Eva Heyd presents the Ticket to the New World project in a webinar in collaboration with Czech Centre in New York

On Thursday, September 10, a webinar presenting the Ticket to the New World project took place in collaboration with the New York Czech Centre. The project depicts the extraordinary life stories of both internationally renowned and not so famous Czechoslovak artists who were forced to leave their home country at the beginning of the Second World War and ended up settling down in the United States, and their influence on the New World’s art scene. It is a multimedia project which will continue as an eponymous exhibition project in the Bohemian National Hall in New York. The exhibition will open in the fall of 2021.

The webinar was hosted by Marek Hilde and Eva Heyd, the curator of the project and a CNT project manager, while three guests appeared on the webinar as well: Julia Hammid, Véronique Firkušný and Ladislav Zikmund Lender. Julia Hammid and Véronique Firkušný recalled their exceptional fathers – photographer and documentarist Alexander Hammid and piano virtuoso Rudolf Firkušný. Ladislav Zikmund Lender, a Czech architecture historian, talked about the life and career of Jaroslav Polívka, a Czech architect and engineer who cooperated on several projects with the famous Frank Lloyd Wright. The viewers also had the opportunity to watch a short movie produced by the Czech National Trust as part of the webinar.

More information about the project can be found on the New York Czech Centre website here.

The webinar recording is available online:

We reached the final round in a Czech national competition for the best heritage project

Our project Memorial to Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the public collection in its favour reached the finals of the Czech countrywide competition Máme vybráno (which can be translated into English as “A successful fund-raiser”), organized by the Institute for Monuments and Culture, o.p.s. It is the public who nominates and votes for the projects.

We would like to thank all supporters who voted for our project online – they helped us to increase our public collection by quite a few thousand crowns, which we won in the competition.

More information about the competition can be found here. Competition results are available here.

 

 

 

 

A significant progress on our pilot project – Memorial to Marie von Ebner Eschenbach in Zdislavice: away with the garden steps from 1960

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Brilliant animated film about Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach – will it help us get the heroine’s name back into Czech textbooks?

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A significant progress on our pilot project – Memorial to Marie von Ebner Eschenbach in Zdislavice: we are restoring the 19th century glasshouse and turning it into a volunteer & visitor centre

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Gift from the Novotný family to support the return of Otto Gutfreund’s Winged Arrow back to the roof of the Škoda Palace in Prague

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Open Gardens Weekend

As part of the nationwide Open Gardens Weekend, which took place on June 6th and 7th, 2020, the CNT invited visitors to the Gardens of the Kroměříž Chateau, a UNESCO site, which is managed by Martin Krčma, our friend and the chairman of the CNT Supervisory Board.

The Czech National Trust supports the event every year, not only because we have our official headquarters in Kroměříž, but also because we helped restore the Chinese Pavillion in the Chateau Garden as one of our projects and because our pilot project site is very close to Kroměříž.

 

Irena Edwards speaks at virtual international conference celebrating the World Heritage Day

CNT chairman Irena Edwards was one of the speakers at the international virtual conference organised by INTO and the Indonesian National Trust to celebrate the World Heritage Day. CNT participated together with national trusts from the U.S., Australia and the UK. It resulted in many inspiring suggestions for the challenges we are currently facing in the field of heritage conservation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are in it together!

 

Virtual tour of the castle in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem

Dear friends and supporters of the Czech National Trust,

Even in these difficult times we are trying to continue our work as much as we can and we would like to invite you for a virtual tour of the castle in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem. The Czech National Trust has been supporting the reconstruction of the Rožmitál Castle for quite some time now, which also involves a close cooperation with the local volunteering club Rožmitálský zámek z.s.

We hope that the tour will provide you with a pleasant distraction from the difficult situation we are all faced with at the moment. The tour can be found on our Facebook page here.

We are thinking of you and your loved ones and wish you all good health.

We look forward to seeing you in the better times!

– The CNT Team

CNT Chairman Irena Edwards receives Freedom of the City of London

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