Conrad Festival 2016

The leading motif of this year’s edition is intensity, understood both as passion and unwavering commitment to the common matter of culture.
Monday 24
October
Tuesday 25
October
Wednesday 26
October
Thursday 27
October
Friday 28
October
Saturday 29
October
Sunday 30
October
12:30
main programme

A reading lesson with Grzegorz Jankowicz

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13:00
film series

In a village of La Mancha. Discussion with Magdalena Barbaruk and Wojciech Charchalis.

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14:30
main programme

Thinking with literature. A meeting with Ryszard Koziołek

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16:00
main programme

On the shoulder of the road. A meeting with Andrzej Stasiuk

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18:00
main programme

Literature, or the eighteenth camel. Discussion with Agata Bielik-Robson, Grzegorz Jankowicz and Piotr Paziński.

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20:00
main programme

A winter journey. Discussion with Marcel Bénabou, Frédéric Forte and Ian Monk.

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21:30
film series

Film screening: The Legend of the Holy Drinker

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21:30
literature and music

Stasiuk – Trzaska. Concert

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22:00
Conrad Award

Conrad by Night. A meeting with Marek Adamik, the nominee for the Conrad Award

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11:30
main programme

A reading lesson with Tomasz Swoboda

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13:00
main programme

Joseph Roth and the empire at the edge of agony. Discussion with Elżbieta Jogałła, Małgorzata Łukasiewicz and Joanna Ugniewska.

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14:30
main programme

Is another world possible? A meeting with Ida Linde

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16:00
main programme

Slept-through worlds. Discussion with Andrzej Leder and Grzegorz Niziołek.

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18:00
main programme

In Poland… so where? Discussion with Dominika Kozłowska, Michał Łuczewski, Włodzimierz Nowak and Ziemowit Szczerek.

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20:00
main programme

Strange new things. A meeting with Michel Faber

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21:30
film series

Film screening: Under the skin

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22:00
Conrad Award

Conrad by Night. A meeting with Magdalena Kicińska, the nominee for the Conrad Award

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11:30
main programme

A reading lesson with Małgorzata Łukasiewicz

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13:00
main programme

Superficiology. Discussion with Roman Dziadkiewicz and Ewa Majewska.

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15:00
main programme

Emotions on display. Discussion with Jan Peszek, Maria Peszek, Błażej Peszek.

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17:00
main programme

A feeling of power. A meeting with Eustachy Rylski

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17:00
accompanying events

The Conrad Festival in book stores: Ida Linde will read fragments of "You Travel North to Die"

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18:00
accompanying events

Meeting around the book: The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

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19:00
main cycle

Love in dark times. A meeting with Colm Tóibín

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21:30
film series

Film screening: Farewell to Autumn

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22:00
Conrad Award

Conrad by Night. A meeting with Weronika Murek, the nominee for the Conrad Award

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11:30
main programme

A reading lesson with Agata Bielik-Robson

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13:00
main programme

A toast to our ancestors. A meeting with Wojciech Górecki

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14:00
book industries

Book industries: Booksellers – how to survive on the commercial market?

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14:30
main programme

Several magpies by the tail. Discussion with Stanisław Łubieński and Urszula Zajączkowska.

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16:00
main programme

People from the countryside. Discussion with Radka Franczak, Andrzej Muszyński and Maciej Płaza.

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18:00
main programme

The past in boots. A meeting with Géza Röhrig

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18:00
accompanying events

A meeting around the publication "Snakes, daggers and rose petals. Polish book illustration"

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18:00
accompanying events

The Conrad Festival in book stores: Artur Domosławski will read excerpts from "Wykluczeni"

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20:00
main programme

No country for old prose. Discussion with Sofija Andruchowycz, Maria Nikitiuk, Natalka Śniadanko and Haśka Szyjan.

