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Three candidates shortlisted for the 2023 Václav Havel Prize 05/09/23
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which rewards outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights in Europe and beyond, has today announced the shortlist for the 2023 Award. Meeting in Prague today, the panel – made up of independent figures from the world of human rights and chaired by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Tiny Kox – decided to shortlist the following three nominees, in alphabetical order: More
Three candidates shortlisted for the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 06/09/22
The discussion among the seven-member jury helmed by the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe centred on the importance of the issue of human rights during this tense period. The finalists include Vladimir Kara-Murza, a political prisoner and leading Russian democracy campaigner; Ukraine’s 5 AM Coalition, which gathers evidence of human rights abuses stemming from Russia’s invasion of the country; and Hungary’s Rainbow Coalition defending LGBTQIA+ rights. “This year’s selection reflects the central role that human rights play in the current European crisis,” says Michael Žantovský, jury member and executive director of the Václav Havel Library, which bestows the prize in cooperation with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Nadace Charty 77.
The Other Europe 27/04/22
Dear Friends, After three years we have completed the international project The Other Europe, during which, in cooperation with partner institutions, we have processed and made public recordings of interviews shot in 1987 and 1988 behind the Iron Curtain, and in exile, with important representatives of the opposition and the arts, as well as random citizens. Over those three years we have prepared video, audio and text of 106 interviews in speakers’ native languages and English translation. Despite public health restrictions in the Covid period, we have jointly prepared 16 international conferences and public presentations in six Central and Eastern European states. More
From Schuman to Havel – what next? 16/02/22
The Václav Havel Library is a proud partner of the project Beyond Robert Schuman’s Europe More
Program for May 2018<>
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China, Christians, Exodus and Czech Society
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 3, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
The speakers in this discussion will place the modern phenomenon of the search for a new homeland and flight for religious reasons from one’s original homeland within the framework of contemporary Czech society. People whose own lives have been deeply impacted by this subject have also agreed to take part on condition of anonymity.
Guests: Jan Fingerland (journalist and Czech Radio commentator), Zbigniew Czendlik (Roman Catholic priest), Mikuláš Vymětal (Evangelical pastor), Jan Jandourek (sociologist, journalist and writer), Ivan Štampach (Religious Studies expert, theologian and academic) and Aleš Weiss (Židovská obec, Prague).
Sinologist Martin Kříž will chair the talk.
Debate with Respekt
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 9, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Discussion with Respekt editors and their guests on a topical issue. More information will be posted at least one week before the event at www.vaclavhavel-library.org
Zmicer Daškievič: The Worm?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 10, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
How can one resist totalitarianism?
Zmicer Daškievič is a Belarusian writer, civic and political activist and former political prisoner. As the leader of the youth organisation Young Front, regarded by the current Belarusian regime as the most dangerous youth group, he has been imprisoned twice (the first time for a year and a half, the second for almost three years). On top of this, he has been locked up for innumerable days in short “administrative sentences” and paid out tens of thousands of dollars in total in countless fines, while he and his family are under constant pressure from the authorities. During his most recent imprisonment, in 2010–2013, he wrote a book of raw, prison-themed short stories entitled The Worm, which is now coming out in Czech.
Alena Kovářová-Cichanovič will chair this debate on the subject of Christianity and politics, contemporary Belarus and how one can resist a totalitarian regime with Zmicer Daškievič and Světlana Vránová, an expert on Belarus and the book’s translator.
Jáchym Topol will introduce the evening and read excerpts from The Worm.
Interpretation from Belarusian into Czech provided.
The Václav Havel Library at Book World Prague
- Where: Book World, Výstaviště, Holešovice, Prague
- When: May 10, 2018, 18:00 – May 13, 2018, 18:50
VH Library editors and special guests will introduce the English-language edition of Zdeněk Lukeš’s Praha Václava Havla, entitled Václav Havel’s Prague, Jiří Křižan’s freshly-discovered novel Stín (The Shadow) and an e-anthology of the legendary radio programmes Talks from Lány.
Soeuf Elbadawi: Europe’s Border in the Indian Ocean – The Tragedy the World Doesn’t See
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 11, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
One of the most respected African intellectuals today, the writer, documentarian, journalist and civic activist Soeuf Elbadawi, will speak about the humanitarian disaster taking place in the Indian Ocean, human rights, the shunga tradition, cultural and religious co-existence on the Comoro Islands and art experiments.
In dialogue with Tomáš Linder from the weekly Respekt.
In French; interpretation into Czech provided.
