Spaces for Beauty: Designed a Calendar of the European Capital of Culture 2016 in Wrocław

Spaces for Beauty: Designed A calendar of the European Capital of Culture 2016 in Wrocław

City Council decides to enter the competition for the European Capital of Culture title

Work on the first application

October – Wrocław qualifies to the finals of the competition

Works on the second application

June – Wrocław wins the competition

May – Wrocław is officially nominated the European Capital of Culture 2016

Lipiec – powstanie instytucji kultury Biuro Festiwalowe Impart 2016 odpowiedzialnej za przygotowanie i realizację programu roku obchodów

2016 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017

June – a board of curators is established, responsible for final shaping of the artistic programme

January – June – the European Capital of Culture Forum – open discussions on the programme with the curators

June – the programme is unveiled for the first time

Listopad – prezentacja pełnego kalendarium wydarzeń roku obchodów

The European Capital of Culture year

Evaluation and continuation of long-term activities Spaces for Beauty: Designed

Spaces for Beauty: Designed Version 06.2015

Wrocław 2015 Photography credits: p. 13 Jakub Kamiński, www.jakubkaminski.com; p. 17 IMPART 2016 Festival Centre archives; p. 24 Maciej Lulko; other photographs from pp. 22, 23, 25–27 courtesy of The Museum of Architecture in Wrocław and Biuro Nowe Żerniki; p. 32, p. 34 no. 1, 2, p. 35 courtesy of New Horizons Association; p. 33 Marcin Rosiński; p. 34 no. 3 Lech Basel; p. 36 © Filip Basara; pp. 42, 45, 46 no. 2, 51 Jakub Kamiński www.jakubkaminski.com; p. 46 no. 1 © The National Ossoliński Institute; pp. 48, 53 Max Pflegel; p. 60 no. 1 Adam Rajczyba; p. 60 no. 2 Carnaval de Salsa Festival archives; p. 61 Wiktor Rzeżuchowski; pp. 62–63 © BTW Photographers; p. 64 no. 1 Piotr Guzek; p. 64 no. 2 Cezary Chrzanowski; p. 65 Maria Sawicka; p. 66 no. 1, pp. 68–69 © Centrum Kultury Agora; p. 67 Sławek Przerwa; p. 70 Marcin Wiktorski; p. 71 Łukas. Rajchert; p. 72 no. 1 Marius. Mikołajczyk; p. 72 no. 2 Marcin Pflanz; p. 73 Sławek Przerwa; p. 74 Marek Wilczyński; p. 75 Paweł Głowacki; p. 76 Jakub Kamiński www.jakubkaminski. com; s. 77 Łukasz Giza; pp. 82, 83, 84–85 Wrocław Opera promotional materials; pp. 90-91 Marcin Biodrowski; p. 92 © Philippe Geffroy; p. 93 Paweł Szewczyk; p. 98 no. 1 Alicja Kielan; s. 98 no. 2 Małgorzata Kujda; p. 99 Inigo Santiago, © Zabalaga-Leku; p.100 no. 1, 2, 3, 4, p. 101 Małgorzata Kujda; p. 102 no. 1 Alicja Kielan; p. 102 no. 2 Paweł Stafii; p. 103 Małgorzata Kujda, Wrocław Contemporary Museum; p. 104 S. Bratkovski, the Andrij Bojarov collection; p. 105 Anja Hebrank; p. 107 © European Glas. Festival; p. 108 Karolina Zajączkowska; p. 109 Łukasz Kujawski; p. 114 no. 1 Francesco Galli; p. 114 no. 2 Johanna Weber; p. 115 Johanna Weber; p. 116 Bartek Warzecha, p. 117 no. 2 Marcin Wegner; p. 117 no. 3 Luka Łukasiak; p. 118 no. 1 Karol Krukowski; p. 119 no. 2 Piotr Kuna; p. 119 no. 3 Jacek Świątek; p. 120 no. 1 Jacek Niedzielski; p. 120 no. 2 Irena Lipińska; p. 120 no. 3 Austin Young; p. 121 Maciej Zakrzewski; p. 123 Francesco Galli; photographs from pp. 114–115, 118–123 courtesy of The Grotowski Institute; pp. 130, 132 IMPART 2016 Festival Centre archives; p. 131 © www.kreatywnosc.pl; p. 140 Karolina Marciniak, p. 141 © www.allphotopoland. com; p. 142 no. 1 N. Kawalec © Wrocławskie Centrum Rozwoju Społecznego; p. 142 no. 2 Alicja Kielan

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IMPART 2016 Festival Centre ul. Komuny Paryskiej 39-41 50-451 Wrocław www.impart.art.pl Contents

Wrocław has a story to tell ...... 7 What is the European Capital of Culture ...... 8 Long-term Goals of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 ...... 9 Four stagesa of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 ...... 11 How to Participate ...... 12 Event Locations Map ...... 14 The Archipelago of Eight Curators ...... 16 Architecture ...... 18 Film ...... 28 Literature ...... 38 Music ...... 56 Opera ...... 78 Performance ...... 86 Visual Arts ...... 94 Theatre ...... 110 The Wrocław Stage ...... 124 Cultural Infrastructure Projects ...... 126 The Lower Silesian Stage ...... 134 The National Stage ...... 136 The European and World Stage ...... 138 Cooperation with Donostia San Sebastian ...... 142 International Cooperation Map ...... 143

Wrocław entered the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016, because it has a story to tell…

A story which is unusual, tragic and intriguing. After 2016 is a time and space to discuss the years of prosperity and development, there had been metamorphosis of culture – past, present and future. disaster at an unimaginable scale. The Second World It will be a holiday. We’ll celebrate it after eight years War left the city utterly ruined – both physically and of interesting, fascinating work. Our activities begun in spiritually. It lost citizens who had been creating its 2008 allow for the co-creation of culture which is closer greatness for many generations. Then new citizens to people, more accessible and touching on myriad areas arrived. Frightened, uncertain of the future, alienated. of life. We want to prove that civilization can’t develop Brought together from many regions of the post-war without culture. country, for years they built their identity, creating their Wrocław 2016 has created open, dynamic and own culture. It took a long time before we accepted friendly spaces to fulfil the need for contact with German, Jewish and Polish heritage lived here as one. culture and art for bea. Ours. It took a long time, but we did that. Today, we can We’re participating in a complex process in which proudly say, not neglecting the achievements of our both actions and their reception matter, because we forbearers, that we have built a new city. With all respect need opinions to shape the programme. We use many due to them, to otherness and multiculturalism and to models – our cultural heritage, multiculturalism and history, we have created an open Wrocław, with unusually openness – but also an awareness of innovation and interesting culture and aspirations, contemporary and the need for sustainable development. This process intriguing. It’s time to show it to the world, to show transforms the city, proving that all activity is possible. what we consider worth sharing and what constitutes an It’s transformative for us, and becomes an investment in enormous contribution to the development of Europe. our future. We want to talk about our past and our present. About Wrocław 2016 means a process. A diversity of how life can grow from ruins and human tragedies. We’ll autonomous curators and of cultural environments. be telling this story throughout 2016, without complexes, Building at once a programme and a chance to aware of our worth. We’re certain our story will be participate in it. And finally – it means many ways of interesting. And we hope it will become an inspiration for understanding culture, and also of undertaking the those who’ll be open and listen to it. shared task of developing through it.

7 The European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 is:

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9 4 3 2 1 Four stages

Wrocław is the heart of the project and the centre for three added dimensions: the Lower Silesia region, Poland, then Europe and the world, which taken together create interpenetrating spheres of influence. We will create a shared cultural territory, a platform for exchanging experiences and good practices, creation, partnership, international cooperation and projects which will change the city, a platform organized on a scale as yet unrealized in Poland.

1. The Wrocław Stage 3. The National Stage

Citizens of Wrocław continually create the city’s identity. The competition for the title of European Capital of They make, define and redefine its meaning. Thus this Culture inspired intense debate about culture and about sphere focuses on developing a dialogue between the municipal responsibility for it. ECoC Wrocław 2016, in city and its citizens, a dialogue full of empathy and an ongoing debate about the future of cities and their respect. We want to support development in local citizens, and the year 2016 will be the time for summaries communities, strengthen participation and facilitate and for drawing conclusions. ECoC Wrocław 2016 will access to culture. become an arena for joint creative activities, a meeting place for the best ideas and cultural practices from around the country.

2. The Lower Silesian Stage 4. The European and World Stage

ECoC Wrocław 2016, as an ambassador for the region, ECoC Wrocław 2016 will also become a stage for wants to stimulate development and emphasize the international cooperation between artists and creators regional role of Lower Silesia as partner in the project. of culture. It will redefine and highlight this city’s We treat our region as a melting pot of variety and a unique role in the culture of Europe and the entire wonderful book written by many generations, woven world. It will show the variety and richness of the most from stories, the living artefacts of cultural heritage and interesting phenomena of international culture to our natural landscape. citizens of Wrocław, while abroad it will present the multidimensionality and distincness of Polish cultural scene. 11 How to Participate

Well-known festivals and events. Good brands of Wrocław culture. For those who know and appreciate Active culture. Activities expanding culture in the city, or want to explore Unique one-of-a-kind events of a knowledge and developing skills. its richness. ceremonial and festive nature. Social and community projects. For those who want to celebrate For those who want to actively and participate in an important participate in culture, to co-create ceremony. and be active.

