Spring with 36ers
January 4, 2010
Accept our invitation to the first event of this season in the Vaclav Havel Library. The season bears motto Havel’s first gang or Spring with 36ers and will recall the first artistic association which Havel created around himself in the middle of 1950s.
The Spring starts with the opening of exhibition of art by Jiří Kuběna, the oldest fellow traveller of Václav Havel, now finally a famous poet – and so far only secretly famous painter. The exhibition takes place in the Montmartre Gallery in 7 Řetězová Street, Prague 1 on Wednesday, 13th January 2010 at 18:00.
Martin C. Putna will open the exhibition as well as the whole season.
Ivo Binder, the exhibition curator, will have a speech.
Jiří Kuběna will read extracts from his literary work.
From Václav Havel’s congratulation:
I believe that I can, on behalf of the whole Association of Friends of Jiří Kuběna (one of the oldest independent initiatives in the Czech Republic), express the joy that Jiří Kuběna has just conquered Prague also as an artist. More than forty years ago he conquered it (also with help of our Association) as a poet and reciter (an ugly word, but is there any better way to say it?). Jiří, we congratulate you that after conquering Prague in socialism you have conquered Prague in capitalism, too!
Related photographs
- Opening of exhibition of Jiří Kuběna 28/01/10
Related events
- Spring with those born in 1936 13/01/10 – 30/05/10
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Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
„If I consider the problem as that which the world is turning me into – that is, as a tiny screw in a giant machine, deprived of human identity – then there is really nothing I can do. Obviously I cannot put a stop to the destruction of the globe, the growing stupidity of nations and the repoduction of thousands of new thermonuclear bombs. If, however, I consider it as that which each of us originally is, or rahter what each of us – irrespective of the state of the world – has the basic potential to become, which is to say an autonomous human being, capable of acting responsibly to and for the world, then of course there is a great deal I can do.“
Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
March 6, 1982
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