Finissage – Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian
Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian in the Exhibition “Fearless”
The Blinken OSA Archives hosts one of the world’s largest collections of uncensored speech, of samizdat texts defying authoritarianism, published and distributed without official permission. To mark the centenary of the birth of the nuclear physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, the 50th anniversary of the founding of Index on Censorship, the most important journal for freedom of expression, and the 40th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Beszélő, the journal of the Hungarian democratic opposition, we thought it important to commemorate, remind and raise awareness of the importance of fearless speech in a series of events organized jointly with students and teachers of the Freeszfe Association. The exhibition “Fearless” is the central event in this series of events.
The exile of the Central European University from Budapest—the violent suppression of freedom of thought, expression and academic freedom—played as much a part in the exhibition’s creation as the exemplary stand taken by the students of the University of Theatre and Film against the arbitrary rule of the authorities.
The program will be in Hungarian. Registration is required.
The program is part of the fearless program series organized by Blinken OSA and Freeszfe Association.