Presentation of artists and their works. The creative process. With the artist in the centre. For those seeking direct contact with works of art and their creators. Conferences, seminars, debates and congresses. Publications, books, web portals, For those who want to games and more. discuss culture. For those who like to search for content on their own.

Activities aimed at searching for new audiences, promoting and disseminating what’s important in culture. For those who want to see culture everywhere.

12 13 Event Locations Map

The Archipelago of Eight Curators

Eight different voices, eight perspectives and Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 programme is an eight domains of culture together create a unique open invitation for all who are interested – those archipelago of the arts. Behind them, you’ll find who want to become involved in shaping cultural personalities, people with passions who guide space, who want to influence their future and to cultural life in Wrocław. Each curator brings their decide about their identity. own experience, commitment and passion to the The curators faced that challenge – and programme of European Capital of Culture, and in addition, their uneasy task from the outset born in this melting pot are truly unique projects. was meant to be innovative and, up to a point, The curators faced a difficult task – from a vast experimental. For the first time, so many actors array of diverse ideas and concepts, they had to from various realms of art are cooperating so closely VISUAL ARTS Michał Bieniek choose but a few, then filter these through their on a single project. Both with one another, and most own sensitivities, the perspectives within their significantly with citizens, with non-governmental domains of art, and the constantly changing needs organizations, with municipal institutions and self- of recipients of culture. The effect of their activities governments, with governmental and international is an archipelago of arts – a community, a dialogue, institutions. This creation is a process, a constant a harmonious polyphony of people united by one activity and an ongoing change – once begun, it project. They were connected by a shared system of endures, develops and gains shape. What will the values – neither hermetic nor final, but open to new result be? Where will new paths in the regions of ideas. As expressed in the programme, this becomes thinking about culture and of acting creatively a code for the archipelago – accessible to everyone finally lead us? What will the European Capital of who wants to undertake this unique journey and Culture 2016 actually be? Will this archipelago of enter the space of culture, both as audience and as eight curators change the map of the city? We’ll be co-creators. learning all that very soon, indeed. On the map of the archipelago, you clearly see intersecting trails. Between the curators’ islands are many islets: social, institutional, educational projects as well as those dealing with issues of synergy and synaesthesia within specific arts. Thanks to creative cooperation among the curators, projects from various domains, environments and institutions create a clear, combined message: the European

16 THEATRE Jarosław Fret

OPERA Ewa Michnik

MUSIC Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny

VISUAL ARTS Michał Bieniek

FILM Roman Gutek

LITERATURE Irek Grin

ARCHITECTURE Zbigniew Maćków

PERFORMANCE Chris Baldwin

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ARCHITECTURE 20 From awakening then expanding then awakening our From through our know getting to awareness building to a city in we which heritage, is important. It live. really to want would that in the very believe thoughBecause we building the ones dynamic reality that we’re is exactly it the opposite. Wrocław, the new is the a walls bounce It against we which ball, lean while or kissing use for a girl, or – they us. build a shop to the way on support Forever. by post-war architects that are unique in that unique are architects post-war by of regardless That, Europe. of thescope thecity compiles, dramatic turns history, of In identity. and builds its heals wounds spatial our solve to want team, we my authorities, renown to listening by problems to want We in workshops. discussion by through as possible as people many reach events, exhibitions, publications, of a range the same At devices. mobile for applications of trying are time, a segment we create to – may public – thegeneral the city wherewe New The unique Perhaps. A utopia? well. live the meet to Żerniki made – an estate project a contemporary and of expectations needs citizen – will in this a few answer question years.

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European Capital of Culture Housing Estate Nowe Żerniki Żerniki Nowe Estate Housing Culture of Capital European Lifestyle Miastoprojekt 2015 Award Rohe der van Mies and Award Rohe der van Mies of Years 25 Europe. Constructing Patchwork. The Work of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak WuWA. Wohnung und Werkraum Ausstellung – Living and Work Space Exhibition Architecture of Festival Silesian Lower DoFA’16 XX.XXI Wrocław in Architecture Before/After. Modernism Architecture, 1937. City, 24 June Lviv building Gallery Big A_Spaces for Beauty: Nature - Community – Architecture 1927–1932 Estates Werkbund The Modernity. Towards Architecture Wrocław Century 20th City Acupuncture

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ARCHITEKTURA 22 , 1927, p. 271 p. , 1927, , 1927, p. 272 p. , 1927, Row house No. 17, designedRow house by Jacobus 17, No. Detached house and 13 No. semi-detached Detached house designed 35, No. Heinrich Design for rebuilding Wrocław city centre, 2. Johannes Pieter Oud, Weissenhof housing estate, Stuttgart Die Form 1927. 3. house 12, No. designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Weissenhof housing estate, Stuttgart Die Form 1927. 4. HousingLauterbach, Estate, WuWa Wrocław Muzeum1929. Architektury Wrocławiu, we Mat IIIb 1032–2 a competition entrance, 1971 1. 1.

ARCHITECTURE social phenomena within city space. as well as issues, architectural and urban specific on focused axes, –narrative motifs adozen around built be will It expositions. such in predominates which typology, or chronology of primacy the reject to secondly, and history, Polish and German its between distinctions making without awhole, as city the of development the at analytically look to all, of first is, exhibition the of concept The century. 20th the of architecture Wrocław The first comprehensivepresentation of water. by localized cities by faced problems all exemplifies which Street, Zawalna around area the on focus will Beauty” for /Spaces Flows City “The entitled edition 2015–2016 The city. the in appear beauty” for “spaces new result, a As communities. local activate to potential with spaces reclaims it “healing”, then and By a thorough diagnosis, “puncturing”, spaces. urban improving to devoted A project December 2016 – March 2017 –March 2016 December Architecture Wrocław Century 20th 2015–2016 City Acupuncture 23

heritage. their for importance the European cultural highlight aresult as and place, one in estates six all time first the for present to is exhibition the of goal main The century. 20th the of half first the of revolution architectural and architecture, as they initiated the urban influenced the development of modern world modernist housing complexes fundamentally Those Wrocław. and Vienna Prague, Zurich, Brno, Stuttgart, 1932 in and 1927 between Werkbund housing estates, designed experimental to devoted exhibition An March – June 2016 –June March 1927–1932 The WerkbundEstates Towards Modernity. 2. 3. selected location during workshops. workshops. during location selected in a tested and issue adifferent to devoted be will them of each and – Architecture), –Community (Nature panels three into divided is cycle The communities. local of for and shaping building attitudes identity in creating public/private spaces as places culture of role the be will edition this of with The their main participation. subject workshops as well as abroad, and Poland from urbanists and architects eminent by Lectures 2016 Architecture – Community – Beauty: Nature for Big A_Spaces 4.

ARCHITECTURE 24 DoFA’16 Lower Lower DoFA’16 Silesian Festival of Architecture 2016 October www.wroclaw.sarp.org.pl/dofa A project making a diagnosis and documenting the architecture of the region. It promotes architectural creation as cultural activity, and it presents a wide spectrum of issues related to creating spatial It order. aimed events interdisciplinary includes also at the widest possible audience. One of the main assumptions of DoFA is directing the attention of local communities to their to them encouraging and surroundings co-create it. The special 2016 edition will be entitled Space “A for Beauty”. 1. . A printed guidebook and an electronic 2015–2016 Before/After. in Architecture Wrocław XX.XXI Before/After will be an innovative platform for exploration of the most interesting works of Wrocław architecture, erected between 1900 and today. It will include both famous designs present in architecture manuals – such as Centennial Hall by Max Berg, butalso less known pre-war and post-war buildings – Lauterbach, Heinrich by works others among Richard Konwiarz and Krystyna and Marian Barscy application together will create one of the most comprehensive tools aiding the growing interest in architecture and architecture- tourism. conscious

A block of flats at Grunwaldzki square in Building 2: No. former kindergarten, 2. Wrocław 1. designed by Paul Heim, Albert Kempter, reconstruction Housing after WuWA a fire, Estate, currently Wrocław 2014, the seat of the Lower Silesia Chamber of Architects. Modernism City, Architecture, Architecture, City, 2016 November – September Lviv 24 June 1937. 1937. 24 June Lviv Gallery building 2015–2016 An exhibition devoted to modernist architecture and urbanism in from Lviv the times of the Second Polish Republic. It will achievements important most the present architectsof Lviv – urban development plans as well as selected public and residential Eastern the of architecture buildings, the as well asTrade Fair, interior design. Lviv will be presented as one of the centres of modernity in The Second Republic. The title – a date of no historical importance – will highlight the fact that the exhibition will be designed from the perspective of everyday lives of the citizens. A project of modernization of the elevation and public spaces of a residential building at Kołłątaja Street 9-12, which is monument a restoration The modernism. post-war of will include the gallery, the stairwell and balconies. The aim of the project isto post- of works eminent of awareness promote war Wrocław modernist architecture. Also, a participation with cooperation public-private will organization non-governmental a of create an example of good participatory practices and will promote respect for architecture. in copyright

