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  • David Kelley: An alternative form of renewable energyHavel in the MediaDavid Kelley: An alternative form of renewable energyVHLFOctober 26, 2020Source: VTDigger / https://vtdigger.org / By David Kelley / In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy reminded us that our future depended more on our citizenship than his leadership. He challenged us each to ask what we could do for our country. I got a crash course in the …Read more...
  • 3-Minute Civics: Democracy is an action wordHavel in the Media3-Minute Civics: Democracy is an action wordVHLFOctober 26, 2020Source: Concord Monitor / www.concordmonitor.com / By Tracy Hahn – Burkett / We here in America are not accustomed to thinking about our democracy. It’s been here since before everyone now alive was born, and our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents before us. It’s like birds and sunsets and baseball …Read more...
  • INTERVIEW: “A shame for Europe”Havel in the MediaINTERVIEW: “A shame for Europe”VHLFOctober 25, 2020Source: New Europe / www.neweurope.eu / By Otmar Lahodynky / Czech politician Karel Schwarzenberg spoke to New Europe about the European Union’s inadequate foreign policy, the lack of solidarity in its migration policy and new constitutional conditions for EU funding. Schwarzenberg was Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic from 2007 …Read more...
  • What one small state has revealed of the big state’s hidden handHavel in the MediaWhat one small state has revealed of the big state’s hidden handVHLFOctober 25, 2020Source: Australian Strategic Policy Institute / www.aspistrategist.org.au / By Gordon Weiss / ‘When small men begin to cast big shadows’, wrote the Chinese intellectual Lin Yutang, ‘it means the sun is about to set.’ It is a dictum that, like many, functions neatly in reverse. When small countries stand up …Read more...
  • Contest for the best mini dramaAwardsContest for the best mini dramaVHLFOctober 6, 2020Cole Kordus, 2020 graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, is the first U.S. winner of the annual contest for best mini-drama to participate in Encounter, an International Festival of Theater Schools in Brno, Czech Republic The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation is proud to extend our contest …Read more...
  • Column: Our literary politiciansHavel in the MediaColumn: Our literary politiciansVHLFOctober 6, 2020Source: Dawn / www.dawn.com / By Harris Khalique / Everywhere, there are some politicians who take to writing at an opportune time in their careers. They write on current affairs, begin to publish issue-based articles and columns, and a few of them may also write their political memoirs. In developing …Read more...
  • Standing Up for Freedom . . .Havel in the MediaStanding Up for Freedom . . .VHLFSeptember 11, 2020Source: National Review / www.nationalreview.com / By Jay Nordlinger / . . . and against Beijing and the Kremlin. Meet the mayor of Prague. Vaclav Havel was the leading dissident in Communist Czechoslovakia, and the first president after the Fall of the Wall. All over the world, he became a …Read more...
  • Album: Suzanne Vega – An Evening of New York Songs and StoriesNewsAlbum: Suzanne Vega – An Evening of New York Songs and StoriesVHLFSeptember 6, 2020Source: The Arts Desk / https://theartsdesk.com / By Liz Thomson / Suzanne Vega sprang to fame 35 years ago, her eponymous debut one of the last albums we bought in vinyl before the advent of that new-fangled format of aluminium aspic. From it came “Marlene on the Wall”, the video …Read more...
  • The Czechs are giving Europe a lesson on how to deal with ChinaHavel in the MediaThe Czechs are giving Europe a lesson on how to deal with ChinaVHLFSeptember 6, 2020Source: The Washington Post / www.washingtonpost.com / By Dalibor Rohac / Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute This week, a senior Czech politician, Milos Vystrcil, visited Taiwan and delivered a powerful speech to the parliament in Taipei, echoing John F. Kennedy‘s “Ich bin ein Berliner” …Read more...
  • Václav Havel, master of the (political) Theatre of the AbsurdHavel in the MediaVáclav Havel, master of the (political) Theatre of the AbsurdVHLFSeptember 4, 2020Source: Radio Prague International / https://english.radio.cz / By Brian Kenety / At the start of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Václav Havel was a 53-year-old playwright, essayist, and political dissident whose works had not been staged publically in Czechoslovakia since his blacklisting after the Soviet-led invasion in 1968. While the …Read more...

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Havel, Oct1990: "I'm convinced that everything'll turn out alright in the end. At the same time if everything does in fact turn out alright, it'll be only because we'll find within ourselves strength to look ourselves straight in the eyes.": https://t.co/raSEjWGuPh. #Independence https://t.co/6TDj2D5UiB
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This plaque commemorating Vaclav Havel's time he worked at the Theatre on the Balustrade was designed by Czech artist David Černý. It lists the various jobs Havel was holding from stagehand to lighting technician, secretary, reader, right up to the dramaturge. #biography #truth https://t.co/DW8ujzLtKW
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