Conrad Festival 2015
Almost 150 guests, around a hundred events, busy accompanying cycles - for the seventh time, guests from Poland and abroad come to Kraków to celebrate the annual festival of literature (19-25 October).A Reading Lesson with Grzegorz Jankowicz
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After the Debut. Meeting with Michał Cichy
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Whose Ukraine? Discussion: Igor T. Miecik, Paweł Pieniążek, Ziemowit Szczerek
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Russia’s Unwomanly Face. A meeting with Svetlana Alexievich
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Exhibition opening: Hannah Arendt. Faith in Humanity
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Hannah Arendt. Meeting with Margarethe von Trotta
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Taming the World. A meeting with Wiesław Myśliwski
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Film series. HANNAH ARENDT
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A Reading Lesson with Małgorzata Łukasiewicz
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After the Debut. Meeting with Liliana Hermetz
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We Live in Paradise. A meeting with Lukas Bärfuss
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Violence and Imagination. Discussion: Leonidas Donskis, Tomas Venclova
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The Exiles’ Convoy. A meeting with Varujan Vosganian
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How to read really old books? Lecture: Earle Havens
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Festival reading in Lokator Swietłana Aleksijewicz
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Exhibition opening: Unrecounted. Jan Peter Tripp
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Tripp/Sebald: The Violence of a Gaze
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Exhibition opening: WAR!
Exhibition opening: WAR!
War!
The exhibition War! at the club-gallery Pasaż (Pasaż Bielaka) is the presentation of the exceptional comics pages by Polish illustrators Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz and Mariusz Sołtysik, who, along with their excellent scriptwriters, took on the drama of World War II in the still-fresh, pop-culture form of the graphic novel.
Most of the works are from three albums illustrated by Gawronkiewicz. These are Achtung Zelig!, the already legendary volume created with Krystian Rosenberg, Burza. Ucieczka z Warszawy ’40 (The Storm. Escape from Warsaw ‘40) by Maciej Parowski, and Powstanie. Za dzień, za dwa (Uprising) by screenwriter Marzena Sowa, published last year.
Each one takes on the subject of the war, but portrays it in a different way and from a different perspective – we have the story of an old Jewish man, who survives the Holocaust by escaping a German transport; there is a fantastic, alternative history of Poland after World War II; and finally, there is the unusual story by Marzena Sowa about occupied Warsaw just before the uprising, seen through the lens of the microcosm of one of the local residential buildings.
The second part of the exhibition are panels from the graphic novel Naród Zatracenia (Nation of Perdition) illustrated by Sołtysik and written by Maciej Świerkocki, set in the ghetto of Łódź. The story is narrated by an orphaned Jewish boy, Dawid, who will say, “War! How exciting was this word, which I’d only known from the Old Testament and textbooks”. The shocking story of the realities of war, uncovering its senselessness and cruelty, is enclosed in Sołtysik’s monochromatic drawings, accented in places with red.
Over 25 works will be enlarged to poster size, which will make the wartime images even more eloquent and readable despite being taken out of the context of their volumes. The exhibition, with the opening planned for 6pm on the 20th of October, will be accompanied by a discussion with the participation of the duos of Maciej Świerkocki and Mariusz Sołtysik as well as Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz and Marzena Sowa. The exhibition is hosted by Pasaż Gallery and the City of Literature Foundation.
