One more Kuběna on Groundhog Day!
January 25, 2010
The Vaclav Havel Library invites you to a literary evening of Jiří Kuběna. The first from the cycle of five evenings within the Spring with 36ers will to be held on 2nd February 2010 from 6 p.m. in the Montmartre Gallery, Řetězová 7, Prague 1.
Texts, mostly from the period of 36ers, i.e. from the early fifties, are read by the poet and poet’s teenage alter ego. His alter ego is represented by a student of acting at the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Jiří Suchý z Tábora. Literary and historical introduction about the context of Jiří Kuběna’s poetry will be presented by his long-term work commentator, Martin C. Putna. In the course of the evening also a catalogue of Jiří Kuběna’s art exhibition will be introduced, Masks, Drawings and Paintings, published as the first volume of the second year of the Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks.
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Speech to Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington
„We are still a long way from that „family of man;“ in fact, we seem to be receding from the ideal rather than drawing closer to it. Interests of all kinds: personal, selfish, state, national, group and, if you like, company interests still considerably outweigh genuinely common and global interests. We are still under the sway of the destructive and thoroughly vain belief that man is the pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that therefore everything is permitted. There are still many who say they are concerdend not for themselves but for the cause, while they are demonstrably out for themselves and not for the cause at all. We are still destroying the planet that was entrusted to us, and its environment. We still close our eyes to the growing social, ethnic and cultural conflicts in the world. From time to time we say that the anonymous megamachinery we have created for ourselves no longer serves us but rather has enslaved us, yet we still fail to do anything about it.“
Václav Havel:
Speech to Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington
February 21, 1990
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