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BBLA Newsletter September 2015 | Issue No. 33

View of the 5th Avenue from Central Park. Photo: Katerina Kyselica

Dear Friends of BBLA,

Thanks to our summer interns we have finished complete inventory of our art collection, the offices are spruced up, and we are ready for the new season. We are also hosting a scholar from the Czech National Archive, Ms. Zora Machkova, who is organizing our valuable documents and books.

I would like to congratulate our friends from the Kamil Kubik Foundation for their successful first Gala event held in June at the Bohemian National Hall. Kubik's work is appreciated around the world and several collectors acquired new pieces for their private collections.

I must thank the Foundation for the gift to BBLA as per the text below.

Joseph Balaz, President

Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association

Dear BBLA President Joseph Balaz,

Since the inception of the Kamil Kubik Foundation in 2012, we have received tremendous support from you and your team. In appreciation, we would like to present to the Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association the limited edition print of Kubik's Barnegat Lighthouse, The Jersey Shore.

image: Barnegat Lighthouse, The Jersey Shore, limited edition signed print, 19" x 14" image size

In addition to being a masterful artist of cityscapes, the artist, Kamil Kubik, enjoyed the natural beauty of landscapes and spent as much time as possible outdoors. His is a story of perseverance and hope, escaping Czechoslovakia during Communism, Kamil Kubik later became a celebrated painter for the White House. He had many supporters in his lifetime and thanks to BBLA''s support we are able to continue our mission, and his legacy will live on.

We are deeply appreciative of BBLA's support both in Prague and in New York at the historic Bohemian National Hall, an outstanding venue, for our first fundraising Gala this past June.

We are delighted to celebrate Kamil's life, artwork, and generous spirit and carry on our mission to support young artists in need of development with annual grants. Presenting our young grantee with funds to pursue her art was truly the highlight of the Gala supported by BBLA and Association of Free Czechoslovak Sportsmen.

We look forward to continued growth and it is our hope to support many more worthy young artists in the years ahead.

In great appreciation,

Madeline M. Boyd

President, Kamil Kubik Foundation

www.kamilkubikfoundation.org

HERE IS WHAT'S COMING IN SEPTEMBER

Wednesday, September 16, 7:00 pm

FORGET OR FORGIVE?

discussion

venue: BBLA Gallery at Bohemian National Hall

free and open to the public
suggested donation $5

A discussion with Ondrej Krajnak, PhD, moderated by Gabriel Levicky. The discussion will be followed by a screening of a documentary film Accused of Planning WW III by the director Juraj Brocko. The film is based on a true story of Karol Noskovic, one of thousands of innocent victims of red terror in the 1950's. It offers a dramatic testimony of paranoid communist system and portraits and example of brutal, neo-Stalinist persecution in Slovakia.

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THE 2015 CELEBRATING PRINT COMPETITION

call for submissions

call to artists of Central and Eastern European backgrounds

deadline for submissions: October 2

competition website: www.kadsny.com

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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INTERESTING LINKS

Virtual Tour of Bohemian National Hall
@Google Maps

Not All Will Follow This Star in the East
by Rick Lyman @New York Times

International Charles IV Exhibition Set for Anniversary
@Prague Post

Despite the Digital, Things We Still Carry
@Michigan Quarterly Review

Poem of the Week: Edict by Petr Borkovec
@The Times Literary Supplement

One Thousand and Twenty Years of Young Slovakia
book

Vaclav Havel's Radio Appeals from August 1968
@VHLF

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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'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.