EventsAbout the Havel Conversations CollectionAugust 18, 2017The Havel Conversations project is an oral history initiative in which artists, activists and politicians reflect upon Vaclav Havel’s legacy, and themes close to the late Czech president such as cultural diplomacy and human rights. This collection of interviews with American politicians (such as Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright), and …
Disturbing the peace, EventsDISTURBING THE PEACE 2017August 17, 2017The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation’s Disturbing the Peace Award recognizes writers who share Havel’s passionate commitment to human rights and have suffered unjust persecution for their beliefs. The award is given each year to a writer of a …
EventsExhibition: From Visegrad to VisegradAugust 17, 2017From Visegrad to Visegrad 3rd floor September 27 – October 1, 2017 The exhibition From Visegrad to Visegrad of the authorship of Polish Archive Society presents the history of relations between Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Czech nations, from XIV century to present day. It shows friendship and cooperation taking place …
EventsHaven Theatre Announces Full Line-Up for DIRECTORS HAVEN 2017August 16, 2017Source: Broadway World / www.broadwayworld.com / By BWW News Desk / Haven Theatre is pleased to announce the line-up for its third DIRECTORS HAVEN, the company’s ever-growing initiative showcasing the talents of three early career directors. This season, Kristen Johnson directs Vaclav Havel’s riveting political satire THE PROTEST, Ian Martin …
NewsHavel stands tall in the capital of Europe!July 19, 2017A newly refurbished building part of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg was officially opened and named after former Czechoslovak and Czech president Vaclav Havel on Wednesday, July 5, 2017. It was inaugurated by EP President Antonio Tajani and Havel’s widow Dagmar Havlova. The decision to call it after Havel …
NewsEuropeans nominate Demirtas for award for ‘enduring struggle’ for KurdsJuly 15, 2017Source: Rudaw / www.rudaw.net / By Rudaw / ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An imprisoned political leader in Turkey has been nominated for a European human rights prize for his part in the Kurdish struggle. The Group of the Unified European Left (UEL) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of …
NewsNobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies With His Dream of Chinese Democracy As Distant As EverJuly 14, 2017Source: The Slate / www.slate.com / By Joshua Keating / The death of writer, activist, and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Chinese government custody, would be tragic at any time, but comes as a particularly rough blow at a time when human rights norms are under attack and when his …
EventsREHEARSAL FOR TRUTH, THEATER FESTIVAL HONORING VACLAV HAVELJuly 11, 2017September 27 – October 1, 2017 Pilot year of Central European theater showcase Disturbing the Peace – Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk presented by Ian Buruma Launch of Havel Conversations oral histories Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street, New York For more information please send email to …
EventsLecture by Timothy SnyderJuly 11, 2017On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Lecture by Timothy Snyder, the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of several award-winning books including Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Monday, September 18, 8 pm Believe in truth. To abandon facts …
NewsVaclav Havel statue unveiled in TbilisiJune 24, 2017Source: Agenda.ge / www.agenda.ge / A statue of first Czech President Vaclav Havel was unveiled in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The statue was unveiled by Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky, who is on his first official visit to Georgia, today. Margvelashvili said that the …
NewsBust of former Czech president unveiledJune 14, 2017Source: UM News / www.umanitoba.ca / On June 14, 2017, a bust of Václav Havel will be unveiled at the University of Manitoba in the John J. Conklin Theatre, within the Taché Arts Project. His Excellency Václav Havel [LLD/99] (1936-2011) was the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first …
NewsINTERNSHIP / VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITYJune 7, 2017The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF) is seeking a creative intern / volunteer to assist the Executive Director with two major events: the second year of the Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk, Disturbing the Peace, and the pilot year of the Theater Festival honoring Vaclav Havel that will …
NewsCreative dissenters, a noble president, a funny comedian, and moreJune 4, 2017Editor’s Note: The Oslo Freedom Forum took place last week. This is the annual human-rights gathering in the Norwegian capital. Jay Nordlinger has been writing a journal on this gathering, and related matters, and the previous parts can be found at the following links: I, II, III. Onstage at the …
NewsThe Prague Appeal for Democratic RenewalJune 2, 2017Source: Forum 2000 / www.forum2000.cz / Adopted in Prague on May 26, 2017 Liberal democracy is under threat, and all who cherish it must come to its defense. Democracy is threatened from without by despotic regimes in Russia, China, and other countries that are tightening repression internally and expanding their power globally, filling …
EventsA once-forbidden play is now going underground (literally)May 12, 2017Source: The Washington Post / www.washingtonpost.com / By Kristen Page-Kirby / “I feel like a mole,” says Susan Galbraith, “emerging from the darkness.” Galbraith is the director of “Protest,” the first play mounted at Dupont Underground, and the cavernous, subterranean space is a fitting home for the Alliance for New …
