CHARLOTTESVILLE WELCOMED THE 2015 SVU REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Bruce Vlk, Suzanna Halsey
Participants from all over the country converged on the hot weekend of July 17th on the historic grounds of the University of Virginia to attend the 2015 Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences (SVU) Regional Conference. Friday opened with a lovely reception at the Garret Hall of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, a conference co-sponsor, and featured an appearance by Czech Ambassador Petr Gandalovic and his wife.
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PAVEL ZUSTIAK RECEIVES THE 2015 JURIED BESSIE AWARD
We would like to congratulate Pavel Zustiak, a NYC-based director, choreographer, performer, and founder/artistic director of the contemporary performance group Palissimo Company who was named the recipient of the 2015 Juried Bessie Award! Born in the communist Czechoslovakia and trained at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, Zustiak was recognized for his poetic layering of movement and visual imagery, conceiving the stage space as a decentralized world in which the corporeal body is the focus and canvas for a wide range of human expression.
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 HERE IS WHAT'S COMING IN AUGUST
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An exhibition of photographs by Michael Borek. In his first solo show in New York, Borek pays homage to the famous Czech photographer Josef Sudek, reflecting on beauty of places that people can see every day but no longer notice.
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The exhibition "Conceptual Art and Communism 1965 - 1989: 50 Years of Slovak Neo-Avantgarde" introduces works of Slovak conceptual artists of the late 1960s. With photographs, prints, drawings and collages, the exhibition showcases Slovak conceptual art as a unique phenomenon developed behind the Iron Curtain concurrently with similar art movements in Western world, yet with specifics of their own themes.
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THE 2015 CELEBRATING PRINT COMPETITION 
call for submissions
call to artists from Central and Eastern European countries
registration opens: August 10
deadline: October 2
The second annual Celebrating Print Competition with exhibition at our BBLA Gallery in December/January opens to submissions of fine art prints by artists of Central and Eastern European backgrounds. All fine art printmaking media, including intaglio, relief prints, lithography, silkscreen, monotype, and monoprint are eligible. For more information, contact the organizer KADS NY at: celebratingprint@gmail.com.
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ROOFTOP CINÉ-CONCERT SERIES 
silent movies and live music
venue: Bohemian National Hall
tickets: $15 online, $10 for members of Czech Center Club
A new Rooftop Ciné-Concert Series is focused on the Fallen Woman-a popular sultry theme in the early decades of cinema. The hot new summer series, running every Tuesday in July through August, features Czech and American silent films, two "early talkies," and an array of live music performed by exceptionally gifted musicians from the Czech Republic and the United States. >> Read more...
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