I am always excited when I learn new things. Like tonight I learned about the Mutual Inspirations Festival (MIF). Don’t try to decipher the name because you will never find out what it is about….let me help you!
‘The MIF is an annual initiative spearheaded by the Embassy of the Czech Republic, focusing on the mutual inspirations between Czech and American cultures and featuring each year an extraordinary Czech personality who has greatly influenced and inspired others through his or her work (MIF 2010-Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, MIF 2011-Antonín Dvořák, MIF 2012-Miloš Forman, MIF 2013-Václav Havel). This year, the festival celebrates the life and legacy of the dissident, playwright, and former Czech president Václav Havel, with over 30 events taking place from September 5-October 31, 2013, throughout prestigious venues in the nation’s capital.
October 2nd, for example, marks a special dedication of a Vaclav Havel’s Place. This new memorial in Georgetown will include a linden tree, the national tree of the Czech Republic, as well as a bench designed by Havel’s court architect Bořek Šípek.
Georgetown was one of the first places that Havel visited after coming to the U.S. in 1990, following the revolution that brought freedom to the nation.“I wanted to visit students because students played a very important role in our Velvet Revolution,” Havel said.
Be sure to check out all the events, they may just be in your neck of the woods (click here).
CZ: Slyseli jste nekdy o MIF (Mutual Inspirations Festival)? Je to takova zajimava aktivita poradana ceskou ambasadou ve Washingtonu. Cely festival je zalozen na inspiracnim vztahu mezi USA a Ceskou republikou. Docela dobry napad, ne? Kazdy rok oslavuji nejakou zijici ci nezijici celebritu; minuly rok to byl Milos Forman, predminuly rok zase Antonin Dvorak a tento rok to bude vse o zesnulemu Vaclavu Havlovi.
Druheho rijna, tedy par dni pred jeho narozeninami, se bude v Georgetownu (Washington DC) odhalovat ‘pomnik’ Vaclava Havla, a to v podobe lavicky (vytvorene znamym architektem Borkem Sipem), ktera bude navzdy stinena kosatou lipou. Velmi elegantni.
Festival porada pres 30 aktivit zaslibene Vaclavu Havlovi, tak se urcite mrknete, jestli jedna z nich neni nekde ve vasem sousedstvi.
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Zajímavé, díky… Škoda jenom, že pořádají aktivity “throughout prestigious venues in the nation’s capital.”, ale už ne tak moc “po celem USA” 🙁
No jo, tak jak tak koukam, tak je to fakt jenom ve Washingtonu a v Praze :((
Tak to musim opravit. Dik!
Ahoj,
Jen jsem se chtela zminit, ze soucasti festivalu je take retrospektivni vystava filmove prace pana Jiriho Menzela, promitani jeho filmu a dokonce premiera jeho noveho filmu Donsajni/ Don Juans aka Skirt Chasers. Dnes v 17 hodin v Silver Spring, MD v AFI theater a pan Menzel bude mit tour po USA. Tak si zjistete, jestli treba nebude nekde blizko vas.:)
Diky Radko!
To, co Havel rekl o tom rezimu je velice zajimave … Platilo to a bude platit vzdy a vsude …
I primitivni polecenstvi maji sve samany….V civilizovanych spolecenstvich se pouzivaji jina jmena …