Part of the 14th edition of the festival Creative Africa, or We Are All Africans.
Václav Havel European Dialogues: The Czech Republic at the European Crossroads
- Where: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
- When: May 14, 2018, 10:00 – 17:00
What has 14 years of membership of the European Union brought us? What advantages have we enjoyed thanks to it? Or have we, by contrast, lost something? Why is there increasing scepticism about the EU? Are there perhaps other alternatives? What does the EU represent for the future of our country? And what do we represent for its future? These and similar questions will be explored in the fifth edition of the Václav Havel European Dialogues. For registration please fill out our form.
What has 14 years of membership of the European Union brought us? What advantages have we enjoyed thanks to it? Or have we, by contrast, lost something? Why is there increasing scepticism about the EU? Are there perhaps other alternatives? What does the EU represent for the future of our country? And what do we represent for its future? These and similar questions will be explored in the fifth edition of the Václav Havel European Dialogues.
On one hand, a path is drawn to deepening European integration – expansion of monetary union, the building of collective defence and responsibility for foreign policy. On the other, calls for greater decentralisation and the return of some powers to national level are growing louder. Neither of these positions reflects the issue of European identity, the spiritual ethos connecting member states and their citizens called for by Václav Havel.
The Václav Havel European Dialogues conference initiates and helms discussion on current issues shaping the future direction of contemporary Europe, while referring to the spiritual legacy of Václav Havel. The event provides a forum for meetings between notable figures from the fields of sociology, economics, politics and journalism, but also young people and students, novice politicians and activists, at which they can discuss, together and with members of the public, topical issues facing the Czech Republic and respectively Europe.
The conference will take place in Czech and English with simultaneous interpretation into both languages. It will be streamed by Czech Television.
To attend the conference it is necessary to register.
For more information, including the updated programme, go to: https://bit.ly/2v8eiaH
Referenda – A Challenge for Democracy or a Backwards Step?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 15, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Are referenda a guarantee of better democracy? Do they enable citizens to take part in the decision-making process? Or are they a once tried, now abandoned path?
The debate will bring together politicians and experts on the subject. Among them will be Tomáš Lebeda, a political scientist and expert on political systems, while a legal perspective will be provided by Jan Kysela, a constitutional lawyer, expert on government and political scientist. However, it is politicians who will decide on referenda, which is why our debate will also feature TOP 09 deputy chairman Marek Ženíšek, a lecturer in political scientist at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, and Czech Pirate Party member Vojtěch Pikal, a deputy speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
The discussion will be chaired by Jaroslav Poláček, who for the last 15 years has been focused on electoral campaigns and works as an analyst with the TOPAZ political institute.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the TOPAZ.
Leaving a Children’s Home: How Old Were You When You Left Home?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 16, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Around a thousand young people leave children’s homes every year at the age of 18, or, if they study, at 26. How difficult for them is this phase of their lives? What challenges and pitfalls do they encounter on that path? Are they prepared enough for such a step? Is there a support system? Or aid organisations? How does it actually work? How does it differ from the situation when you left home?
These questions and more will be discussed in a debate featuring Radek Laci from Vteřiny poté; Klára Chábová from the Mimo domov association; youth guardian Lukáš Bachura; children’s home director Ondřej Výborný and Zdenka Marková from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.
Marie Froulíková will chair the debate.
Kaiser Kuo – In the Heart of the Chinese Underground
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 17, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
In 1988, Kaiser Kuo graduated from college and headed to Beijing determined to discover, and to participate in, the rock music scene he was certain was then nascent in China. Early the next year, he had co-founded the band Tang Dynasty, which emerged as the first and still the best-known heavy metal band in China.
Over the next nearly 30 years, Kuo was involved in Beijing's rock music scene, first in Tang Dynasty and then in another band, Spring & Autumn (Chunqiu). Though he worked as a journalist and at some of China's most important internet companies, he kept one foot firmly in the world of rock. And along the way, he learned a lot about transculturation, about contemporary culture in China, about Chinese nationalism, and about the enduring appeal of heavy metal. He shares his experiences in this talk.
The event is moderated by Martin Hala and Kateřina Procházková.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and Sinopsis.
50 Years of the Prague Spring and Resolve for Freedom
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 18, 2018, 11:00 – 17:00
A discussion with noteworthy speakers and eye witnesses on the situation of citizens in totalitarian regimes and their resolve to fight for freedom, using the example of the 1968 Prague Spring. The state of the rule of law and democracy today will be discussed by figures from public life and Czech and German politicians (including Hans-Peter Friedrich, Helena Válková and Michael Žantovský).
