Milli Janatková has released short videos documenting her journey to three states of India where she realised a music and visual arts tour in collaboration with Indian organizations Banglanatak a Exodus, and Czech export office SoundCzech. You can see all the videos on the author´s Youtube channel. The intercultural dialogue brings the possibilities of learning, getting to know, understanding and respecting other cultures among the religions, in a friendly and open atmosphere of acceptance and sense of humour.

Milli continues the set of large-format paintings with the smaller painting set of water colour and acrylic on canvas from 30 up to 50 cm. They express night, early morning and afternoon atmosphere of winter fogs and time before spring.

After tour in West Bengal, Milli Janatková performed at Mumbai Jazz Festival and Madras Jazz Festival in December 2024, in collaboration with Exodus India, SoundCzech and The Year of Czech Music. Photo by Exodus

Milli performed in three states of India, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in November and December 2024. She interconnected Czech folk songs, jazz improvisation and her original music in collaboration with musicians from India, Réunion Island and Netherlands. The tour has been supported by the export office SoundCzech and project The Year of Czech Music, in cooperation with organizations Banglanatak.com and Exodus India. The performances took place in Kolkata, Bannabagram, Khanpur, Nanoor, Mumbai and Chennai and the feedback of the audience was amazing.

Milli is touring India with her music, Czech folk songs interconnecting with experimental jazz and improvisation in collaboration with local musicians. She is performing with great musicians from West Bengal, Holland and Réunion Island – Solah band, saxophonist Maarten Visser and Bengali musicians Dipannita Acharya, Arpan Thakur Chakraborty, Debalina Bhowmick, Joy Sankar and Baul musicians Girish Mondal and Gobinda Das. The tour has been supported by the export office SoundCzech and project The Year of Czech Music, in cooperation with Banglanatak.com and Exodus India.

After performing at the exhibition Czech and Greek Heroines Milli performed at absolutely full Baccara Bar in Lefkada, Greece. The audience was amazed as the energy of music, rhythm and dance was gorgeous. Thank you for a great cooperation – Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in Lefkada, Czech Centre Athens and All Senses Production!

It´s been an honour we could experience this divine muse during her performance at the exhibition “Czech and Greek Heroines” and at absolutely crowded Baccara Bar Lefkada with excited feedback from the audience.

Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in Lefkada after Milli´s performances.

Before posting new photos and videos from gorgeous performances in Athens and Lefkada, let us show you a few pictures from Milli´s third performance in Greece, at the exhibition Czech and Greek Heroines in cooperation with the Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic in Lefkada. Thank you for a great cooperation and possibility to be a part of this beautiful and meaningful event!

A few days after the opening to the exhibition of thirty artists we performed our successful site-specific project Escape (from) reality at Veleslavín Castle on October 12, 2024. Our project was created by Tomáš Žižka, Milli Janatková, Mirka Eliášová, Jana Heffernanová a Jiří Jakl. We also invited guests to perform with us – Petr Mančál (Czech National Radio), Hanka Malaníková and Hradní potok society – Veronika Zapletalová and Ondřej Laštuvka. Thank you all for cooperation and coming, we are excited the capacity of all four performances was full of people! We took care of the castle in a creative way and we´re happy the cultural programmes at Veleslavín are popular in the community.

The exhibition opening at Veleslavín Castle in Prague was beautiful and hopeful. Milli was performing solo improvisation with her vocal and mandoline. Authors: Jan Bažant, Veronika Doutlíková, Kurt Gebauer, Jolana Havelková, Jan Hísek, Tomáš Honz, Jiří Houska, Martin Janíček, Linda Klimentová, Leona Telona, Matěj Lipavský, Petr Nikl, Veronika Richterová, Pavla Soukupová, Dagmar Šubrtová, Veronika Zapletalová, Martin Zetová, Tomáš Žižka and others. The exhibition is interconnected with the site-specific project Escape (from) reality within the Festival 4+4 Days in Motion. Authors of the project: Tomáš Žižka, Mirka Eliášová, Milli Janatková, Jana Heffernanová, Jiří Jakl, with guests Petr Mančál, Hanka Malaníková and Ondřeje Laštuvka.