BBLA Newsletter MAY 2016 | Issue No. 41
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Central Park in May. Photograph: Katerina Kyselica.
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 Dear Friends of BBLA,
This is the month for all of you to come and visit us at least once.
I want to encourage you to click on our website and especially on the websites of our individual organizations and choose an exhibit or a lecture you would like to attend. Our programs are getting more and more traction among a growing audience and I would like to see that positive trend continue.
Do come and savor traditional, Czech dishes at our new restaurant, Bohemian Spirit! Last week I had an amazing "svickova" with a crisp Pilsner Urquell and I felt like being back in the old country. The new restaurant team wants to hear your comments, so please visit, eat, drink and share your observations.
See you there!
Joseph Balaz, President
Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 28th WORLD CONGRESS, CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) and the Vysoka skola zdravotnictva a socialnej prace sv. Alzbety, Bratislava, with the additional support of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University in Bratislava, are pleased to announce the 2016 SVU World Congress, to be held in Bratislava, the historic capital city of Slovakia from September 1 to September 4, 2016. The general theme of the conference will be The World in a Time of Change.
The 28th World Congress of the SVU will focus on the role of people of Czech and Slovak origin in studying, developing, and coping with a world undergoing more and more rapid changes than ever before in human history.
Papers and panel proposals are urgently solicited in the following subject headings:
1) Natural Sciences, 2) Technical Sciences and New Technologies,
3) History and Social Sciences,
4) Humanities, and
5) Culture and the Arts.
Questions about planned submissions or the submissions process should be directed to the appropriate person of the four conference program organizers: for history and the humanities - Hugh Agnew, for natural and technical science - Eva Hanusovska, for medicine - Peter Ujhazy, and for culture and arts - Cecilia Rokusek, at the conference email address:
SVUBratislava2016@gmail.com.
DEADLINE for submissions (title and 300 word abstract): July 15, 2016.
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IN SEARCH FOR VISUAL FORMS, PRINTMAKING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
by Katerina Kyselica
Cover of the spring issue of Celebrating Print Magazine, featuring artwork by Jiri Lindovsky.
If you believe that the soul of an artist is manifested through his art, then you must take tremendous pleasure in discovering a work that sends shivers down your spine. At that moment, you know that you met a soul mate. I also believe that the environment imprints itself on the soul, for all of us, through our memories. While most people share such memories only verbally, visual artists make the effort to share them through their artwork. The initial impression-a type of environmental imprint, which doesn't even have to be a conscious act-is processed and implemented throughout the course of art-making into a visual form. One could speak of memory as a matrix, as a carrier of information and continuity. Such a concept may seem removed from the discourse on printmaking, particularly since it doesn't necessarily connect to the creation of a (fine art) print. However, considering the idea of memory as a matrix may influence our opinions about the precarious situation of printmaking and the print, directing us to perceive the medium as autonomous yet omnipresent, on the edge between art and popular culture, entangled within its own ambivalent definition.I would like to invite you to explore the spring edition of CELEBRATING PRINT magazine, which features an interview with Czech artist Jiri Lindovsky, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and a scholarly review of Joanna Piech-Kalarus' linocuts by Barbora Kundracikova - print curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Olomouc, among others.
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HERE IS WHAT'S COMING IN MAY & JUNE
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on view until May 4 
KATERINA KYSELICA: QUIETLY, IN MY MIND
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(BBLA's exhibition space is occasionally closed for events. Please call 212-988-1733 to verify access.)
The exhibition Quietly, In My Mind presents recent works by Czech-American visual artist and designer Katerina Kyselica. Mixed media, collages, etchings and artist books feature playful explorations of form and texture. The presented works include a series of monochromatic, geometric compositions and collages created by reprinting one single etching plate with a densely handwritten text - Kyselica's journal entry.
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Wednesday, May 11, 7:30 PM 
ANDY WARHOL: SONGS OF MY MOTHER JULIA
Igor Kucer Emotion Group presents songs by Andy Warhol's mother Julia Warhola. This unusual music project originated from authentic recordings of Juliet Zavacka Warhol, Andy Warhol's mother who thanks to the initiative of her son recorded in the 1950s an LP of original Rusyn folk songs in a recording studio in Pittsburgh. This LP used to be sent as a Christmas present every year by Juliet to her closest ones back "to the region", as she used to call her homeland.
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Wednesday, May 25, 7:00 PM 
ESCAPING FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Open to public. Suggested donation $5. RSVP: newyork@svu2000.org
Oral history live! Dramatic stories shared by Czechs and Slovaks living in New York who broke through the Iron Curtain and escaped from communist Czechoslovakia. In English.
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Thursday, May 26, 6:30 PM 
KAMIL KUBIK FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER
A fundraising evening of art to further the foundation's mission to enhance Kamil Kubik's vision and generous spirit through the promotion of his works of art, and to provide annual grants awarded to talented artists in need. The evening fundraiser will include open bar and food, door prizes, art exhibition, and silent auction of the artworks of Czech artist Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011).
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June 1 - 30 
JARO: AMERICAN, GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONIST
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(BBLA's exhibition space is occasionally closed for events. Please call 212-988-1733 to verify access.)
Exhibition opening: Thursday, June 2, 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Free and open to the public.
An exhibition of major paintings by artist Jaro, featuring non-objective, geometric forms in a colorful melange called geometric abstraction.
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Friday, June 17, 7:00 - 11:00 PM 
venue: BBLA at Bohemian National Hall
Advance tickets online until June 15 for $25. At the door the night of the event for $35. In retro attire $5 less at the door.
Let's dance Ballroom and Latin as well as to the rock'n'roll of the 60's and disco of the 70's. It's time to glide on the dance floor, move your hips, step to the left, step to the right. Taste the beautiful atmosphere and great hospitality of Bohemian National Hall, fantastic DJ Raphael and the host Blanka.
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BBLA RECOMMENDS
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Sunday, May 15, 10:30 AM THE UPPER EAST SIDE'S CZECHOSLOVAK HERITAGE
venue: Tour of the historic "Bohemian Broadway", including St. John Nepomucene Church, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, Bohemian National Hall, and the gymnastic society's Sokol Hall, with Joe Svehlak.
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Wednesday, May 18, 7:00 PM
MANHATTAN GIRLS CHORUS: ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION
venue: Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd Str., New York City
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August 22 - September 2
THE 2016 CZECH AND SLOVAK LANGUAGE SUMMER DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN
venue: Czech and Slovak Cultural Center, Astoria, New York
Space is limited. For more information, email
czskschool@bohemianhall.com.
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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'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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