Ticket pass for the whole week of Memory Kontrol 1989 – 2009: 10,00 / 7,00 € (301,26 / 210,88 Sk)

(adults/students)

RESERVATIONS

6pm, installation opening

Slogans of communist regime, which everybody knew was lying. Site-specific installations on the topic of truth and faith fiasco.

Memory kontrol collective – Marcel Strýko

Site-specific memory of Marcel Strýko from Košice, the dissentor (1953 - 1994).

6pm, exhibition opening

Mosaic of stories, relections and memories of Central Europe around 1989 on the walls of Stanica’s gallery by an American artist.

www.voicesfromthecenter.net

7.30pm, performance

Fedor Blaščák „Spôsob fungovania” (“The way it works”) – meaning of one term interpreted by the audience. Admission free to Kosa z nosa concert for first 30 actors !

8.30pm, concert

A cult music band from Bratislava, Kosa z nosa, has been performing live since 1987. They started off with punk rock, today, the music they play is called “ordinary songs”. The band has more than a hundred of songs in their repertoire, however, recordings are missing. Between 1993-1997, several songs are put out as seasonal compilations. After a long break, they reunited last year to play at Concert for the Attentive on November 17th in PKO in Bratislava, or this year – as they played at Bratislava underground rag day.

Admission: 3,50 / 2,00 € (105,44 / 60,25 Sk)

(adults/students)

www.last.fm/event/1272839

3pm – 5.30pm, freely framed educational event for secondary school students

lecture: Verejný priestor pre akciu (“Public space for action”) – Ivana Rumanová

film projection: Voľne žijúca mládež (“Youth living free”) – Dušan Ondruš, November+20 – Tomáš Vítek

Discussion

Co-organizator: Ústav pamäti národa (“Nation’s Memory Institute”).

Open to public, admission free.

More info on Memory Kontrol project for schools: Martina Filinová, martina@stanica.sk, 0907 497 481

www.upn.gov.sk

5.3pm, installation opening „himmelweitgleich…Europa 1989.“

8pm, theatre performance

Quotations from memoirs of Vasiľ Biľak

Scenic adaptation of the first part of the book Memoirs of Vasiľ Biľak. It balances on the edge of comedy and horror, and depicts incredible stories of a small boy, who set off on his own to a big city. Director: Anna Hrnečková

Admission: 3,50 / 2,00 € (105,44 / 60,25 Sk)

(adults/students)

RESERVATIONS

3pm – 5.30pm, freely framed educational event for secondary school students

Film projection: filmová projekcia: Voľne žijúca mládež (“Youth Living Free”, Dušan Ondruš, 2006, 26 min.)

Discussion with the Velvet Revolution partakers: Ján Budaj –  politician and founder of VPN (“Public Against Violence”), Anton Popovič – student leader a Karol Honner –  professor and ex-MP FZ, founding memebr of OF and VPN in Žilina

Concert:  Krylovci

Moderator: Fedor Blaščák

Co-organizator: Azyl and Open Society Foundation

Open to public, admission free.

More info on Memory Kontrol project for schools: Martina Filinová, martina@stanica.sk, 0907 497 481

6pm, film projection

Jeden deň v ľudovodemokratickom Poľsku (“One day in democratic Poland”, M. J. Drygas, PL, 2005, 59 min.), Tam a späť (“There and Back”, Fero Fenič, ČSSR, 1981, 21 min.)

Admission: 2,00 € (60,25 Sk)

8pm, film projection, discussion

Dobre ráno Slovensko! Sedem mesiacov, ktoré nám zmenili život. (“Good morning, Slovakia! Seven months, which changed our lives”, Martin Hanzlíček, ČR a SR, 2009, 52 min.)

Political spirit of the time 1989-1990 in Slovakia – taken through archives and personal testimonies of its partakers. A new documentary, the topic of which was initiated by Fedora Gál a Peter Zajac.

