Václav Havel Tribute Concert

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Tribute to Václav Havel (Czech: Pocta Václavu Havlovi) was an event held in memory of Václav Havel, the last Czechoslovak and the first Czech President, writer, playwright and human rights activist. The concert took place in Lucerna Music Bar in Prague on 23 December 2011. Václav Havel died on Sunday 18 December 2011 at 10:15 a.m.

Main organisers of the event

David Gaydečka (Manager of the Goe's Garage)

Vladimír Hanzel (Former Secretary to President Václav Havel)

Jakub Mejdřický (PP Production)

Lubomír Schmidtmayer (Director of the Palace Akropolis)

Jindra Zemanová (Meet Factory)

Lucerna Great Hall

Moderator: Jiří Černý

5:30 pm - sk:Bez ladu a skladu

6:30 pm - Tata Bojs

6:50 pm - Dan Bárta and Robert Balzar

7:00 pm - Garage & Tony Ducháček

7:45 pm - David Koller and Ivan Král

8:10 pm - Jasná páka and Hudba Praha

8:40 pm - Radim Hladík and Vladimír Mišík

8:50 pm - Štěpán Rak

8:55 pm - sk:Živé kvety

9:15 pm - Tonya Graves, Matěj Ruppert a Ondřej Brousek

9:30 pm - cs:Hradišťan (Jiří Pavlica)

9:45 pm - Suzanne Vega

9:50 pm - Ivan Král and Jan Ponocný

10:30 pm - The Plastic People of the Universe

11:10 pm - The Velvet Underground Revival Band

11:30 pm - End of concert

Lucerna Music Bar

Moderator: Zdeněk Suchý

6:00 pm - Máma Bubo

6:40 pm - Schoenfelt

7:30 pm - Lanugo

8:30 pm - Toxique

9:35 pm - Zrní

10:35 pm - The Colorblinds

Lucerna Cinema

Documentary films:

President Václav Havel (Dir. V. Bojanovský, 1990)

President and Director (1996)

Havel to the Castle (Dir. P. Koutecký, 1998)

American in Prague or Partnership for Jazz (Dir. P. Koutecký, 1994)

"An American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia" held in St. John the Divine, New York (Dir. Caroline Stoessinger, 1990)

Live performance Václav Havel: Garden Party - Theatre Divadlo na tahu, Dir. Andrej Krob

Lucerna Cinema Café

Photographs of Václav Havel
Curator: Kateřina Blažková-Bajzíková
Photographers:

Karel Cudlín

Jiří Jírů

Bohdan Holomíček

Jaroslav Kukal

Tomki Němec

Oldřich Škácha

References

Václav Havel Tribute Concert Wikipedia

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