ARCHITECTURE very diverse oeuvre. oeuvre. diverse very her of entirety the consider to opportunity an be will concepts, and realizations bold her present will which exhibition, The centres, residential complexes and churches. commercial –big Wrocław in only –not later others, first estates and modern schools, and among, designed, she and career, her of beginning the since city this in worked She Wrocław. in Square Grunwaldzki at complex commercial and aresidential with associated isJadwiga mainly Grabowska-Hawrylak undergoing an extensive renovation. been has estate the years, recent In value. cultural immense of object an time same the at and century, last the of experiments architectural interesting most the of one is It Werkbund). (Deutscher Craftsmen of that time, members of German Association of avant-garde Wrocław of representatives outstanding most the by designed was It Street. Dębu Zielonego around 1929 in Wrocław in built was it and estates housing model European six of WuWA one is 25 2016 –September June Grabowska–Hawrylak Work of Jadwiga The Patchwork. www.wuwa.eu 2013–2016 Exhibition Space – Living and Work Werkraum Ausstellung WuWA. Wohnung und 2.

ARCHITECTURE 26 Nowe Żerniki:Nowe central part of the layout. Concept designed as part of the European Capital of Culture Housing Estate Żerniki. Nowe 2013–2016 www.nowezerniki.pl European Capital Housing Culture of Estate Żerniki Nowe Architects working together with the city of Wrocław initiated a unique project of an estate made for the needs of a contemporary citizen. It is an beginning of a long-term and repeatable process. The estate was designed using the workshop method, which allows for an analysis, debate and the use of workshops, The experiences. participants’ which lasted for several years, were theoreticians by lectures by accompanied from many domains, as well as public consultations with inhabitants of nearby areas. The idea was to create a total and coherent housing estate equipped with a set of services to fulfil all the inhabitants’ needs: from a service and commercial base, public space, private space, to a community centre and school. Adjusting space for the needs of particular users is done throughhousing cooperatives. The project is to become a model housing estate, open to individual demands pf the inhabitants and making their easier. life May 2016 Miastoprojekt Lifestyle Award 2015 Mies van der Rohe der Rohe van Mies der Rohe Award and and Award der Rohe January – March 2016 25 Years of Mies van van Mies of Years 25 Constructing Europe. The aim of the publication is to present the functioning of the state-owned design studio Miastoprojekt in Wrocław. The employees there were many eminent architects who created the majority of public and residential architecture in the years The 1949–1989. from photographs with enriched publication, private archives, will be a valuable source of information about everyday life of architects in the years of the Polish People’s Republic. It will include, among others, essays on the with Miastoprojekt, interviews functioning of architects and designer engineers, as well as anecdotes. some The first exhibition recapitulates the 25-year of history of the most important distinction, awarded architectural European biennially since 1988 by Mies van der Rohe Foundation. The second exhibition is a joint European the and foundation the of initiative Commission, and it mainly aims at promoting achievements architectural greatest the and raising awareness of the crucial input of Europeanarchitects in propagating new ideas technologies. and

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ARCHITECTURE Roman Gutek Cinema is everything for me, … it was Closest to me are films in which you feel an escape. It made my life better, … the presence of the director, in which he it calmed me down, and allowed me or she draws from life experience and to visit a variety of places. It made me events and the film is their personal aware of values, but also of frustrations. dialogue with the world, in which he asks Cinema made me dance, sing and gave questions and does not need to answer me shivers. It made me feel alive during them. As a receiver of art, I am interested times and in a place which were a denial in the “I” of a work’s author, not in an of life. I will always be grateful for that. attempt to look at the world objectively. The films I’ve “lived through” the most so far are Jak daleko stąd, jak blisko The words above come from a 15-hour (How Far from Here, How Close, 1971) personal history of cinema – The Story of by Tadeusz Konwicki and a Russian one Film: An Odyssey (2011) by Belfast-born made several years later, Mirror (1974) by

Mark Cousins. I agree with him totally Andrei Tarkovsky. I heard opinions that FILM because for me, also, cinema was a way the form of these films is complicated and to escape from difficult matters, from difficult, that the sequence of scenes is the greyness of Poland’s former political chaotic and devoid of logic. But I considered system. I searched in it for characters who them very simple. I experienced them as struggled with the world like I did, who intimate conversations of the artist with his were misfits, “galley slaves of sensitivity”. audience. I saw on screen life presented not When I was young, I found them in works in a linear order but woven from scraps of of Carlos Saura, Víctor Erice, Werner memories, the present and dreams. Cinema Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tadeusz did not present human life in this way. I Konwicki and Krzysztof Zanussi, and later believe that might have been the reason in films by Lars von Trier, Jim Jarmusch, these films were not understood. David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman and Roy Andersson.

29 I have never avoided showing films which and existential pain. I feel privileged, are difficult, controversial, formally radical. because I have the opportunity to share Some shocked, others remained in viewers’ with others what is closest to me, i.e., memories for a long time. For example the my cinematic discoveries. I know my Korean film Lies, films by Gaspar Noé and choices are shaping others’ tastes, are an Philippe Grandrieux, Twentynine Palms by inspiration to them. I am also aware that Bruno Dumont or the episodic Destricted this is an obligation. created by visual artists, the subject of which is corporeality. I have never aimed at causing sensation. These films are supposed to shake us, knock us out of the satiated, plastic, colourful world created by media. The world which disowns death. I believe I

FILM can tell when a director seeks acclaim and makes movies only for money. I am not interested in such cinema.

In recent years, in opposition to the increasingly polished artistic cinema, a new movement termed “slow cinema” has appeared. The older I get, the closer it is to me. “My” directors are Béla Tarr, Philippe Grandrieux, Tsai Ming-Liang, Alexander Sokurow, Carlos Reygadas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Šarūnas Bartas. In their films, I find what I am searching for in cinema: silence, a note of melancholy, dramatic and aesthetic minimalism, slow, contemplative rhythm

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FILM 32 Film Education Education Film Programme 2015–2016 The aim of the programme is to shape tastes of young viewers and encourage them to search for and discover the diversity present in cinema. It is a range of activitiesspread in time and geared towards long-term results. The idea behind them is not only to expand the participants’ knowledge of history and theory of cinema, but most of all to stimulate their cultural needs and prepare them for contactwith more ambitious cinema. The aimed activities encompasses programme at various age groups – from film lessons for children at all school levels to two-year-long course of Polish cinema history and four- years world cinema history for students and adults. 1. New Horizons Cinema 2013–2016 www.kinonh.pl New Horizons cinema, which opened on August 13 2012, is the biggest multi- screen cinema in Poland which presents artistic films – original and experimental works, as well as classic works and valuable offers cinema The productions. mainstream programmes education film all-year-round are which students, and schoolchildren for participants. thousand ten over by attended It hosts film festivals and reviews, as well as special events promoting film culture. There transmissions retransmissions and regular are of operas, theatre and ballet performances, screenings for children and seniors, exhibitions and concerts. By May 2015 the cinema had 1.3 million visitors. In 2016, it will be the centre of many films events from the programme. Culture of Capital European gala th , and in 2014 Paweł Pawlikowski 10 December 2016 December 10 www.europeanfilmawards.eu European Film Awards European Film Awards of the European Film Awards, which will be attended by several hundred representatives of the European film industry. Between September and December 2016, the New Horizons cinema will also host screenings of films awarded at previous editions, as well as those nominated in 2016. European Film Awards are the most important distinctions awarded on the Old Continent. The idea behind the awards is to promote European cinema and European filmmakers. It is also a summary of a given year in European cinema. Members of the European Film two- in 3000), around (currently Academy stage voting, select the best European film and award European creators in over a dozen categories. The firstPolish winner of the year was Krzysztof Kieślowski for A Short Film About Killing for his film Ida. In Wrocław, we will organize the 29

