See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
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The Czech Centre London, in collaboration with the Tomáš Baťa Foundation and the Bata Heritage Centre, marks the 150th anniversary of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa's birth, founder of the global Baťa Shoe Company, with an exhibition exploring his achievements and guiding principles and their realisation in East Tilbury. It reveals how ideas about work, culture,... Read more » 
The story of a dynasty that transformed the Czech principality into a kingdom and profoundly shaped the form of Central Europe comes to life in the National Museum’s largest exhibition of the year. It brings together more than 900 exceptional exhibits from nearly seventy institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad, presenting the most extensive project... Read more » |
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BATAstories is a sweeping documentary driven by the voices of ‘Batamen‘ worldwide, stories from Baťa-built towns, and reflections from Baťa’s descendants. It traces the extraordinary rise of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa - the visionary cobbler’s son who transformed a small-town workshop into a global industrial shoe empire. Directed by the master documentarist Peter Kerekes, the film... Read more » |
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This workshop focuses on the ‘Prague-Vienna Circle’, a group of Jewish friends from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire who, having survived the Holocaust and reunited in British exile after 1945, sought to make sense of the momentous events they had witnessed. The circle comprised Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, poet and Oxford anthropologist Franz Baermann Steiner, and writer, sociologist... Read more » |
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This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the British Czech and Slovak Association (members, supporters and friends) to meet, eat, drink, chat (maybe practise your Czech or Slovak) and get to know each other in a relaxed and informal setting. Everyone interested in Czech and/or Slovak matters is most welcome to join us. We... Read more » |
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The European Writers’ Festival returns this May, bringing together leading and emerging writers from 26 countries for a weekend of discussions on literature, translation and the challenges shaping Europe today. Among the featured authors is Jáchym Topol, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Czech literature. Emerging from the underground cultural scene of 1980s Czechoslovakia,... Read more » |
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