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).
Monday 19
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Tuesday 20
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Wednesday 21
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Thursday 22
October
Friday 23
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Saturday 24
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Sunday 25
October
12:00
main cycle

A Reading Lesson with Grzegorz Jankowicz

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13:00
Conrad Award

After the Debut. Meeting with Michał Cichy

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14:00
main cycle

Whose Ukraine? Discussion: Igor T. Miecik, Paweł Pieniążek, Ziemowit Szczerek

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17:00
main cycle

Russia’s Unwomanly Face. A meeting with Svetlana Alexievich

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18:00
literature and art

Exhibition opening: Hannah Arendt. Faith in Humanity

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18:30
literature and art

Hannah Arendt. Meeting with Margarethe von Trotta

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20:00
main cycle

Taming the World. A meeting with Wiesław Myśliwski

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20:45
film series

Film series. HANNAH ARENDT

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11:00
main cycle

A Reading Lesson with Małgorzata Łukasiewicz

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13:00
Conrad Award

After the Debut. Meeting with Liliana Hermetz

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14:00
main cycle

We Live in Paradise. A meeting with Lukas Bärfuss

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15:00
lithuanian cycle

Violence and Imagination. Discussion: Leonidas Donskis, Tomas Venclova

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16:00
main cycle

The Exiles’ Convoy. A meeting with Varujan Vosganian

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17:00
main cycle

How to read really old books? Lecture: Earle Havens

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17:00
main cycle

Festival reading in Lokator Swietłana Aleksijewicz

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18:00
literature and art

Exhibition opening: Unrecounted. Jan Peter Tripp

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18:30
main cycle

Tripp/Sebald: The Violence of a Gaze

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19:00
literature and art

Exhibition opening: WAR!

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19:00
main cycle

The Cultural Interpreter. A meeting with Hooman Majd

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19:30
literature and art

War in Pictures. Discussion: Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, Mariusz Sołtysik, Marzena Sowa, Maciej Świerkocki

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20:30
main cycle

Missing worlds. The meeting with Olga Tokarczuk

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21:30
film series

Film series. TAXI

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11:00
main cycle

Reading Lesson with Anna Wasilewska

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11:00
book industries

“What the Hell Are You Talking About, Dandelion?” Video game script writing workshop

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13:00
main cycle

Polish Fictions. Discussion: Inga Iwasiów, Wit Szostak, Agnieszka Taborska

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14:00
main cycle

Fakes, Lies and Literary Forgeries. Lecture and presentation: Earle Havens

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15:00
main cycle

Capturing the World. A meeting with Tadeusz Sławek

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16:00
main cycle

Joyce’s Business Cards. Exhibition opening and discussion: Krzysztof Bartnicki, Marcin Szmandra

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17:00
main cycle

Agon, the Muse of Gamers. Discussion: Igor Sarzyński, Jakub Szamałek

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17:00
main cycle

Festival reading in Massolit with Hooman Majd

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18:00
literature and art

Gisèle Freund. Photographic Scenes and Portraits

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19:00
main cycle

An exhibition of paintings by Ewa Mańkowska

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20:00
main cycle

Postmodernism Is not What You Think. A meeting with Robert Coover

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21:30
film series

Film series. WATCHING THE MOON AT NIGHT

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10:30
book industries

SAGA. Writing workshops for seniors

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11:00
main cycle

A Reading Lesson with Agata Bielik-Robson

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12:00
Conrad Award

After the Debut. Meeting with Michał R. Wiśniewski

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12:00
children and youth

PENSIONERS – workshops for children

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13:30
main cycle

I’m From Here, but Where Is Here? Discussion: Brygida Helbig, Henryk Waniek

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15:00
main cycle

Separatists of the World, Unite! Discussion: Marcin Koszałka, Zbigniew Libera

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16:00
film series

The Traces of Judaism. Discussion: Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc, Przemysław Tacik

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16:00
main cycle

How to express ourselves precisely and sophisticatedly? A meeting with Jerzy Bralczyk.

