The Czech/American Reading Circle

      ​The Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln are proud to sponsor the Czech/American Reading Circle.  Started in January, 2019, the Reading Circle shares significant books about, by, for, and important to, people of Czech Heritage.

      Attendees are not required to have read the book being discussed, however, it helps to have some familiarity with it, and we encourage all participants to contribute any relevant information they may have.

Please join us!   The circle meets the last Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6:15 pm central time
on ZOOM.   Everyone is welcome.   

      ​​Please contact the following or any Board Member for additional information and/or to get your Zoom Link.


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                                                         Lois Shimerda Rood
                                                   402-570-2333    lois@loisrood.com

                                                         ​Layne Pierce 
                                                   402-770-5029    layne.pierce@yahoo.com

                                                         ​Mila Saskova-Pierce
                                                   402-770-4624    msaskova-pierce1@unl.edu
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      ​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Czech/American Reading Circle is continuing with its seventh year ​of reviewing great books. ​
      ​Please join us the last Tuesday each month.



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                     ​​   ​Click here for a high resolution copy of the  2025 Reading Circle Brochure. 

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         Český čtenářský kroužek


MEETING INFORMATION:
    Join Zoom: 6:15 p.m.
    Presentation: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

THE ZOOM LINK:
    Our Zoom Link is the same for ALL of the Reading Circle Sessions.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87384971615?pwd=anI0UXQ4T0I3Qk44RE16emhISGI5QT09

Meeting ID: 873 8497 1615;  Passcode: 123553





Please Join Us for our October
​Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Reading Circle!

MONTH:         October 28, 2025
BOOK:            The Memorandum (1965)
AUTHOR:       Vaclav Havel
LEADER:        Brenda Davis














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BOOK SUMMARY:

This play is a black comedy that parodies bureaucracy and conformity. Havel wrote it prior to the Prague Spring of 1968 as an ironic satire dissenting against communist rule. Apparently unable to detect its veiled themes, the play was approved by government censors and published. The Memorandum centers on the introduction of a new language. “Ptydepe,” that is meant to make work more efficient, but having the opposite effect.​









OUR LEADER, BRENDA DAVIS
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Brenda (Sabatka) Davis is a freelance scenic designer for theatre who earned a B.F.A. in design from the Yale School of Drama and her undergraduate degree in theatre from Loyola University Chicago. She is a lecturer in drawing and set design at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre at UNL. Brenda grew up in Saunders County, Nebraska where she was surrounded with her Czech heritage and is happy to be in Nebraska again, raising three piano and violin playing daughters in Beatrice, NE with her husband Jeffery Davis.