newyork

A talk and presentation by VÍT HOŘEJŠ
Artistic Director, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, New York
Saturday, Feb 28, 2015 at 5pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 St
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org

Suggested donation: $5.00
Vít Hořejš will present the over 300-year old Czech tradition of marionette theater and the so far, little-known history of Czech puppetry in the United States.
He will demonstrate the antique marionettes that he discovered in 1984 in the attic of the Jan Hus Church on the Upper East Side, in the heart of the former 19th century Czech and Slovak tenement neighborhood.  As a crowning point of his presentation, he will perform a short excerpt from a traditional Czech marionette play using puppets and a set originally owned by the Hon. Madeleine Albright who recently donated her toy theater to the BBLA Association to be used by the Czech community in New York.

Do not miss the upcoming show of the Czechoslovak American Marionette Theater!
“The Magic Garden, or,The Princess who Grew Antlers”
March 5-22
Theater for the New City
155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street)

Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 PM
www.theaterforthenewcity.net

A talk by Dr. Anna Matušková on political campaigning in the Czech Republic.
Wed, Jan 21 at 7PM

Tesime se na Vas v roce 2015!
We are looking forward to seeing you in 2015!

Board SVU New York

An Illustrated Talk and Book Presentation
by Edward Kasinec
Curator Emeritus, NYPL & Associate Harriman Institute, Columbia University

With Carpatho-Rusyn Society New York
In cooperation with the Consulates General of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

Monday, Nov 24 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St. New York City

RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation 5.00

Refreshments

Edward Kasinec will introduce the Czech ministerial official, translator of Ukrainian literature and amateur photographer Rudolf Hulka (1887 – 1961) and his only recently uncovered color and hand-colorized photographic images that depict Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia in the early 1920s, capturing all the geographic regions, architecture, and peoples.

The entire collection, preserved in the vaults of the Slavonic Library in Prague, includes more than 4,400 unique visual materials depicting Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia and, to a lesser extent, other parts of Europe and North Africa Edward Kasinec has served as a library curator at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and for more than a quarter century at the Research Libraries, The New York Public Library. He is the author of many publications in the field of Russian and East European culture and has travelled, consulted and lectured throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

TEN TA TO PROJECT DESCRIPTION in ENGLISH click here

AN UPDATE!
We are happy to report that much progress has been achieved in both, creating the app and raising some of the needed funds.

Many thanks to everyone for your donation, be it $20 or $1,000, including the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Grant Program for Czechs Living Abroad, the Adjunct Professional Development Fund at New York University, the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter; and private donors including Josef Balaz and Ludmila Hess Schwarzenberg. We are also very grateful to Václav Cvrček, director of the Czech National Corpus Institute (ÚČNK) for technical assistance.

HOWEVER, there is still a lot of work to be done and WE NEED TO RAISE AN ADDITIONAL $2,600!

We hope you will join other sponsors and contribute funds to help complete, test and launch the application by the end of 2014. Your donations are tax-deductible in the USA. All sponsors will be listed on the application and in all promotional texts.

WILL YOU HELP?
You can send your tax-deductible contribution

1. By a secure payment to the CSAS’ PayPal account with your credit or debit card:




Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Inc.
with a memo: Ten-Ta-To
and mailing it to:
SVU c/o Suzanna Halsey
515 Avenue I, #1B, Brooklyn
NY 11230, USA

We are looking forward to your participation and support.
Please forward this to anyone who may be interested. Děkujeme!

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TEN TA TO Unikátní pomůcka ke studiu češtiny pro telefony Android a iOS.