FILM cinema (during the 15 Neighbours series we will present Lithuanian Our of aCinema In continuators. their and seventies and sixties Wave the of New the cinema, European of history the shaped have which works film show We will Continent. Old the of art cinematographic of diversity and history the presenting reviews film of A series generations. various from directors by conducted element of the series will be masterclasses important An cinema. world of context the in importance and greatness its cinema, European of development of directions the of diversity the present fully most to designed is programme 2016). The Wave (April New (January-March 2016), and Czechoslovakian Festival), a Wim Wenders retrospective 2. Cinema of European Masters 2015–2016 33

th New Horizons Horizons New socio-historical context. socio-historical awider in placed culture, Polish about time same the at and cinema Polish about learn can meetings those of Participants English. in conducted are screenings after debates and audience to each film.Both the introductions the introduce who experts, film and critics filmmakers, by attended are screenings The Wrocław. in living foreigners to directed subtitles, English with cinema Polish of works interesting most the of screenings of A series interpenetrate. can opera and film which in ways of variety the highlight will productions different such two of Evenings. Presentation Ancient entitled Mailer Norman by a novel by inspired was He drawing. and sculpture containing also elements of performance, language, film in told acts three in opera an – artist visual American contemporary the of project film biggest the time same the at Cremasterof creator the as others, among known, Barney, Fundament also show a performance entitled of River We will Korczakowska. Natalia by directed native Austrian. The performance will be Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, also a by written was libretto the and Neuwirth, Olga composer, Austrian by composed was music The Lynch. David by film the on based opera performance, Highway Lost the of premiere Polish the of year the be will 2016 www.polishcinema.com.pl 2015–2016 Beginners Polish Cinema for 2016 Operas Film by American artist Matthew Matthew artist American by film series. It is the latest and and latest the is It series. film educational activities. educational activities. include also will project The subtitles. and description audio with films 100 over be will there 2016 By audience. an such for created world the in cinema virtual first – the disabilities such with people for portal VOD afree with starting elements, afew of consist will It impairments. visual and hearing with people to available films making of A project of a citizen of Wrocław and Lower Silesia. Lower and Wrocław of acitizen of identity the on as well as region, the and city the of history the on lectures by accompanied be will Screenings archives. Russian and Polish German, from photographs and films as well as memories their through citizens its and city the of history complex show which 1945–2014, years the in produced Wrocław about films documentary of screenings organize will we why is That often excluded from school programmes. is which region, the of history teaching is project this for reference of A point www.adapter.org.pl 2015–2016 Barriers Without Adapter –Cinema Polish Cinema for Beginners for Cinema Polish 2. www.kadrywroclawia.pl 2015–2016 Wrocław of Frames 1. Meeting with Agnieszka Holland during during Holland Agnieszka with Meeting Cinema Horizons New

FILM 34 48 Hour Film Project: Film48 Project: Hour Wrocław April 2016 www.48hfppoland.pl 3. This competition is a chance for both professionals and amateurs to test their abilities in a demanding task, i.e. making a movie in48 hours. It proves it is possible, even without huge financial resources. It is a competition not only for directors and actors, but also for film producers. What is more, filmmakers allows project the participation in to appear on the international scene, as films made during the Wrocław 48HFP will be presented at prestigious festivals in Poland abroad. and 20–25 October20–25 2015, 25–30 October 2016 www.americanfilmfestival.pl American Film Festival American films dominatePolish cinemas, but most of them are commercial, produced and distributed globally by big film studios. manyHowever, good and universal, but less commercial films are not distributed Polandin at all. The festival wants to introduce Polish in phenomena and names new to audience diverse very showing By cinema. American productions, it attempts to put straight the image of the United States, perceived manufacturing supermarket huge a as usually products – including films – for the global market. There is a false stereotype, deeply rooted in European culture, that there independent, between opposition an exist America and artistically Europe sophisticated festival The goods. commercial producing wants to fight with this stereotype. In 2016 we plan, among others, a presentation of films Europeanby directors working in the US, as well as cinematic images of America in cinema. European 2. 1. Festival International Film July23 to 2 August 2015, 21–31 July 2016 www.nowehoryzonty.pl New Horizons T–Mobile A festival of films going beyond the boundaries of traditional cinema. From hundreds of ne productions presented each year at festivals around the world, in Wrocław we show those which with their unique form and power ofexpression arouse extreme start polemics emotions, and reactions and discussions, trigger admiration and protests – and what is more, they usually set new trends in world cinema. As part of the EuropeanCapital of Culture programme, the festival will be accompanied by a Blow-up Lower from filmmakers for competition Silesia. An important part of the 2016 edition will also be masterclasses and a presentation of Basque cinema.

FILM www.miastomovie.pl 2016 April educationalimportant role. an has and citizens, and activists city dialogue between researchers, authorities, the strengthens project The cities. Polish other and Wrocław from examples concrete on based space, city the in interventions and debate urban an inspire cities, contemporary of challenges important most the to attention to urban phenomena. It wants to bring devoted films documentary of A review www.wfdtd.pl 2015–2016 world. the of areas other in then and television, Polish on presented be will film which film, feature-length one into edited later on Wrocław, films short produce will who editors, and technicians cameramen, production managers, sound directors, young of agroup be will Bławut and Marcel Łoziński. The participants documentary makers – among others Jacek Polish by conducted workshops education –film phase second the and school”, achievements of the “Polish documentary important most the of a presentation is phase first The filmmakers. young for project education film A comprehensive 1. 35 4. 2015 Wrocław Project, 3. 2. Festival Film International Horizons wro MIASTOmovie: till Dusk Dawn from Wroclaw American Film Festival 2014 Festival Film American Film 48 Hour during working crew A film Cinema Horizons New the at A concert T–Mobile New the at Gala Night Closing

FILM 36 3–5 June 2016 www.bikedays.pl BICYCLE and CULTURE can be treated as function without can cities that synonyms, cars, and that the capital of Lower Silesia is becomingleader a on the bicycle map of Poland. Bike Days Days Bike Film Festival Bicycle A presentation of films about bicycle riding and all themes around it, about the cyclist culture in Poland and around the world. It will be accompanied by exhibitions presenting the history of bike riding culture, debates on social position of cyclists and their culture, open workshops devoted to bicycle mechanics, a ride through the city and free competitions at a cycling track in Wrocław. Altogether, it will prove that the words Bike Days Bicycle Film Festival

FILM related to film. activities in engage to want who lovers film young and culture film in involved people creativity of SOFA the participants. supports the on all of most but lecturers, eminent on only not based is school The republics. Caucasian as well as Asia Central Europe, Eastern and Central from people young for School for film managers offering workshops www.kinodzieci.pl 2016 –2October September 24 2015, 4October to 26 September Germany. and Netherlands the Sweden, Norway, as such developed, well very is cinema children where countries from films on European all of first based be will programme The imagination. and intelligence, which moves and arouses them, with respect for their sensitivities around world the and them about talking children, for especially made films see to Poland in occasion arare is It children. for films presenting festival All-Poland countries, which in the 20 those in past difficult the with accounts settling discuss as well as totalitarianisms, and dictatorships of times the present will They programme. Culture of Capital European the for specially Wrocław in Remembrance National of Institute the by prepared titles) 30 (around films feature of A review from totalitarian systems to democracy. 37 19–28 2015, August 21–30 Agents SOFA –School of Film Festival Film Kids Freedom World Without www.joinsofa.org March 2016 March

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Irek Grin In the beginning was the word, though this rare ability to speak in metaphors, the it was out of range [cell-phone network]. ability to seek and order words which are There was no Internet, also, and the [new] necessary and sometimes indispensable, canon of social communication related this monkey’s ability in describing to it. There was no electricity. In the [significant] things, is among humanity’s beginning everything looked [different] greatest achievements. And the only one in general, and without the word we still based solely on the word. That is, on would still not exist and all that which the beginning. On the [stone] foundation. wasn’t wouldn’t exist either. [What’s more] The founding gesture. The eternal the world out of range, the Internet and [immemorial] myth. electricity would be [continually] invisible. It is not we who speak the words, A bit later, but almost at the beginning, the words speak us, as Gombrowicz the word makes itself and its omnipotence discovered and announced, as if it hadn’t manifest in the Book [a book]. This been clear since the dawn of time. The happens in the visible world, though still prophet Conrad calls for measuring out LITERATURE without range, the Internet and electricity. [meting out] justice by literature to the visible world, as if this world could be I deeply believe that this word has formed, seen at all without it, and Mickiewicz’s and is still shaping and transforming Gustav complains hysterically that a priest, reality. I claim that this word organizes it, teaching him to read, has committed the tries to rein it in, to provide sense. It got first symbolic rape on him, a [terrorist] into my head that it is possessive, arrogant, attack, as if the Library of Alexandria seductive, self-sufficient, infinite, beautiful hadn’t been burned down several times and [lonely]. This loneliness forces it to before. search for other words. We owe obedience to the word. I am convinced that literature, words found We owe [everything] to it, even anarchy. and materialized in n a book [the Book],

39 We are obliged to care for and rebel against name, with them on their tongues] man- literature and the world it describes in eaters will. Because if you do not read, or order to create it. read and do not understand, sooner or later come [man-eaters]. A true human needs [to know] two things: to learn to read and to die. Because as the prophet Márquez said: the world must be all fucked up when men Mark my words, we die most in the history travel in first class and literature goes as of the world. Because there are the most of freight. He unconsciously anticipated the us. We read the least in the contemporary poet Pasewicz, who announces today: text history of the world, because […] is my pasture.