The debate will be chaired by Alexandra Mostýn.
Organised by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Prague, the Czech-German Lawyers’ Association, the Václav Havel Library and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
In view of the limited capacity, it is necessary to register by email in advance: tschechien@hss.de
Simultaneous interpretation into Czech and German provided.
An Uncertain Nation?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 21, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Czechs and Their Search for a Politics.
“… Czechs are old winners.”
Václav Havel, The Czech Lot? (1969)
Since the Czechs took shape as a modern nation we have frequently faced what is referred to as the Czech question: To what degree is the Czech society a self-aware political nation? What in fact is the Czech relationship to the country’s own statehood and to politics in general? How are the advances and agonies of the 20th century projected into such reflections? And in this context how can we interpret today’s political reality, in which the Czechs often appear an “uncertain nation” and an “abandoned society” still searching for an “advantageous culprit” for all its troubles? Why are phrases such as political consensus and civic responsibly regarded as perfidy or folly in today’s Czech Republic? A century after the establishment of Czech statehood in the form of a democratic and republican Czechoslovakia, are Czechs a politically “immature” nation, or is that gross defamation?
The topical question of Czech political existence (in the historical context) will be discussed by the historian and philosopher Petr Hlaváček, the political thinker and one-time top politician Petr Pithart and journalist Erik Tabery.
Michael Žantovský will chair the debate.
The Killing of a Communist Functionary
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 22, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
A discussion focused on the book Smrt bez spravedlnosti (Death Without Justice) in which we will attempt to answer the question of whether the murder of the Communist functionary Anna Kvašová, committed in January 1952, was pre-meditated or a spur-of-the-moment excess on the part of the culprit, and whether it actually sped up collectivisation in the Kutná Hora area, as was commonly claimed.
Alongside the author Martin Tichý, the debate will also feature journalist and writer Aleš Palán, who addressed Anna Kvašová’s story in his novel Ratajský les (Ratajský Forest).
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.
Beatrice Landovská: An Evening of Poetry
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 24, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
The 1980s poems of Beatrice Landovská are a relatively little known part of Czech written poetry of the totalitarian era. The writer published her verse on duplicated editions intended for a circle of friends and acquaintances in the unofficial arts community of the dissent and underground. The dominant themes are existential hardships and erotic adventures, which were in no short supply in the courageous life. Under totalitarianism, poetry isn’t for the yellow-bellied – when you feel alien and excluded, you have to bear troublesome brutes, communicate with those who are trying to restrict you or even lie right in your face and weave brutal intrigues behind your back, to stand up to the hatred of all kinds of jealous idiots and at the same time maintain your own integrity against the backdrop of malignant despotism…
The evening will feature music from completely banned and long defunct groups, while films and photographs from those legendary days will also be projected.
The poet will be introduced by Jáchym Topol and Vít Kremlička.
The Urban Liberal’s Dilemma: Last One Turns Out the Light?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 28, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
The triumvirate of democratic centrist parities the Christian Democrats, the Mayors and Independents and TOP 09 did not enter the elections in good shape and their support is falling further in the new Chamber of Deputies. By contrast, attracting ANO are winning more voters. Do these developments spell the end of a pro-European political centre in the Czech Republic?
This debate with deputy leaders of TOP 09, the Mayors and Independents and the Christian Democrats will be moderated by Andrea Procházková.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with Názorování.
The Birth of an Activist With a Realistic Philosophy – Václav Havel as a Political Person
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 29, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Václav Havel experienced the events of the Prague Spring just as intensely as many of his peers. However, unlike others he remained unmoved by official rhetoric, catchy slogans or utopian visions of socialism with a human face. He approached the tumultuous developments cautiously, with a degree of scepticism and realism.
The milestones of that period, from Havel’s speech at the Fourth Congress of the Czechoslovak Union of Writers to the mooted formation of an independent political party, his role in the inception of the Circle of Independent Writers, his energetic contribution to the nationwide resistance in the days following the Soviet-led invasion on 21 August 1968 and his recapitulation of a polemic with Milan Kundera on the Czech lot will be discussed by Michael Žantovský and guests Karol Sidon, Jan Mervart and others.
Evenings with Polish Reporters: The Journalist in the Midst of War
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 30, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
War reporters encounter death, violence and the suffering of individuals on a daily basis. At the same time, their job is to send home reports from frequently distant and incomprehensible conflicts as impartial observers. A discussion between Piotr Górecki, a former war correspondent for Polish TV, and journalist Markéta Kutilová, who has been documenting the war against Islamic state in Syria and Iraq for several years.