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21:30
film series

Film screening: King Ubu

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22:00
Conrad Award

Conrad by Night. A meeting with Żanna Słoniowska, the nominee for the Conrad Award

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09:00
accompanying events

An ornithological walk with Stanisław Łubieński

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10:00
children and youth

Typography workshops with Anna Kaszuba-Dębska

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11:30
main programme

A reading lesson with Izabella Chruślińska

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11:30
children and youth

42 gardens around the world – landscape architecture workshop with Adam Wójcicki – illustrator of the O.G.R.Ó.D. book

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12:00
accompanying events

A meeting with Guido Van Genechten

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13:00
main programme

Happy Poland, unhappy Poland. Discussion with Jadwiga Staniszkis, Tadeusz Sławek and Szymon Wróbel.

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13:00
main programme

Press Reading Lesson with Michał Olszewski

Press Reading Lesson with Michał Olszewski

Press Reading Lesson with Michał Olszewski

Admission after registration: lekcjeczytania@tygodnik.com.pl

28 October, at 13:00 Wyspiański Pavilion

Michał Olszewski
Michał Olszewski
14:00
book industries

Book industries: Critics – what place do books have in contemporary press?

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14:30
main programme

How to forget the war? A meeting with Vasyl Słapczuk [cancelled]

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14:30
accompanying events

Poland/Ukraine - two stories. Meeting with Natalka Śniadanko and Ziemowit Szczerek

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16:00
main programme

Excluded. A meeting with Artur Domosławski

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18:00
main programme

Settlers. Meeting with Richard Flanagan

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18:00
accompanying events

Stories of Women, or a meeting with Krisztina Tóth

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20:00
main programme

The heart of Syria. A meeting with Samar Yazbek

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21:30
main programme

Clatter. A reading and conversation with Szczepan Twardoch

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21:30
film series

Film screening: The Hours

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22:00
Conrad Award

Conrad by Night. A meeting with Tomasz Wiśniewski, the nominee for the Conrad Award

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10:30
children and youth

Adventures in paradise. Workshop with Zakamarki publishing house

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11:00
children and youth

A journey to the depths of Earth – artistic workshop with Ola and Daniel Mizieliński, inspired by their book Under ground, under water.

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11:00
children and youth

WHAT is an EYE? – or how do we see. Workshop for children devoted to optical illusions

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12:00
children and youth

Children’s play: "The Devil Never Sleeps" by Uszyty Theatre – PREMIERE!

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13:00
children and youth

Dead forest. A meeting for children with Adam Wajrak and Tomasz Samojlik

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14:00
book industries

Book industries: Editors – how to cope with working from home?

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15:30
main programme

From there to here (around the anthology "About Them Here"). Conversation with Zofia Król, Piotr Sommer, Małgorzata Szczurek and Marcin Szuster.

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16:00
accompanying events

The Conrad Festival in book stores: Urban Archipelago. A meeting with Filip Springer

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17:30
main programme

The small ball. A meeting with Marek Bieńczyk

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19:30
main programme

Luminescence. A meeting with Eleanor Catton

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21:00
main programme

Two edges of the language. Meeting with Michael Cunningham and Richard Flanagan.

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21:30
film series

Film screening: Son of Saul

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10:00
children and youth

Meeting about the time with Grzegorz Kasdepke

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11:00
main programme

A reading lesson for adults with Przemysław Czapliński

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12:00
accompanying events

The Conrad Festival in book stores: Congo – how many stories? A meeting with Félix Kaputu and David van Reybrouck

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12:00
children and youth

Doodle with Lama and Sztukolotnia

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13:30
main programme

Bulgakov and translation: a family history. Discussion with Grzegorz Przebinda, Leokadia Przebinda and Igor Przebinda.

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14:00
book industries

Book industries: Publishers – how to bring a 70-year old publishing house into the 21st century? A meeting with Jędrek Biegański

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15:00
children and youth

How to draw emotions? Artistic workshop with Guido Van Genechten

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15:00
main programme

Whose Africa? Discussion with Grażyna Plebanek and David Van Reybrouck.

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16:30
main programme

Israel is literature. Discussion with Eshkol Nevo, Yishai Sarid and Zeruya Shalev.

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18:00
main programme

The Goncourt List: The Polish Selection. [meeting cancelled]

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20:30
Conrad Award

The Conrad Award Gala

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