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Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/28/2020 5:05:51 PM CZECH CENTER City of ^^233 m CeskE CENTRUM * •wr Dignitaries and artists from western Czech Republic coming to New York to pay homage to U.S. troops for liberating Pilsen and to invite audiences to the Liberation Festival in Pilsen in May 2020. JANUARY 29 | 2020 75th ' Anniversary of the Liberation of Pilsen and Western Czechoslovakia by the U.S. Army THE LIBERATION OF PILSEN CELEBRATING SWINGING TO FREEDOM: THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION PILSNER JAZZ BAND BY THE US ARMY JANUARY 29, 2020 8:00 PM EXHIBITION OPENING: JANUARY 29, 2020 6:30 PM BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL ON THE VIEW UNTIL: MARCH 1,2020 (BALLROOM) CZECH CENTER NEWYORK (GALLERY) Czech Center New York, Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street - New York, NY, 10021 MORE INFORMATION AT WWW.CZECHCENTER.COM Embassy of the Czech Republic Consulate General of the Czech Republic Washington, DC in New York ft Bohemian Benevolent | §^zeRsky §Vazdroj CzechTourism & Literary Association PATTON BBLA MEMORIAL PILSEN Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/28/2020 5:05:51 PM Received by NSD/fARA Registration Unit 07/28A V m ■ Mi> O 5 c > 5 < s»s 3 03 •slf J M- 3U im? s| | 4 J*£ J ill 3 ^ in n '03 m a: M 03 ® a> ^ Cl @) O OJ c >u m "c >5 03 >>v' C <—) E o o CD ■o -i->QJ 03^ T3 S3 ^ o QJ O QJ C CD r-C 03 CM h SO oO CL0 S oo Co a ^ O o_ o; w oo CO > v- I* •05 |g •0 a; 4* O CD O 0 CO ^ > -a 0 * o $ C co c c z © 00 o CD v> fU y> o ra CM o 0 -g CL • ■ o cn > 0 O 0 CD C ^ (— vx/ |5 5 - c CM to 4-» 3 O >u >u h ZOO) o C SCU -:c3 U3 x: £ i_ '-P (D •0 >u „ CD (VI *•£ <U C CO 0 •0 Q. 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This by CCNY and the National Museum of the Czech Republic. exhibition will explain the advance of Allied troops from ON VIEW: OCTOBER 30 - JANUARY 12, 2020 Normandy to Pilsen, the role of General George S. Patton in the Gallery and other historical circumstances. EXHIBITION OPENING: JANUARY 29, 6:30PM EXHIBITION: LUKAS HOFMANN: SKIN COME LEATHER in the Gallery Czech performance and ON VIEW: JANUARY 29 - MARCH 1, 2020 installation artist Lukas Hofmann presents his first CONCERT: SWINGING TO FREEDOM: US solo show titled Skin PILSNER JAZZ BAND Come Leather at Art A concert celebrating it in General, in partnership the liberation of Pilsen with the curatorial platform by United States troops Jindrich Chalupecky Society. in 1945. This concert is I ON VIEW: NOVEMBER 24 - JANUARY 31, 2020 at Art organized as a thank in General (145 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201) you as well as an invitation to extensive FILM: ALL MY COMPATRIOTS celebrations to be held in the Czech Republic in May as A tribute to recently part of the Liberation Festival. deceased director Vojtech JANUARY 29, 8PM in the Ballroom Jasny - who was considered "the most Czech" of his FILM AND DEBATE: VOJTECH KYNCL - INSTITUTE contemporary filmmakers. OF HISTORY OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES The movie deals with the Historian Vojtech Kyncl from the Institute of History of the lives of seven friends from Czech Academy of Sciences, who specializes in the era Moravia after the end of of the end of WWII and is one of the most knowledgeable WWll.The film was banned and the director went into exile experts on this theme in the Czech Republic, will present rather than recant the movie. He won the award for Best his lecture on this topic in relation to the liberation Director at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. of Czechoslovakia in 1945. JANUARY 9, 7PM in the Cinema FEBRUARY 6, 7PM in the Cinema CZECH SCIENCE CAFE: LUKAS VlZEK, POP-ROCK CONCERT: MICHAL HRUZA HARVARD UNIVERSITY Michal Hruza has been J This lecture