We would like to invite you to the unveiling ceremony of Václav Havel´s Place, memorial dedicated to Václav Havel, which will take place on Thursday, 8 May 2025 from 12:30 in Makasiinipuisto Park (in front of Helsinki Central Library Oodi).
The event will be attended by distinguished guests, Mr. Joakim Strand, Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering, and Mr. Juhana Vartiainen, Mayor of Helsinki.
The ceremony will be followed by screening of the documentary “Václav Havel – Living in Freedom“ in Maijansali of Helsinki Central Library Oodi (admission is free).
Please register by e-mail:
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Václav Havel (1936 - 2011) was a Czech writer and playwright, political dissident and leading personality in the course of political changes in November 1989. After the fall of communism, Václav Havel was the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
Havel’s Places
A great homage to the memory of Václav Havel was the idea to create “Havel’s Place” in the symbolic form of two chairs linked by a round table with a tree growing through its centre. It is a place where people can sit and reflect and make new contacts, engage in dialogue or listen to the ideas of others.
This Václav Havel´s Place in Helsinki has been kindly sponsored by: Quercus Foundation, VAFO Group, Teemu Lehto, Ivan and Hugo Chadima, Tomáš Vlasák, Gabriela and Petr Babický, Hannah and Jiří Balaštík, Miroslava and Jiří Voříšek, Marek Vinš.
The screening of the documentary has been kindly sponsored by VAFO Group, a leading European producer of superpremium pet food.
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