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Adam Hradilek: The Anabasis of Petr Arton 
February 1, 2022, 19:00

The gripping story of Salomon Apfelbaum from Teplice, who hid from the Nazis, adopted the nom de guerre Petr Anton and destroyed German submarines as an RAF aviator. Dazzled by communism, he became an agent, was a prisoner and an expellee and died last year, three months before this 100th birthday. Prokop Tomek and Ladislav Kudrna will discuss the book Anabáze Petra Artona (The Anabasis of Petr Arton) with its author, Adam Hradilek. Introduced by Jáchym Topol.

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Debate N: Why Are We in the European Union? 
February 8, 2022, 19:00

After nearly 20 years of membership, what is the Czech position in the European Union? What do we expect from it, and what can we bring to the common debate? What direction is Czechia taking not only within the 27 but the whole of Europe? What significance does the V4 have for us? More

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From Time to Time #8: On Street Work with Ruth Habartová 
February 14, 2022, 19:00

As long as people sleep on the streets, we will provide them with health care adapted to their reality. That is the motto of the health workers who make up the Street Medicine movement around the world. We will discuss medicine studies and motivation to work on the streets with Ruth Habartová, leader of the Czech group Medics on the Street. Within the next part of the series From Time to Time, we will also discuss what she has learned on the street and why she can’t break away from it, as well as the connection between shin ulcers and mental health. More

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Debate with Respekt 
February 15, 2022, 19:00

Discussion on a topical issue featuring editors from the weekly Respekt and their guests. For more details and the names of guests, visit www.vaclavhavel.cz prior to the event.

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Jaromír Typlt Poetry Reading 
February 16, 2022, 19:00

Readings by writer Jaromír Typlt bring all kinds of surprises, frequently involving audio and image projections and turning into live performances. But perhaps this time the author will recite his new poems, for the most part written during a long stay in Paris, in total silence – who knows? The special guest will be French poet and translator Benoit Meunier. Since 2004 he has been resident in Prague, from where he fosters ties between Czech and French literature.

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Václav Havel: Protest, Divadlo na tahu 
February 17, 2022, 19:00

To sign or not to sign? A play about a complicated question and even more complicated answer. A one-acter about a long-standing dilemma that represents one of the fiendish questions typical of the author’s dramatic oeuvre. Times are bad again, petitions and protests are all the rage at home and abroad – what can they achieve? Does the will of (some) citizens influence the actions and consciences of politicians? Is that enough? Join us in looking back at 1978’s Protest, one of Havel’s lesser-known “Vaněk plays”. More

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Debate with IPR Prague: Housing and its Future 
February 21, 2022, 19:00

It is ever more common to hear that Prague has the finances but isn’t building. Why? How does the entire process work? How to improve the accessibility of housing, and why isn’t building faster here, when it’s possible elsewhere in Europe? A debate focused on the ever more topical issue of housing in Prague. More

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Echo from the Library 
February 22, 2022, 19:00

Debate series with editors from the weekly Echo 24 and their guests. Chaired by Lenka Zlámalová. For the topic and names of guests, visit www.vaclavhavel.cz prior to the event.

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The Little House at Hradčany 
February 23, 2022, 19:00

No, it wasn’t a doll’s house. Kapucínská St. in Hradčany is home to a small building, hidden from view, with a dark past, a place of cruel interrogations and great heroism. From the days of Austria-Hungary, the “little house”, as it was called, was a prison and during WWII it was used by the Gestapo. It acquired its greatest “fame” after the war, when, administered by the ministry of national defence, it became in 1952 the Communist regime’s worst torture chamber. Hundreds of political prisoners, including Heliodor Píka, Karel Kutlvašr, Jaromír Nechanský, Prokop Drtina and ice hockey internationals, were jailed and investigated here in frequently inhumane conditions. This place and its history will be recalled in the nascent permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century. More

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A Musical Evening: Člověk krve 
February 24, 2022, 19:00

The musician and composer Jan Senft (1993) from Stříbrná Skalice has been going by the pseudonym Člověk krve for eight years and released his first LP, entitled V kuchyni, in 2020. Proudly identifying with the Czech tramping and folk singer-songwriter traditions, he searches out the forgotten stories of his region and brings them to life – not just via descriptions of the landscape but in spiritual terms. Songs from forests, hills, trains, suburban ruins and post-apocalyptic boarding houses will be performed. More

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The Garden Party, Then and Now 
February 28, 2022, 19:00

Evening with the young makers of a short film based on Václav Havel’s first play The Garden Party. Distinctive in terms of direction and dramaturgy, the interpretation is a joint project of Academy of Performing Arts drama and film school students, led by director Kateřina Popiolková. More

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