Aplikace Ten Ta To představuje praktickou pomůcku k procvičování a zapamatování českých gramatických rodů, jejichž správné určení je v češtině velmi důležité a pro mnohé studenty češtiny, i potomky rodilých Čechů, často velmi frustrující, viz např. kostel-postel, kůl-sůl. Aplikace Ten Ta To vychází z modelu již existující aplikace Der Die Das pro němčinu, kterou vytvořil developer Luboš Mikusiak spolupracující na Ten Ta To české verzi. Bude obsahovat 4,000 nejužívanějších podstatných jmen, včetně slov z populární učebnice Lídy Holé New Czech Step By Step/Tschechisch Schritt für Schritt 1. Bude použitelná bez internetového spojení uživatelům na celém světě. Přídavná jména přispějí k zapamatování správných rodů.

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s poznámkou Ten Ta To, a
poslat jej na adresu: SVU c/o Suzanna Halsey, 515 Avenue I, 1B, Brooklyn, NY 11230, USA.

Více informací v angličtině nahoře: Ten Ta To Project Description.

Děkujeme a těšíme se na Vaši účast.

A special screening of two Slovak documentary films depicting 1988-1989 events in Slovakia. US premiere.
Part Two of the ongoing Forget or Forgive? series of documentary films, recounting the dark periods in Czech and Slovak history under communism, and discussions about facing collective memory.

Moderated by Gabriel Levicky

Monday, October 27 at 6:30pm
Bohemian National Hall, 3rd Floor
321 E 73 St
New York City

RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Suggested donation 5.00

Program

November +20, dir Tomas Vitek, 2009, 26 minutes
The film presents a documentary view of the pre-November, November, and post-November events in 1989, which impacted the development of Slovakia’s society. With Ján Budaj, Ján Čarnogurský, Michal Hvorecký, Milan Kňažko, František Mikloško, Ladislav Snopko, Peter Šťastný, Magda Vášáryová.

Candle Demonstration (Sviečková Manifestacia ), dir Ondrej Krajnak, 2008, 26 minutes
A peaceful demonstration for religious freedom in 1988 at the Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava brutally suppressed by the police and thesecret service. The film includes recordings by the State Security´s secret camera. Secret police agents are identified. Interviews with the protagonists of this historic demonstration recorded twenty years later include Peter Bohunický, Ján Čarnogurský and Ľudmila Heribanová.

Films are produced by the Nation’s Memory Institute in Slovakia. In Slovak with English subtitles.

Gabriel Ariel Levicky, writer, translator, poet and cartoonist, was born in Slovakia. In August 1968, he participated in the anti-Soviet invasion protests in Bratislava and left the country soon after for Israel. After returning to Czechoslovakia a year later, he was involved in the underground movement and became the subject of secret police harassment, especially after signing Charter 77. In 1979 he left Czechoslovakia again, first to San Francisco and then to New York City.

The Nation’s Memory Institute / Ústav pamäti národa (ÚPN) is a public organization founded in 2002 by the Slovak Parliament for the purpose of investigation, analysis and disclosure of documents from the dark period of Slovak fascism to Soviet style communism in Slovakia 1939-1989. ÚPN holds a vast reference archive open to public scrutiny.

Organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in New York (SVU-NY).
In cooperation with the Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti naroda) in Bratislava and the Consulate General of the Slovak Republic.

A screening of a documentary film
Karel Hasler: The immortal Balladeer of Prague

Fri, Sept 12 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 Str, 3rd Fl.
New York City

The film will be introduced by its author, and the son of Karel Hasler, Thomas Hasler.
The screening will be followed by a sing-along of “haslerky”, popular songs composed by Karel Hasler (in Czech) led by Katarina Vizina, a singer of Cabaret Metropol, and a graduate of Janacek Academy of Music in Brno.
Texts will be available.
Refreshments.