We need to bring together people addicted I had a dream […] to reading, people burdened and marked with the word, those who have to be taught to read anew [again]. We have to surround ourselves with books to make the world warmer and safer. We need to explain to the young that they’ll age quicker [and uglier] if they don’t learn to read. We need to share the joy of communing with literature with those who’re excluded from its world. We need to explain for those who are indifferent to literature that indifference [to literature] is a crime against humanity. We need to cultivate the memory of all written words, because if we don’t do it, they’ll come at night and eat us. And if they don’t do it themselves, then [in their

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LITERATURA LITERATURE readers. highlight the uniqueness of the community of to as well as readership, active and literature Polish of richness the promote to is action the of aim The 2015. and 2014 in elections political of schedule the to according website, aspecial on and Poland around place takes introduce their own candidates. Voting also can Voters contemporary. and classic –both writers Polish popular most the and important most the for vote to them inviting readers, of group awide at directed action An time. same the at world the of languages all in expressed be to readership, and literature for important so “meeting”, the of idea the 2017. allow will It April till Wrocław in book the of celebration the prolong will and identity, and diversity about dialogue dimension of our will activities, enrich the international the broaden to us allow will distinction This City. Capital Book World UNESCO as term its begin will it 2016 23rd, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, and on April Bangkok, Madrid, as cities such joined title, prestigious very this receiving upon Wrocław, 43 literackie.plwww.wybory 2016 24 to April 2014 24 May Elections Literary 2017 April –22 2016 23 April Capital Wrocław 2016 WorldUNESCO Book Tajne Komplety bookshop in Wrocław in bookshop Tajne Komplety themselves with beauty. things together, but diversely, surrounding other many do and receipts machine cash on poetry print books, exchange poems, with fruits paper pick libraries, home air everywhere, organize family picnics, literary engraved poetry see space, public in and homes at together read will people city: the transform to us allow will programme The on literature. citizens of attention the focusing and interest raising another, one for search will words poem, moving ahuge creating streets the on other each pass will they anthology, dispersed a become will Vehicles stickers. magnetic on printed poetry of fragments cars their to stick will drivers 2016, whole the For “Cegła”. implemented as of part the literary magazine project the in example for citizens, the involve to want We also organizations. cultural institutions and non-governmental by organized activities, large-scale and small of avariety encompass will It fashionable. is reading day, and every everywhere are words where library, huge one into city the transform and space city the in books introduce to is programme the of aim The January 2016 – April 2017 –April 2016 January Library a as City Bibliopolis. interests, both scientificminds. and artistic various with people young and experts for place ameeting become will portal the time, same the At Internet. the of assumption main the with accordance –in it shape freely will they but content imposed of receivers be just not will people –young activity creative develop their media competences through process the in and themselves, Portal Web Literary the create will They schoolchildren. by created be will it that fact the from stems project the of uniqueness The challenges. technological as well as groups different of needs the answer elements, and functions of avariety combine should It literature. and readership to devoted portal aweb needs life, cultural of element important an is literature where metropolises European other as just which, acity for solution innovative An 2016 Portal Wrocław Web Literary

LITERATURE 44 , and a European Capital of Europeanof Capital Culture Publication Series 2015–2016 A series of books within the framework of the literary programme, which will fill gaps on the book market. Prepared on the highest editorial and graphic level by an editorial team several in often experience, extensive with language versions, they will be published in the years 2015–2016. The first publication, Streetentitled Art and Poetry of Wrocław has already been published – it juxtaposes murals from Wrocław streets and backyards with new poetry. This we will year, also publish an anthology of literary works by art brut artists as well as a selection of poetry and prose by young authors. In 2016, we will publish, The others, Canon.among Rhyming Polish Minorities of Languages the in Tales Fairy presenting a selection of literature for the versions, language dozen a over in youngest an anthology of authors connected with the Helikopter magazine literary artistic bibliography of translations of the works by Różewicz. Tadeusz April 2016 – April 2017 Make Your Own Book Your Make A natural continuation of the Writing Forum Forum Writing the of continuation natural A for Children and Adults Young will be year- long workshops organized in schools and participants The Wrocław. around libraries will learn about the process of bookmaking: from paper production, writing and editing, to printing and the use of new technologies. The workshops will be organized for a wide group of young people (from kindergarten pupils to high school students) who are interested in the art of writing and publishing books, who want to acquire new skills and knowledge from specialists. The culmination of the project will be a presentation of works created during workshops. Adults November 2014 – April 2016 Children and Young Writing Forum for Literary Exhibitions January – October 2016 A creative writing course for young people people young for course writing creative A from secondary and high schools from Wrocław and neighbouring districts, who are interested in writing. The teachers are specialists in three domains: prose, poetry and literary journalism. The aim of the of development is workshops and meetings participants, the of skills linguistic and writing and literature around them integrating workshops texts. the During valuable creating students will also meet with authors – renowned writers for children, young adults and adults. plan We to present the results of the programme on April 22nd, 2016. Three multimedia temporary exhibitions exhibitions temporary multimedia Three around Polish and European literary with cooperation in organized mementoes, the National Ossoliński Institute. Thewill be designed as a unique and innovative an game, and tradition of combination will exhibition first The test. unconventional be dedicated to the period fromRomanticism to Positivism, one Poland to Young to the 1930’s, and one to the period from World War to now. TheirTwo aim will be to bring Polish and European literary heritage to the young generation, and they will be accompanied by a wide educational programme, with lectures, conferences and meetings with special guests invited to Wroclaw (writers, literary critics, etc.), as well as production and distribution at schools of auxiliary materials for teaching Polish.

LITERATURE the world. world. the and Europe in literature Polish of presence the supporting –amechanism Poland in which is responsible for such activities Institute, Book the with –together create will we this, To achieve Wrocław. from authors by especially books, Polish of editions foreign of translations tosupports increase the number programme The process. expensive and along is It translator. the and author the of creation –ajoint art of work anew becomes it translated, is it if And abroad. exist not will it translation –without language by limited is music, or arts visual to opposed as book, The 45 in Wrocław Bookshop Spanish The 2016 Programme Translation conferences. intensively in participate foreign sessions and more to them allow will which researches, Polish for scholarships of asystem include also will programme research The fiction. traditionally organize conferences on crime we example, for Wroclaw, Festival Mystery literature. During International Crime and to inspire new research related activities to Book international the conference and Child the example –for literature of area the and cooperate with research initiatives in support We will life. readership and literary of development the for indispensable is research and criticism Literary 2016 Research Programme planned for 2016 – but we also want want also we –but 2016 for planned world were raised. were world new the of culture the of creators current the timesunderstand during which the better to Continent Old the of areas other from readers allow also will initiative This works. literary of lens the through Europe Eastern and Central of history the face to attempts many of one is It languages. national in countries, particular in English and in organizationsimportant and environments most the by administered portal, web international an creating by done be will This acompendium. of form the in heritage Eastern bloc countries and present this with cultural institutions from the former analysetimes, them critically in cooperation those of situation social the and creators forgotten characters, their times, their those reclaim to want we communism, during written literature adult young and children of heritage the rediscover to We want separately. developing was West and East of literature The influences. divided in accordance with political tightly was adults young and children for literature European of world 1989, the Till 2016 Childhoods Book Saved Our

LITERATURE was a desired source for national and 23 April23 2016 The Grand The Opening Tadeusz the Pan of and theMuseum of Opening Ceremony Book UNESCO World inCapital Wrocław The Ossolineum will not only present here the manuscript of the most important Polish epic poem, but will also try to explain why Pan Tadeusz generations. many so for liberation personal exhibition permanent a present will Museum and many temporary exhibitions, as well as artistic, activities accompanying educational The programmes. publication and research opening of the Museum will be an important event of the opening ceremony of Wrocław as UNESCO World Book Capital City. 2. 1. Silesius Poetic Workshop April – December 2016 A project unique in the scale of Europe, related to Wrocław SILESIUS poetry award. invite workshop the of originators The nominees and laureates of the award to present their vision of poetry in the form of a manifest, in this way making a contemporary diagnosis. The project is organized each year poetic extending the significantly 2014, since discourse and helping to promote the award itself. Poetry Award Poetry Award May 2016 www.silesius.com.pl Wrocław SILESIUS Festival International Poetry May 2016 SILESIUS A distinction promoting works and creators of Polish poetry, awarded each year in three book award, achievement lifetime categories: of the year and debut of the The year. prize is a statue designed by Michał Staszczak and a cheque for 100 thousand PLN for lifetime achievement, 50 thousand for the book of the year and thousand 20 for debut of the in 2016,year. the SILESIUS award gala will be International SILESIUS the of highlight the Poetry Festival. A festival organized together with a special edition of the SILESIUS Poetry Award. will We invite to Wrocław the biggest Polishpoetry festivals, including Poet’s Poznań, City of Poetry from from Festival Milosz international and Lublin, Kraków. All the festivals will present their to programmes, original characteristic own show the richness of the poetic world and various ways ofexperiencing it. The citizens of Wrocław will have a chance to participate in unique conversations and experience the various ways ofpresenting with poetry, which our guests will bring to Wrocław with them.

