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Center for Czech Education and Culture
3115 NE 65th Street
Seattle, WA 98115 USA
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Events
Local Events
Three Lives
Three Lives: Hitchens, Havel, and Kim Jong-il, Remembered by Seattle Artists & Thinkers
Sunday, January 22, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Town Hall
Within the space of four days in December, three public figures died. Other than this fact, Christopher Hitchens (d. Dec. 15), Kim Jong-il (d. Dec. 17), and Václav Havel (d. Dec. 18) have nothing particular in common—except they each lived emphatically larger than life on the global stage.
Join a public remembrance/assessment of these men and their cultural impact, delivered by a few local luminaries, including a short reading of Havel, and then drink a toast to the mortality and vitality that bind us all.
Learn more or buy tickets ($5) at Brown Paper Tickets
River Ice
March 22 — April 7, 2012
Hugo House
Playwrights' Theatre will present the world premier of River Ice at Hugo House theatre in Seattle, beginning March 22, 2012 through April 7, 2012. River Ice is set in Prague in June of 1942, and is based on the lives of the Czech parachutists who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi head of the occupation of Czechoslovakia. The play reveals the historical tragedy of Lidice, and details the last 2 hours of the lives of two of the parachutists who are trapped in the crypt of the church of St Cyril and Methodius on Resslova street in Prague.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Author Event: Timothy Snyder
Wednesday, May 23
University of Washington
Join Professor Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, for a compelling look at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's Reich.
Presented in cooperation with the Polish Studies Endowment at the University of Washington.
A Tribute to Josef Škvorecký – Rhythm on My Heels
Film screening and concert
May 31, 2012
The literary work of Josef Škvorecký has been inspiring TV and movie productions for years. Rhythm on My Heels is a feature film based on his book "The Tenor Saxophonist's Story", shot entirely in Prague.
The film has received great reviews, screened at many international film festivals, and features music composed by internationally acclaimed Czech jazz pianist and composer Emil Viklický. This special Seattle performance will feature a screening of Rhythm on My Heels, followed by a musical performance of featured songs from the film, performed live by actors from the film and accompanied by Emil Viklický.
In development in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles.
Events of Interest
Václav Havel Memorial at the Museum of Tolerance
Sunday, February 12, 7:00 PM
Museum of Tolerance
Los Angeles
In honor of former President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel, who passed away on December 18, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, in cooperation with the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, is organizing a Václav Havel Memorial. The program starts at 7:00 PM and will include remarks by Petr Gandalovič, Czech Ambassador to the United States, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wisenthal Center, and Michal Sedláček, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles.
CGSI Symposium
March 16—17
Salt Lake City, UT
The Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI) will hold its 2012 Symposium March 16—17 at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Learn more
See SLC Program and information for times and events.
To sign up for the Symposium, fill out the Symposium Registration Form (pdf) and mail it in.
Alphonse Mucha: Inspirations of Art Nouveau
July 14, 2012
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
More than 230 rare works by Alphonse Mucha, one of the world's most famous artists, will be on view for the opening exhibition beginning July 14, 2012 at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, in Cedar Rapids, IA. The exhibit, featuring paintings, jewelry, sculptures and lithographs, is coming direct from the Mucha Foundation in Prague and London. Learn more