Upcoming events schedule

Are you a Czech teenager (14-18) interested in American culture, who wants to practice your English conversational skills with a native speaker? If so, come and chat with American students Lyla and Emma, play games and have fun. All levels of English are welcome to participate. This time we will meet virtually via Zoom.

Sign up at czechenglishout@gmail.com today!

Join us at the American Center’s monthly English conversation club!  If you want to improve your English skills, practice with the American Center team and American diplomats, or just love coffee, join us! All English levels are welcome to participate.

In English. RSVP by filling out the form bellow.

“The Art of Dissent” celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary’s main protagonists – Václav Havel, band singer Marta Kubišová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) – became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970s and 80s. Havel fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989.

The movie combines rare archival footage with interviews with key dissidents filmed over three years in the Czech Republic, England, and the United States. The film speaks to our contemporary political malaise by underscoring the resolve and courage of dissidents who strove to re-build a battered civil society with artistry, tolerance, and truth. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film director and producer James LaSeur and Mariana Čapková.

In English. RSVP by filling out the form bellow.

On Sunday, December 17, 1944 one of the largest air battles of World War II took place in the skies over Moravia. The U.S. Air Force attacked oil refineries in Nazi-occupied southern Poland.  Nearly one thousand aircraft, including B-24s Liberators, B-17Gs Flying Fortresses, P-38 Lightnings, and P-51 Mustang fighters departed an Italian air base, not expecting strong resistence from the Luftwaffe, but they were wrong.  The exhibition is in conjunction with the Veteran Community Center of Olomouc and curator Pavlína Vrtková.