain. He was asked in 1988 to write the Rough Guide to Czechoslovakia which was published in 1991 and then followed by the Rough Guide to Prague. Rob described the adventures\, mishaps\, strange encounters and surprises experienced during the writing of his guidebooks\, as well as commenting on the changes brought about by the Velvet Revolution and by the internet.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/roughing-it-in-prague-a-talk-by-rob-humphreys/
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SUMMARY:Daria Klimentova\, prima ballerina - my life and work\, an illustrated presentation
DESCRIPTION:Surprising the world of ballet with her appointment as principal dancer with the Prague National Ballet Company at the early age of 18\, Daria Klimentova went on to have a stunning international career\, including 18 years as principal ballerina with English National Ballet. Since her retirement in 2014 she has devoted herself to the education of new generations of dancers\, notably by founding and teaching the International Ballet Master classes at Prague’s Narodni divadlo. Her autobiography Daria Klimentova – Agony and Ecstasy – My Life in Dance was published in 2013.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/daria-klimentova-my-life-and-work-a-talk-by-the-czech-prima-ballerina/
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SUMMARY:The Renegade Count -  a talk by Milan Kocourek
DESCRIPTION:Diplomat and member of the Austrian parliament\, Count Franz/Frantisek von Luetzow (1849-1916) was that rarity\, a German-speaking Bohemian aristocrat whole-heartedly devoted to the Czech national cause. With a British mother\, he wrote prolifically in English\, attempting almost single-handedly to dispel anglophone ignorance about Bohemian history and the contemporary Czech scene. The talk covered some of Count von Luetzow’s endeavours in the years before 1914 as well as his wartime activities.
URL:https://www.bcsa.co.uk/event/the-renegade-count-talk-by-milan-kocourek/
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