Tag: ‘memory kontrol’

  • Memory Kontrol: How to remember the Slovak state?
    discussion
    Thursday 21. 3. 2013, 18.00

    Discussion with historians and presentation of the complex representative survey of public opinion about attitude towards the period of Slovak state between 1939-45 and about distinction proportion of “Slovak blame” on holocaust.
    Discussing: historians Stanislav Chytka, Ján Hlavinka, parliamentarian MZ in Bytča Michal Filek.
    Moderating Fedor Blaščák, Memory Kontrol / Jews in Slovakia.
    www.memorykontrol.org
    Entry: 2,00 €

  • Divadlo na tahu (Cz): Václav Havel – Audience
    theatre performance
    Friday 16. 11. 2012, 7pm

    Legendary playled by Václav Havel, the tragicomedy based on his experience from short-term employment in Trutnov brewery cellars.
    Divadlo na tahu is from its beginnings focused on Havel’s plays. Its founder and the director, Andrej Krob, is respected executor of Havel’s dramatic texts, he was one of Havel’s best friends and neighbour at Hrádeček where he [...]

  • Peter Getting: Studne mútne (Muddy Wells)
    literature
    Thursday 15. 11. 2012, 6pm, Žilina Artforum

    Spisovateľ o spisovateľoch a o umeleckej kolaborácii. Prednáška spojená s projekciou a živým prednesom Alžbety Vrzgulovej.
    Author essay of writer Peter Getting entitled Studne mútne (Muddy Wells) is about engagement and collaboration of Slovak writers and artists between 1939-1945. It focuses on period production, magazines and books, but also political pieces, poems and public statements, cooperation [...]

  • Kubo Ursiny & Provisorium
    concert
    Wednesday 14. 11. 2012, 8pm

    Provisorium, Dežo Ursiny’s band, is experiencing its reincarnation. Son of legendary Slovak musician decided to revive father’s legacy. The result sounds highly authentically. Kubo’s vocal with band’s performance is doing a great job. The band consists of six great musicians - Valér Miko (keyboard), Juraj Turanský and Peter Vavro (both guitar), Roman Mezei (bassguitar), Michal [...]

  • Separation of Czechoslovakia was right decision
    debate
    Wednesday 14. 11. 2012, 6pm

    Czecho-Slovak debate match for and against this thesis between Czech and Slovak student teams. Attitudes and arguments of generation that did not experience one state. This event is organized with Czech Association of debate clubs and Slovak debate association.
    www.memorykontrol.org
    Free entry

  • Dialog 20-40-60
    projection
    Tuesday 13. 11. 2012, 7pm

    Sonde into emotional relations of a man and a woman of different age. Analysis of love and marriage of those who are just entering the life, those on the its top as well as those who are already counting their days. Experimental film consisting of three stories by three directors. The only common element is [...]

  • Thank you for responding to our participation
    exhibition, November 12 - 16, 2012, New Synagogue

    The title of the exhibition is a sentence which expresses the aversion for the outer and inner persecution. Originally it was the equivoke, but it is more than that. It is a useful detection in a situation, where man is questioning why the normalization took such a long time. Or is asking a question what [...]

  • Memory Kontrol / normalization and its neo
    festival and symposium
    Monday – Friday, 12. – 16. 11. 2012

    „Who thinks what he sees and who tells what he thinks, is weird.“ Konrád Gyorgy, Abusive State
    Do not forget this year’s Memory Kontol. 5th volume is bringing theatre, concert, films, programme for schools, Czech-Slovak student debate, literature, exhibition and two-day long intergeneration symposium of central-European intelectuals. The reflection of continuity of mechanism, that co-created social [...]

  • Memory Kontrol: Socialism
    public discussion
    Thursday 18. 10. 2012, 5pm

    Opinions on socialism and outlasting of its principles in the present time. Well-known journalists, scientists of politics and economy are invited.
    The discussion will be simultaneously interpreted into English.
    Michal Havran, head-director of www.JeToTak.sk
    Michal Polák, an economist and philosopher
    www.memorykontrol.org
    Entry: 2.00 / 1.00 € (adults / students)
    Support:

  • Ján Šimko:
    The Last Historical Mission of Young Generation
    theatre performance / last performance
    Thursday 26 April 2012, 7pm

    What happens, when you get to know on some party, that someone got beaten in Prague and a revolution started? Of course, perestroika runs for four years, regimes in eastern Europe are falling one after another, the Berlin Wall is being dismantled by first tourists but there is something in the air also in Czechoslovakia. [...]

  • Photo-report from last week

    Concert Kompost 3 (At), Vojtěch Procházka Trio (Cz, No), public discussion Memory Kontrol: Corruption - a family friend, exhibition opening Christiana Caro (Usa): There, there, competitive exhibition Slam Poetry #2, critical mass and cycloelegace.

    Photo: Natália Zajačiková

  • Memory Kontrol: Corruption - a family friend
    public discussion
    Thursday, 19th April 2012, 7pm

    Big politics and big business are a history of corrupted partnerships. A private discussion within the Memory Kontrol series, will focus on corruption from a historical point of view - it´s nothing new in our country.
    Debaters:
    Mgr. László Vörös, PhD. a Mgr. Peter Šoltés, PhD. - independent science researchers of Historical department of SAV. They focus [...]

  • Slovak society before elections 2012:
    Where we are, where are we going?
    public discussion / PRIZMA
    Tuesday 6 March 2012, 7pm

    Sociologists from The Institute of Public Affairs Oľga Gyarfášová and Grigorij Mesežnikov in a pre-election discussion with curator of Memory Kontrol festival, Fedor Blaščák. They will speak about the condition and opinions of slovak society before parlament elections 2012, what are the moods of the public, how people perceive various political parties and its leaders, [...]

  • Mio-Mio: List der Vernunft (Cunning of Reason)
    instant opera, premiere
    Friday, November 11, 2011, 8pm

    Where there´s a will, there´s an idea. Radically subjective interpretation of relationship of two brothers (V. M. and V. K.), who lie in each other´s eyes.
    Dramaturgy: Fedor Blaščák
    Directed by: Martin Ondriska
    Music: Stanislav Beňačka, Marek Piaček
    Performers: Mio-Mio: Marek Piaček, Stanislav Beňačka
    Production: Stanica Žilina-Záriečie s podporou Ministerstva kultúry SR
    In Slovak and Czech.
    www.memorykontrol.org
    www.mio-mio.org
    Admission: 5,00 / 3,00 € (adults [...]

  • Memory Kontrol – Mečiarism „post scriptum“
    public discussion
    Friday, November 11, 2011, 5pm

    Fifth, and final discussion about mečiarism. Who else should have the final word, if not Vladimir Mečiar himself? We are very pleased, that he accepted our invitation. Will we learn about the truth, how everything has happened?
    Debater: Vladimír Mečiar
    Introduced by: Fedor Blaščák
    In Slovak only.
    Admission: 2,00 / 1,00 € (adults / students)
    www.memorykontrol.org

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