The Committee for Short-Term Mobility

Martina Pecková Černá is a theatre arts scholar, a translator, and a cultural manager. Her professional interests include contemporary drama, especially German- and Spanish-language drama, and contemporary Czech theatre. She is the Secretary General of the Czech Centre of the International Theatre Institute. Since 2010 she has been the head of the International Cooperation Department at the Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague.

Viktor Debnár is a cultural manager and editor. He has been working at the ATI since 2005 and since 2003 has been collaborating with Libri Prohibiti Library dedicated to samizdat and exile literature. He co-authored Prague’s successful application to be designated a UNESCO City of Literature (2013/2014). He is a member of the Czech Ministry of Culture’s expert select committee for supporting projects in the field of literature (2017–2020) and sits on the Council of the Czech Ministry of Culture’s for its Arts Festivals Programme (2017–2020). In the past he was a member of the Dramaturgical Council of the Czech Centres overseeing the field of literature (2013–2016) and he sat on the jury for the Czech State Award for Literature (2015−2017). He participated in the ATI research project ‘Mapping the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Czech Republic’ (2011–2015).

Jana Návratová is a journalist, editor, and cultural manager, a curator of dance and movement theatre, and a yoga teacher. She has been working with the ATI since 1989 as the institute’s expert on dance and has led various projects dedicated to dance. She is the chair of the administrative board of the Dance Career Endowment Fund and is the chair of the professional organisation Vize tance.

Lenka Dohnalová is a musicologist and a project manager and she is the Arts Institute’s expert on classical music. Since 1993 she has been the Secretary of the non-profit Czech Music Council. She coordinated the annual Year of Czech Music projects in 2004 and 2014 and the Martinů Revisited project in 2009. Up to 2017 she organised the Czech Republic’s involvement in international fairs (MIDEM, WOMEX). She leads the ATI’s research projects on music and she is the editor and co-author of the promotional materials on Czech music that the ATI publishes for international readers.

Eva Žáková works for the ATI, where she has been the head of the Creative Europe Desk Czech Republic – Culture Office programme of the European Union since 2003 and the head of the Arts Institute department since 2005. She specialises in the cultural and creative industries (she was the main coordinator of the project Mapping the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Czech Republic) and in cultural policy. She is a member of the Expert Evaluation Committee of the ÉTA Technological Agency of the Czech Republic. 

Marta Lajnerová is a graduate of the dance studies programme at HAMU in Prague. In 1997–2008 she worked with Tanec Praha and since 2009 she has been the manager of the dance company 420PEOPLE. In 2012–2015 she helped to prepare and implement the pilot cultural and educational project Mini-Pilsen 2015. Since 1998 she has also worked as a project manager, primarily in the fields of dance and music. She is a member of Vize tance.

Ondřej Stupal is the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts Prague, a position he has held since 2013. Between 2004 and 2011 he worked as the director of Futura Centre for Contemporary Art. He is one of the founders of the Fair Art organisation.

Karolína Jirkalová is a journalist, critic, and editor specialising in architecture. She studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and she worked as an editor for Czech Radio Vltava. Since 2007 she has worked as an editor for the magazine Art+Antiques and she also writes for various magazines and journals (Era 21, Stavba). She had an editorial had in the preparation of the books Architekti Sial (2008), Město mezi domy (2009), and Paneláci 1 and Paneláci 2 (2016, 2017).

Kateřina Rathouská is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague. She works as a creative producer at Czech Radio. She is also chairwoman of the Thalia Awards jury for alternative theatre.

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