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Events

If you wish to keep in touch with what is happening and would like to join our email list, please email britishcroatiansociety@gmail.com

The following is the Society's programme of forthcoming events (additional events may be arranged):

2012

January 16: Split and Trogir - Centres of Romanesque Art. A lecture by Dr Radoslav Buzancic, Head of the Conservation Department for Dalmatia, Croatian Ministry of Culture. The Croatian Embassy, 6.30 pm. RSVP to britishcroatiansociety@gmail.com

January 17: Klapa Motuvun: A free lunchtime concert at St Martins. 1 pm start.

February 28:

Welcome Croatia
A festival to get to know a new EU member


The British-Croatian Society has come together with the British-Croatian Chamber of Commerce, the Croatian National Tourist Office, the Croatian Students and Young Professionals Network, the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, the International Trust for Croatian Monuments and the United Kingdom Association of Alumni and Friends of Croatian Universities to create a festival in 2013 to highlight Croatia in the UK as it joins the EU.
    


The first event is the launch of a online Welcome Croatia
 photographic competition Croatia Through Your Lens.

A photographic exhibition by one of our members will launch the competition:


Gordana Johnson: A 30 YEAR LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE CAMERA 


Tuesday February 28 from 18-30 to 21-00.


Croatian Embassy, 21 Conway Street, London W1T 6BN.


Sir John Ramsden chairs the organising committee of Welcome Croatia and will talk briefly about the festival.


The exhibition will remain open until March 9.

April 17: The Croatian writer Robert Perisic will take a break from the London Book Fair to talk to the Society. This will take place at the Croatian Embassy at 7 pm.  

Further programme to follow.

Previous events

2011

February 19: Screening of 'Two hours from London' in memory of Michael Foot (former Patron of the Society) at the Everyman Cinema Hampstead at 11-30 (doors open 11-00), tickets are ?10 and reservations can be made at britishcroatiansociety@gmail.com.

February 25: Scoping meeting for a Croatian Cultural Festival 2012, chaired by Sir John Ramsden, Croatian Embassy at 18-30.   All welcome.

March 24: Q & A with the Croatian Ambassador HE dr Ivica Tomic (to request places please email britishcroatiansociety@gmail.com).

April 5: 'Oscar Nemon, my father and Freud', talk by Lady Young at the Freud Museum, Swiss Cottage (tickets from the Freud Museum).

May 6: Chris Cviic Memorial Lecture "Remaking the Balkans' by Peter Sanfey at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

June 10: Concert by the Daniel Cacija Jazz Quartet; 7.30 pm, Notting Hill Community Church, Kensington Park Road, London W11 2ES.

June: summer bbq

October 18: Dr Ivan Mirnik of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum will give a lecture on Roger Boscovich on Croatian medals for the Royal Numismatic Society at the Warburg Institute at 18-00 and you are invited to attend. The Institute's address is Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB.

November 23: A major exhibition entitled 'Roger Boscovich and the Royal Society' will open on November 23 and be on until February 15 at the Royal Society.   This is a very special event marking the 300th anniversary of his birth and the 250th anniversary of his election to the Royal Society.   For further information please go to www.royalsociety.org/Events-and-Exhibitions.

December 2: An exhibition celebrating Dubrovnik will be held at the Croatian Embassy from 6pm - 8pm. The exhibition looks at the history of Dubrovnik through some rare photographs and documents, as well as featuring connections between the Republic of Dubrovnik and Great Britain. The Embassy's address is 21 Conway Street, London W1T 6BN. Croatian wine will be served. 

December 3: BCS annual dinner, to  be held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, at 19-00 for 19-30. This year the dinner is in honour of the City of Dubrovnik. Tickets are £50 each. To reserve places, please email britishcroatiansociety@gmail.com as soon as possible with the names of those who will attend, giving any special dietary requirements.

2010

Holy Darkness: Prehistoric Cave Sanctuaries of Dalmatia, talk by Dr Stašo Forenbaher (Institute of Anthropology, Zageb), Croatian Embassy, March 11

London Festival of Architecture, opening of the Croatian exhibition in Fitzroy Square, Friday June 18 (exhibition lasting until July 4); lecture and private view for Society members in Regent's Crescent, Sunday June 20

Summer barbeque, The William Morris, Merton Abbey Mills, Wimbledon, 1pm to 6pm, July 3

Klapa Motovun concert at St Ethelburga's, London at 7.30pm, October 15

October 19: at the Croatian Embassy, 21 Conway Street, London W1T 6BN, from 18.00 a preview of an exhibition by the Croatian painter Vjekoslav Stipica in the presence of the artist, followed by a lecture at 19.00 by Dr Josko Belamaric 'Tribute to Robert Adam' and a lecture by Vedran Matosic 'Split - the big event.'

November 12: the British-Croatian Society's annual dinner to be held at the Vecino Restaurant, 189 New Kings Road, London SW6 4SW from 18.30. Tickets £42.

December 13: the Society's AGM followed by HE The Croatian Ambassador Dr Ivica Tomic who will talk about the UK-Croatia relationship at the Croatian Embassy, 21 Conway Street, London W1T 6BN.

2009

Split, Ancient and Modern: a captivating city, presentation on the restoration being undertaken in Diocletian's Palace, April 16

The British and Vis: War in the Adriatic 1805 -1815, talk by Malcolm Hardy to mark the publication of his book, Croatian Embassy, April 30

The Renaissance of Marko Marulić (Split 1450-1524), British Library Conference Centre, May 11

Croatia in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Croatian Embassy, May 20

Croatia as a Regional and European player, talk by Christopher Cviić, The Rose, London, June 24

Zagreb School of Animation, London International Animation Festival, September 5

Croatia: Aspects of Art, Architecture and Cultural Heritage, book launch, Sotheran's of Sackville Street, London , November 5

Annual Dinner of The British-Croatian Society, Georgian Society, November 6

2008

Landscapes from the Island of Sipan, mixed media exhibition by Arati Reddy-Devlin and John Holder, Croatian Embassy, January 16

Rab the City of Art, talk by Miljenko Domijan, Croatian Embassy, February 21

Question and Answer, an evening with Joško Paro, Croatian Ambassador in London, The Rose, April 14

Land of many colours, private view of Sunčica's exhibition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, May 7

Contemporary Croatian Cinema, Riverside Studios, June 26-29

Underwater Archaeological Treasures of the Croatian Coast, talk by Dr Irena Radić Rossi, Croatian Embassy, November 6

Annual Dinner of the British-Croatian Society, The British Academy, November 14

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