LITERATURE the promotion of reading. to devoted projects and literature in interest to promote children’s creativity, foster their is project the of aim The children. for lectures and workshops of aseries by accompanied be will process writing The teachers. their by coordinated pupils, be will authors the and ablog, of form the in written be will book and fulfilling their literary ambitions. The book – sharing their stories and experiences, aunique creating be will Wroclaw in schools secondary from children days, 365 For April 2016 – April 2017 –April 2016 April Eyes of Children the in Capital City Wroclaw. World Book May 2016 May published. work his see to chance a has tale fairy best the for schoolchildren book. The winner of the competition for best the of publisher the for Wrocław of Mayor the by sponsored award Pages Good and There performances. is also a prestigious illustrators, debates, workshops, exhibitions fair, there are meetings with authors and book the During books. with contact active and literature children’s of promotion on focused people, young to dedicated event An Wrocław. in Capital Book the opening ceremony for UNESCO World of apart be will edition 2016 The literature. with associated not often centre, city the known personalities in unique venues around night, public readings are by performed well- one During countries. various from writers so far unpublished works of contemporary of reading among wide audience presents promotion on focused project innovative This www.wpdk.pl Readers’ Book Fair Good Pages Young 2016 23 April WroclawNight in Literature European finale and award gala. gala. award and finale grand the of location the is Wrocław but Warszawa, and Gdańsk Kraków, in organized is festival the Wrocław, from Apart illustrations. of exhibitions and screenings film projects, meetingsworkshops, with artistic authors, take inparticipants including activities part The imagination. of world the to gateway a into city the transforming space, urban the in books place to is festival the of idea interdisciplinary and intermedia tools. The innovative of use the with children among reading and literature of popularization to dedicated adults, young and children to addressed festival literary Polish only The game of mutual inspirations. generation of authors, showing the complex older the programme the in includes it but poetry, new of festival a foremost and first is It industry. publishing the and politics art, of issues the but books, their about only not talk authors – meeting author an of form different aslightly postulates It poetry. multimedia of shows and concerts exhibitions, art graphic with reading poetry combines It arts. other to open but poetry, in focused A festival www.fldd.pl 2016 –June May Children for ofFestival Literature in Wrocław, 21 September 2013 Wrocław, 21in September 2. 1. mikrofestiwal.org www spring 2016 Poetry Polish Microfestival of New Reading during European Literature Night Night Literature European during Reading Museum Tadeusz Pan the of Building The

LITERATURE 48 International Crime Festival and Mystery Wroclaw May – June 2016 www.festiwal.portalkryminalny.pl The oldest and biggest festival promoting promoting festival biggest and oldest The crime fiction Poland.in It encompasses authors, lectures, concerts, with meetings young for lessons conferences, games, urban adults as well as workshops, during which aspiring authors work with Polish masters of the genre. The Great Calibre Award for the best Polish crime novel or thriller, financed by the city of Wrocław, is presented during the festival as well as the Great Calibre of Honour Award for lifetime achievement. The special 2016 edition will be dedicated to European fiction.crime Literary Menus April 2016 – April 2017 For a whole we will year, invite restaurants in Wroclaw to create special “literary menus,” i.e. a selection of dishes coming from books and related to literature. They will be created by writers famous for culinary descriptions in their novels, and it will convey the richness of various nationalcuisines. already We know that one of the menus will be prepared by Camilla Läckberg. This project will further stress how books are related to all areas of everyday life.

International Crime and Mystery Festival Wroclaw 2014 , one of the most important , a collection of home recipes of the June 2016 June Cookbook festivalCookbook Książka na widelcu. citizens of Wrocław, with pictures, stories, memories – a history of post-war Wrocław written from the perspective of the kitchen. outdoor festivals in Wrocław, each year at the beginning of June visited byaround 50 thousand people, will be enriched with a authors, with meetings festival, cookbook bloggers and culinary critics. As a result, the book will gain a new dimension and will be introduced to a new space, not typical for literature, which is one of the aims of the UNESCO World Book Capital Wrocław 2016 important most the Probably programme. element of the project will be Wrocław Cookbook Europa na widelcu na Europa

LITERATURE in 2016 –Spain. 2016 in and Ukraine be will year. it 2015 In particular a in honour of guest the is which country the from literature of presentation and Polish), and Slovak, –Czech, organized is festival the where place the to (according literature local of presentation are: lines programme main the but events, accompanying of range agrowing has It Library. Municipal the is organizer the where Wrocław, and Ostrava Kosice, Brno, in organized A festival earlier. ayear unusually, and, Wrocław in organized be time first the for will congress the 2016, In historians. and critics literary poets, writers, Polish by attended is congress the world, the around from translators hundred several from Apart abroad. literature Polish of promotor outstanding for award presentation of the prestigious Transatlantyk into other languages. It includes the literature Polish of translators to addressed is it and Institute, Book the by Kraków in years four every organized is congress The www.msa.wroclaw.pl 2016 –August July Month Authors’ Reading June 2016 Literature Translators of Polish World 4th 49 Congress of people there. of lives the and region the city, the to related stories local of collection be also will there initiated by Active Communication Society, project, the During story. personal own their tell to how learn to want who everyone at aimed reporters, and playwrights filmmakers, writers, by conducted lectures and workshops of Aseries relationship. social deepening and at restoration of the tradition of storytelling aimed programme educational and artistic An region Silesia Lower the from Clubs Book be will event the of performance of the book anthem. The hosts unofficial premiere, the organize will we rally other and exchange experiences. During the each know to get concerts, and readings inparticipate meetings with public authors, will they which during Woodstock”, “literary a event, artistic ahuge for Institute, Book the with together them, of a thousand ofanniversary the movement by inviting 10th the on Poland around from Clubs Book of members honour to is rally the of aim The uy 201 July Laboratory Story Short The 2016 –2August 26 July Poland Book Club Members in of The Rally First 6 strong international element to Polcon. a introduce to us allow –will Eurocon for competition the during Wrocław to granted –atitle Eurokonference Barcelona. in 2016 Eurocon during also presented be will which line, thematic Lem aspecial organised will we Lem, Stanisław of death the of Janusz Zajdel Award. For the 10th anniversary the presenting is programme the of elements key the of One fantasy. and fiction science of fans the for Poland in event biggest The www.polcon2016.wroclaw.pl 2016 17–22 August Euroconference / Convention Fiction Polcon Science

LITERATURE 50 preTEXTY Lower Lower preTEXTY Silesia Literary Festival May – June, September – November 2016 www.fundacja-karpowicz.org/category/ pretexty/ Biblioteka Nowa April 2015 – August 2017 A unique literary festival promoting promoting literary festival unique A contemporary prose and poetry, linking local traditions to those from outside the region approach interdisciplinary an introducing and (concerts, literature to exhibitions). The aim is to make contemporary communities, local to available literature counter the decrease in readership, and literary communities local integrate public centres, (community libraries, clubs). The festival is organized in various towns of the region. A series of international seminars organized by the Book Institute. The aim of the seminars is to work onpremises and directions for the development of Polish public libraries. The seminars are thematic: new challenges, new concepts, new architecture, newnew offer, librarian. Wrocław will host two meetings – the last one will coincide withthe congress Library of Federation International of Associations in 2017. ANGELUS Central European Literature Award 2016 October www.angelus.com.pl October 2016 October www.dybook.pl Bruno Schulz.Bruno Festival The most important distinction for Polish literature and works translated into Polish, awarded each year to writers from Central Europe, who write about the most crucial contemporary issues, force us to reflect and expand our knowledge about other cultures. The award is a statue designed by Ewa Rossano and a cheque for 150 thousand PLN, and it is presented to the author ofthe best book published in Polish in the previous year. Since 2014 the gala of ANGELUS award takes Festival. Schulz. Bruno during place The aim of the Festival is to create unusual events, seemingly incoherent, and link them in unique ways – urban games, happenings, murals and concerts with discussions on literature, culture and art. The patron of the festival, Bruno Schulz, forces us to reflect seriously on the contemporary times in the context of the terrible history of the 20th century and the role of works and biographies of artists in understanding what happened and making diagnoses for the future. The 2016 edition will focus on the problem of the border and will introduce all the connotations carried by this word. Story Festival 2016 October www.opowiadanie.org International Short A celebration of short prose organized by the Active Communication Society. It focuses on influence the forms, narrative of presentation of literature on other arts, and exchange of are meetings Literary experiences. creative accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, competitions for writers and programme. publication a and translators The festival also takes part in discussions on cultural and social transformations, and it tries to reconstruct the relation between narration. oral traditional and literature

LITERATURE 51 Reading during European Literature Night in Wrocław, 21 September 2013 Wrocław, 21 in September Night Literature European during Reading