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16:30
main cycle

Festival reading in Pod Globusem Bookstore with Kamel Daoud

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18:00
main cycle

Algeria - Responsibility and anger

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20:00
main cycle

KRALL. A meeting with Hanna Krall. Discussion: Mariusz Szczygieł, Wojciech Tochman

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21:30
film series

Film series. VISION - AUD DEM LEBEN DER HILDEGARD VON BINGEN

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10:00
main cycle

A Reading Lesson with Kazimiera Szczuka

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12:00
Conrad Award

After the Debut. Meeting with Aleksandra Zielińska

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13:00
lithuanian cycle

The Vilnius Syndrome. A meeting with Herkus Kunčius

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14:00
lithuanian cycle

Silva. A Chronicle of Two Nations. A Meeting with Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

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15:00
main cycle

A meeting with Asli Erdoğan

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15:30
main cycle

Bernhard, In Other Words Us and Them. Discussion: Sława Lisiecka, Monika Muskała, Krystian Lupa

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17:00
main cycle

The Sea Horse’s Travels. A meeting with Petr Šabach

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17:00
main cycle

Festival reading in Bonobo with Wojciech Tochman

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19:00
main cycle

Messiahs. A meeting with György Spiró

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21:30
film series

Film series.ROSA LUXEMBURG

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10:00
children and youth

About the Ways of Travelling from the Baron von Münchausen up to Harry Potter.Special guest: Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

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11:00
children and youth

Literary Baranki for Kids.

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11:00
children and youth

Reading from a Map: Cartographic-Literary Workshops

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12:00
Conrad Award

Pomelo. A meeting with Benjamin Chaud and Ramona Bădescu

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12:00
children and youth

All Aboard! Literary Travels with Conrad. Agnieszka Taborska and Agnieszka Stelmaszyk.

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12:00
children and youth

Literary Baranki for Kids

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12:15
children and youth

Travels with the Bogeyman Across the Country and Nearby Places. Special guest: Agnieszka Taborska

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13:00
main cycle

Don’t Leave the Theatre. Discussion: Jolanta Janiczak, Sebastian Majewski, Weronika Murek

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14:00
main cycle

Target: Lec. Discussion: Lidia Kośka, Michał Paweł Markowski, Leon Neuger

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15:00
main cycle

We are all living off of the Count (Potocki). Discussion: François Rosset, Anna Wasilewska

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16:00
main cycle

Daily Life in literature. Discussion: Michał Olszewski, Piotr Siemion

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17:00
main cycle

Goncourts’ List 2015: Polish Choice. A meeting with David Foenkinos

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18:00
main cycle

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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20:00
main cycle

The Correction of the World. A meeting with Jonathan Franzen

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10:00
children and youth

The Fascinating World of Bees. Meeting and art workshop for children with Piotr Socha

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11:00
children and youth

Writer of Fairy Tales and other oddities. Meeting with Grzegorz Kasdepke

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11:00
film series

Literary Baranki for Kids

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12:00
lithuanian cycle

Wolf Children. A meeting with Alvydas Šlepikas

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12:00
main cycle

Doodling with Lamy and Sztukolotnia

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13:00
main cycle

Read like in Sweden. Read like in Poland. Discussion: Gunnar Ardelius, Beata Stasińska

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13:00
children and youth

Let’s create a fairy tale! Theater workshops for kids with Wioletta Szuba-Franczak

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13:30
main cycle

Only the Truth Counts. Discussion: Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska, Mariusz Szczygieł

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14:30
main cycle

Literary Foundations. Lecture: Edward Hirsch

Literary Foundations. Lecture: Edward Hirsch

The eminent American poet and literary activist will talk about how literature-supporting institutions can work. Hirsch’s experience is priceless, because it combines literary talent with extraordinary organisational skills, and that is the perspective that literature, not only in Poland, needs most.

consecutive interpreting

25 October, at 14:30 The Palace Under the Rams

Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch
15:30
main cycle

Biographers. Discussion: Małgorzata Czyńska, Magdalena Grzebałkowska, Angelika Kuźniak

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17:30
main cycle

Dribbling or About Modern Life. A meeting with Michał Paweł Markowski

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20:00
Conrad Award

The Conrad Award Ceremony and lecture by Jonathan Franzen

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