Professor Hynek Wichterle will discuss his stem cell research at Columbia University Medical Center. He developed groundbreaking methods for producing spinal cord neurons from pluripotent embryonic stem cells in a culture dish.
Pianist and musicologist Katelyn Bouska offers new insights into Antonin Dvorak in America through a special musical tour focused on his compositions, students and contemporaries in the late 19th century. Featuring works by Dvorak, Burleigh, Beach, Sukova-Dvorakova.
Vit Horejs and his guests will share their memories of Majales, a medieval student tradition celebrating spring, mocking professors, elections and officialdom in 1965 Prague, during which the American poet Allen Ginsberg found himself unexpectedly crowned as the King of May.
Slovakia’s premiere Yiddish klezmer group, the Pressburger Klezmer Band, is joined by New York’s rocking downtown polka ensemble, The Old Bohemians aka Polka Loca, to present an ecstatic concert and dance music celebrating multiple heritages.
BALLROOM DANCING
A night of festivities with ballroom dance to music by N.Y. Orchestra Paul Errico Band. A dance show by Stephen and Alexandra Hughes. Food buffet with an open wine bar and Czech beer.
Cantor Matt Austerklein will share new research and musical examples which illuminate a dynamic era in Jewish music history.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation limited to 6 minutes.
Celebrating the renewal of nature in spring as well as the promise of young, new musical talent during this Year of Czech Music 2024.
Jaroslav Olsa Jr. will discuss the life and work of Miles J. Breuer (1889 –1945), a Czech-American writer who stood at the birth of science fiction literature in the USA.
Come experience the result of two distinct friendships which weave Bohemian music into the fabric of western classical music in a concert presented by musical ensemble underStaffed. Erwin Schulhoff, Alban Berg, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Join a group of theater buffs for the matinee show of The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the First World War at the Theatre for the New City and an after-show meet up.
A night of romance and rhythm, with live music, dance show, and food buffet.
Researcher Walter Zev Feldman will discuss the history of Jewish musicians’ guild, emanating from Bohemia to Poland-Lithuania in the 16th century.
Designer Oldrich Voyta will discuss the relationship between art, beauty, craftsmanship, modern technology, aesthetics, and comfort in designing shoes.
Opening event of the Year of Czech Music abroad. The concert will feature songs by Bedrich Smetana, Antonin Dvorak, Leos Janacek and Bohuslav Martinu. The program offers a special performance of Janacek's extraordinary cycle “The Diary of One Who Disappeared.”
Dance the night away in a stunning ballroom, featuring NY Orchestra Paul Errico Society Band and a spectacular dance show by Stephen and Alexandra Hughes. Indulge in a gourmet holiday feast, and toast to the season with an open wine bar and Czech beer.
Scholars, scientists, artists, and professionals of Czech or Slovak descent are challenged to introduce their talent, the subject of their work, project, research, or studies in a short presentation
In this talk, historian Elissa Bemporad will trace the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of Tsarist antisemitism pogroms and blood libels in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s.
This talk introduces two prominent figures of the Czech 1980s generation – brothers Jachym and Filip Topol. Although both brothers became dissidents and both signed Charter 77, they rejected the notion of a pre-political self and projected an almost nihilistic stance against everything.
An evening of tribute to bravery and excellence in the spirit of Vaclav Havel. With host Lesley Stahl, award-winning journalist and CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent.
Historian Hillel Kieval will introduce his recent book Blood Inscriptions and discuss how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish ritual murder.
Ghouls and goblins alike will agree, there’s no better way to celebrate Halloween than with ballroom dancing, live music, dance show, and food buffet.
The acclaimed Sullivan Quartet returns for the latest installment in an unprecedented series exploring the entire chamber music repertoire of Antonin Dvorak.
Story of a family that has carried on the tradition and spiritual legacy of their famous ancestor, the founder of a renowned rabbinical dynasty.
A staged reading of four translations of Scene 8 in Vaclav Havel’s play, The Memo (also translated as the Memorandum). An examination of the nuances of translation. Followed by a discussion with the translators.
The Dvorak Room at the Bohemian National Hall welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York Weekend – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public.
Historian Ladislav Jackson will present the lesser-known facts about the design and construction of the Guggenheim Museum between 1946 and 1949 when a Czech structural engineer, Jaroslav Josef Polivka, invented the iconic spiral diverging ramp without inner supporting pillars.
Historian Magda Teter will discuss blood libel, an anti-Jewish lie that emerged in the Middle Ages but became embedded in European Christian imagination later. The talk will explore how a medieval anti-Jewish lie spread across Europe and continues to persist into the 21st century even in the US.
The works of Bedrich Smetana and Josef Suk will be featured in a musically revealing piano program that anticipates the upcoming Year of Czech Music 2024, when musicians will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Smetana's birth and the 150th anniversary of Suk's birth.
Screening of a feature documentary Karel – a portrait of a phenomenal Czech pop singer, Karel Gott, who gave his all to his fans. Bar and refreshments provided.
The story of the Roma girl who discovers at a very young age the differences of race, color and environment, but who manages to make her way through life and transform her complexes into determination and motivation, has the power of a therapeutic exercise.
A collaborative fusion of performance, visual art, and documentary that explores the male gaze, self-objectification, and the way power shifts as we move between looking, seeing, and being seen.
A dance performance as a form of somatic protest and viscous disobedience in the light of the current aggression of the Russian government.
A hallucination, a dream, a life, a performance: conjectures and reflections on temporal efforts and their significance. What holds? What resists the bite of time? An interdisciplinary performance examining human ambition, embodied presence, and existential meaning.
A tender exploration of a relationship between a father and his son. Through a series of monologues offering advice to his son, a Czechoslovakian refugee of the 1968 Prague Spring inadvertently traces the consequences of this historical event on his life, values, and personal relationships.