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Call a Poem 2016 Book and Other ArtsBook January 2016 – April 2017 We willWe placea special phone booth in the city centre, where everyone will be able to stop and listen to poetry. will We invite the citizens of Wrocław and tourists to a space combining reception the for indispensable intimacy of poetry and advanced technology. The specially created database will include several themselves authors by read poems hundred application authors. The famous by or designed for this project will be used in the future as didactic tool at schools. There are around 60 artistic festivalsyear a in Wroclaw – to celebrate the World Book Capital City, we will invite themto create special literary themes and enrich their programme with a literary aspect. As a result we will present the interrelationsbetween books and other arts, but we also will remind that very often literature is the creative material for those arts. It will also help to realize lovers of music, film or visual arts the great importance of literature for the fields. Already creative other of development in 2015, such a literary aspect will be present at the T-Mobile New Horizons festival. PolonicaHispanica 2016 2016 Wrocław Publication Programme An Internet platform created to present and promote polish humanities in the Spanish-speaking world. It will include texts by Polish authors from many domains and Ingarden and Tatarkiewicz from – generations to Markowski, Ulicka or Staniszkis. There will also be descriptions and tables of contents of the most important Polish periodicals in the area of humanities as well as reviews of new books, and writings on the situation of a given discipline or research in Poland – from studies gender to studies musical and theatre and others. The platform will be a key tool for thought humanistic Polish of dissemination the around and countries Spanish-speaking in world. Many valuable publications related to a given given a to related publications valuable Many region cannot be published due to insufficient will programme The resources. financial support such books promoting the city and the region: both literary works, guides, picture albums, historical essays and occasional publications. The aim of the establish will Wrocław which institution, perhaps together with the voivodeship, is to subsidize and facilitate book publication. The premises are based on regional film funds. Fair www.wpdk.pl Wrocław Good Books Wrocław Dark the in Reading 2016 www.czytaniewciemnosciach.tumblr.com One of the three (next to Krakow and Warsaw Book Fairs)biggest and best received fairs in Poland.The aim of the Fair is to promote editorial high with published quality literature and artistic standards. Each the year, Fair is visited by the most popular Polish writers and journalists, who meet with their readers. There are also debates, lectures, exhibitions and a programme of creative workshops for children. Another important element of the Fair is the “Pióro Fredry” prize, awarded for the best book of the year. 2016 December A series of multimedia readings organized by Rita Baum Foundation since 2011. During the performances, actors read in complete experience to audience the allowing darkness, literature in a new, unique In 2016, way. the series will be accompanied by therapeutic which workshops, during participants from various centres for the visually impaired will become the actors themselves, and in this they way, will share their own way of reading, experiencing and understanding literature.

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LITERATURE Wrocław in the Wrocław International Cities of Refuge Network 2016 ICORN is a network of cities from around the world advancing freedom of expression, and defending writers persecuted for political reasonsin – hiding, in prisons or unable to publish in their countries. Each city offers long term, but temporary, shelter to one of living good security, providing writers, the conditions and the possibility for unlimited practical contribution a is It work. creative to the defence of freedom of expression. beginning the at ICORN join to plans Wrocław of 2016. 22 April 2016 January 2016 – April 2017 Book Aid.Book World Anthem Literary Icons Literary Icons A project organized together with UNESCO, international associations as well as previous World Book Capitals and EuropeanCapitals of Culture to celebrate the book and readers around the word. The aim is to create a book anthem. The lyrics will be a poem by Tadeusz Różewicz, a famous poet from Wrocław, which will translated into several dozen languages. Music will be composed as a result of an open competition for musicians and composers from Wrocław and Lower Silesia. The culmination of the whole project will be a unique flash mob: the book anthem will be sung on one day and hour in several dozen citiesaround the world. It will mark the end of Wrocław term as UNESCO World Book Capital. In 2016, all cyclical events related to book in Wrocław will have a unique, celebratory strengthened additionally be will It character. by the participation of eminent writers from abroad, whom we want to invite to for important events and literary festivals, in this way making them attractive also for audience from around Europe. Academy of Literature Literature of Academy 2016 One of the priorities in theEuropean training is programme Culture of Capital cultural organizers and managers. A specially literary to dedicated academy established activities will have a task to exchange good practicesand raise competences of the employees of the culture sector. It will focus on cooperation between Polish, Ukrainian various of Organizers managers. German and work will reading activities promoting issues, professional and practical on together but also discuss the topics of national and indifference exclusion, identity, European to culture and out-group bias. The line of cooperation will be first of all drawn between world by particularly experienced cities war two and its effects:Wrocław, Lviv and Dresden.

LITERATURE cities in the network. the in cities strengthen and enrich of activities other would Wrocław while Wrocław, in present which would help to develop already activities culture of creators experienced as all of most but projects, designing in only not context, this in partners dream are literature, of Cities UNESCO especially and Cities, Creative of Network UNESCO The continually. them develop to indispensable is It cooperation. of development, education and international forms innovative of area the in – especially endeavours long-term are Capital Book World UNESCO of programme the and Culture of Capital European the of programme literary the from both Wrocław, in activities Many Literature Literature of City UNESCO well as book creative industries. as life, readership and literary ambitious for coordinatorimportant of municipal support an be will it time, some for circles literary and organizers by for Called international. and national Wrocław, –from programmes term readership, educational and editorial long- for operator an Europe, and Poland city, the in environments literary various with cooperation reading, of promotion at A new municipal cultural institution aiming Wrocław Wrocław House Literature

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Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny Music is a separate world. It has existed should become consciously acknowledged since time immemorial, it is everywhere, music? even if we don’t notice it. Perhaps that’s why we so often pay no attention to it – it comes The times we live in give us an enormous from all directions, blends into the everyday latitude of choice, ours is an era of buzz, turns into monotonous noise, unrestricted freedom. How and what do jamming thoughts. Whether we’re aware of we want to create? What to listen to? Just that or not, we are listening to it, not even two questions, with millions of possible knowing. Bombarded by sounds coming answers. Many lead to what’s the most from everywhere, we usually know what accessible, quicker to realize, pleasant, we don’t want to hear, not what we would easier to listen to. But music as a space of prefer to listen to. It’s difficult to detect true culture, which is one of its dimensions, music in this noise. But it was born together should not give us illusory entertainment with the world, and nature is the source of or simple pleasure. Music should help us the most beautiful sounds. Music is in the develop, pose challenges, purify and touch MUSIC rustle of leaves, in the symphony of rain, the on what is painful, true and essential. That sequence of bird voices, somebody’s fingers is exactly how I understand it – as a close tapping nervously on a table, a fervent voice. relationship between composer, performer and audience. Sound banal? But it’s the truth. Music is a unique spell – all you need is a bit Without the performer, music remains of intuition, the right sense, to become just an idea, notation or image, a fantasy enchanted, to suddenly look at reality from of the creator. It needs a mediator between an absolutely different perspective, imposed creator and audience, who can bring it to on you by encroaching sounds but at the life and make it immortal. The performer same time very personal, your own. The adds a taste of their own experiences, loads richness of sounds is overwhelming, and music with their thoughts and emotions – their variety takes our breath away – so it becomes personal for them, as a result how can we extract from them those which it is received personally. That’s why two

57 performances of the same piece so often sound like two different compositions. That’s why the task of the artist is to read, understand, experience and finally perform the piece in such a way that the audience is transformed, with reflection accompanied by deep metaphysical experience. Music is indispensable in our expressing ourselves, no matter if we create it, perform it or simply listen to it. Music in public places, in the space of the city, allows us to express ourselves, but most of all to connect through a shared experience. It is almost

MUSIC metaphysical, involving and uniting all participants at a concert. Each understands music in their own way – it is an intimate relationship, singular and multiplied, which cumulates and transforms into a huge power.

The year 2016 is a time of great music and great artists. We plan to present immensely rich and intense music to the citizens of Wrocław and to the whole of Europe. Concerts, editions of festivals, publications, events for connoisseurs and for the broad audience – the musical programme is very varied, and certainly everyone will find something in it for themselves.

