The event was attended by several thousand people who filled the palace´s all spaces.
Rocker Ivan Kral welcomed on the stage U.S. singer Suzanne Vega who together with the people present sang the song Tom´s Diner that she said she played for Havel when they met in the United States for the first time years ago.
The last stage of parting with Havel followed the state funeral that was held in St Vitus´ Cathedral at Prague Castle early in the afternoon.
It was attended by Czech senior officials and foreign guests, including current and former presidents and leading representatives of the EU.
After the funeral a family ceremony took place in the crematorium in Prague-Strasnice.
The Lucerna event had the character of a meeting of friends who have something in common and who like rock, theatre and film.
"I would wish for us to be always as tolerant as we are here today," folklore musician Jiri Pavlica told Czech Television.
The screening of documents on Havel was started with a film from 1990 showing the writer, playwright and dissident turning into Havel the president.
Havel´s photographs were put on display at the event.
The organisers handed out 4000 tickets that were available for free.
People who did not get tickets could watch the event on a large screen in the nearby Wenceslas Square.
The Czech Television broadcast the event live from 20:00 to 22:00 on Friday.
The Lucerna Palace has been provided for the event by Havel´s sister-in-law, Dagmar Havlova, and her husband Ivan Havel.
The art-nouveau multipurpose Lucerna (lantern) Palace was commissioned by Vaclav Havel´s grandfather. It was the first building of reinforced concrete with a glass-roofed passage in Prague.
Lucerna was nationalised in 1948. In 1992 the palace was returned to the brothers Vaclav and Ivan Havels.
Author: CTKhttp://www.ctk.cz/
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