This year, the 4th annual Barvy Bedřišky festival will take place from August 8 to August 9, 2025, in the former mining colony of Bedřiška. The main part of the program will take place on August 8, 2025, starting at 2:00 p.m. This time, it will be more of a relaxing event. It will foster a spirit of neighborly harmony, filled mainly with music, performances by the bands SAXX Bohumín, Malá Knížka Klidu, GILLOTINE, and a solo performance by Jarek Murín. As always, visitors will learn about the history of Bedřiška during a guided tour, receive brief information about the current situation in Bedřiška, whose residents have long faced gentrification, and listen to a discussion about housing and ways to defend it, as well as developments surrounding affordable housing in the Czech Republic. Children can look forward to a bouncy castle, face painting, horse riding, and pony rides. Refreshments will be available for visitors, including goulash and grilled snacks, with something for vegans and vegetarians too. Sanitary facilities are available and are also suitable for people with physical disabilities.
Detailed festival program at https://www.facebook.com/ostravskabedriska/
HANDS OFF BEDŘIŠKA.
Under this name, the group LIMITY JSME MY (WE ARE THE LIMITS) is organizing a demonstration and march through the city in support of preserving the Bedřiška settlement and the housing of its residents on August 8, 2025, starting at 12:00 p.m. The march will begin in front of the Regional Authority of the Moravian-Silesian Region and continue to the Mariánské Hory and Hulváky municipal office. The residents will then meet with the demonstration participants directly in the Bedřiška area.
The Village of Coexistence and the residents of Bedřiška.
At the Ostrava City Council meeting on June 18, 2025, and previously at a working group meeting on June 5, 2025, the mayor of Ostrava, Jan Dohnal, and his deputy for social affairs, Zbyněk Pražák, announced that part of the community should or could move into newly built houses in the Village of Coexistence in Ostrava in approximately 2029. Representatives of the residents recently spoke with representatives of the Diocesan Charity of Ostrava, which is administering and overseeing the new construction project in the Village of Coexistence. According to the information received by the residents' representatives, the building permit is currently being processed and the project itself has not yet been approved, although representatives of the Diocesan Charity expect it to be approved. The conditions of the program from which the construction of the next part of the Village of Coexistence in Ostrava is to be financed were also discussed, and it was stated that the project is designed primarily for large families, a condition that would be met by only two families living in Bedřiška. It is therefore clear that this is an argument intended primarily to improve the image of the municipal leadership in the eyes of the public, to justify the actions of the city and the district in a situation where they themselves have no meaningful plan for the use of Bedřiška in the foreseeable future, to point to the above-standard approach to the residents of Bedřiška, which in reality means breaking up the existing community and has no relevant value in view of the conditions of the program.
All relevant information about the current situation in Bedřiška, the document Strategy for the Development of the Housing Stock in Bedřiška in the Mariánské Hory and Hulváky Municipal District, and other materials related to the situation in Bedřiška, including all statements, proposals, and arguments of Bedřiška residents, can be found on our website: www.bedriskaprezije.cz or on Facebook at ostravskabedriska.cz.
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Bedřiška Ostrava
Media Contacts:
Eva Lehotská
spokesperson of Bedřiška
Tel.: +420 723 407 311
E-mail: eva.lehotska@volny.cz