Gentle promenade 2024
Celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Gentle Revolution
Gentle promenade 2024
The gentle revolution brought fragile values into our lives – the ability to live freely, to create, to speak, to work. We did not gain them easily, which is why it is natural for us to commemorate the anniversary of the most important holiday of the modern era of our history.
The Bratislava Cultural and Information Center has prepared a commemorative program for November 17th at the Gentle Revolution Square and also a website Gentle promenade, which was a walk through events commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Gentle Revolution.
Freedom is key!
35th anniversary celebration
Gentle Revolution
November 17, 2024 10:00 - 21:00
Gentle Revolution Square
Freedom is key!
35th anniversary celebration
Gentle Revolution
November 17th 10:00 AM – 21:00 PM
Gentle Revolution Square
Several generations of artists have already been born into "freedom". Students of the Academy of Fine Arts are among them. They no longer have to defend their work or worldview and it is a natural part of their being. However, with the anniversary of the Gentle Revolution, they want to hold up a mirror to democracy. They feel the need to reflect on whether their freedom is still truly freedom. BKIS, in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and selected authors, has created a joint initiative "Advertisement for Democracy". It shows the relevance of the topics of November 17, 1989, because freedom is key.
"We still believe in the power of art and its power to speak to people, so we want to bring messages to the streets from different generations of artists who are a voice for democracy." (Initiators – Adam Balogh, Samuel Gregor-Dzurek and curator Jana Babušiaková.)
Event partners: Bratislava Tourist Board, Ministry of Tourism and Sports. Implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Slovak Republic.
– instant poetry –
© Gabriela Birosova 2024
Photo: Juraj Bartoš
Events involved in 2024
- Freedom endures. Censorship, propaganda and art (Slovak National Gallery) 23. 10. – 28. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival (UPN) 4. – 17. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – Film screening (UPN) 6. – 8. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – ELITES – recording of a theatre production from 2017 (UPN) 9. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – TATARKA (UPN) 9. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – Hungarian Heroes (UPN) 10. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – Martin Geišberg Band Concert (UPN) 10. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – Open Day at the Archives of the Institute of National Memory (UPN) 11. – 13. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival Under the Pyramid 2024 (UPN) 12. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival – Samaria Klezmer Band (UPN) 12. 11. 2024
- Freedom Festival Under the Pyramid 2024 – Vandal plays Silan (UPN) 13. 11. 2024
- Dominik Tatarka, freedom lover (Central European Forum, Artforum Publishing House) 14. 11. 2024
- Over the threshold (OZ BRAK) 15 – 17 November 2024
- Journey Beyond the Border: Creative Reading (Bratislava City Museum) 16. 11. 2024
- Gentle Revolution and Night of Theaters (VŠMU) 16. 11. 2024
- Advertising for democracy (VŠVU and BKIS) 17. 11. 2024
- November 24 – Are we wasting time? What needs to be done now? (Civil Society) 17. 11. 2024
- Freedom is key! Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Gentle Revolution (BKIS and Bratislava - the capital of the Slovak Republic) 17. 11. 2024
- Concert for the mindful (Wellness Festival) 17. 11. 2024
- Czech music in the Hall (Moyzes Quartet) 17. 11. 2024
- Concert: How long? (PO Hviezdoslav Theatre) 17. 11. 2024
- PPU Egon Bondy Tour 2024 (Czech Center Bratislava) 17 November 2024
- KUUMŠT: Cultural and Artistic Student Festival (Student Platform FAD STU) 18. 11. 2024
- White crow (Bystriny oz) 18. 11. 2024
- Dance House – Gentle and Revolutionary (Dragoons of Oz) 21. 11. 2024
- Theater Podcast Országh Hviezdoslav – episode November 17 (DPOH)
What was the 35th Anniversary Celebration like?
Photo: Lucia Benediková, November 17, 2024 – Gentle Revolution Square
