Screening of animated short films from Central and Eastern Europe reflecting on the year 1989. Come and take a peek through the Wall. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain which physically and ideologically divided Europe during the Cold War, Hungarian Cultural Center in New York invites you to Bohemian National Hall to see a…
Encounter the original works Lee Freeman collected from cutting edge artists from communist-era Czechoslovakia, art pieces that might have never breathed and prospered without his vigorous determination to bring them across the Iron Curtain. Exhibition will be on view April 12th - May 4th, 2018 The opening is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.czechcenter.com. RSVP…
Two historians, Jiri Ellinger and Paulina Bren, discuss life on either side of the Iron Curtain while exploring the literal, yet metaphorical, concept of the "wall." A "commonn voice" of a Czechoslovak and American that lived through the Cold War will also be heard. How did two separate worlds, divided by the ideas of "East" and "West" co-exist? How did they…