The plan was simple: a joint workshop bringing together students from the Memory of Nations Grammar School and eyewitnesses from the TisíciHRAn's production 89. To sit down at the same table, revisit the stories of November, and try to understand what remains relevant today.
But the present intruded on the school day. In Prague, a demonstration called “We Won’t Give Up the Media!” was being organized for April 22, 2026, and the students decided they wouldn’t just stick to talking. They grabbed cardboard, markers, and the ideas that had just been shared at the table. The eyewitnesses joined the march, and the joint workshop moved from the classroom to the streets for a while.
What makes such meetings powerful is precisely that they cannot be fully planned. Sometimes history does not unfold as a lesson, but as a conversation in which both generations discover that they care about the same things.
About the opportunity to ask questions, speak out loud, and make room for different opinions. And not to let the public space fall silent.
