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Lukáš Sommer Concert
Lukáš Sommer (born in 1984 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic) is a leading personality in the current generation of young composers. He graduated from the conservatory in České Budějovice, the Prague Conservatory and the Music and Dance Faculty in Prague, Czech...
Honoring the Slovak National Uprising and Presenting the Annual Price of Milan Hodza
Film: IKARIE XB-1
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
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...
Webinar: The Linden
Slovakia’s Dušan S. Jurkovič
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!
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
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...
LECTURE: Michal Hvorecký’s Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America)
April 10 LECTURE Michal Hvorecký, one of the most successful and most translated modern Slovak authors, is visiting Twin Cities! This Friday, April 10th, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop (on the East Bank of University of Minnesota Minneapolis...
Czechoslovakia: Guinea Pig of the Cold War?
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...
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