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    Film: IKARIE XB-1

    by | Jul 12, 2019 |

    This movie is part of Trylon’s  summer-long celebration of the Moon Landing’s 50th anniversary. (1963, DCP, 88m, Czech w/ English subtitles) dir Jindrich Polák w/Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolik, Dana Medrická. The crew of the first interstellar spacecraft...

    Festival of Nations

    by | May 4, 2019 | ,

    Apologies for the late post, but there are still two more days to enjoy the 2019 Festival of Nations!  The remaining days of the festival run: Saturday, May 4, 2019: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Sunday, May 5, 2019: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The Czech Republic and...

    Slovakia’s Dušan S. Jurkovič

    by | Jan 23, 2019 |

    On August 11, 2018, to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Czechoslovakia's most distinguished architects, the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center hosted a presentation entitled Rooted in Time: An Architect for All Seasons Slovakia's Dusan Jurkovic. Board...

    Welcome to our new website!

    by | Sep 14, 2018 |

    Welcome to the new website for the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota! To ensure we're best serving our community, we've updated our look and mobile functionality. You should now be able to view the site comfortably on a desktop computer, tablet, or your...

    Wine Tasting Event at SOKOL Hall

    by | Jul 6, 2015 | ,

    On Friday, August 21st at 6pm, Sokol Minnesota and the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota will be co-hosting a wine tasting event. The wine tasting will focus on wines of Central Europe. This is the first in a series of wine tastings focused on different...

    Czechoslovakia: Guinea Pig of the Cold War?

    by | Jun 6, 2013 |

    By Dr. Josef A. Mestenhauser, My focus in some recent articles was on the year 1948 from a Czech perspective. I was an active participant in  events at that time and have found it hard to explain our inept leadership and apathetic public, both of which allowed the...