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
The Czech Centre London proudly presents a unique showcase of Czech architecture at the Atlas of the Unbuilt World. Organized by the British Council, this international exhibition is part of London...
Czechoslovak New Wave: Joseph Kilián and The Sun in a Net
Riverside Studios and Second Run DVD present a very special double-bill of ground-breaking 1960s Czechoslovak films, released for the first time ever in the UK. The evening will start with a...
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...
New Order featuring Jiří Kovanda
The exhibition presents conceptual works that unravel various stories as poetic comments on political situations, or even disturbances of the order of things, and provide unexpected encounters and...
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...
London Book Fair
The London Book Fair is taking place this week till Wednesday April 17, also presenting new Czech literature. The Czech Centre recommends some of the interesting English translations of contemporary...
Jiří Hájíček: Rustic Baroque
Real World Press has published Rustic Baroque, the English translation of Czech author Jiří Hájíček’s Magnesia Litera prize-winning novel Selský baroko. Set in the Czech Republic about a...
Jáchym Topol: Devil's Workshop
A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago but its walls still cast their long shadows and some of the inhabitants are quite...
Franz Kafka's The Castle by David Zane Mairowitz & Jaromír99
The protagonist, known simply as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snow with a castle rising above it in a mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle and...
Magic Flashlight (Kouzelná baterka) with writer Olga Černá
The Czech School Without Borders London, in cooperation with the Czech Centre London and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in London invite you on literary-art workshop with Olga Černá, the author...
Derek Sayer: Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century
This May, Princeton University Press brings out a new book by cultural historian Derek Sayer. Titled Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History, the book portrays how Prague was...
One World Echoes in London: 11 April - 23 June 2013
One World Echoes in London is a series of human rights film screenings supported by by the Czech Centre London. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of One World, Europe´s largest human rights film...
