Take a break from your day and hear from experts all over the world on topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for our inaugural virtual Lunch & Learn series focusing on transatlantic issues. Our second webinar will be a much broader focus on COVID-19, comparing and contrasting responses in the United States, Czech...
In this program students will study the relationship between Harlem Renaissance Writer, Langston Hughes, and Czech Poet, Ivan Blatny, through their poetry. As African American writers like Langston Hughes used Czech independence as a model for resistance, Czech writers like Blatny used American writers like Hughes as a model for the freedom of self-expression. Students...
History on Tap has moved online! To celebrate our new Artist’s as Activists exhibition, artist, curator, and educator, Vero Rose Smith, will provide a brief history of environmental art and activism. History on Tap is meant to be a fun, casual approach to learning about history and culture at the NCSML, breweries and wineries. Be...
Take a break from your day and hear from experts all over the world on topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for our inaugural virtual Lunch & Learn series focusing on transatlantic issues. The effects of COVID-19 have impacted the entire world in all facets of life. Larkin University President, Professor Rudi H....
Nigerian-Czech choreographer Yemi Akinyemi Dele has danced and created all over the world. Though Yemi was successful in Europe, he came to global fame through working with Kanye West for his video “Runaway” in 2010. The relationship between these artists continued as Yemi choreographed for Kanye West’s appearances on SNL and at the VMA’s the...
Join the NCSML and John’s Grocery for our first ever socially distant book signing of the new book, Beer Money: A Tale of the Iowa City Beer Mafia, by S.C. Sherman. Purchase your copy ahead of time and then join us on Thursday evening at Circle Drive in front of the NCSML anytime between 6:00...
The first class of the cooking series will bring you all the way to the streets of the Czech Republic. All attendees will learn about and prepare two delicious hot sandwiches: a fried cheese sandwich and a chicken schnitzel sandwich. Both will be served with homemade tartar sauce. Note: This meal is suitable for vegetarians...
Join National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and The DISTRICT Czech Village New Bohemia Main Street at the Kernels Stadium on August 6 for TWO FREE MOVIES! Gates open at 5:30 p.m. (Masks required for entry and while finding seating. Also required while walking to concessions and restrooms.) Seating will be available in the...
Join us for an outdoor art performance by Interdisciplinary Artist Amenda Tate. While three dancers perform a Polka and a contemporary freestyle, Amenda’s robot, Manibus, will translate those movements to a canvas with acrylic paint. “The whole process is like becoming a record of the moment in time, capturing the energy that is transmitted during...
