VOICES of the VELVET REVOLUTION - THE PEOPLE Song

We witnessed the winds of change in the autumn of 1989, stunning dramas took place in the Eastern Bloc countries, the "Velvet Revolution" of Czechoslovakia, was one of the most remarkable revolutions in contemporary history. Where a dissident writer, Vaclav Havel, led his country away from an entrenched and oppressive regime that crumbled under the will of the people and resigned from power without the loss of the single human life. Rarely do the real-life events of a writer so boldly upstage his art, the universal theme of repression confronted by truth.
After witnessing the start of the Velvet Revolution Terri New went to Czechoslovakia and gathered stories from luminaries of the revolution. She wrote a play and produced it at the Wilshire Ebel Theatre in Los Angeles and created Project Booklift, a nationwide project that airlifted 400,000 books to this new democracy of Eastern Europe. She also created a documentary "Rebirth of a Nation" which won the Golden Mic Award in 1993.
Terri New, will present an excerpt in song and images that replay the history of that amazing time, "Voices of the Velvet Revolution."
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