We cordially invite you to the accompanying debate to the exhibition Kings of the Majals. Student Festivals in Czechoslovakia 1945-1990, jointly organized by Museum Kampa - Jan and Meda Mládková Foundation and the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century. It will take place on 13 June at 18:00 in the Werich Villa in Kampa. What will it be about?
At the end of August 1966, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced a nationwide campaign against the so-called "hair-suckers", in which many state and social institutions were involved. The main repressive role was played by the Public Security Service, which at the end of August 1966 announced a campaign in which some four thousand young men were registered and variously punished within a few weeks. The American poet Allen Ginsberg was identified as one of the "culprits" in the documents of the Ministry of the Interior. The anthropologist Filip Pospíšil and the historian Ladislav Kudrna, moderated by Petr Blažek, will discuss the phenomenon of the maniacs, as the long-haired boys were called.
You can also still visit the Kings of the Maypole exhibition, which is located just a few steps from the Werich Villa and is open 24 hours a day until 27 July.