Itinerary Exhibition “Andrei D. Sakharov: Alarm and Hope” Comes to Sarajevo

23. 11. 2010.
The exhibition, inspired by the life and work of one of the leading human rights activists, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident Andrei Sakharov, will be on display at the Hotel Europe lobby from the 23rd of November to the 4th of December, 2010.

From the 23rd – 26th of November the exhibition is also to be accompanied by artistic performance staged by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ activists. The performance speaks of human rights, struggle between alarm and hope, freedom and tyranny, and is inspired by the work and actions of the leading human rights activists.

The exhibition “Andrei D. Sakharov: Alarm and Hope” was initiated in December 2009 by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and it has been produced in cooperation with the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre and the Russian human rights association “Memorial”. The exhibition is touring European countries, and its visit to Sarajevo at the same time serves as an announcement of the November visit by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Hammarberg, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The exhibition revisits selected ideas by Sakharov concerning the most acute challenges of present-day society: human rights, war, nuclear weapons, global famine, environmentalism, intellectual freedoms, equality. Those are the messages that still contribute to non-violent changes and benefit freedom and human rights.

Andrei Sakharov, the 1975. Nobel Peace Prize winner, was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later becoming implacable adversary of nuclear proliferation, advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was born in 1921. and passed away in 1989. More than 150,000 people bade him last farewell in Moscow.

The exhibition may be visited every day, from the 23rd of November to the 4th of December, at the Hotel Europe lobby. The performance by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ activists will be staged each day, from the 23rd – 26th of November, between 17.30 and 18.30 h, at the Hotel Europe lobby as well.