EventsAbout the Havel Conversations Collection August 18, 2017 The Havel Conversations project is an oral history initiative in which artists, activists and politicians reflect upon Vaclav Havel’s legacy, and themes close to the late Czech president such as cultural diplomacy and human rights. This collection of interviews with American politicians (such as Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright), and …
Disturbing the peace, EventsDISTURBING THE PEACE 2017 August 17, 2017 The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation’s Disturbing the Peace Award recognizes writers who share Havel’s passionate commitment to human rights and have suffered unjust persecution for their beliefs. The award is given each year to a writer of a …
EventsExhibition: From Visegrad to Visegrad August 17, 2017 From Visegrad to Visegrad 3rd floor September 27 – October 1, 2017 The exhibition From Visegrad to Visegrad of the authorship of Polish Archive Society presents the history of relations between Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Czech nations, from XIV century to present day. It shows friendship and cooperation taking place …
EventsHaven Theatre Announces Full Line-Up for DIRECTORS HAVEN 2017 August 16, 2017 Source: Broadway World / www.broadwayworld.com / By BWW News Desk / Haven Theatre is pleased to announce the line-up for its third DIRECTORS HAVEN, the company’s ever-growing initiative showcasing the talents of three early career directors. This season, Kristen Johnson directs Vaclav Havel’s riveting political satire THE PROTEST, Ian Martin …
NewsHavel stands tall in the capital of Europe! July 19, 2017 A newly refurbished building part of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg was officially opened and named after former Czechoslovak and Czech president Vaclav Havel on Wednesday, July 5, 2017. It was inaugurated by EP President Antonio Tajani and Havel’s widow Dagmar Havlova. The decision to call it after Havel …
NewsEuropeans nominate Demirtas for award for ‘enduring struggle’ for Kurds July 15, 2017 Source: Rudaw / www.rudaw.net / By Rudaw / ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An imprisoned political leader in Turkey has been nominated for a European human rights prize for his part in the Kurdish struggle. The Group of the Unified European Left (UEL) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of …
NewsNobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo Dies With His Dream of Chinese Democracy As Distant As Ever July 14, 2017 Source: The Slate / www.slate.com / By Joshua Keating / The death of writer, activist, and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Chinese government custody, would be tragic at any time, but comes as a particularly rough blow at a time when human rights norms are under attack and when his …
EventsREHEARSAL FOR TRUTH, THEATER FESTIVAL HONORING VACLAV HAVEL July 11, 2017 September 27 – October 1, 2017 Pilot year of Central European theater showcase Disturbing the Peace – Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk presented by Ian Buruma Launch of Havel Conversations oral histories Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street, New York For more information please send email to …
EventsLecture by Timothy Snyder July 11, 2017 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Lecture by Timothy Snyder, the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of several award-winning books including Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Monday, September 18, 8 pm Believe in truth. To abandon facts …
NewsVaclav Havel statue unveiled in Tbilisi June 24, 2017 Source: Agenda.ge / www.agenda.ge / A statue of first Czech President Vaclav Havel was unveiled in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The statue was unveiled by Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky, who is on his first official visit to Georgia, today. Margvelashvili said that the …
NewsBust of former Czech president unveiled June 14, 2017 Source: UM News / www.umanitoba.ca / On June 14, 2017, a bust of Václav Havel will be unveiled at the University of Manitoba in the John J. Conklin Theatre, within the Taché Arts Project. His Excellency Václav Havel [LLD/99] (1936-2011) was the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first …
NewsINTERNSHIP / VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY June 7, 2017 The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation (VHLF) is seeking a creative intern / volunteer to assist the Executive Director with two major events: the second year of the Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk, Disturbing the Peace, and the pilot year of the Theater Festival honoring Vaclav Havel that will …
NewsCreative dissenters, a noble president, a funny comedian, and more June 4, 2017 Editor’s Note: The Oslo Freedom Forum took place last week. This is the annual human-rights gathering in the Norwegian capital. Jay Nordlinger has been writing a journal on this gathering, and related matters, and the previous parts can be found at the following links: I, II, III. Onstage at the …
NewsThe Prague Appeal for Democratic Renewal June 2, 2017 Source: Forum 2000 / www.forum2000.cz / Adopted in Prague on May 26, 2017 Liberal democracy is under threat, and all who cherish it must come to its defense. Democracy is threatened from without by despotic regimes in Russia, China, and other countries that are tightening repression internally and expanding their power globally, filling …
EventsA once-forbidden play is now going underground (literally) May 12, 2017 Source: The Washington Post / www.washingtonpost.com / By Kristen Page-Kirby / “I feel like a mole,” says Susan Galbraith, “emerging from the darkness.” Galbraith is the director of “Protest,” the first play mounted at Dupont Underground, and the cavernous, subterranean space is a fitting home for the Alliance for New …