Professor Thomas Ort will explore the uncanny relevance of the early 20th century Czech writer, Karel Capek, for our times' political and technological developments. Capek's fears about the displacement of human labor by machines and the threat of authoritarianism appear closer to their realization than ever since the 1930s.
Annual service to remember and honor our parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, friends, and all the unknown who perished in the holocaust.
In this year’s Sunday Musicale, Antonin Dvorak’s delightful Piano Quintet in A Major, opus 81 will be heard alongside spirituals arranged by Harry T. Burleigh, African American composer and singer befriended by Dvorak, and by fellow composer Moses Hogan, plus Dvorak’s own beloved vocal work "Songs My Mother Taught Me."
The 1960s film Dita Saxova takes place in a boarding school for orphaned Jewish girls a few years after WWII. As Dita explores relationships with men, she listens to advice of her teachers and elders. Everyone is puzzled by this gorgeous young woman.
International violin virtuoso Iskandar Widjaja returns with a concert full of classical and contemporary musical inspiration. From Dvorak and Gershwin to a selection of Asian, American, and European works – as well as Iskandar's own compositions – themed around romance. Accompanied by pianist Miki Aoki.
Celebrate love in style and experience an evening of romance, fun, and unforgettable entertainment. Live music by the popular Express Band, dance show, food buffet and more. Get ready to hit the dance floor with captivating tunes that will keep your spirits high all night long.
A multilayered portrait of Czech dissident playwright turned head of state, who became a political icon while retaining his insight, humour, and dedication to public service.
A 1920 German silent horror film by Paul Wegener, a German stage actor come filmmaker and screen actor. Introduction by Irena Kovarova.
Musicologist Michael Beckerman explores music on the “outer edges” of the set of Czech Jewish music in order to ask whether such a set actually exists.
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 six minutes.
An evening honoring the legacy and values of Vaclav Havel, featuring a pop-up exhibition of the bronze sculpture “Citizen/Disappearing Man” by Czech artist Olbram Zoubek and a seminar titled “Vaclav Havel’s Message to Young People.”
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.
Milan Zonca will revisit this question of the possibility of intellectual and religious contacts between the Jews and the Hussites during the Hussite movement at the turn of the 15th century in Bohemia.
An unprecedented multi-year project presenting all of Antonin Dvorak’s chamber works.
Gordon Dale, the Inaugural Dr. Jack Gottlieb Scholar in Jewish Music Studies, will examine the spiritual significance of music according to Jewish mysticism, and present melodies associated with important rabbinic figures.
An afternoon of jazz improvisation and exploration inspired by Czech composer Leos Janacek and his younger Hungarian contemporary, Bela Bartok. Hear also original works by the talented Czech-born pianist and composer Antonin Fajt.
A night of dancing, live music, and Halloween fun, featuring the Bales-Gitlin Band and a special performance by professional dancers Stephen and Alexandra Hughes.
An intimate evening with Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, an award-winning photography duo who will share their family’s deeply personal story captured in their upcoming book.
An evening celebrating Karel Gott, a Czech pop singer and painter (1939-2019), an expressive tenor, who was voted the Most Favorite Male Singer 42 times at the annual Czech music awards, Czech Nightingale.
A festive celebration of Vaclav Havel's legacy and the vibrant Czech and Slovak presence in New York City, with Guest of Honor Martina Navratilova.
A concert with curated commentary, featuring works by Bedrich Smetana and two 20th century composers whose unlimited creative output was tragically cut short by the Holocaust.
Follow the lives of three young Czech-Slovak Roma who are children of the first generation of immigrants to the UK in the 1990s due to racial and social discrimination.
Lowlands is a haunting depiction of the moral decomposition of the terminal years of communism seen through the eyes of a child from the German minority of Romania. It is based on a text by the Nobel Prize winning writer Herta Muller.
A daughter’s relationship with her father is always special, but how does it change if the father is a famous dictator? How does it feel when Dad is a “monster”? Here Moscow Calling dynamites the idea of unique truth and proposes to the audience an intense theatrical-cinematic experience.
A puppetry workshop led by Marta Hermannova and company members of The Zlin Project centered on their process of creating The Zlin Project – a puppet production about the life of the city of Zlin in the era of Tomas Bata.
More than a decade ago, the right-wing extremist terrorist cell known as NSU came across the novel The Turner Diaries by American neo-Nazi William L. Pierce. This work served as a guide for other neo-Nazis world-wide. Playing Earl Turner combines documentary material with fictional literature and creates a disturbing scenario that fundamentally questions the common notion of lone perpetrators.
A thrilling and gut-wrenching play that charts the relationship between Carla and her young charge, Helver. Helver is fascinated by fascism – not by the ideology, which he is unable to grasp, but by the bravura of the movement.
Filmed during early Covid in a vast, empty building, with 20 performers in permanent motion, Effemera is about fleeting moments. Commander is inspired by real online chats of the neo-Nazi group FKD, led by a thirteen-year-old boy operating under the nickname Commander.
Riders views human action through the eyes of birds. Of the ancient inhabitants of our planet, sentient, intelligent, free beings, shrouded in mythology. Of the silent observers of our destinies.
Based on a dark comedy written in the Terezín Ghetto in 1944 by camp inmate Karel Svenk but banned on the night of its dress rehearsal for fear of SS reprisals. The play the actors are rehearsing in the film pits bike riders (Jews) against lunatics (Nazis), as did the absurdist original—a silly story with a deeply serious message.
A new project by Yara Arts Group that captures the resilience of Ukrainians in a multi-media performance about Russia’s full- scale invasion of the city.
Noon combines documentary and physical theatre that tells about the events which followed after the demonstration of eight people in Red Square on August 25, 1968.
In Boa, choreographer Paweł Sakowicz wonders about paths by which desire circulates in the body; how it is created through a spatial orientation of bodies; how it can be intermediated through popular culture, discourses, and technologies.
