The Czech Center and Untitled Theater Company #61 in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York presents A Celebration of Charter 77: Then and Now on Friday, January 6, at 8pm.
at the The Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street
FREE ADMISSION
Information: 646-422-3394
A WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION OF the 35th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's landmark human rights declaration, co-authored by Václav Havel
A worldwide celebration of Charter 77, the landmark human rights declaration co-authored by Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia in 1977, will be held this Friday. In New York, the occasion will be marked with music and performances, featuring The Renaldo The Ensemble, a public reading of Charter 77, excerpts from Havel's interviews and a short excerpt of a play, a performance of a new found text piece based on the events, and much more.
Associated events will be held on the same day in Prague, Seoul, Brussels, Washington DC, and Miami. Charter 77 was one of the first documents to bring Václav Havel to international attention. He was jailed for his part in it, but its words eventually inspired the Velvet Revolution. It has also inspired similar documents in Belarus and China, and it serves as an example for citizens deprived of their rights by totalitarian regimes.
The Czech Center New York (CCNY) is a meeting place for Czech and local culture, a place where artists and professionals, Czech and non-Czech alike, can work and produce together. Since 2008, CCNY offices have been located in the newly reconstructed Bohemian National Hall, a common space for presenting Czech culture shared by the Czech Consulate General and the Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association.
Untitled Theater Company #61 (UTC61) is a Theater of Ideas: scientific, political, philosophical, and above all theatrical. Since UTC61's Václav Havel Festival in 2006, the company has maintained a close relationship with Havel and with the Czech Republic. Productions include The Velvet Oratorio, an oratorio commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet revolution, produced at Lincoln Center and The Bohemian National Hall; Rudolf II, a play about the 16th Century Emperor in Prague produced at the Bohemian National Hall; and Havel's new work, The Pig, or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig, produced last summer at 3LD. This Spring, UTC61 will also be publishing five new books of Havel's work.
http://untitledtheater.com/UTC61/Home.html