and discussion with a personality of the Lukas Vizek, Fulbright visiting Czech music scene for scholar at Harvard University more than ten years. He in Cambridge, will focus on is a singer, songwriter, mathematics education - its lyricist, and founding inspiration from the past, member and longtime impulses from the present and challenges for the future. frontman of the band Ready Kirken. In 2006, he set out on JANUARY 16, 7PM in the Gallery a solo track and founded the band Kapela Hruzy. FEBRUARY 13, 7PM in the Ballroom POETRY EVENING: THE DRUG OF ART: IVAN BLATNY AT 100 FILM: ECHOES OF JI.HLAVA An evening of readings, discussion, Ji.hlava International Documentary photos, and film celebrating the IVAN BLAT Film Festival - the largest event work of Czech avant-garde poet Ivan of its kind in Central and Eastern Blatny (1919-1990). The program Europe. The festival is a celebration brings together poets, translators of creative documentary films. and scholars, along with editors Ji.hlava pays tribute to courage and from Brooklyn-based Ugly Duckling risk in the human spirit, highlighting Presse, who in 2007 published the documentaries with artistic and social first bilingual edition of Blatny's impact. This showcase presents a selection of the three most work titled The Drug of Art. exciting films of the festival's 2019 edition. JANUARY 22, 7PM in the Cinema FEBRUARY 20 8, 25 & 27, 7PM in the Cinema PLEASE RSVP FOR EVENTS AT WWW.CZECHCENTER.COM OR BY CALLING 1-646-422-3395 VISUAL ARTS FILMS PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOPS MISC SCIENCE CCNY Drogram11-12 2020.indd 2 . TSy 02.12.19 21:04 Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/28/2020 5:05:51 PM l/Fl\RlA~^c^isti~ation Unit 07/: Unit BNH o DC ROOF TERRACE CM oc < < o o Q CM 5 Gallery lu CZECH CENTER z u < < NEW YORK E 11 321 EAST 73RD STREET oc C NEW YORK NY 10021 m3 TEL.: 646 422 33S5 a. uj PQ [email protected] I- PQ WWW.CZECHCENTER.COM < OPENING HOURS - GALLERY MONDAY - SUNDAY 10AM-6PM OFFICE hours: 111 MONDAY - FRIDAY 10AM-6PM PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE CJ ARRIVE 10 MINUTES EARLY TO SECURE RSVP U THANK YOU: x J&. usam % CSOB old town OC CJ America Tours* cc Z> iu UJ DC N z< e] HI CJ Registration07/28/2020 5:05:51 PM let ’RESENTATION: RENATA FUCIKOVA 50 YEARS EMIANTTTiTCI SI OFS.E.M. ENSEMBLE In Bohemian Stories, author Renata The S.E.M. Ensemble will celebrate Fuclkova presents a journey through its 50th anniversary with a concert FV-tS. \ the history of Czechs in the United States ofpremieresandotherworksdisplaying Ip ^ and describes bonds between the two the breadth of compositional practices f iflfl countries through lived experiences. that the ensemble has championed over MARCH 10,7PM in the Cinema the years. Featuring soloists Hana Kotkova (violin), Thomas Buckner (voice), Tom Hamilton (electronics), and conducted by Petr Kotik. Music by Christian Wolff, Petr Kotik, Julius Eastman, Miya Masaoka and Robert Ashley. APRIL 1.8PM in the Ballroom The exhibition is part of the two- DISCUSSION: month-long program of special events janacek: last year and this year coinciding with the staging of Leos 115 years ago, Janacek published an article called "Loni a letos" Janacek’s opera Kata Kabanova at The (Last Year and This Year). Our panel uses this title as a jumping off point Metropolitan Opera in New York in spring 2020. It explains the creation and to talk briefly about the history of the reception of Janacek first staging of Kata Kabanova in Brno in and concentrates on the question of what Janacek hasto offer us today. 1921. It also presents the history of productions of Janacek's operas at Moderated by Prof. Michael Beckerman. Panelists: Katelyn Bouska the Met and includes a series of paper collages by the Brno-based artist and Thomas Cabaniss.
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