medallion Thomas Bata Foundation mission  
Thomas Bata Foundation ""
 
Thomas Bata Foundation News About the Thomas Bata Foundation Thomas Bata Foundation Activities Thomas Bata Foundation villa rentals Thomas Bata Foundation History Thomas Bata Foundation annual reports Thomas Bata Foundation contact "" CZ Home
     
 

Registration for the sending of current information here.

 
 

What's happening at the Foundation

Click on images to enlarge

villa

 

The historic Bata Villa is ideal for receptions,

events and meetings for parties of 10 to 200.

Click here for details !

THIS MONTH

Thomas Bata Foundation price 2010

Renting of a small house - offer

78th anniversary of the tragic death ...

Commuter tennis camps for children

Commuter music camp with the Yamaha music

Opening of the Sculpture Workshop

The 2010 Wood Scultpure Symposium

 

 

COMING SOON !

Stay posted for details about these events:

 

• 'Responsible Capitalism' lecture series

ONGOING

Tours, history talks and vintage films

The Library and new publications

 

JUST PAST

Earlier this year

Last year, in brief

 
   
 

Thomas Bata Foundation prize for the best thesis written and defended in English

 
     
  price 2010

Prize winner in 2010 became Miss Petra Melichárková of Technology Faculty of Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

 

Thesis: Structure and properties of wood / polypropylene composites.

 

Award at graduation ceremonies on 8 July 2010 gave a Board member of Thomas Bata Foundation Mr. Stanislav Knotek.

 
     
    price 2010  
   
 

78th anniversary of the tragic death of Tomas Bata in air crash 12th July 1932

 
       
 

We remind the anniversary by laying flowers at the statue of Tomas Bata

 

Mr. Svatopluk Jabůrek, President of Klub absolventů Baťovy školy práce

Miloslav Blaha, a committee member

Mr. Pavel Velev, director of The Tomas Bata Foundation

 
   
 

Commuter tennis camps for children

 
     
  tenis

Commuter tennis camps for children aged 5 to15 years held on the following dates: Ist run 12 – 16 July 2010

IInd run 16 – 20 August 2010

IIIrd run 23 – 27 August 2010 daily from 8.00 a.m. to 16.00 p.m.

 

Place of holding: The Bata Villa in Zlín

 

Organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation, for applications and detailed information please call 577 219 083

 
     
 

Opening of the Sculpture Workshop - 23 June 2010

 
       
  plakát Dřevo 2010  
   

Workshop participants at the ceremonial opening of the 23rd June 2010

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The Sculpture by Soňa Ševčíková, Slovakia

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The Sculpture by Richard Šulc, Czech republic

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The Sculpture by Katarzina Dudkiewicz, Poland

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The Sculpture by Jan Polach

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The Sculpture Jana Polácha

 
       
    The Sculpture  
   

The tribute to Rudolf Uher

 
       
     
 

The 2010 Wood Scultpure Symposium ”WOOD 2010”

 
       
     
       
  wood 2009

Opening of the symposium will be held on Wednesday 24 June 2010 from 6 p.m. in the garden of the Villa Tomas Bata. You are all welcome.

 

The twelfth year of the International Student Sculpture Symposium „ Wood - Dřevo 2010“ was opened by the Thomas Bata Foundation rather non-traditionally, earlier than usually, on 14 June 2010. The invitation to participate was accepted by students from art colleges in Poland, Slovakia, Austria and Czech Republic. 6 students will took part this year. The students will work continuously in the premises of the Bata Villa for 10 days and their efforts will be concluded by a presentation of the new sculptures at the exhibition opening held on 23 June 2010 from 18:00 pm in the gardens of the Bata Villa. The exhibition opening is open to the public for free.

 

The objective of the Foundation is, in the spirit of former Bata traditions, to develop the talent of your artists, give them space to execute their ideas, to try working with different materials and devices and to present their works to the public. This year the students may work with a hundred years old oaks. Oak wood ranks among the most suitable materials for sculpting work due to its properties. The gardens and premises of the Bata Villa have become the ideal space for exhibiting the wooden sculptures; currently more than 30 works of art are exhibited in this “Sculpture gallery in the open".

 

This year’s symposium will offer one specialty, when all the participating sculptors will work jointly on a wooden sculpture during Saturday, which will be created from a huge elm tree in the park opposite the Bata Villa. The son of the late prominent Slovak sculptor Rudolf Uher, the academic architect Michal Uher (Expert Guarantor of the symposium), created a model of a sculpture based on the sketch of his father, which will be the subject of activity of our young sculptors under the supervision of the experienced artist. The new object will culturally enhance the park “under the lime trees”.

