Lucie Křížková
 | Lucie Křížková Editor of the website, Facebook, communications From 1994 moderator for the radio station Orion, after a year off to Prague. For five years as a moderator for Evropa 2 and got caught up in a band. A year spent travelling, then two years as foreign editor for the Stratosféra publishing house. In between, Charlotta for the station Expresradio, wrote profiles for the magazine Mladý svět (Young World), Secret Diary of a Woman for Reflex magazine online, etc. The great love = off to Brno. News for the Kiss Hády radio station, first child, return to native city, second child. Between children, studies at the Philosophical Faculty at Masaryk University in Brno, specializing in comparative arts studies. Why I work on the Ostrava 2015 project: For the entire five years that I was on maternity leave, I asked myself what I would do in Ostrava, where the work opportunities in my field are more than limited. I was born in Ostrava, but I was afraid to return to it. When the Ostrava 2015 team contacted me because they were looking for help, I was enthusiastic. What I am doing now brings together everything that I enjoy, and as a bonus, for the first time in my life I have the feeling that I am doing something that really makes sense. Why should Ostrava win the title of European Capital of Culture 2015? My former neighbours and colleagues, classmates, people in government offices, even our mail carrier – all of them thought we were nuts when they heard that we wanted to move to Ostrava – and of our own free will! It hurts and unsettles me that people from the “outside”, even twenty years after the revolution, still see it as a dead city devastated by industry. That’s unfair, because things have changed a lot. But still probably not enough … Winning the title could almost be a touch of fate for Ostrava. If we succeed in September, there will be a greater will among politicians to do something about the environment, and in a couple of years perhaps we won’t be choking on the worst air in the EU. We will have a new modern art gallery, a huge music club, luxurious spaces for large art exhibitions, and old factories will start to thrive with culture. New cultural institutions will mean new jobs in the arts field, a strong creative class will start to grow here, and young people will no longer have a reason to leave the city. Ostrava will become an inspirational, cool city and our former neighbours and colleagues will no longer wonder if we’re crazy. At least that’s how I imagine it … <<< back |
