Czech Conversation Course at the Czech Centre
This August, the Czech Centre introduces a Czech Conversation Course, a novelty amongst our regular Czech language courses. The focus of this course will be to improve students' ability to express...
Czech band DVA at Open City Docs Fest 20-23 June 2013
The Czech acoustic-electric band DVA will perform live at the Opening Party after the Opening Gala screening of 12 O'Clock Boys, the UK premiere which will kick off this year's Open City Docs Fest...
One World Echoes: Black Out
Every evening during exam season in Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthier parts of the city, searching for light. A literal and...
One World Echoes: Stone Games
In a small town near the German border of Czech Republic, Sudeten Germans were tortured and killed during their illegal mass expulsion at the end of World War II. Do they deserve a monument or not?...
Karel Reisz, This Filming Life at Open City Docs Fest London 20-23 June 2013
Karel Reisz, director of the classic 1958 film We Are the Lambeth Boys, was the founder of the Free Cinema movement in Great Britain, but he had only come here as the last child accepted onto the...
One World Echoes: Fortress + Q&A with director Lukáš Kokeš
Over twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union directors Klára Tasovská and Lukáš Kokeš travel back in time on their visit to the unrecognised Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic. A...
Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century? book launch and conversation
Setting out to recover the dreamworlds of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the “city of light,” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris “the capital of the nineteenth century.”...
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
This classic work of Czech cinema mixes horror, fairy-tale, Surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the fantastical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and...
Martin Reiner at the Edinburgh European Literature Night
Edinburgh will celebrate European Literature Night for the second time with a smorgasbord of European writers, stories and chat. The Czech Republic will be represented by Martin Reiner who will read...
Lidice at The Welfare Ystradgynlais
This year's Made in Prague UK Tour will finish with the screening of Petr Nikolaev’s film Lidice at the Welfare community centre in Ystradgynlais. This Welsh town and its community were crucial for...
Surviving Life: Film and Discussion
The Institute of Psychoanalysis will be screening Jan Švankmajer's film Surviving Life, a surrealistic fantasy on dreams and psychoanalysis. The screening will be followed by a discussion with...
Points of Departure
Points of Departure culminates a year of collaboration with ArtSchool Palestine, the British Council and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The exhibition, designed by Czech artist Jan Pfeiffer,...
London Festival of Architecture: Atlas of the Unbuilt World
For 2013 the British Council has invited international partners in London to participate in a single major exhibition, Atlas of the Unbuilt World, in celebration of the London Festival of...
Panel Discussion on Writing, Creativity and Translation
This year will see an additional event to mark European Literature Night (ELN). It will take the form of a Panel Discussion involving a number of writers and translators talking about the role of...
Lidice at Picturehouse @ FACT Liverpool
The horrific razing of the small Czech village of Lidice was Nazi Germany's only officially recognised act of genocide during World War Two. Telling Lidice’s story through its individual...
Walking Too Fast in Bradford and Oxford
While monitoring the lives of the political enemies of totalitarian Czechoslovakia, a tyrannical secret agent becomes obsessed with the life and mistress of a leading dissident. This engaging...
One World Echoes: Motherland or Death
Motherland or Death by veteran Russian documentarian Vitaly Mansky centers around the generation born before the revolution. As they reach the end of their lives, they begin to understand that they...
Czech Writer Jáchym Topol at the Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts
Jáchym Topol will present his blackly comic award-winning novel The Devil´s Workshop at one of the most important literary events in the UK, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. On Saturday...
My Night with Philosophers presents Jan Sokol
Czech philosopher Jan Sokol will be one of the many internationally acclaimed European philosophers discussing at this year´s edition of the annual My Night with Philosophers. Sokol's topic for the...
Magdalena Kožená performs at the Barbican Hall
Magdalena Kožená is an important Czech opera singer. Powerful and virtuosic, with its glinting upper register and dark, brooding lower one, her instrument has become one of the treasures of the...
