In March 2018, at the initiative of Velid Đekić, the exhibition "Paraf - bode trn" was organized for the fortieth anniversary of the first official concert of the Rijeka punk band Paraf. During his work as a journalist and cultural affairs writer, Đekić collected numerous photographs, cover sheets and other documents about Paraf. With the help of designer Mladen Stipanović and with the financial support from the Rijeka City Cultural Department, Đekić set up twenty large bilingual display boards with photographs that represent the development of the punk band of Paraf. Although an exhibition catalogue was not compiled, the exhibition was well covered by the media.
Punk band Paraf, whose first line-up was consisted of Valter Kocijančić, Zdravko Čabrijan and Dusan Ladavac, held his first performance in the premises of the Circolo Italian Cultural Club on 22 March 1978. This event is considered one of the breakthrough moments for rock in Rijeka and Yugoslavia. Along with Slovenian band Pankrti, Paraf is considered to be one of the first punk bands in the European socialist countries.
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The Collection of Jaroslav Meznik documents his activities as a Charter 77´s signatory, his work as a professor of History and later Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University. In April 2018, the collection was donated by a librarian of the department of History (Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University) to the Masaryk University Archives.
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The collection was made after an interview with Vytautas Umbrasas about the Student Scientific Society at Vilnius University. During the first interview (on 17 January 2018), Umbrasas mentioned briefly that he may have some letters and documents about the society's activities, and correspondence with Mart Laar. The researcher of the project Grybkauskas stressed the importance of this kind of documentation. During the second interview (25 January 2018), Umbrasas gave letters, drafts and other documents to the researcher to be deposited in the archives of the Lithuanian Institute of History, thus establishing the collection.
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Vilnius Kražių gatvė 5, Lithuania 01109
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The members of the punk band Paraf in 1977 wrote "Paraf/punk" as graffiti on a stairway in Rijeka. At the initiative of Velid Đekić, in 2018 this graffiti was protected by the Rijeka city council as a cultural property of local significance. The City of Rijeka also paid for the restoration of graffiti. Thanks to Đekić, graffiti is today considered a monument that marks the beginning of the punk counterculture in Rijeka. Graffiti is, with its coarse appearance, fully consistent with the principles of the punk rock movement that wants to disrupt imposed social boundaries.
Since the graffiti was created before the first official concert by the punk band Paraf, it may be concluded that with this graffiti the band wanted to herald the emergence of a new musical expression, i.e. the change that punk rock signified on the Rijeka music scene at the time. How much ahead of its time this was is reflected in the fact that today graffiti is considered a part of pop culture and is used regularly to announce or criticize socially significant events.
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At the opening ceremony, an exhibition about American beatnik Allen Ginsberg opened and was held in the Centre for Queer Memory in Prague from January to April 2018. One significant acquisition of the Society for Queer Memory collections was introduced during this exhibition. The Society had bought a rare facsimile of the poem “Kral Majales” by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1965. The poem, visually arranged by American painter Robert LaVigne, represents an impressive artistic work reflecting Ginsberg’s dramatic stay in Prague in 1965 and documenting an exceptional moment in Czech queer history. Allen Ginsberg took part in the students’ May Celebrations “Majales” and was elected “Král Majálesu” (“King of the Majales”). However, he was later arrested and expelled from Czechoslovakia for allegedly indecent behaviour. The exhibition, as well as an accompanying lecture, presented the events associated with Ginsberg’s stay and reactions to his Prague visit in historical documents and current sources. The poem “Kral Majales”, translated into Czech by Jan Zábrana, was also recited at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
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Na Strži 1683/40, 140 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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