15 May 2017
Over the weekend, this year’s Open House Prague brought some 1,000 people interested in Prague architecture and the Memorial of Silence’s cultural program to Bubny Station. On Saturday, visitors could hear blind Jewish singer Kataryna Kolcová or could dance on the station platform to the sounds of Romani band Terne Čhave. On Sunday, the Aldente Theatre featuring actors with Down’s syndrome brought smiles to audience members’ faces. The event was hosted by Renata Berkyová. The 2017 cultural season of the Bubny Station Memorial of Silence was officially launched.
During a discussion with Jitka Vrbková, director of the Aldente Theatre’s performance of Who’s Afraid of It, moderator Renata Berkyová quoted from Patrik Ouředník’s book Europeana:
„And they told the governments to pass a law that would allow them to remove from human evolution those who are biologically unfit or who have an innate tendency towards asocial living. And they prepared statistics and said that for instance an 83-year-old alcoholic will have 894 descendants, of whom 67 will be career criminals, 7 murderers, 181 prostitutes, 142 beggars, and 40 insane, meaning a total of 437 asocial elements. And they calculate that those 437 asocial elements will cost society as much as building 140 apartment buildings.“