After the film, panel discussion with founders of VPN: Martin Bútora, Zora Bútorová (Bratislava), prof. Karol Honner (Žilina)

moderator: Fedor Blaščák

Admission: 3,00 / 2,00 € (90,38 / 60,25 Sk)

(adults/students)

RESERVATIONS

1pm-5pm, workshop for the selected secondary school students – film extracts from ŠtB, lesson on totalism: “How to say no”, discussion, “Oppression and inner liberty”, preparation of political happening

More info on Memory Kontrol project for schools: Martina Filinová, martina@stanica.sk, 0907 497 481

8pm, last showing of theatre performance

Performance – “event” based on jubilee reunions of classmates that took place during 2008 at Stanica Žilina-Záriečie. Classmates of four different generations and a form teacher from 1968. Personal as well as public images of The Velvet Revolution. Something to be forgotten? Director: Viera Dubačová

PLUS – premier of a documentary on the project “The Classmates”, directed by Adam Hanuljak.

Admission: 3,50 / 2,00 € (105,44 / 60,25 Sk)

(adults/students)

RESERVATIONS

6pm, Memory Kontrol happening on Ľudovít Štúr Square

Return to 1992.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

6pm

Liberty! Liberty? – Premiere of international theatre series, which started within a prestigious Czech-German-Slovak project 68/89 Theatre.Era.History.

Premiere

Stanica Žilina-Záriečie (Žilina)

J. Šimko a kol.: Posledná historická úloha mladej generácie (“The last historical mission of young generation”)

It’s Saturday, nobody’s sure where they are. There was a party. What will happen when you find out that somebody was killed in Prague, and revolution broke out? Stories of students, who stayed at the edge of events in tense situations.

“All the children know that we’re fuckers, love / and you think that we can still get over it… / But we willl become official culture / velvet rock revolution on all the covers / the whole world will get pissed, and the rest we’ll call fuckers / And we’ll only sing about love further on…” (Lues de Funes: (This is a) Love song)

Director: Ján Šimko

Divadlo Husa na provázku (Brno)

alebo žijeme v Gottlande?

“The world is not possible without God. That’s why a 67-year-old singer has to play this role in this most atheistic country in the world.” (quote from the book by M. Szygiel – Gottland)

A grotesque performance feature of an icon of Czech pop-music and the most famous Czech, depicting the life and work of Karel Gott on the grounds of principal historical moments in the Czech past (1969-2009). Non-verbal variety show, in which audience is guided by two ladies and die hard fans from Gottland museum. Director: Jiří Jelínek

www.provazek.cz

Divadlo Archa (Praha)

Šanca 1989 alebo Window of Opportunity (Tomáš Vrba, Ondřej Hrab, Jana Svobodová , Anna Grusková)

Window of opportunity is a term used by NASA. It literally denotes a complicated constellation of conditions, under which a space shuttle can be launched. Metaphorically, it is a chance which should not be missed, because it might not come again soon. Did we take a chance, which was given to us in 1989?

The performance is framed within a fictive radio broadcast intertwined with authentic statements of students and fragments from “radio comic” Kurt and Květa. This story depicts a mixed Czech-German married couple, living in a Czech town Pardubice, and trying to avoid revelation of their collaboration with the former regime.

Director: Jana Svobodová

www.archatheatre.cz

Admission (all 3 performances): 5,00 / 3,50 € (150,63 / 105,44 Sk)

(adults/students)

RESERVATIONS

12.00pm, 2pm and 4pm, Mariánske námestie

WIEN-RAAB-PRESSBURG

Extraterritorial guided tour through towns of EU friends.

Performance – non-traditional tour – guided by a Viennese experimental group God’s Entertainment, explores cultural, political and social changes from the beginning of Great European Freedom in post-European era since 1989.

Another freedom  expressed by the act of splitting Czechoslovakia. Freedom in the form of new relationship between „neighbours“ Slovakia and Hungary. Freedom based on grants from the European Union.

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WIEN-RAAB-PRESSBURG by God´s Entertainment is a co-produced project of German “cultural factories” Kampnagel from Hamburg and Sophiensaele from Berlin.

Admission free.

http://gods-entertainment.org/, www.kampnagel.de, www.sophiensaele.com