EventsPrague’s DOX to commemorate Tiananmen Sq. massacre with unveiling of Liu bustApril 22, 2019Source: Radio Praha / www.radio.cz / By Ruth Fraňková / A bust of the late Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is due to be unveiled at Prague’s DOX gallery this coming Monday. The ceremony is part of an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen …
NewsA Place for the Liu Xiaobo BustApril 18, 2019Source: China Change / www.chinachange.org / By Yaxue Cao / In August 1988, two months after receiving his PhD in literature from the Beijing Normal University, Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) left the Chinese capital for a series of academic visits across Europe and the United States. The first place he went …
NewsCharles University: Where you can get a degree in Václav HavelApril 18, 2019Source: Expats.cz / www. expats.cz / By Katrina Modra / Prague continues to improve its position in the annual QS Best Student Cities ranking, climbing 13 places in 2018; it is also regularly named as one of the most budget-friendly cities for students and the best international study destination for, among …
EventsLiu Xiaobo lives! Prague event invitationApril 9, 2019Amnesty International, Art for Amnesty, Humanitarian China and DOX, with the support of the Vaclav Havel Library and Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, invite you to a very special event to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in China. The highlight of the event will be the unveiling …
NewsVaclav Havel Human Rights Prize-winning Turkish judge sentenced to 10 yearsJanuary 26, 2019Source: Stockholm center for freedom / http://stockholmcf.org / By SCF / Murat Aslan, president of the now-dissolved Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV), was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday on trumped-up charges of membership in a “terrorist organization” in reference to the faith-based civic Gülen movement. The Ankara …
NewsCourage Comes from PrisonDecember 13, 2018Source: China Change / www.chinachange.org / Liao Yiwu, December 10, 2018, International Human Rights Day, Berlin I’ve so often said that my courage and everything about me comes from prison. This is how I differ from other Chinese writers. In prison, I was tortured ‘til I could no longer bear it, …
NewsRussia’s Lyudmila Alekseyeva Remembered As A ‘Force Of Nature’ And ‘Giant’ Of Human RightsDecember 13, 2018Source: Radio Free Europe / www.rferl.org / By RFE/RL / Human rights defenders and diplomats are praising Lyudmila Alekseyeva and her lifetime commitment to the struggle for justice in the Soviet Union and Russia as an inspirational example. Alekseyeva, a veteran defender of human rights who challenged the Soviet government …
EventsThe Plastic People of the Universe to play at Palác AkropolisDecember 3, 2018Source: Prague TV / https://prague.tv / By Michaela Dehning / “It is better not to play at all than to play what the establishment demands,” once said Ivan Martin Jirous, the Czech dissident, poet and the artistic director of The Plastic People of the Universe. It would be difficult to …
News, TheaterRock ‘N’ RollOctober 20, 2018Source: Windy City Times / www.windycitymediagroup.com / By Jonathan Abarbanel / Playwright: Tom Stoppard At: The Artistic Home, 1376 W. Grand Ave., Tickets: 866-811-4111; TheArtisticHome.org; $34. Runs through: Nov. 18 This is a well-acted, intelligent production of a sprawling play with a tangle of themes and ideas intersecting symbolically if …
News, TheaterA Review of “Protest”October 16, 2018Source: The Bagpipe / www.bagpipeonline.com / By Ellie Brown / “Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.” -Vaclav Havel Powerful speeches, comical policemen, and the realities of humanity were all put on display in the show “Protest (and other writings)” that …
Havel Conversations, NewsMadeleine Albright Remembers Vaclav HavelOctober 12, 2018Source: Columbia / Shool of International and Public Affairs / The former U.S. secretary of state spoke at a ceremony honoring the late Czech president. Under the gaze of the statuary in the Low Library rotunda, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stepped to the podium to honor Václav Havel, …
News, TheaterCovenant College Presents “Protest”October 8, 2018Source: The Bagpipe / www.bagpipeonline.com / By Mia Connell / This September, the Covenant College Theatre Department presents political dissident and playwright Vaclav Havel’s “Protest,” a play revealing what it means to act with integrity versus hypocrisy. In “Protest,” the price of avoiding hypocrisy becomes apparent to two old friends …