Piotr Górecki was a correspondent in Prague in the years 1990–1995. After 2004 he worked around the world as a television war reporter and for three years helmed his own show on topical and important international news stories on TVP Info. He received a Polish News Agency award for a report about the Afghan politician and military leader Ahmad Massoud.
Markéta Kutilová has worked as a project coordinator on People in Need international missions in Iran and Haiti. She is the co-author of the book Islámskému státu na dostřel (Islamic State Within Striking Distance) and has produced TV reports on the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. She is a member of the journalists’ association Femisphera, which focuses on the situation of women and children in developing countries and conflict zones.
Pavel Hroch: Faces of Resistance
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 31, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
A series of photographs by Pavel Hroch.
The Czech 20th century was long and cruel and to this day society has not come to terms with it. The people whose portraits Pavel Hroch has taken for this series of photographs managed in the years 1938/39–1989 to stand up to evil, to risk their lives and to put justice and culture ahead of their own peace and comfort. Each belongs to a minority whose actions contributed to a worthy tradition, to the fact that we have something to build on today.
Pavel Hroch will speak about how he found and captured “his people”, and what the series means to him personally, with Viktor Portel.
Havel Channel
Havel Channel je audiovizuální projekt Knihovny Václava Havla, jehož cílem je šířit myšlenkový, literární a politický odkaz Václava Havla, bez ohledu na vzdálenost, zeměpisné hranice či nouzové stavy. Jeho páteř tvoří debaty, vzdělávací projekty a rozhovory. Velký prostor je věnován též konferencím, autorským čtením, záznamům divadelních inscenací a koncertům. Audiovizuální projekt Knihovny Václava Havla Havel Channel se uskutečňuje díky laskavé podpoře Karel Komárek Family Foundation.
Publications / E-shop
The central focus of the Library’s publishing programme is the life and work of Václav Havel, his family and close collaborators and friends. For clarity, the programme is divided into six series: Václav Havel Library Notebooks, Václav Havel Library Editions, Student Line, Talks from Lány, Václav Havel Documents, Works of Pavel Juráček and Václav Havel Library Conferences. Titles that cannot be incorporated into any of the given series but which are nonetheless important for the Library’s publishing activities are issued independently, outside the series framework.
Diary IV. 1974–1989
399,- CZK
Foolish Writing
299,- CZK
Havel to the Castle
149,- CZK
Kilián Nedory
199,- CZK
Case for a Novice Headsman
199,- CZK
I am not sad. Audience & Vernissage
129,- CZK
To the Castle and Back
249,- CZK
I am the Gypsy Baron
299,- CZK
Conferences & prizes
Václav Havel European Dialogues
The Václav Havel European Dialogues is an international project that aims to initiate and stimulate a discussion about issues determining the direction of contemporary Europe while referring to the European spiritual legacy of Václav Havel. This idea takes its main inspiration from Václav Havel’s essay “Power of the Powerless”. More than other similarly focused projects, the Václav Havel European Dialogues aims to offer the “powerless” a platform to express themselves and in so doing to boost their position within Europe.
The Václav Havel European Dialogues is planned as a long-term project and involves cooperation with other organisations in various European cities. Individual meetings, which take the form of a conference, are targeted primarily at secondary and third-level students, as well as specialists and members of the public interested in European issues.
Prague 2022Olomouc Prague 2023PragueMnichov 2020Brussels 2020Prague 2019Brussels 2019Prague 2018Brussels 2018Europe at the Crossroads (e-book)Prague 2017Brussels 2017Prague 2016Brussels 2016Prague 2015Brussels 2015Brussels 2014Berlin 2014Prague 2014 - J. GauckBruges 2014Prague 2014
Václav Havel Human Rights Prize
The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the defence of human rights in Europe and beyond.
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Havel - Albright Transatlantic Dialogues
Since the first Václav Havel Transatlantic Dialogues at GLOBSEC and FORUM 2000 conferences last year, we have lost another stalwart advocate of the transatlantic bond and of the need to face threats to democracy and international order together on both sides of the Atlantic, the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In view of the close bond between Václav Havel and Madeleine Albright and, after Havel's death, between the Secretary and the Library, the Václav Havel Library, with the approval of Madeleine Albright's family, renamed and rebranded the program as The Havel-Albright Transatlantic Dialogues (HATD), after the two major figures with roots in Central Europe who have personified the bond. Together, Václav Havel and Madeleine Albright symbolize the transatlantic relationship and the fundamental values underpinning it perhaps better than any other two people in recent history. The upcoming Dialogues “The Indispensable Woman: The Legacy of Madeleine K. Albright”, at the FORUM 2000 conference on September 1, and at the “Havel and our Crisis” conference at Colby College, ME, on September 28, will thus become venues for a well-deserved tribute to the pair we all respected and admired.
