Gentle promenade 2025
Page "Tender Promenade", a walk through events commemorating the anniversary of this most important holiday of the modern era of our history, was created on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Gentle Revolution in 2024.
We continued this initiative in 2025 and we brought list of events dedicated to November 17, which reminded us that freedom is not a given, but a value that we must care for together.
Events involved in 2025
Freedom Festival – 15th year
3. 11. – 17. 11. 2025, Institute of National Memory
Freedom Festival under the Pyramid
4. 11. 2025
Institute of National Memory
Freedom Festival – International Film Festival for Schools
4. 11. - 7. 11. 2025
Institute of National Memory
International Film Festival of Freedom
5. 11. - 8. 11. 2025
Institute of National Memory
Freedom Festival – Open Day at the Archives of the National Archives of the Czech Republic
10. 11. – 11. 11. 2025, Institute of National Memory
Freedom Festival – Historical Quiz Night
11. 11. 2025
Institute of National Memory
The Battle for November (discussion)
12. 11. 2025, Bratislava City Museum
Freedom Festival under the Pyramid
13. 11. 2025, Institute of National Memory, STVR Radio Devín
Ask yours. What does November 17th mean to us today? (film + discussion)
13. 11. 2025, Bratislava City Museum
Freedom Festival – Zlokot + Blve Velvet
13. 11. 2025, Freedom Festival
Freedom Festival – Brain Sneezing
November 13, 2025, Freedom Festival and the Institute of National Memory
Freedom Festival – Anne Frank
November 14, 2025, Freedom Festival and the Institute of National Memory
VŠMU remembers the message of November 17, 1989
14. 11. - 17. 11. 2025
VŠMU
Statue of Hviezdoslav, witness to the beginning of the Gentle Revolution
15. 11. - 17. 11. 2025
Bratislava Cultural and Information Center
Freedom Festival – Gentle Saturday in Šafek
15. 11. 2025, Freedom Festival and Šafko Club
Velvet Underground Revival Band
15. 11. 2025
Czech Center Bratislava
Freedom Day at Devín Castle
16. 11. 2025, Bratislava City Museum
WE ARE THE TENT OF FREEDOM
16. 11. 2025, SME in cooperation with POST BELLUM and the Law Institute
Memorial March: In the Footsteps of Students November 16, 1989
16. 11. 2025, I WANT TO STAY HERE
Concert for Freedom
16. 11. 2025, I WANT TO STAY HERE
Freedom Sounds Good – Commemorating the 36th Anniversary of the Gentle Revolution
November 16, 2025, Bratislava Cultural Center – New Town
We travel back in time to 1989
16. 11. 2025
Kacečko
November 17th at Studio 12: Tender '89… the revolution that began in the theater
17. 11. 2025, Studio 12 and Theatre Institute
November 17 in Studio 12: The Legacy of the Gentle Revolution
17. 11. 2025, Studio 12 and Theatre Institute
A date with the city for children: The road to freedom
17. 11. 2025, Bratislava Cultural and Information Center
Running for Freedom
17/11/2025, Leaf Academy – Leaf academy
Memory of Freedom – screening and discussion about the events of 1989
17. 11. 2025, Cooperation of the Slovak Art Union and the Union of Memory of Slovakia
A gentle conspiracy?
17. 11. 2025, Martin
Slovak Youth Council: The relationship of young people to the European Union and the development of civic engagement
17. 11. 2025
Martinus
November 17th at Bratislava Zoo with a symbolic entrance fee
November 17, 2025, Bratislava Zoo
Unveiling of the November 1989 Memorial
17. 11. 2025, City of Bratislava and Bratislava Cultural and Information Center
Women in Nežná
17. 11. 2025
Aspect and Martinus
Freedom Festival – Opening of the European GULAG exhibition
4. 11. – 17. 11. 2025, Freedom Festival and the Institute of National Memory
On November 17th for all time / Celebration of Freedom at Artforum Bookstore
17. 11. 2025, Artforum Bookstore
Discussion: Stages and backstage of the revolution
17. 11. 2025, PO Hviezdoslav Theatre
Accent
17. 11. 2025, Ifjú Szivek Dance Theatre and TREPP platform
Revolutionary Book Café
17. 11. 2025, City Library in Bratislava
GENTLE still lives!
17. 11. 2025, Law Institute
Over the threshold
15. 11. – 17. 11. 2025, OZ BRAK
Bratislava Dance Club
17. 11. 2025, PO Hviezdoslav Theatre
November 17th in popular culture
17. 11. 2025, Music
Concert for the mindful
17. 11. 2025
Pohoda Festival, Ltd.
White Crow 2025
18. 11. 2025, Bystriny OZ
Reading at the bus stop: About hope in hopeless times
18. 11. 2025, City Library in Bratislava
TRUE STORY: 80's - 90's show
19/11/2025, Red Cat Cabaret s.r.o
Dance House: Czech Republic/Slovakia – Tenderly and Revolutionaryly
20. 11. 2025, Dragoons
Date with the city: Known – unknown November 17th in the streets of Bratislava
22. 11. 2025, Bratislava Cultural and Information Center
Until the Water Washes Away the Shore – Exhibition at the Mirbach Palace
19. 6. – 23. 11. 2025, Bratislava City Gallery
– instant poetry – © Gabriela Birošová 2024
Photo: Juraj Bartoš