Expat Clubs
- Ostrava Women Club
For every woman from all around the world! The club is happening once a month and there will be one serious topic and one really and totally girly one to discuss for each session. Please join the Facebook group and follow the Events page for the next club.
- Expat Centre Music Club
Come and play, sing along or just listen, enjoy and support the musicians! What is the Music Club? Ostrava Expat Centre opens its doors every month to all music fans! Just bring your instrument or sing with us. We can also try to rehearse and play your favourite songs. If you just prefer to sit back, listen and relax, you are also welcome! Come to enjoy the atmosphere and meet new people! Please join the Facebook group and follow the Events page for the next club.
There is a famous and numerous English Coffee Ostrava (Facebook group) organising a pay-your-drink informal meeting to practice English freely where you may meet other members of the international community who could practice Czech with you on other occasions.
Ostrava Women Club
Business
Fajna Dilna is the first public craft incubator in Ostrava, which offers its members great space and technical facilities for the implementation of craft ideas and large projects.
Impact Hub is a workspace that combines the benefits of a fully equipped office, internet café and a business incubator. It is used by independent professionals and the general public who want to acquire new contacts, impulses, and opportunities. Also organizes and hosts events.
Impact Hub Ostrava, source: hubostrava.cz
Language & Cultural
For the last thirty years, Alliance Française Ostrava has shared the francophone culture and promoted the French language through its classes and events in the Moravian-Silesian region and it is now, one of Ostrava’s main cultural centre.
Languages rendez-vous!
American Corner is a cultural-linguistic centre that brings America closer to the general public. At American Corner, English books are available, both adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction (see the online database). ACO organizes events for the public (for free) which are published on the library’s website, on Facebook and Instagram, and also in the monthly newsletter, which is published in Czech and English. ACO is also looking for volunteers (ideally native English speakers from the USA) who would help, for example, with clubs (even online).
The British Centre is one of the departments of Ostrava City Library. You can choose from a large number of books, audios and other materials in English (more than 16,000 items – see the online database). It doesn’t matter whether you are only starting with English or if you are fluent or a native speaker. There are books suitable for all ages and all language levels. Follow Facebook to learn more about activities, which include seminars for teachers, English language courses and a reading club.
Sport
A cricket club founded by local expats. Cricket fans and players are welcome.
To the Saddles organize guided rides for participants, free of charge, in an effort to expand the offer of active forms of tourism in Ostrava, to support the interest in a healthy lifestyle, bicycle transport, and last but not least, the public’s interest in history, culture, technical monuments and crafts.
Volunteering
The Trash Heroes say about themselves: “We are a Czech NGO and a bunch of volunteers that take ecology with a smile and into their own hands. We belong to the world movement Trash Hero, which cleans in 162 locations in 15 countries. Anyone can be a Trash Hero.”
Trash Hero Ostrava, source: facebook.com/trashheroostrava
- There are many other volunteering options, such as Adra Volunteering Centre in Ostrava. For more information please contact us and we will help you connect.
Community Groups
- Expats in Ostrava (Page, Group, Group)
- Greeks in Ostrava
- Indians in Ostrava (Page, Group)
- Spanish in Ostrava
- Latinos de Ostrava
- Turks in Ostrava
- Poles in Ostrava
- African community in Ostrava
- For International Students (VSB-TUO, Ostravská)