We cordially invite you to a debate at the Václav Havel Library, this time on the topic of open flats, on Wednesday 21 June 2023 at 7 pm, (Ostrovní 13, Prague 1)
The two recently deceased women - Dana Němcová and Petruška Šustrová - were among those whose flats functioned as a meeting place for free thinkers during the so-called normalization period, as an asylum from the world of double morality and empty platitudes. But there were more such apartments.
Open flats during closed hours. Islands of freedom despite the constant threat of its withdrawal. And women hosts, women wives, women mothers, women activists... What was life like in open flats? What joys and what demands did it place on their inhabitants? What did it mean for the children who grew up in them? And did these defiant and non-conforming women consider themselves feminists? This will be the topic of the next joint evening of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century and the Václav Havel Library, which will be attended by mathematician, mother of six children and one of the important figures of dissent, Kamila Bendová; the signatory of Charter 77 and daughter of Dana and Jiří Němcová, Pavla Paloušová; and feminist, underground musician and publicist Mirek Vodrážka.
The debate will be moderated by Veronika Bendová.
(photo: Ondřej Němec, Václav Havel Library)