Suggested donation 5.00.
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org

THE CASE OF CZECHS: Emigration in New York 1874-1966
and the iconic Newyorske listy, the longest-lived Czech newspaper in New York

A talk by David Chroust
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University,
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives

Wed, June 25 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St.
New York City
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org

Tomáš Grulich
předseda stálé komise Senátu PČR pro Čechy žijící v zahraničí

Pondělí 5.5.v 18:30hod.
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St., kino
New York City

Ve spolupáci s generálním konzulátem České republiky v New Yorku
Tomáš Grulich je absolventem historie a etnologie na FF Univerzity Karlovy. Pracoval jako kastelán v zámku Klášterec nad Ohří, etnograf v muzeu v Teplicích a působil také v Národním muzeu. Vyučuje na Fakultě sociálních věd UK. Od roku 2006 je senátorem. Zabývá se hlavně otázkami migrace, mezinárodních vztahů a historie; na tato témata napsal i několik knih, např. Nová emigrace z České republiky po roce 1989 a návratová politika ( 2014); Potlačování dopadu zahraničního odboje v Československu prostřednictvím bezpečnostních složek ( 2010); Porovnání zákonů a přístupů k národním diasporám v různých zemích (2010); Krajané a Česká republika (2009); Domácí postoje k zahraničním Čechům v novodobých dějinách 1918 – 2008 (2009); Dějiny zemí koruny české. II., kapitoly po roce 1945 (1992) .

Author’s Talk

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73 St, New York
RSVP newyork@svu2000.org

“Karel Capek still has not received the attention he deserves in the Anglo-American world, and Czechoslovakia still has not been fully assimilated into our picture of interwar Europe. Thomas Ort accomplishes both tasks beautifully”
David S. Luft, Professor of History, Oregon State University

“…a compelling portrait of Czech artistic life before and after World War I adds important new insight into the interconnections between aesthetics and politics during this turbulent period.” – Mary Gluck, Professor of History, Brown University

“Elegantly written and thoughtfully argued.” – Chad Bryant, Associate Professor of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fri, Nov 15 2013 at 6:30 pm
Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73 Str., kino
New York City

The Czech photographer DUSAN SWALENS, based in Belgium, will present his latest “BIO 2014” project, a series of macro-photographs from botanical gardens in twelve European countries.
“Playing with vision, perspective, and the power of visual representation, these works ask broad metaphysical questions concerning mankind’s relationship to nature’s ecosystems and our larger place within the universe.”

In conjunction with the exhibit at Agora Gallery in Manhattan.
Book and 2014 calendars signing.

In cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic.
Limited seating. RSVP newyork@svu2000.org

Monday, October 28th at 6:00 pm
At New York University !!
3rd Floor Auditorium, 100 Washington Square East
(entrance on Waverly Place)

A Lecture by Vladimír ŠLAPETA, DrSc.
University of Technology VUT Brno, Czech Republic

Prof. Šlapeta’s lecture surveys the history of Functionalism in Czechoslovakia as it relates to the development of the Czechoslovak state in the interwar years. He discusses the work of numerous architects, tracing the wide range of approaches evident Czech design during this period.
Šlapeta identifies how works allied with the international movements of Cubism, Constructivism, Purism, and Poetism coalesced into a Functionalist idiom in Czechoslovakia in the 1920’s and 30’s.

Presented by New York University, Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies and Czech House NYU, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies 
in cooperation with Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences NY

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73 Str., 3rd Floor
New York City
RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Director Ondrej Krajňák, 2009 Slovakia, 45 min.
Gabriel Levicky will introduce the film and lead the discussion following the screening.
In cooperation with Ústav pamäti národa (Institute of National Memory) in Bratislava, and the Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in New York.

This excellent documentary film confronts and exposes the experiences of the last surviving Slovak slave laborers who, despite all odds, miraculously survived the Stalinist labor camps. The film follows their cruel fate from their arrest until their release and return, when constantly surrounded by hostilities and death under dehumanizing conditions in the harsh, unforgiving natural environment.
In Slovak with English subtitles.

Wednesday, September 11 at 6:30pm

Peter Breiners rumination about his numerous roles as a renowned conductor, composer, arranger and pianist, in combination with a soccer player and food connoisseur.
The audience will learn about his special project SLOVAK DANCES, a 90-minute long symphonic composition based on Slovak folk music accompanied by unique video and interactive features.

http://www.slovakdances.com

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM

 

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