2024-05-15T16:18:42-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 825510158 AMERICAN CZECHOSLOVAK LANDMARKS TRUST AMER 2146734391 1853 W Mockingbird Ln 812 Dallas TX 75235 Dwight Sulc Chairman Board of Trustees 2146734391 2024-05-12 Dwight Sulc 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Dwight George Sulc 1853 West Mockingbird Lane 812 Dallas TX 75235 900 0 X landmarkstrust.org X 2017 OK The mission of the American Czechoslovak Landmarks Trust is to preserve, protect and promote the Czechoslovak landmarks and Slovanic cultural heritage in North America, so the future may learn from the past. 6 6 0 5 0 0 425 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 425 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 207 900 207 900 218 0 2024 2024 0 0 2024 2024 The mission of the American Czechoslovak Landmarks Trust is to preserve, protect and promote Czechoslovak landmarks and the Slovanic cultural heritage in North America, so the future may learn from the past. 0 0 0 0 0 EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL & SPEAKING TOURS PROGRAM (ETST) DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE: Educational Outreach to the hundreds of Czechoslovak communities, large and small, across North America, public and private universities and high schools, as well as receptive organizations of the general American public, in direct fulfillment of our mission to promote and educate in the matters of our Czechoslovak and all Slovanic cultural history, and landmarks. ACTIVITIES: During our fiscal year 2023, we continued to search for, locate, and build contacts with emphasis in Texas and Louisiana. Substantial hours of volunteer time were donated in 2023 by our leadership personnel. No other expenses were incurred. 0 0 0 CHILDRENs TRAVELING EDUCATIONAL MEDIEVAL FAIRE PROGRAM (CTEMF) DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE: An All-Family educational experience through total immersion into 14th Century Central European history through the method of a traveling show. Ticket purchasers will enter the show and walk into KARLSTEJN CASTLE, built in 1375 as the Treasury of the Holy Roman Empire and seat of the Holy Roman Emperor, KAREL IV, King of the Czechs. His daughter, Princess Anne of Bohemia, age 16, married Richard II, age 15, King of England, in 1382. Historic figures will appear, entertain, and educate, both as live actors, and marionette puppets. Merlin, the magician, accompanies Owain Glendyr, last Prince of Wales and good friend of King Richard II, as he escorts Queen Anne on her visit home to Karelstejn Castle near Prague. The Welsh dragon Cymru (a marionette puppet) hovers protectively over Owain Glendyr, and meets up with a cousin, Becky the Dragon of Bechov Castle in Slovakia (also a puppet). Robinhood of England walks with his cousin Janosik, known as the Robinhood of Slovakia, as they right all the wrongs of the world! A light show conjoured up through the magic of Merlin allows the audience to fly over beautiful central European landscapes, hover over ancient castles, and float down the river Vltava as the world famous music "Vltava" by Antonin Dvorak is introduced to another generation of future musicians, artists, historians, and dreamers. ACTIVITIES: In 2023 we continued laying the foundations for the future productions. The traveling tent show encompasses several avenues for cultural education. We are continuing to build on our catalogue of needs, contacts and resources. The venue will be multi-faceted, including marionette theatre, light show, volunteer actors from local colleges, children's and disabled children's participation. With a member on our Board of Directors which is one of Europe's oldest and largest marionette theatre's (Divadlo Alfa of Plzn, Jakub Hora, Executive Director) we utilize our annual meeting in Europe to build upon this great resource. 2023 marked further contacts and resources for this future program. 0 0 0 AMERICAN CZECHOSLOVAK LANDMARKS TRUST HISTORIC & CULTURAL CENTERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (CCD) DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE: To locate, catalogue, then assess care needs and business location suitability of Czechoslovak and all-Slovanic Landmarks to determine practical and economically efficient solutions of support and/or development as Cultural Centers. Where feasible, wholly-owned integrated and affiliated LLC businesses could be created to build and operate ethnic beer gardens (a central icon of Czechoslovak culture), ethnic bakeries, ethnic restaurants, Inns, marionette/cultural theatres and breweries. ACTIVITIES: During our fiscal year 2023 we continue to wrestle with the slow, contentious realities of contrary real estate developments in the immediate vicinity of some Czechoslovak historic landmarks, with fear and apprehension. Our weak financial position does not yet allow us to respond to hostel activities of others. We are still learning. EXPENSE: As of the Tax Year 2023, we have toured 25 States to begin the initial search and cataloguing stage. Along the way, we have further developed our contacts and understanding of the needs of specific landmarks. All of this is necessary preliminary work to creating a realistic and viable plan of action. This project will require a strong fundraiser income. 