About the Festival

The Mutual Inspirations Festival (MIF) is an annual initiative spearheaded by the Embassy of the Czech Republic, focusing on the mutual inspirations between Czech and American cultures and featuring each year an extraordinary Czech personality who has greatly influenced and inspired others through his or her work.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the sixth annual Mutual Inspirations Festival, organized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic and its many partners and generously backed by our valued supporters. This year, we are celebrating the Czech writer,  political thinker,  and playwright Karel Čapek. He is known today as an author of science fiction which became a genre recognized after his time.