Conrad Festival 2023
Sensitive workshops - migrating the sighted into the world of the blind
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A day dedicated to the work of Roberto Bolaño at the Cervantes Institute
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Literary walk: why is Kraków a UNESCO City of Literature?
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New prose. Performative reading of texts from the Anthology of texts of the KMLU Novel Writing Course 2022/23
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Reverse emigration. Meeting with Alice Lyons
Reverse emigration. Meeting with Alice Lyons
Venue: Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20, Green Hall
As part of the “Conrad after hours” series announcing the 15th edition of the Conrad Festival (October 23–29), we would like to invite you to a conversation with Alice Lyons, an outstanding poet, who is the first resident of the Heaney-Miłosz programme realised by Kraków - UNESCO City of Literature, the Embassy of Ireland in Poland and the Seamus Heaney Estate. The talk will be hosted by Justyn Hunia.
Alice Lyons is a writer born and educated in the USA who has lived in the west of Ireland since 1998. The author of three books of poetry, she won awards for her work in both Ireland and the USA. Her poetry film The Polish Language, co-directed with Orla Mc Hardy, was nominated for the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA) in 2010 and continues to visit cinemas, festivals and galleries around the world. Lyons visited Poland many times, her poems are translated into Polish and published in the Polish press: most recently in Czas Literatury and Tygodnik Powszechny. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at Yeats Academy of Arts, Design & Architecture at Atlantic Technological University Sligo.
Alice Lyons is the first resident of the Heaney-Miłosz programme implemented by Kraków - UNESCO City of Literature, the Irish Embassy in Poland and the Seamus Heaney Estate. The programme offers the opportunity to take up residence for several weeks in Czesław Miłosz's former flat in Krakow.
Justyn Hunia
Translator, graduate of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University and literary translation studies at the UNESCO Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication in Kraków. He translated dozens of books (including Zygmunt Bauman, V.S. Naipaul, Y.N. Harari, Zadie Smith), and has published in Znak, Tygodnik Powszechny, Bliza, Przekładaniec, among others. Co-founder of avant-rock band Gargantua. Winner of the Kraków - UNESCO City of Literature Prize 2022 for his translation of John F. Deane’s poems The Bones of Salt Water. Selected Poems (Znak).
The event is organised by: Embassy of Ireland in Poland, Seamus Heaney Estate, KBF - cultural institution of the City of Kraków, operator of the Krakow - UNESCO City of Literature programme, Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation.
Free tickets will be available to download electronically on the KBF website: TICKETS and on the KBF app: PLUS.
21 October, at 19:00 Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20
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The world’s tallest man. About Józef Czapski by Adam Zagajewski - a conversation with Andrzej Franaszek and Anna Arno
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Pull apart the folds of the curtains. Lilly Reich
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Female peasants. A story about our grandmothers - interview with Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
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Reading class (on refugee literature) with Żanna Słoniowska
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On the Border . A debate with Krzysztof Czyżewski, Mikołaj Grynberg and Olga Hund
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On the Need for Silence. A conversation with Laura Freudenthaler
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Can literature keep up with the world? A conversation with Jakub Żulczyk
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Reading Class (on refugee literature) with Marek Rabij
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Reading Ukraine. A conversation with Kateryna Babkina, Tamara Duda, Hałyna Kruk
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Showcase of the works by the alumni of the second edition of the Translatorium mentoring programme
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Threepenny Books. A debate with Inga Iwasiów, Piotr Marecki and Małgorzata Lebda
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When You Cannot Hide. A conversation with Samanta Schweblin
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CANCELLED Untold Stories of Women. A conversation with Sofi Oksanen
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Reading Class (on refugee literature) with Paweł Mościcki
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Sign out of life. A conversation with Grégoire Bouillier
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Criticism? Why not! A debate with Jerzy Jarniewicz, Wojtek Kopiec, Dorota Kozicka, Anna Marchewka
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How to appreciate literature? A conversation with the Goncourt Academy
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Only the Others. A conversation with Philippe Claudel
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The Past is not even the Past. A conversation with Georgi Gospodinov
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Alternative Reading List A debate with Edyta Plich and Magdalena Siekierzyńska
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Reading Class (on refugee literature) with Marcin Wilk
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To Interpret or to Change the World? A conversation with Michał Paweł Markowski
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Publisher's Seal of Quality A debate with Magdalena Hajduk-Dębowska, Fabian Cieślik, Grażyna Plebanek and Rafał Lisowski
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The road to Parnassus or… to nowhere? A debate with Weronika Gogola, Elżbieta Łapczyńska, Łukasz Barys
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CANCELED Refugee Animals. A conversation with Dariusz Gzyra
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One Cannot Go Back Home. A conversation with Eduard Halfon
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The atmosphere was great. On the book creators in the communist era A debate with Marcin Hernas, Piotr Rypson, Przemek Dębowski
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All My Births. A conversation with Maryam Madjidi
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Artificial intelligence and its impact on the book market A debate with Edwin Bendyk, Jakub Gomułka, Grażyna Plebanek, Aga Zano
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Reading Class (on refugee literature) with Marta Zdzieborska
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Migrating memories - educational-artistic workshop devoted to the book Marsz, marsz BATORY by Barbara Caillot and Aleksandra Karkowska
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Unwanted Children. On the marginalization of children's literature A debate with Joanna Olech, Paulina Małochleb, Katarzyna Ryrych, Jadwiga Jędryas, Aleksandra Byrska
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Creative transfer, or how a good film adaptation is made A debate with Wojciech Chmielarz, Gaia Grzegorzewska and the producer
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The Heart of Darkness is Within Us. A conversation with Max Cegielski
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The Conrad Award. A conversation with nominees
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Fleeting Tales. A conversation with Bora Chung
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Not for the World . A conversation with Linn Strømsborg
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Migrating Dżambles - performance of Dong, who has a glowing nose by the Uszyty Theatre, and theatre workshops
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Fantastic journeys of Sally Jones - meeting and travel workshop with Jakob Wegelius
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Literary Addresses of Kraków - urban game
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Migrating melodies - a reading-song performance by Wassim Ibrahim and Marta Filipiuk-Michniewicz
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Someone Has to Tell the Story. A debate with Szymon Opryszek, Olga Stanisławska and Dionisios Sturis
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(Im)possible Neutrality. A conversation with Natasha Brown
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Detektyw Wróbel i struty dziób - première of the comic book by Tomasz Samojlik and Adam Wajrak
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And they lived happily ever after… until they died. Unknown tales of the Grimms – not for children A debate with Eliza Pieciul-Karmińska and Michalina Jurczyk
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Dictatorship in the Blood. A debate with Nona Fernández and Martín Kohan
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Unpredictability of the Journey. A conversation with Intan Paramaditha
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Migrating Humpback Whales And Penguins - Literary Moments with extraordinary animal journeys
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Workshops: How to ride a bicycle with Georges Perec?
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Workshops: How to walk with Robert Walser?
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One-way Ticket. A conversation with Balsam Karam
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Workshops: How to read Caribbean literature in colder countries?
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Through the Skin. A conversation with Małgorzata Reymer
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Journeys to Remote Isles. A conversation with Judith Schalansky
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The Conrad Award Gala
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