“Visitors will have the opportunity to lay flowers and light a candle. The act of reverence will take place around noon in a more modest way than in previous years, “says the coordinator of Free November in Albertov, which is prepared annually by students of Charles University, Michal Zima. According to him, this year’s November 17 in Albertov will be a unique unveiling of a bust of Dr. Eduard Albert, after whom the place is named.
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The motto of Velvet Enlightenment is Facing New Mutations! The procession of about two dozen masks will set out at 3.30 pm from Kampa over Charles Bridge, Smetana’s embankment over Národní třída to Staroměstské náměstí. “Masks are quite reliably impermeable drapes, we are able to disperse the procession into smaller units,” remarked its spokesman Jakub Otčenášek.
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The concert for the future from Wenceslas Square starts at 4.30 pm. The event takes place without the presence of the public.
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Speakers and moderators will perform in a closed area, but the production will not be seen or heard on the spot, the organizers want to prevent people from gathering. Those interested can listen to musicians and speakers on the Internet.
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At 7 pm, an online concert against totalitarianism, organized by the AMU, the AVU and the Václav Havel Library, will start. On stage, current students will meet their professors and successful graduates. Compositions by authors whose lives and works were marked by totalitarian regimes or were directly exposed to various forms of injustice will be heard.
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“We tried to move as much of the celebrations as possible into the online environment. Concerts, theaters or a literary block in Václav Havel’s Living Room. In addition, the online format will allow us, in contrast to the classic program on the street, to prepare, for example, a longer theatrical performance or a whole block of thematic debates, ”summed up the seventh year of Korzo.
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Candles on Národní třída can be lit indirectly through volunteers, with whom they connect via the Internet. At 5 pm 11 minutes, Aneta Langerová sings the Prayer for Marta from the balcony of the National Theater.
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The song will be broadcast by city radio amplifiers. Prague Castle, the Petrin Lookout Tower and the Dancing House will be attuned to white, red and blue.
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Today, people can also visit the Year of Miracles exhibition via computer. Czechoslovakia and the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, which will offer unique photos of what 1989 looked like in the post-communist bloc. It takes place in the Museum of Memory XX. century.
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Second exhibition Don’t be afraid! The Church and the path of Central Europe to freedom are mainly connected with the approaching 100th anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II, the first pope from Central Europe and an important symbol of the struggle for freedom in this region.
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A demonstration will take place in Letná from 3.30 pm The fight continues against government measures.
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