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Fakulta designu a umění Ladislava Sutnara Západočeské univerzity v Plzni
Univerzitní 28
Plzeň, Plzeň-město, 30100
Czech Republic

Adéla Elbel

Stand-up comedian

Adéla majored in Dutch Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of Masaryk University. She translates Dutch and Flemish fiction and has translated three children’s books dealing with LGBTQ topics. At present, she is mainly engaged in stand-up performances and hosting events in her own special (and hilarious) way. Adela loves improvisation. The question she’d like to answer in her talk is if it is possible to communicate your own attitudes and opinions through humour. If so, how?

Alena Lochmannová

ethnologist, university lecturer

Alena Lochmann is an ethnologist and university lecturer. She is fascinated by the human body, which she considers to be one of the most important media of expression. Her research activities focus mainly on tattoos of criminals. She spent five years in male prisons where she studied the tattoos of those who spent part of their lives behind bars. In her talk she is going to share how much the bodies of convicts reveal about their lives and what the modifications the prisoners make to their bodies tell about them.

Justin Quinn

poet, prose writer, university lecturer, translator

Justin Quinn is a poet, prose writer, translator and a university lecturer. He was born and grew up on the East coast of Ireland and graduated in English studies and philosophy from Trinity College in Dublin. He is the author of the novelistic saga called Mezi Vilami, which was well received by critics and readers and deemed readable and impressive. This piece was translated into Czech by his wife Tereza Límanová. In his TEDx talk, Justing is going to reveal how he managed to think like Czech poets Petr Borkovec, Bohuslav Reynka and Jan Zábrana.

Marian Jelínek

sports, personal and mental coach

Hockey coach, coach, educator and writer Marian Jelinek studied gymnastics, geography and hockey coaching and earned a doctorate in kinanthropology (the science of movement) and another one in sports psychology. He has been active in mental coaching for more than 25 years. He lectures not only to associations and clubs across all sports, but also to various companies. He works individually with top athletes and managers. He has also been known as Jaromír Jágr’s long-time personal coach or as a hockey coach of HC Plzeň. He uses his experience in inspiring lectures and you can look forward to one that will be about self-realization at TEDxPlzeň.

Mirka Novak

musician, voice coach

Mirka Novak is a soul singer, voice coach and a musician with a Master's degree that she earned at UWB in Pilsen. In an effort to develop her musical potential, she regularly visits the United States, where he collaborates with major jazz musicians of the r'n'b funk soul scene. In Czechia she performs with various musical ensembles in renowned clubs (e.g. Reduta, Ungelt, etc.), conducts singing workshops and co-organizes concerts for the music festival Jazz bez hranic. In her workshops she tries to emphasize the importance of the authenticity of the voice, which in turn contributes to the overall satisfaction of the person.

Přemysl Krejčiřík

lanscape architect, teacher

Being a landscape architect and teacher at the Faculty of Horticulture at Mendel University in Brno, Přemysl with his wife Kamila are in charge of the atelier Krejčiřík, which aims to restore gardens and traditional landscapes. He received the Grand Prix Europa Nostra prize for the restoration of the Kuksu Gardens. Apart from the restoration of the garden of the Tugendhat villa or the chateau parks in Sychrov, Buchlovice or Lednice, he has restored the landscape in the game enclosure Obelisk and others. Restoring the dead shoulders of rivers has returned water, and thus life, to 700 hectares of arid parts of South Moravia. How to create a landscape will be the topic of his talk.

Ruth Hálová

microbiologist and student of Sai Baba’s teachings

Ruth Hálová was born to a Jewish family. Never having met her father, she was raised by her grandmother while her mother took care of the family and took on the role of the father. At the age of thirteen, Ruth left the Czech Republic on the penultimate train of sir Nocholas Winton. When she remembers moving away from the platform, she says that such a terrible feeling sticks with anyone who has been through something similar. After returning to her homeland, she studied microbiology, raised two children, Hank and Petra. At the age of seventy, she began to visit the Sai Baba Ashram in India regularly. These trips have influenced her journey through life significantly. "Love is a tremendous force that moves the world. It can only change, but never cease to exist”, says Ruth Hálová.

Tereza Bonaventurová

photographer

Tereza Bonaventurová graduated in photography from FUD UJEP in Ústí nad Labem and broadened her knowledge on internships in Valencia and Istanbul. In her photographs she focuses on the way Czech and foreign towns, their surroundings and their structure looks. She interweaves her talks with black humor and captures the ubiquitous absurdity of the public space. In recent years, she has been focusing on advertising in the public space and visual smog. The Czech Republic, according to her, may come off as a bizarre advertising amusement park of Europe. How do you see public space? Are you aware of the peculiarities or have you accepted the aesthetics of the place where you live and not really notice it anymore?

Tereza Engelová

TV reporter, editor, TV host, journalist

Former Czech TV reporter, editor and host, Tereza Engelová, has been focusing on the developing and problematic areas on our planet for a long time. As a reporter she traveled to more than 20 countries. She stayed in Pakistan for two years and taught journalism and documentary film at the women's university. She conducted media training courses for Syrian staff of non-profit organizations in Turkey, near the Syrian border. In 2018, she received the Journalism Award in the "Best Report" category for a series of courageous reports on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Tereza is now an editor of the independent news site HlidaciPes. Are you curious about how to make a report at a time that does not favour journalistic objectivity too much?