BBLA Newsletter MARCH 2017 | Issue No. 51
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Dear Friends of BBLA,
I trust you are enjoying peaceful days.
We just concluded a beautiful exhibit of Josef Duchan's works spread across the entire third floor of the Bohemian National Hall. Duchan's paintings were admired by numerous visitors over the last several weeks: his sense of detail and use of rich colors turned the gallery as well as the library into a warm and welcoming space. I wish him best of luck in finding local representation.
This year our Beseda Ball Committee is surprising us with a twist on our traditional ball. The event will focus more on dancing with a less formal dinner. The organizers expect all to participate so I assume a large turnout.
Thank you for your support.
Yours,
Joseph Balaz, President
Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
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 CHECK THIS OUT
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TICKETS FOR BOHEMIAN BASH ARE ON SALE!
Join us for this offspring of the Beseda Ball and just put on your dancing shoes! We will have live music by the always fabulous Express Orchestra, professionals dancing by Michael Choi and Vanda Polakova, and have a chance to learn the popular mazurka, a fashionable dance of the 19th century.
We hope you will join us in the lavish settings in the historic Grand Ballroom of the Bohemian National Hall. Black Tie Optional. Program: 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM.
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HERE IS WHAT'S COMING IN MARCH
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Wednesday, March 22, 7:00 PM
THE ROLE OF ARTS AND CULTURE IN THE MASARYK FAMILY
talk
A presentation by Charlotta Kotik, the great -granddaughter of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia (1918-1937) and his Brooklyn-born wife Charlotta Garrigue, will illuminate the role of humanities in her family sharing roots in both European and American cultural traditions.
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Sunday, March 26, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
ORCHESTRAL MASTERWORKS: DVORAK'S CELLO CONCERTO
concert
The Aaron Copland School of Music Orchestra returns to the Bohemian National Hall for a performance of Antonin Dvorak's world-famous
Cello Concerto under the baton of Maestro Maurice Peress. Renowned cellist Marcy Rosen will be soloist in this American-period masterwork-the most celebrated of cello concertos to this day. The rarely performed
American Suite will also be heard in this concert, to be played in the historic ballroom of the 1896 "Narodni Budova."
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Wednesday, March 29, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
ZDENEK LHOTSKY: DRAWINGS & GLASS
exhibition opening
The exhibition
Zdenek Lhotsky: Drawings & Glass presents a selection of glass objects and large drawings on paper by the leading Czech artist and designer Zdenek Lhotsky.
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BBLA RECOMMENDS
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until Sunday, March 5
THREE GOLDEN HAIRS OF GRANDFATHER WISDOM
theater
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre presents Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Wisdom. Written and directed by Vit Horejs, it is performed by four performers, four dozen marionettes of various sizes and a mounted deer's head. The evening is named for its first story, a Czech tale, in which a charcoal burner's son, predestined by his fairy godmother to marry a princess, is sent by his angered father-in-law King on a quest for the sun's three golden hairs in hope that the young man will perish.
venue: Theater for the New City
(155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th Streets, New York 10003)
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Tuesday, March 14, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
readings
A short story by the Jewish German author and film critic Siegfried Kracauer. Also, translator Alex Zucker will read from his translation of Czech author Jachym Topol's Angel Station (forthcoming in may from dalkey archive press) and Jennifer Zoble, reading from the short story collection Call Me Esteban by the Bosnian writer Lejla Kalamujic. Readings will be followed by a discussion around Central European literature in translation.
venue: Book Culture
(536 W 112th St, New York NY 10025))
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Thursday, March 16, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
LOST SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE
Postcards from the Collection of Frantisek Banyai
exhibition
An opening for the exhibition of vintage postcards from Prague-based collector Frantisek Banyai. Focusing on scenes of Jewish life at the turn of the last century, these images are poignant reminders of a world that no longer exists.
venue: Museum at Eldridge Street
(12 Eldridge Street, on the Lower East Side between Canal and Division Streets
F to East Broadway; B or D to Grand Street)
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art exhibition
Curated by Charlotta Kotik. The architecture and art of the urban space can be used to control the lives of its inhabitants; they can restrain their movements and install hierarchies beneficial to those in power. The eleven artists in Politicizing Space critique and subvert these purportedly aesthetic and artistic gestures by reinterpreting the symbolic mechanisms of control.
venue: Shiva Gallery
(860 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019)
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BBLA'S MEMBER
ORGANIZATIONS
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Association of Free Czechoslovak Sportsmen
Czech and Slovak Solidarity Council
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Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association | 321 East 73rd Street, 3rd floor | New York, NY 10021
(212) 988-1733 | www.bohemianbenevolent.org | info@bohemianbenevolent.org
BBLA is a not-for-profit organization established in 1891 in
New York City
as an umbrella organization for almost eighty Czech and Slovak immigrant organizations. The mission of BBLA is to preserve and support Czech and Slovak culture in
New York City
. BBLA
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s member organizations include American Fund for Czech and Slovak Leadership Studies, Association of Free Czechoslovak Sportsmen, Czech and Slovak Solidarity Council, Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in
America
, Dvorak American Heritage Association and Sokol
New York
. BBLA is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
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