2022-2023 marks the beginning of our planned dual landmarks support financial structure. We have established the initial two sides of this support: LIBUSE FUND for care and maintenance of existing structures, and WENCESLAUS FUND for strategic planning and development of new structures and locations, within the scope of these stated programs. The building of beer gardens and breweries of authentic Czechoslovak character, are critical to making beer pay for this public charitable work. We continue to move forward. Please see our Newsletter for background information, at: landmarkstrust.org 0 0 0 PART III O 4d-1 AMERICAN CZECHOSLOVAK CULTURAL CENTERS FOLK DANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM (CCFDEP) DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE: To utilize the Czechoslovak historic Dance Halls and other suitable Slovanic Landmarks, to give school children; disabled children; and interested adults, suitable beginner level and possibly intermediate level dance instruction in both the Slovanic and the American traditional folk dance forms. Group dance is a public confirmation of the community and of ethnicity. SLOVANIC TRADITIONAL FOLK DANCE FORMS include: Czech Furiant, Ukrainian Dumka, Czech Polka, Moravian Sousedska, Czech Skocna, Slovakian Odzemek, Slovanic Starodavny, Serbian Kolo, Czech Spacirka, Polish Mazurka, and others. ACTIVITIES of 2023: We have continued our research and contacts with knowledgeable and interested groups with our extensive 2021-2022 travels across America, as well as our 2022 annual meeting and cultural tour in Central Europe, to be followed by a May 2024 meeting in Plzn, Ceska Republika, during which our organization is a guest of the Plzn-based DIVADLO ALFA, a statutory nationally supported Marionette Theatre of the Czech Republic. EXPENSES: Our volunteers have generously expended many donated hours to our ongoing preparations for this activity. Beyond these many valuable donated hours we had no further expenses in 2023. 0 0 0 PART III O 4d-2 AMERICAN CZECHOSLOVAK EVENT CENTERS (ACEC) DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE: To utilize the Czechoslovak historic Dance & Meeting Halls, with their excellent dance floors and raised stages as multi-purpose event centers, offering services including: WEDDINGS, and ANNIVERSARY PARTIES, as well as: Cultural evenings WITH AN ARRAY OF CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS, SUCH AS: SLOVANIC FILM; CHILDRENs LIVE THEATRE PROGRAMs; TALKS by GUEST SPEAKERS on HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, and more. Special MUSIC PROGRAMS would invite participation of local choirs to perform traditional and LOCAL and SLOVANIC MUSIC to introduce another mode of language learning beyond the already widely used spoken word: singing in a Slovanic language. EXPENSE: There was no expense for this program in 2023, even though we were able to begin initiation of preliminary research and organization of content programming. This is a secondary program that requires advance accomplishment of other programs as a prerequsite. Future projected expenses will involve SPEAKERS FEES and ARRANGEMENTS, CATERING, ADVERTISEMENT LOCALLY, and use of the Halls and other Landmarks. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 OK X X X Dwight Sulc 2146734391 1853 W Mockingbird Ln 812 Dallas TX 75235 Dwight George Sulc Chairman, Board of Trustees 30 0 X X 0 0 0 Camilla Ambrose Gresham Trustee Emeritus 1 0 X 0 0 0 E Elaine Schuster Director Emeritus 0 0 X 0 0 0 Marketa Hubena Trustee 0 0 X 0 0 0 Jacquelyn P Oxendine Corporate Secretary and Director 5.00 0 X X 0 0 0 Jakub Hora Director ex Officio 1 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 0 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 457 0 457 0 443 0 443 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 0 900 0 404 456 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1520 0 1620 1520 2024 2024 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 2024 2024 0 0 2024 2024 2024 2024 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 1539 2325 7469 433 900 12666 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1539 2325 7469 433 900 12666 12666 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12666 900 1 1 X 1539 2325 7469 433 900 12666 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1539 2325 7469 433 900 12666 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12666 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1539 2325 7469 433 900 12666 1 1 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1520 0 1520 0 0 0 0 1520 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 The American Czechoslovak Landmarks Trust refers to its participants as Members. We have no stockholders. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a The American Czechoslovak Landmarks Trust refers to its governing personnel as members. No other persons beyond the governing personnel members are elected leadership. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b We tell all leadership in our talks and publications to: "Look it up on our internet website. We also say to ask questions. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c efile,FORM.org is not performing correctly Attempt to save answer HERE for VI B The issue of CONFLICT OF INTEREST and all other issues brought up in this Form 990 are regulated in our BYLAWS, AND DISCUSSED ANNUALLY at our meetings as well as personally. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 We all agreed that we do not have any money to pay any salaries and agreed there would be no payment of any salaries. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Since inception we have delivered copies of the Form 990 only to our Board Members, Directors and Trustees, and we have made public announcement that the Form 990 and related Forms are available to the public upon request. Beginning for the year 2024 we will be able to include a copy of the Form 1023 and Form 990 with related Forms as well as our Annual Report online at our website: landmarkstrust.org which is happily growing into a regularly visited website by visitors from more than 30 countries around the world. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All three items are regulated within our Bylaws, a copy of which is publicly available. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 $101 was a gain from total annual donation exceeding total annual expenses.