Never let freedom be taken away
Miloslav Musil was born on 19 December 1951 in Pardubice, but he also spent a large part of his childhood at the family cottage in Seč or at his grandmother’s house in the village of Dřeveš. He graduated from an industrial school, but from his youth he was devoted to music, playing the guitar since childhood. Later he studied theatre directing while working remotely. From the 1970s he worked at the Na Drážce Outreach Club in Pardubice, where he often invited artists from the fringes of the cultural scene of the time. Thanks to this, he met a number of personalities from both the official cultural currents and dissent. He also organised English language courses for pre-school children at the club. In 1989, he worked alongside the publicist Vladimír Just, with whom he visited the theatres of East Bohemia and with whom they informed the audience unbiasedly about the events in the metropolis on the eve of the Velvet Revolution. In November 1989, he joined the Pardubice Civic Forum and travelled to the regions during the Velvet Revolution. To this day (2019) he runs the music club Doli.