20 October, at 19:00 Pasaż (Pasaż Bielaka)
The Cultural Interpreter. A meeting with Hooman Majd
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War in Pictures. Discussion: Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, Mariusz Sołtysik, Marzena Sowa, Maciej Świerkocki
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Missing worlds. The meeting with Olga Tokarczuk
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Film series. TAXI
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Reading Lesson with Anna Wasilewska
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“What the Hell Are You Talking About, Dandelion?” Video game script writing workshop
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Polish Fictions. Discussion: Inga Iwasiów, Wit Szostak, Agnieszka Taborska
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Fakes, Lies and Literary Forgeries. Lecture and presentation: Earle Havens
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Capturing the World. A meeting with Tadeusz Sławek
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Joyce’s Business Cards. Exhibition opening and discussion: Krzysztof Bartnicki, Marcin Szmandra
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Agon, the Muse of Gamers. Discussion: Igor Sarzyński, Jakub Szamałek
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Festival reading in Massolit with Hooman Majd
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Gisèle Freund. Photographic Scenes and Portraits
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An exhibition of paintings by Ewa Mańkowska
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Postmodernism Is not What You Think. A meeting with Robert Coover
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Film series. WATCHING THE MOON AT NIGHT
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SAGA. Writing workshops for seniors
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A Reading Lesson with Agata Bielik-Robson
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After the Debut. Meeting with Michał R. Wiśniewski
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PENSIONERS – workshops for children
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I’m From Here, but Where Is Here? Discussion: Brygida Helbig, Henryk Waniek
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Separatists of the World, Unite! Discussion: Marcin Koszałka, Zbigniew Libera
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The Traces of Judaism. Discussion: Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc, Przemysław Tacik
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How to express ourselves precisely and sophisticatedly? A meeting with Jerzy Bralczyk.
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Festival reading in Pod Globusem Bookstore with Kamel Daoud
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Algeria - Responsibility and anger
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KRALL. A meeting with Hanna Krall. Discussion: Mariusz Szczygieł, Wojciech Tochman
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Film series. VISION - AUD DEM LEBEN DER HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
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A Reading Lesson with Kazimiera Szczuka
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After the Debut. Meeting with Aleksandra Zielińska
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The Vilnius Syndrome. A meeting with Herkus Kunčius
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Silva. A Chronicle of Two Nations. A Meeting with Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
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A meeting with Asli Erdoğan
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Bernhard, In Other Words Us and Them. Discussion: Sława Lisiecka, Monika Muskała, Krystian Lupa
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The Sea Horse’s Travels. A meeting with Petr Šabach
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Festival reading in Bonobo with Wojciech Tochman
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Messiahs. A meeting with György Spiró
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Film series.ROSA LUXEMBURG
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About the Ways of Travelling from the Baron von Münchausen up to Harry Potter.Special guest: Agnieszka Stelmaszyk
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Literary Baranki for Kids.
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Reading from a Map: Cartographic-Literary Workshops
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Pomelo. A meeting with Benjamin Chaud and Ramona Bădescu
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All Aboard! Literary Travels with Conrad. Agnieszka Taborska and Agnieszka Stelmaszyk.
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Literary Baranki for Kids
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Travels with the Bogeyman Across the Country and Nearby Places. Special guest: Agnieszka Taborska
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Don’t Leave the Theatre. Discussion: Jolanta Janiczak, Sebastian Majewski, Weronika Murek
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Target: Lec. Discussion: Lidia Kośka, Michał Paweł Markowski, Leon Neuger
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We are all living off of the Count (Potocki). Discussion: François Rosset, Anna Wasilewska
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Daily Life in literature. Discussion: Michał Olszewski, Piotr Siemion
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Goncourts’ List 2015: Polish Choice. A meeting with David Foenkinos
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The Man from the Literary Neighbourhood. A meeting with Gonçalo M. Tavares (preceded by a lecture titled "How to create a story?")
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The Correction of the World. A meeting with Jonathan Franzen
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The Fascinating World of Bees. Meeting and art workshop for children with Piotr Socha
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Writer of Fairy Tales and other oddities. Meeting with Grzegorz Kasdepke
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Literary Baranki for Kids
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Wolf Children. A meeting with Alvydas Šlepikas
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Doodling with Lamy and Sztukolotnia
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Read like in Sweden. Read like in Poland. Discussion: Gunnar Ardelius, Beata Stasińska
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Let’s create a fairy tale! Theater workshops for kids with Wioletta Szuba-Franczak
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Only the Truth Counts. Discussion: Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska, Mariusz Szczygieł
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Literary Foundations. Lecture: Edward Hirsch
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Biographers. Discussion: Małgorzata Czyńska, Magdalena Grzebałkowska, Angelika Kuźniak
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Dribbling or About Modern Life. A meeting with Michał Paweł Markowski
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The Conrad Award Ceremony and lecture by Jonathan Franzen
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