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Echoes in the USA: Folklore in Beata’s Fashion

NCSML Grand Hall 1400 Inspiration Place SW, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 29 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML National folkwear & fashion show with leading Czech designer Beata Rajská! Czech, Moravian, and Slovak national folkwear fashion show will be on display for this incredible evening celebrating...

Echoes in the USA: Rusalka in Concert

WFLA/ZCBJ Heritage Hall 1400 Inspiration Place SW , Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 30th & November 3rd - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Selections from Dvořáks immortal masterpiece, Rusalka, will include visual highlights of the Czech landscape and how Dvořák found inspiration in the Czech countryside. Featuring American...

Czechs in America – Exile/Emigration 1948 Exhibit Opening

National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library 1400 Inspiration Pl SW, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Czech documentary photographer Jiří Doležel will present his Czechs in America – Exile/Emigration 1948 exhibition focused around photographs and interviews with the representatives of Czechoslovak exile in the USA, which record the life experiences of those who had been forced by circumstances to leave the country of their origin seeking freedom and safety in the...

Echoes in the USA: Unexpected Connections

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 31 - 7:00 p.m. / St. Wenceslaus Church in Cedar Rapids, IA An evening of selected works by A. Dvořák, B. Smetana and V. H. Voříšek, with 2013 Concertino Praga International Broadcast winner classical...

Echoes in the USA: Who Loves Who?

WFLA/ZCBJ Heritage Hall 1400 Inspiration Place SW , Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 1 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Czech soprano Eliška Gattringerová, guest soloist of the Czech Brno National Theater, joins the Czech Philharmonic concert master violinist Jan Mráček, and pianist Lukáš Klánský to showcase an...

Echoes in the USA: A Legend Named Peter Dvorsky

Hemphill Theater 1400 Inspiration Place SW , Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 2 - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Peter Dvorský, a Slovak operatic tenor renowned for his lyrical voice, will be featured in a documentary by Iveta Malachovská highlighting his life and career. Dvorský, with his...

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Echoes in the USA: Draw Your Universe

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! November 2 - 10:00 a.m.- 12 p.m. / NCSML Children's book illustrator exhibition and Q&A with Marketa Vydrova, children's book illustrator from the Czech Republic! Workshop, discussion and exhibition opening of one of the most...

Event Series Echoes in the USA

Echoes in the USA: Gingerbread and Kolache

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! Kolache Class, November 2 - 2:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. / NCSML Gingerbread Class, November 3 - 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. / NCSML Featuring Petra Burianová, the first winner of the Czech television show "Bake-Off",...

Echoes in the USA: Rusalka in Concert

WFLA/ZCBJ Heritage Hall 1400 Inspiration Place SW , Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

ECHOES IN THE USA: two weeks of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library! October 30th & November 3rd - 7:00 p.m. / NCSML Selections from Dvořáks immortal masterpiece, Rusalka, will include visual highlights of the Czech landscape and how Dvořák found inspiration in the Czech countryside. Featuring Czech...