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Martin Kratochvíl

Martin Kratochvíl is a musician, traveller, mountaineer, entrepreneur, cameraman and director. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and also has a doctorate in philosophy and psychology. He is a renowned jazzman and leader of the Jazz Q band. He has composed music for fifteen full-length films and about 500 documentaries. After 1989 he produced Tankový prapor, the first film after the fall of Communism to be financed with private money. A year before the Velvet Revolution he founded the Bonton publishing company, which achieved the dominant market position in the entertainment field; this he sold in 2011. Now he performs in concerts, composes music and makes travel documentaries and TV series about Eastern religion and the Himalayas – he climbed the 8,000-metre-high Shishapangma with a camera. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the antidrug foundation Drop In.

Petr Váša

Petr Váša is a physical poet. He himself invented this genre, in which literary, musical, motor and artistic inspiration is expressed by a single performer through the sole use of voice and body. He also works as a writer, graphic artist and a singer of the Ty Syčáci band. He lectures at FAVU and JAMU in Brno.
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Josef Kordík

Josef Kordík is a Roman Catholic priest who works in the parish of Železnice. Over 20 years he served as a prison chaplain in Valdice. Following his signing of Charter 77 his permission to serve as a priest was revoked by the state and he worked as a locksmith and cabinetmaker and took an active part in dissent activities.
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Ladislav Kabelka

Ladislav Kabelka specializes in geriatrics, palliative medicine and pain treatment. He works as Senior Consultant at the Department of Long-Term Care at the Hospital of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers in Brno. He wants to help not only with medication but also by investigating the connections between the individual's illness and his or her life.
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Martin Kratochvíl

Martin Kratochvíl is a musician, traveller, mountaineer, entrepreneur, cameraman, and director. As a renowned jazzman he is the Jazz Q band leader. He composed music for hundreds of films. He is a passionate mountaineer; he climbed several peaks in the Himalayas from where he makes travel documentaries.
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Břetislav Svozil

Břetislav Svozil is a geographer, ethnographer and educator and headmaster of the primary school in Deblín where they develop place-based learning with an emphasis on ecological, social and economic topics. He has made several research trips to Siberia, Central Asia and islands in the Caspian Sea. He draws on his experience in his work with communities.
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Margareta Křížová

Margareta Křížová likes small businesses and is active on the Czech startup scene as a mentor. She co-founded the CEAG company where she is primarily responsible for strategy and business development. She writes for newspapers and economic publications. She was one of the investors in the Czech version of Dragon's Den, aired by Czech TV.
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Šimon Pánek

Šimon Pánek is the Director and cofounder of the People in Need humanitarian organisation. He has been personally involved in humanitarian crises in Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka or Haiti. In 1989 he was one of the most active student leaders in the Velvet Revolution, and later worked for Václav Havel's Presidential Office.
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Jason Manion

Jason Manion is an Experience Architect. He builds strategies on how to engage youth in their futures. He travelled across the United States multiple times capturing stories of success from leaders from all different walks of life for the PBS series Roadtrip Nation. He lives in California.
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Jiří Kůs

Jiří Kůs popularizes nanotechnology and the concept of the Third Industrial Revolution. His vision is that of a world where energy ceased to be an interesting commodity, there are self-driven electromobiles in the streets and people's health is monitored by nanosensors.
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Hana Šindlerová

Hana Šindlerová founded the first jam shop in Prague. For almost 20 years she lived abroad and worked in the field of tourism. She travelled throughout Europe, Asia and Africa. She came back home in a difficult situation which, together with her disappointment at the quality of groceries sold in Czech shops and love of cooking, led her to enter the jam market.
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ÚstaF

ÚstaF is a voiceband from Brno that has been combining music, the art of recitation, and theatre since it was founded in 1997. The group, formed by 28 men and women, is led by Zdeněk Šturma. ÚstaF has performed at the Magnesia Litera book awards and it cooperates with the HaDivadlo theatre.
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Marie Stará

Marie Stará is a dressmaker, car mechanic, fashion designer and founder of Rodná Hrouda clothing brand. She worked for the Škoda company in Mladá Boleslav for 11 years. Today she has a fashion parlour in Poděbrady and revives Czech folklore, for example she created the national costumes for the Czech Miss beauty pageant.
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Beata Bocek

Beata Bocek is a self-taught Czech-Polish musician. At the age of 14 she discovered the accordion and guitar and started composing. What she lacks in technique, she makes up for with emotion, earthiness and open-heartedness. Her record Ja tutaj mieszkam was nominated for the Anděl music award.
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Barbora Zuchová

Barbora Zuchová works as a doctor for the Emergency Medical Service, where she started as a spokesperson while still a student of medicine. Before reaching her dream job she took a bit of a detour through the Dance Conservatory and Faculty of Sport Studies. She is also ínvolved in educating the public in providing non-professional first aid.
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Martin Pavliš

Martin Pavliš is a scout and traveller who studies at the University of Economics, Prague. His most recent journey took him to Russia, nearby the Ukrainian town of Novoazovsk, where a military conflict was taking place. It made him think harder about propaganda and the manipulation of people.
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13 | 6 | 2015
Divadlo Reduta, Brno