 

The history of the sculpting symposia organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation for students of both local and international art colleges dates back to 1999. In 1999 the Foundation organized its first own symposium with a free topic and the material worked was wood. The year before the Foundation was involved in a workshop in the stone quarry near Žlutava as one of the organizers, where students worked with stone.

 

The workshop is organized and financed by the Foundation, with the gratuitous help of the following companies: Baťovy lesy a statky, Husqvarna, Pozimos, Švehlák nářadí, Renomix and others.

 

Prepared by: Ing. Pavel Velev, Executive Director of TBF

 

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS – SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM ,,WOOD/DŘEVO 2010“

Igor Gazic - Wiener Kunstschule, Vienna

Jan Polách – Tomas Bata University

Richard Šulc – Tomas Bata University

Kamil Słowik - Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow

Katarzyna Dudkiewicz - The Władysław Stzremiński Academy

of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź

Soňa Ševčíková – Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava

 
       
   

model sochy

 
   

The plaster model of the statue by Rudolf Uher

 
       
   

2th day of Student Sculpture Symposium

 
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
   

3rd day of Student Sculpture Symposium

 
       
    Soňa Ševčíková, Slovensko  
   

Soňa Ševčíková, Slovakia

 
       
    Katarzyna Duckiewicz, Polsko  
   

Katarzyna Duckiewicz, Poland

 
       
    Kamil Slowik, Polsko  
   

Kamil Slowik, Poland

 
       
    Richard Šulc, ČR  
   

Richard Šulc, Czech

 
       
    Jan Polách, ČR  
   

Jan Polách, Czech

 
       
    Josef Sedláček  
   

Josef Sedláček - professional work with a chain saw

 
       
   

5th day of Student Sculpture Symposium

 
    Realize návrhu Rudolfa Uhra  
   

Realization statue by Rudolf Uher

 
   
 

Commuter music camp with the Yamaha music school for children

 
     
  yamaha

Commuter music camp with the Yamaha music school for children aged 6 to 15, held from 9 to 13 August 2010, daily from 9.00 am. to 16.00 p.m.

 

Place of holding: The Bata Villa in Zlín

 

Organized by the Tomas Bata Foundation, for applications and detailed information please call 577 219 083

 
   
 

Etiquette for university students

 
     
  etiquette

A course (in Czech) for students of the Tomas Bata University focusing on social behaviour and dining. The course discusses the accepted norms of introductions, contacts, telephone conversations, dress, hand movements, speech, table etiquette.

 

Lecturers: Mgr. Jaroslav Divoký, an expert on hotels and gastronomy

Ing. Pavel Velev. Executive Director of The Thomas Bata Foundation

 
     
 
 
   
 

Computer courses

 
     
  computer

Beginners' course: Introduction to computers, basic Windows, common operations in Word and Excel programs, browsing the internet and sending/receiving emails.

1 week 2 hours (120 minutes), a total of 12 hours, price: 590, - CZK

 

Pre-intermediate course: introduction to Outlook, specialized Word functions (Mail Merge, stops, tabs, text specialties, complex tables), specialized Excel functions (inserting pictures and diagrams, graphs, sorting, filters).

1 week 2 hours (120 minutes), a total of 12 hours, price: 890, - CZK

 

All classes are in Czech.

 
     
 
 
   
 

Guided Tours of the Bata Villa

 
     
  villa

Customized tours of the villa are offered to schools, businesses and private groups, with a special commentary on the life of Tomas Bata and the history of the Bata company. Additional features might include screenings of vintage films, documentaries and ad campaigns produced by the Filmových Ateliérů Baťa (FAB - Bata studios).

There is no charge for school groups.

 

Call +420 577 219 083 or send an email to book a tour or lecture.

 
     
 
 
   
 

Tomáš Baťa commemorative stamps

 
     
  stamp

A set of commemorative stamps issued in 2006 to mark

the 130th anniversary of the birth of Tomas Bata.

Price: 499, - CZK

 

Call +420 577 219 083 or send an email to order.

 

Click here to see other recent publications from the Foundation.

 
     
 
 
   
 

The Thomas Bata Foundation Library and Publications

 
     
  book

The Foundation's library offers a comprehensive collection of books and

periodicals relating to Tomas Bata and the Bata company for study and

research.

 
 
""

Gahurova 292, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic
tel. +420 577219083 | reditel@batova-vila.cz