Mgr. Ivo Sedláček

"We started doing events. The second one was, I came up with my own museum in Žabčice where I used to live, in a friend's apartment. He had an upstairs flat; a big house with three rooms and an attic. We cleared and cleaned it up, and made it into my permanent exhibition, the Ivo Sedláček Museum. I have a photocopied almanac. People arrived for the opening; Jiří Havlíček, Magni, Josef Daněk and Blahoslav Rozbořil all spoke at the opening. They basically slandered me because they envied me a museum while they had nothing. Many people came. It was in May or in the summer of 1988. They came from Brno, and Josef was at the station to greet them. He had this horn and spoke through it. He took them to the house, which belonged to my friend Honza at the time. A programme was prepared. Rost'a Čuřík photographed the whole thing, so we have it documented in an almanac. We also released it as a photocopy. These were samizdat books. We also put out a photocopied almanac with texts for the Lunch event. Just for fun, we had a Spanish translator. She was a Faculty of Arts student named Marcela, but I can't remember her surname; it's written in there. We asked her to translate everything into Spanish in case someone came in from Spain. Nobody came, but she still translated everything we said. You said a sentence and had to wait for her to translate it into Spanish. Still, no Spaniards. Then we drank until like 5 am as the first morning train left Žabčice at 5:00. It was in Honza's place's garden. Luckily, nobody paid attention. There was no trouble even though a former military major and the chairman of the National Committee, Mr. Večera, lived across the street. Had he seen it, he would've probably called the police on us because it was an unauthorised gathering. A lot of people from Brno came and there were even friends from Žabčice. I'd say that maybe thirty people crammed into my museum in Honza's upstairs apartment."