Press - Colours of Ostrava

Press

Thank you for your interest in Colours of Ostrava 2025. We will be glad to answer any of your questions, send hi-res pictures, mediate interviews with bands, and welcome you at the festival. 

MEDIA ACCREDITATION REQUESTS CAN BE SUBMITTED DURING APRIL 2025.

General Rules:
In general, we grant accreditation only to active media outlets that write or report about the festival. The media outlet must provide information about its reach, readership, published articles, etc. The general rule is that we grant 1 accreditation per media outlet. Accreditation is not guaranteed and is entirely at our discretion.

Contact for media, interviews, hi-res photos:

Ondřej Bambas
E-mail: ondrej.bambas@colours.cz
Tel: +420 724 708 703

Contact for Slovak Media:

Zdenko Hanout
Tel:  +421 940 419 019
E-mail: zdenko.hanout@colours.cz

Contact for International Media:
Přemysl Štěpánek
Tel:  +421 603 523 108
E-mail: info@prstage.cz

We don´t provide accommodation to journalists. It is possible to purchase camping or any accommodation in Ostrava.

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2025: INFORMATION FOR APPROVED MEDIA WITH AN ACCREDITATION NUMBER:

Accreditation also grants access to the international Meltingpot forum as part of Colours of Ostrava.

The opening hours for press accreditation in 2025 will be updated in spring 2025.

You can find the map with the designated accreditation area here:

Please only use the entrance and accreditation window outlined on the map when entering the area for the first time and collecting your identification band. If you have already collected your pass and have attached this to your wrist, you may also use the other site entrances. Please bring along some form of identification as proof that you are indeed the person who has received accreditation approval (accreditation is non-transferrable and is written in the name of the person it has been assigned to) along with a copy of this e-mail.

PRESS CENTRE

The PRESS CENTRE is situated on the DOLNÍ OBLAST VÍTKOVICE site inside the GONG building,on the first floor (signposted). Available: tables, chairs, 4 x PC, printer and Wi-Fi.

PRESS CENTRE OPENING TIMES:

WED: 12:00 PM – 00:30 AM
THU: 11:00 AM – 00:30 AM
FRI: 11:00 AM – 00:30 AM
SAT: 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM

If you are interested in conducting interviews with any of the bands performing at the festival, please, get in touch with us no later than 17 June, 2025 on the contact details listed above.