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel
* 5. 10. 1936 Praha
† 18. 12. 2011 Hrádeček u Trutnova
- spisovatel a dramatik, publicista a filozof
- jeden z trojice prvních mluvčích Charty 77
- vůdčí autorita československé společenské změny v listopadu 1989
- poslední prezident Československa a
- první prezident České republiky
- celoživotní zastánce lidských práv a svobod doma i ve světě.
Educational projects
Archive / Documentation centre / Research projects
The Václav Havel Library is gradually gathering, digitizing, and making accessible written materials, photographs, sound recordings and other materials linked to the person of Václav Havel.
- 71004 records in total
- 27933 of events in the VH's life
- 2831 of VH's texts
- 2125 of photos
- 403of videos
- 568of audios
- 6604of letters
- 15101of texts about VH
- 8269 of books
- 40721of bibliography records
Access to the database of the VHL’s archives is free and possible after registering as a user. Accessing archival materials that exist in an unreadable form is only possible at the reading room of the Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, 110 00 Prague 1, every Tuesday (except state holidays) from 9:00 to 17:00, or by prior appointment.
We will be glad to answer your queries at archiv@vaclavhavel-library.org.
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Havel in a nutshell
The virtual exhibition Václav Havel in a Nutshell places the life story of Václav Havel in the broader cultural and historic context in four chronologically distinct chapters with rich visual accompaniment. The exhibition is supplemented by the interactive map Flying the World with Václav Havel, which captures in physical form Havel’s global “footprint”.
Vladimir Hanzel's revolution
Collage of recollections, images and sound recordings from Vladimír Hanzel, President Václav Havel’s personal secretary, bringing the feverish atmosphere of the Velvet Revolution to life.
Václav Havel Interviews
A database of all accessible interviews given to print media outlets by the dramatist, writer and political activist Václav Havel between the 1960s and 1989. The resulting collection documents the extraordinary life story of an individual, as well as capturing a specific picture of modern Czechoslovak history at a time when being a free-thinker was more likely to lead to jail than an official public post.
Pavel Juráček Archive
The Pavel Juráček Archive arose in February 2014 when his son Marek Juráček handed over six banana boxes and a typewriter case from his father’s estate to the Václav Havel Library. Thousands of pages of manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, documents and personal and official correspondence are gradually being classified and digitalised. The result of this work should be not only to map the life and work of one of the key figures of the New Wave of Czechoslovak film in the 1960s, but also to make his literary works accessible in the book series The Works of Pavel Juráček.
The aim of the Václav Havel Library is to ensure that Pavel Juráček finds a place in the broader cultural consciousness and to notionally build on the deep friendship he shared with Václav Havel. Soon after Juráček’s death in 1989 Havel said of him: “Pavel was a friend of mine whom I liked very much. He was one of the most sensitive and gentle people I have known – that’s why I cannot write more about him.”
All about Library
The Václav Havel Library works to preserve the legacy of Václav Havel, literary, theatrical and also political, in particular his struggle for freedom, democracy and the defence of human rights. It supports research and education on the life, values and times of Václav Havel as well as the enduring significance of his ideas for both the present and future.
The Václav Havel Library also strives to develop civil society and active civic life, serving as a platform for discussion on issues related to the support and defence of liberty and democracy, both in the Czech Republic and internationally.
The main aims of the Václav Havel Library include
- Organizing archival, archival-research, documentary, museum and library activities focused on the work of Vaclav Havel and documents or objects related to his activities, and carries out professional analysis of their influence on the life and self-reflection of society
- Serving, in a suitable manner, such as through exhibitions, the purpose of education and popularisation functions, thus presenting to the public the historical significance of the fight for human rights and freedoms in the totalitarian period and the formation of civil society during the establishment of democracy
- Organizing scientific research and publication activities in its areas of interest
Podpořte nás
We are well aware that freedom and democracy must be nurtured. Here at Ostrovní 13, but also on the audiovisual platform Havel Channel, we strive to do so through our own educational programmes, talks, discussion meetings, books, exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances. We honour Václav Havel's legacy and wish that the Library be a living organism and open to all. That is why our programme is free of charge for everyone. This would not be possible without regular financial support from our supporters. Become one of them...
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