Awards, Disturbing the peace, NewsWhy support Ukraine | Liao YiwuMarch 11, 2022Why support Ukraine | Writer in Exile: Liao Yiwu, 2018 Disturbing the Peace Recipient March 8, 2022 Many innocent people have died, and many more will die, be injured, be maimed, will flee and will be displaced – all because of the “imperial dream” of Putin, a madman, and a …
Awards, Disturbing the peace, NewsFor Ukraine, For a Better World | Burhan SonmezMarch 10, 2022For Ukraine, For a Better World | Burhan Sonmez, 2017 Disturbing the Peace Recipient March 11, 2022 The twenty-first century, supposed to be a century of hope, is advancing from continent to continent with wars. Ukraine has now joined the horrors in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia and beyond. Putin went …
Awards, Disturbing the peace, NewsPeace Must Prevail | Ma ThidaMarch 9, 2022Peace Must Prevail | Ma Thida, 2016 Disturbing the Peace Recipient March 7, 2022 We, the recipients of the Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk, are whole-heartedly disturbed by Russian forces against Ukraine and its consequences on people of both Ukraine and Russia. We urgently call …
NewsUkraineFebruary 27, 2022The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation wishes to express its solidarity with Ukraine. Czechs and Slovaks very well remember the Russian invasion of 1968 and the fact that Russian tanks stayed in Czechoslovakia for twenty long years. We stand with the democratic world in unity in the face of an open …
NewsPetr Uhl, journalist, communist-era dissident dies at 80December 2, 2021Source: AP News / https://apnews.com / PRAGUE (AP) — Petr Uhl, a Czech journalist who was one of the country’s leading communist-era dissidents and human rights activists, has died at 80. His wife, former Czech ombudsman Anna Sabatova, told the CTK agency he died Wednesday. Uhl headed the national news …
Exhibitions, NewsHavel to the Café!November 28, 2021On Wednesday, November 17th at 1pm, a special procession departed from the statue of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Garrique Masaryk, in front of Prague Castle, arriving eventually at Cafe Slavia. The procession carried a bronze bust of Vaclav Havel – the first for Prague – by sculptor Maria …
NewsTen Years Without Václav Havel, Czech Republic’s First President and Democratic IconNovember 27, 2021Source: BRNO Daily / https://brnodaily.com / By G.Maura / To commemorate ten years since the death of President Václav Havel, an event “10 years without V.H.” will be organized in Prague on December 18th. Credit: 10 let bez V. H. Czech Rep, November 25 (BD) – The ten-year anniversary of …
Havel Conversations, NewsHavel Conversation online: The Seduction of FanaticismNovember 19, 2021Dedicated to the 10th anniversary of President’s Havel passing December 2, 2021, 6 pm CET Watch HERE In May 1996, president Vaclav Havel invited to Prague Elie Wiesel, an American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He delivered a lecture entitled “The Seduction of Fanaticism” in the …
Havel Conversations, NewsHAVEL AND SLAVIANovember 19, 2021On Wednesday 17th November, the 32nd Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the sixth cast of a bronze bust by Marie Seborova of the late President Havel was unveiled in the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU’) owned Café Slavia opposite the National Theatre in Prague. The event was jointly organized by Amnesty …
Exhibitions, NewsVaclav Havel Bust by Czech Sculptor Marie SeborovaNovember 14, 2021On Wednesday 17th November, the 32nd Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the sixth cast of a bronze bust of the late President Havel will be unveiled in the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU’) owned Café Slavia opposite the National Theatre in Prague. It is believed to be the first such …
NewsHavel to the Cafe!November 10, 2021Hradcanske Square, November 17, 2021,1 pm There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause. ― Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations On Wednesday, November 17 at 1 pm a special ‘procession’ will depart from the statue of the first president …
NewsCzech voters oust communists from parliament for first time since 1948October 13, 2021Source: Reuters / www.reuters.com / By Michael Kahn and Robert Muller / PRAGUE, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Czech voters evicted the communists from parliament on Saturday for the first time since the end of World War Two, voting out a party whose forebears ruled the central European nation from 1948 …
NewsBelarus protest leader Maria Kolesnikova wins Vaclav Havel prizeSeptember 30, 2021Source: DW / www.dw.com / The annual human rights prize was awarded to Belarusian Maria Kolesnikova at a ceremony in Strasbourg. The jailed protest leader was represented by her sister who accepted the award. The annual Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award was given Monday to the jailed Belarusian protest leader …