Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Press Room
The tour will be held by Miklós Tamási, editor of FORTEPAN, an online photo archive.
This year, for the first time, the Central European University and the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University participate in the event.
September 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Galeria Centralis
Blinken OSA Archives
1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
The Confrontation ‘68
A talk on the film which looks at the National Association of People's Colleges from a 1968 perspective.
September 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Želimir Žilnik: EARLY WORKS (1969)
Film screening and public talk, moderated by Oksana Sarkisova
Galeria Centralis
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
FAREWELL TO SPRING
Revolutionary Youth Magazines 1968. Nr. 2
June 21 – September 16, 2018
Opening: June 21, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by József Mélyi
The year 1968 started with great hopes in some Central and Eastern European countries: for a brief moment it seemed that strict ideology was being replaced by political pragmatism. Elements of consumer culture, and even a private sector appeared; cultural censorship was loosened – or lifted. The whirlwind of the Western protest movements reached the region, while counter culture also left its mark on
Artists
ALTORJAY Gábor, Jerzy BEREŚ, Eugen BRIKCIUS, Stano FILKO, Tomislav GOTOVAC, GULYÁS Gyula, Matjaž HANŽEK, Tadeusz KANTOR, KEMÉNY György, Milan KNÍŽÁK, KONKOLY Gyula, Július KOLLER, Marko POGAČNIK, Red Peristyle, SZENTJÓBY Tamás, Želimir ŽILNIK, et.al.
Curated by SZÉKELY Katalin
Concept by MÉLYI József, SZÉKELY Katalin
Assistant curator SZÖRÉNYI Péter
Exhibition design by KRISTÓF Krisztián
“Live” coverage of the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Starting on August 20, 2018, Blinken OSA covers the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia “live” with close to 4,000 news items issued by the Central News Room of Radio Free Europe (RFE), between August 20 and September 10, 1968. The documents are published online exactly 50 years after their initial release to RFE’s national broadcast desks for dissemination. The public will be able to follow the unfolding of the invasion as the Central News Room issued incoming information sometimes by the minute.
Blinken OSA’s new website dedicated to the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 also features a compilation of photographs documenting the operation of the Central News Room, a collection of photographs on the occupying forces entering the town of Košice, as well as a rare set of original leaflets protesting against the Soviet-led invasion from across Czechoslovakia.
The attached three documents are samples of the close to 4,000 documents to be published online starting August 20, 2018.
Discussion and film screening with English subtitles on September 11, 2018, 6 p.m.
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives – Night of the Museums, June 23, 2018
Exhibition in Galeria Centralis
Farewell to the Spring - 1968 behind the Iron Curtain
1968 began in a very promising way for a few Eastern-European countries as political pragmatism seemed to replace rigid ideology. The effect of protest movements in the West had reached the region, and counter culture had begun to affect Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. The exhibition presents this tumultuous time of student protests, happenings and hippy events that all came to an abrupt end with the intervention in Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact countries.
5:00 p.m. –7:00 p.m. Guided tour of the exhibition by the curator
4:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Symbols and Slogans from 1968 – Interactive program until midnight
Protest and type! Visitors can type flyers on Cold War era type-writers and print symbols of ’68 with the help of Blinken OSA staff.
4:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Tours of the building: Exhibition hall and archive in a historic building. The Goldberger House, an industrial monument, is open to the public once a year. Its basement holds records of the fieldwork that underpinned Radio Free Europe's broadcasts during the Cold War, as well as collections of human rights documents.
The tours start every two hours; in English on demand
11:00 p.m. Film screening.