Dialogue. Engagement Through Culture Before and After 1989

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Dialogue | Engagement Through Culture Before and After 1989

10.04.2019 (Wednesday), 17.00 opening of an exhibition Dialogue | Engagement Through Culture Before and After 1989
photographs: Ján Kekeli, Dita Pepe, Witek Orski
project participants: Andrzej Jagodziński, Peter Kalmus, Antonina Krzysztoń, Zbigniew Libera, Dorota Masłowska, Vladimír Michal, Zuzana Mistríková, Tereza Nvotová, Aleš Palán, Miloš Rejchrt, Věra Roubalová Kostlánová, Saša Uhlová
author of the concept of the exhibition: Barbora Baronova

Free entry

The project is co-financed from the funds of the “Europe for Citizens” programme

10.04.2019 (Wednesday), 18.00 a panel discussion accompanying the exhibition Dialogue | Engagement Through Culture Before and After 1989 featuring Prof. Przemysław Czapliński, Prof. Ingi Iwasiów, Grzegorz Wróblewski and Andrzej Jagodziński, Antonina Krzysztoń and Zbigniew Libera
Hosted by: PhD. Marek Kochanowski
Free entry
The project is co-financed from the funds of the “Europe for Citizens” programme
 
Organizer: Czech Centres
Project partners: Czech Centre in Bratislava and Warsaw, Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Štokovec, priestor pre kultúru, Jazz Station Big Band asbl.
Co-organizer of events in Poland: Faculty of Philology of the University in Bialystok

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The project Dialogue. Engagement Through Culture Before and After 1989 presents twelve perspectives of cultural personalities from three Central European countries – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. In the interviews, participants in the social changes that brought the establishment of democracy in the totalitarian bloc thirty years ago express their attitudes towards the former regime and the political events of 1989 and towards the development and new position of the post-communist countries in Europe. Voices of diverse attitudes, generations, and genders recall and comment on the critical moments and historical periods that affected the whole region – the creation of Charter 77, the pontificate of John Paul II, the birth of the Polish Solidarity movement, the Velvet Revolution, the presidency of Václav Havel, the division of Czechoslovakia, Mečiarism, the air tragedy near Smolensk, and the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová. All twelve interviewees reflect on significant changes in interpersonal relationships (whether due to growing affluence or the onset of new technologies) and deal with the various topics in their own work through film, music, literature, visual arts, publishing practices, performances, lectures, and newspaper articles to establish the necessary intellectual discourse in their homelands. Because a balanced dialogue implies freedom.