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Velvet Revolution Anniversary Celebrated by Clinking Keys

Photo Exhibition 1989: As Seen by Photographers was launched on October 24, 2019 in Thought Pyramid Art Centre in Abuja. The event supposed to mark an anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which brought back to our country democratic values  30 years ago. Coincidentally, Nigerians remember 20 years of their return to democracy as well this year.

We were trying to tell the story of 1989 in different ways. Visitors could see the retrospective dedicated to the Revolution itself. An additional exhibition "Charta 1977" described a peaceful intellectual resistance against Communist regime. Four animated movies created by NGO Memory of Nations were focused on people oppressed by Communists when they were ruling the country for 40 years. Young Nigerian artists Obi and Obi were creating a replica of Lennon Wall in Prague during the opening ceremony. A book by Petr Sís: The Wall was also part of the exposition as well as an article by Nigerian journalist Olusegun Adeniyi reflecting the Velvet anniversary in Nigerian context. Promotion movies about the Czech Republic showed the audience Czech nation in all its beauty. Czech born Nigerian Yemi AD gave his own memory about the Velvet Revolution through a video message.

Finally yet importantly, all guests received a small bunch of keys as a souvenir and in the end of the official part of the ceremony, they were all clinking to remember those people who were clinking keys during the Velvet Revolution to fight for democracy and to express their will to change.

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