Saturday, August 17, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM
A program inspired by the turbulent fate of the Kraffer Garden during the former regime
PROGRAM:
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM The Day Silence Fell – an experiential workshop with Memory of Nations
February 1948, the radio announces that President Beneš has just completed the National Front government. Hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets of Prague. The crowd, under the supervision of Klement Gottwald, celebrates in Wenceslas Square. How will this affect life in a small Czech village? How will citizens vote in the upcoming elections, and what will their choice bring them?
The workshop on the transformation of the Czech countryside during collectivization raises the question of whether it is right to try to remove injustice by stripping a formerly privileged minority of their basic rights, property, and freedom.
This experiential workshop was developed with the support of the Europe for Citizens program. The workshop is built on real stories and testimonies from the Memory of Nations archive.
The workshop is led by trained instructors with experience in drama education and role-playing.
For everyone from 13 to 100 years old
Tickets HERE
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Vox Populi – Tell the story of the garden with us
Do you have your own experience with the Kraffer Garden from before 2021? Come and tell us about it in the legendary Vox Populi booth. You’ll help us document the memory of this exceptional place, whether it’s a complex story or just a feeling, a scent, or an image. Furthermore, these memories will serve as inspiration for students who will process them into short animated works, with your consent, of course. Besides Saturday, August 17, you can record your memory anytime through our questionnaire or at the Kraffer Garden flower shop.
The history of the garden is also commemorated this summer by two exhibitions – A Walk Through History right in the garden captures 8 moments from its rich past. The Story of One Exceptional Garden is an exhibition located in the Rondel garden of the Jindřichův Hradec State Castle and Chateau, describing individual stages of the garden’s history while also presenting its present and future plans.
6:00 PM Podcast Rewrite History: State and Property
Michal Stehlík and Martin Groman will focus on the topic of State and Property in a live recording of their popular history podcast. What does the term nationalization actually mean? And did it only come with the Communists? How did the First Republic treat property, and how did the state behave between 1945 and 1948? We mostly remember the situation after 1948, but much was prepared even before then. And, of course, we will eventually get to the Communist regime.
Limited capacity, tickets HERE
During the podcast performance, you can take advantage of the children’s program “Playing with All Senses” with HračkyToč; reservations HERE
8:30 PM Rebelové (The Rebels)
film screening in the garden summer cinema
In the successful retro-musical by Zdeněk Zelenka and Filip Renč, we travel back to the sun-drenched summer of 1968, when everything still breathed new hope and no one could imagine the threat of Soviet occupation even in their darkest dreams.
Limited capacity, tickets HERE
