Čo sa to tu deje? / Tomáš Halík, Daniel Pastirčák

Convergence 2025 / What is this happening here? /What’s Going on (here)? Čaputová
moderates: Braňo Bezák
Jozef Lupták, Violončelo/Cello
Ján Vladimír Michalko, Organ/Organ
PJONI, Electronics/Electronics


Our age can be called the age of chronic. "I don't trust anyone and nothing anymore" - this is a common conclusion of discussions. Doubt, once an important tool of reason, is often transformed into a disruptive principle that leads to nihilism. We live at a time when the deconstruction of truth turns into a tool of power and social networks provide the breeding ground to alternative truths. God again became an effective weapon in the mouth of modern dictators. Is Western civilization in crisis? If so, what is the crisis to be and what needs to be done to unite and find the strength to defend itself? Not only these questions will look for answers to the Prague professor, priest, theologian and philosopher Tomáš Halík together with the writer, artist and preacher Daniel Pastirčák. Their words will fade in thoughtful music dramaturgy in the interpretation of Pjoni, violonist Jozef Lupták and organist Ján Vladimír Michalk. depth. You need to call loudly: People, for God's sake, stop yourself, recover, if you just respond superficially to the events around us, it will destroy us. We have to stop for a moment, think, look under the surface of the conscious. This begins the culture of spiritual life. ” Russia prepared its barbaric murder in Ukraine by words about the dehumanized West, about Ukraine as a nation that does not exist. Language has creative power. He can say things that are not: yellow blood, flying horse. It can form myths and poetry. It can also create things that were not yesterday and today are: airship, plane, rocket or artificial intelligence. But it can also create conscious lies and manipulate events according to their wishes. ” Instead, the energy is primarily flowing into the highlighting of the differences. It is necessary to start from each other in how I perceive the other, whether it is also possible to build a bridge of understanding, which does not mean consent at all, but perhaps only the ability to be interested in understanding what ways he goes, what motivates him why he is so different from mine. They cannot open more doors into the meanings and spiritual space, and music comes and creates an opportunity for deeper reflection and perhaps understanding. We believe very strongly that especially in times of uncertainty brings music and beauty deep meaning. ” href = "https://bit.ly/co_sa_to_tu_deje"> https://bit.ly/co_sa_to_tu_deje
👉 Permanent: Program and performers reserved. SR Bratislava Matúš Valla. prof. PhDr. Tomáš Halík, Th.D. (1948) - Professor of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, where he lectures the philosophy and sociology of religion. Since 1990 he has been the president of the Czech Christian Academy and the Rector of the Church of the Sacred Salvator. Since 2004 he has been a priest of the newly established Prague Academic Parish. He is also actively involved in intermediate dialogue. During the communist regime he worked in religious and cultural dissent. After 1989 he completed lecture and study trips on all continents and was a guest professor at the universities in Oxford, Cambridgei and Harvard. Pope John Paul II. He appointed him in 1990 as advisor to the Pontifical Council for Dialogue with unbelievers. Benedict XVI. In 2008 he awarded the title of Honorary Papal Premier. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and several other institutions. His books were translated into many languages. He has won several not only literary awards at home and abroad. In 2014, his lifelong work was awarded the Templeton Prize and in 2016 Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2024, Pope Francis appointed him "missionary synodality". In December of the same year, the University of Cambridgei organized a conference dedicated to his life and work. He is a graduate of the Secondary School of Arts in Košice and Bratislava (ceramics). He worked for a shorter time in the Bratislava City Gallery. Later he studied restoration at a two -year superstructure and theology at the Slovak Evangelical Theological Faculty in Bratislava. He worked as a preacher of the Church of Bratská in Michalovce, since 1992 he has been in Bratislava. In his literary texts he often reflects religious themes, deeply reflects on the meaning of being, the role of God in the life of man, his lyrics are full of original poetics, mysticism, imagination and seeking. It regularly contributes to Diary N in the section Sunday's non -crook.