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MeetFactory is a non-profit international center for contemporary art founded in 2001 by the artist David Černý. In the wake of the destructive floods of 2002, MeetFactory was forced to evacuate its previous premises in Holešovice. The project was resurrected three years later in an industrial building in Prague's quarter Smíchov, in a unique space squeezed between a motorway and an active railroad. The program started after a substantial reconstruction in 2007.
The program of MeetFactory consists in four dramaturgic departments - music, theatre, gallery and the artist-in-residence program.
The music program presents the international independent music scene, holding six to eight performances per month in the music hall fitted with high-end audio equipment.
The theatre program focuses on contemporary prose, as well as experimental interdisciplinary projects, often involving visual artists, musicians, or non-actors.
The three galleries offer space for critical confrontation of the national and international art scenes. The MeetFactory Gallery focuses on original curatorial projects, while the Kostka Gallery presents solo shows of emerging and established artists. The program of the Wall Gallery, a side-facade of the building, comprises of large-scale realizations beyond street art.
The international Artist-in-Residence program is the largest studio program in the Czech Republic. MeetFactory facilitates fifteen studios, which annually host over thirty visual artists, curators, musicians, theatre directors or writers. We foster the involvement of our artists in residence not only within the programming of MeetFactory, but also in the context of the Czech and Central European art scenes.
Besides the four dramaturgic departments the program of MeetFactory is oriented on inter-genre and educational projects which offer the public new forms of encounter with contemporary art.

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Melodka music club, founded in 1929, is firmly rooted in the modern history of the city of Brno.

It is a steadily functioning multi-genre music club with a broad range of visitors. Its firm organization background supported by the first-rate sound and light equipment enables hosting of significant names of both the Czech and the world music scene (check the list in the right-hand column). A lot of space is also dedicated to young bands, fresh projects, workshops, fashion shows, competitions and other kinds of show formats.

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Cultural center and music club for all subcultures. Concert, Dj and VJ projections, theatre, exhibitions, workshops and more!

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The O2 arena is one of the leading facilities in Europe with a capacity of up to 20,000. Every year, the O2 arena hosts dozens of attractive sporting and cultural events. It was opened in 2004 for the ice-hockey championship and since that time it has welcomed over 600,000 people every year.

The O2 arena is located in north-eastern Prague, approximately 10 km from the city centre. It occupies an advantageous position between the interior road ring, which provides comfortable transport from other sections of the city, and the external ring road, which allows a quick connection to the outgoing motorway and the international highway network.

The O2 arena offers more than fourty spatial, functional or technical variations of the stage surface and the auditorium. At a large rock concert, the O2 arena can host up to 20,000 spectators. The latest technology available at the O2 arena include, e.g., a giant video cube, internal TV circuit, display facades, its own TV studio, sliding stands, excellent acoustics, light park and advanced telecommunication equipment.

In addition to the standard auditorium, the O2 arena offers non public floors for skybox and club seat tenants. It also features business areas with necessary facilities, a number of lounges, restaurants and bars along with seminar facilities, press conference rooms and congress halls.

O2 arena is owned and operated by Bestsport, a.s., which is part of PPF Group. PPF invests into multiple market segments such as banking and financial services, telecommunications, biotechnology, real estate, insurance and agriculture. PPF's reach spans from Europe to Russia, the USA and across Asia. PPF Group owns assets of EUR 27 billion (as at 31 December 2016).

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Space with capacity 50 - 150 people for any culture events

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Centre of independent culture offering unique music, theatre and art projects.


Activation of your senses by music, theatre, dance, contemporery circus, exhibitions, workshops, travel discussion evenings and festivals.
Key figures of various fields are invited and we bring you also huge music and multimedia events. Festival of new media AM and Spectaculare - they connect music, motion, visual art and the most modern technologies. Music Infinity comes with unknown and legendary talents from art-house alternative and mainly foreign scene. You do not need to go West to see legends of the music world. You can see the stars of the music heaven during the cycle Top of The World in our club atmosphere. If you long for northern music, you can enjoy artists from Island, Norwegian and Sweden in the Midnight session. And if you wish to visit other lands you will enjoy Planet Connection - composed evenings devoted to various parts of the world. You may listen to local music and stories, watch movies, savour photos and taste traditional cuisine.
Realisation of exhibitions that are thematically following the current programme of all stages in Palac Akropolis. We exhibit new creations and from amateur to fine art students to renowned artists.
Opportunity for young music groups. We enable young musicians to perform on the one of the most prestige club scenes in Prague and simultaneously be heard by new audiences and establish connections with music producers. Every month we prepare EuroConnections - original European music groups who are able to premiere their works. We are your reliable guide in current music trends.
We Organise support for experimental, nonverbal and physical theatre projects. We provide a scene for art groups with traditions in community theatre, social-criticism performance whichfocuses on current social issues. Starting from 2012, we are introducing contemporary circus.Together with the centre for new circus Cirqeuon we organise the festival Cirkopolis, which connects the new circus with dance and physical theatre. Festival always invites several foreign groups and annually brings the world premiere of Cirkopolis.

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The objective of the project is to create in Pilsen a truly working interdisciplinary space, which offers desired background to artists and visitors, as well as the high quality of cultural events themselves.

The industrial area of ​​the former paper mill in the Slovany is located about 15 minutes walk if you take a popular walking trail from the city center up the Radbuza river.

This place, with an attractive exterior of preserved brick-made factory, offers more than 4,000 square meters of open space, where you can find a gallery of contemporary art, a hall for musical production, concerts and corporate events; dance hall run by young Pilsen dancers, a professionally equipped 200m² photo and video atelier as well as studios for exhibiting artists.On the ground floor, Café Papírna offers its guests a stylish refreshment with an emphasis on the quality and origin of the assortment.
The team behind this project has been formed from young active people of various creative disciplines who have practical experience in this field and want to contribute, without the passive waiting, to the development of Pilsen as much as possible. Our goal is not to compete with similar activities, but rather to help as much as possible the actual utilization of cultural potential of the West Bohemian metropolis.

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