The dead come alive when they think of them.Czechia remembered Václav Havel<

A commemorative concert of 10 years without Václav Havel took place at the Lucerna Music Bar in Prague on Saturday evening. Among others, singer Thom Artway, the group Poetika, singer-songwriter Jiří Dědeček, Ivan Hlas Trio together or Michal Hrůza with the band performed here. James Harries, a native of Manchester, England, also contributed his songs.

Havel's close colleagues and friends spoke at the concert, including his former press spokesman Ladislav Špaček, director Václav Marhoul, economist Tomáš Sedláček or Šimon Pánek and Jan Hřebejk.

People could also watch performances by Mário Bihári, Jaroslav Hutka, Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer and others. The evening was accompanied by actor and presenter Ondřej Lechnýř. The whole concert was symbolically closed by the song Modlitba pro Marta.

The producer of the project, Robin Suchánek, approached four dozen personalities who remember Václav Havel and whose answers those interested can find on the YouTube channel.

Among them are former Austrian president Heinz Fischer, British playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard, American singer Suzanne Vega, writer Martina Formanová, diplomat and educator Martin Palouš, co-founder of the Public Violence movement Fedor Gál, actor and director Jan Kačer or the chairman Miloš Vystrčil left the Senate.

People carried the Heart to the Castle

As part of commemorative events, several dozen people set off from Hradčanské náměstí in Prague on Saturday evening after 6 p.m. for a march called Heart to the Castle. The large symbol of the heart, which is associated with Havel and which decorated the Castle during the last days of his presidency, was this time carried by the participants from Hradčanské náměstí via the Rock Café to Lucerna.

"This year, we agreed with our colleagues in an exceptionally different way. Symbolically, the Lantern is, of course, central to Havel," said Robin Suchánek, executive director of the art, production and advertising agency NetwIN Productions, who co-organizes the Ten years without V.H. project.

Before leaving the Castle, the participants took photos with their fingers in a V as a sign of victory and sang the first stanza of the Czech national anthem. The wooden heart from the Srdce na Hrad march ended up on the Lucerna Music Bar stage, where a memorial concert took place during the evening.

The Havel exhibition (and not only) at Provázko, the unique recordings of interviews taken by the Memory of the Nation and the debate on Havel's legacy on Saturday afternoon and evening commemorate Havel in Brno. Dozens of people came to light a candle either in Ulička Václav Havel or next to the entrance to the Husa Theater on a string in Zelné trhu.

In Pilsen, Havel was commemorated with a public reading from his speech with the subtitle Don't be sad, Vanka!, dozens of people came to the Pilsen cultural space Moving Station to listen to the thoughts of the playwright and important Czech and world politician.

Already on Friday, a heart from candles lit up in Šabach Park in Dejvice. On Saturday, people laid wreaths, flowers and lit candles at Havel's grave in Vinohradský hřbitov from early in the morning.

Remembrance of the ex-president was also expressed by politicians on social networks from the morning. The chairman of the STAN movement Vít Rakušan called Havel "the patron of our freedom". "VH was not afraid to appeal to humanity, conscience, courage and cohesion. This is what he wanted our company to be. We must continue his legacy - regardless of whether it is currently in fashion or popular," wrote Pirates chairman Ivan Bartoš.

Despite a very busy schedule, the newly appointed Prime Minister Petr Fiala also found time to remember the former president and dissident. He highlighted his merit in the fact that Czechs live in a free, democratic and prosperous country. "I have always respected Václav Havel for his bravery and lifelong struggle for freedom and democracy," he wrote on Twitter.

Ideals belong in politics, wrote Čaputová

Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová also added her memory. She emphasized that we remember Havel as a person inextricably linked to the stellar moments of our recent history. "Václav Havel's life story shows that ideals belong in politics. Without them, only partial interests that have a short-term durability will remain. He was convinced that without "the all-round cultivation of the moral order, which alone can be a source of respect for the rules of human coexistence, and thus also the cements of our civil society, we have no chance of peace, stability, satisfaction and prosperity". That is also why Václav Havel's legacy does not only take the form of some kind of monument to which we lay wreaths on anniversaries. On the contrary, it forces us to ask ourselves at every moment to what extent we are fulfilling this ideal of democracy," she wrote, among other things.

Right in the center of Prague, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Markéta Pekarová Adamová, the Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil and some deputies and senators remembered the former politician. After the meeting in Havel's favorite cafe Slavia, the procession headed to the memorial site on the piazzetta of the National Theater bearing the president's name. Those present laid flowers on the spot.

Vystrčil appreciated the politician's principledness. "If we argue and argue and are unable to take principled positions, no one will respect us," he said. Pekarová Adamová reflected on how the Czech environment has changed in the ten years since Havel's death.

"I don't see truth and love as something that should be insulted," she said, adding that they are, on the contrary, values ​​that everyone should strive for. She was surprised that the given password had become derogatory to many people.

President Miloš Zeman also sent a wreath to Havel's grave.