58 METAMORPHOSIS OF CULTURE FRIENDLY SPACES DIVERSITY STAGE WROCŁAW THE STAGE SILESIAN LOWER THE STAGE NATIONAL THE THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD STAGE CELEBRATIONS SPECIAL EDITIONS ACTIVATION AND EDUCATION REFLECTIONS ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS SOURCES PUBLICIZING CULTURE Mercouri / Xenakis • • • Tamborrada • Carnaval Cubano • • • Melting Pot Made in Wrocław • • • • • • 14th International Conference • • Musica Polonica Nova • • • International Clarinet Festival CLARIMANIA • • The North and The South – Wrocław the Meeting Place! • • • European Festivals Association General Assembly • Jazz on the Odra Festival • • International Jazz Day • • • Thanks Jimi Festival • • May 3rd • Jidysz and Ladino • • • • 6th European Forum on Music • 63th International Rostrum of Composers • Pearle – Live Performance Europe Conference • Leo Festival • International Wrocław Choir Festival Vratislavia Sacra • ART OF IMPROVISATION • • • Ekletkik Session 2016 • • Wrocław Underwater Festival 2016 • • The 20th Chamber Music Festival Arsenal Nights. The Nations’ Nights • • • Singing Europe • • • • Wrock for Freedom • Forum Musicum 2016 • A Feather from a Hat Historical Show • Art Meetings 2016 • • 51st International Festival Wratislavia Cantans • European Jazz Conference • • Meetings of Cultures • • Pax et Bonum per Musicam • Wrocław Guitar Festival and Competition GITARA+ • European Student Symphony Orchestra • • • One Love Sound Fest • 15th Wrocław Industrial Festival • International Conference Music, Fine Arts and Theatre in the Artistic Education of Children and Young People • • Jazztopad • European Forum for Music Therapists 45 years Wrocław Music Therapy in the Centre of Europe • 7th International Choir Conducting Competition Towards Polyphony • • The International Ambient Festival • WROsound • 1000 Years of Music in Wrocław • • Inter>CAMERATA in the European Capital for Culture • Forgotten City • • • Ethno Jazz Festival • • Great Stars at the NFM • Bibliotheca Rudolphina Culture from the Inside • • • Mummy, Daddy, Sing to Me • • Małe Instrumenty Samoróbka – workshops dedicated to making experimental DIY musical instruments • • Wroclaw Commenting Choir • • Music in the Space • The International Composition Competition • • 1. 60 Melting Made Pot in Wrocław Carnaval Cubano International Clarinet Festival 1. 2. 3. CLARIMANIA 2. February and April 2016 www.jazztopad.pl/concert/melting- potmade-in-wroclaw Melting Pot Made in Made Pot Melting Wrocław An interdisciplinary laboratory (jazz, laboratory(jazz, interdisciplinary An music, arts, audio-visual improvised artists and Wrocław for performance) (i.e. partner festivals of representatives During Luxemburg). and Copenhagen Dublin, a grand finale 2016,in the whole city will be concerts – venue concert a into transformed will be preceded by open rehearsals with elements of workshops, and will take place in and streets apartments, at private galleries, in parks. January 2016 Carnaval Cubano 20 January 2016 20 Tamborrada Mercouri / Xenakis Mercouri January 2016 Very colourful, full of dance andjoy Cubano Carnaval carnival, for characteristic will be a showpiece of Wrocław – European Capital of Culture 2016. The participants will have a chance to participate in music and dance workshops and educational activities, but first and foremost listen to music performed by well-known stars of Cuban music. The aim of the project is to familiarize citizens of Wrocław with Tamborrada, a traditional celebration taking place on the day of the patron saint of San Sebastian. It is a joyful party during which citizens dressed as cooks or soldiers from Napoleonic era walk around the streets, sing traditional songs and drum the rhythm. The Wrocław edition will be a joint performance of children and young adults from the Music Wrocław of Young project, several dozen musical ensembles as well as amateur soloists. A festival dedicated to Melina Mercouri – the originator of the concept of European Capitals of Culture, a Greek minister of culture and great actress, and Iannis Xenakis – one of the most original andintriguing musical personas of the 20th century. It will and performances section, theatre a include exhibitions. will We have a chance to listen to premiere executions and to pieces from outside of mainstream contemporary music. The project is organized with the Grotowski Institute.

MUSIC 1. Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland. from Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, researchers by attended be will conference The folklore. musical Silesian as well as century, 21st and 20th the of culture musical past, the of culture musical to devoted lines thematic three into divided be will It Polish). multicultural past (German, Czech, Austrian, and rich their from draw consciously citizens where regions, modern as Wrocław and Silesia present to be will conference the of aim The 61 2016 March 2–4 Culture of Musical Silesian Traditions Conference 14th International

3. compositions. compositions. music classical more by accompanied be will space industrial an in smell and picture elements of and acting multimedia. Sound, performance combining music, dance, a and stories short Lem’s Stanisław on based operas cybernetic of aseries both science and technology. It encompasses in achievements latest the of use form, or sounds of reception sensual emotions, of –transfer music of aspect important avery upon touch to wants festival The www.musicapolonicanova.pl 2016 April Nova Polonica Musica debutants. accessories. It also promotes young musical and instruments of exhibitions and methodology, and execution of subjects the to devoted seminars and lectures masterclasses of clarinet playing, but also wind instruments. The programme includes wooden and clarinet of art the to devoted Europe of part this in festival only The www.clarimania.pl 2016 April CLARIMANIA Festival Clarinet International

MUSIC Singing Europe

MUSIC MUSIC 64 Jazz on the Odra Festival,, Lizz Wright Jazz on the Odra Festival,, Stańko Tomasz May 3rd 1. 2. 3. Jazz on the Odra on Jazz Festival April 2016 www.jazznadodra.pl One of the most important, biggest and oldest jazz festivals in Europe. It has hosted almost all Polish, European and world jazz stars. It is accompanied by art and photography exhibitions, outdoor events by the Odra and in the Old The Town. festival not only presents the work of the biggest jazz players and promotes the city worldwide, but talents. young propagate also 2. 1. April 2016 www.efa-aef.eu European Festivals General Association Assembly European Festivals Association is an an Association is Festivals European important most the uniting organization interdisciplinary and theatre dance, music, festivals, as well as associations and cultural organizations from 40 countries. In 2016, the conference will take place atthe National Forum of Music, and Wrocław will host around 200 representatives of festivals from Europe, Asia and Africa. It will be a great opportunity to present the rich cultural offer of our city. Meeting Place! Meeting South – Wrocław the the – Wrocław South April 2016 The North and The The A series of concerts performed by world- by performed concerts of series A class ensembles from Iceland, Norway, Portugal and Spain, as well as Wrocław Sound Factory Orchestra – the host of the event. It will be accompanied by lectures and workshops devoted to four aspects of a given cultural region – music, language, visual arts and nature. Their juxtaposition at the North-South axis will show similarities and for models inspiring present and differences, artistic creation. of area activity the in

MUSIC guitarists around the world. world. the around guitarists thousand 50 around reach will festival the transmission, Internet an to thanks 2016, In atmosphere. and music good with participants the present of most but spirit, blues Polish the promote to strives It groups. well-known and players guitar professional The festival includes also performances by Joe. Hey song the together play to possible as guitarists many as gather to try they year Each Wrocław. from friends his and Cichoński Leszek of idea an is Record Guinness Guitar Peace. for Artist aUNESCO Dudziak, Urszula be will Wrocław in celebrations the of guest special The District. Temples Four and Music of Forum National the Pavilion, Dome Four Pergola, and Hall Centennial be will venues important most the and dusk, till dawn from music jazz breathe and live will which city, whole the encompass will It variety. stylistic and evolution its on impact of European musicians in jazz history, their This role project highlights the important 65 www.heyjoe.pl 2016 1 May Festival Jimi Thanks 2016 April 30 Day Jazz International the invited musicians. of –duets performances joint and stars world and European with aday include also will festival the 2016, In atmosphere. joyful in Day Constitution 3rd May and Day Flag National the celebrate and Poles young of identity the strengthen to is artists, best of presentation the from apart festival, the of idea The stars. rising and stages rock of veterans both Wrocław, of heart the in perform bands Polish top weekend, long the during year Each www.3-majowka.pl 2016 2–3 May 3rd May 3. artists. with international university researchers and together University, Wrocław at Jews the of Languages and Culture the for Centre the and Foundation Kahan Bente by organized is It Europe. Western and Eastern between alink are which minorities, Jewish European of languages –the ladino and jidysz of importance the stress will it and concert, gala a and lectures masterclasses, of consist will It audience. awide with it sharing at aimed and heritage Jewish to dedicated A project 5–8 May 2016 May 5–8 Jidysz Ladino and

MUSIC 66 Pearle – Live Live – Pearle Performance Europe Conference May 2016 27–28 www.pearle.ws Pearle is the official consultant for the European Commission in the area of cultural meetings biannual organize They policies. the aim of which is to acquaint European Union European the with institutions cultural cultural policy, aslegal regulations influence artistic The institutions. all functioning of the tradition is that delegates meet in cities which are European Capitals of Culture in a given andyear, that is why in 2016 Wrocław will be conference. the hosting 17–20 May 2016 17–20 63th International Rostrum Composers of A review of new musical compositions presented by public radio stations. During pieces best the annually, organized sessions are selected and recommended for radio dozen several by concerts and performances radio stations. A novelty in the programme for 2016 is a radio art laboratory open for public, as well as Windows on the World session, i.e. presentation of recordings from countries in which contemporary compositions have no place on the radio. , encompasses encompasses , 1. on Music 6th European Forum 19–22 May 2016 Each year the European Music Council organizes a meeting to create an opportunity for debate a on the condition of music organizations and institutions music between from over countries. 20 In 2016 the meeting will take place in Poland, and the guests, for the first time in history, will meet with stations radio public of representatives od Rostrum International the forming Music entitled programme, The Composers. Territories New – Homeland lectures, discussion panels, debates and concerts.

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70 Forum Musicum 2016 August 2016 www.forum-musicum.pl a Hat from A Feather Historical Show 21 August 2016 Wrock forFreedom August 2016 A festival devoted to old music performed on musical the promotes it instruments, historic festival, the During Wrocław. of heritage the audience will listen to music from 16th, 17th and 18th century, when the best wind city, the in active were players instrument among them the Hessen brothers, authors of one of the biggest European collections of kappelmeisters outstanding and music dance Cathedral. Wrocław at performance style clock-and-dagger A with elements of commedia dell’arte. Texts will be written by Jacek Kowalski, author includes repertoire whose performer, and adaptations of medieval and baroque songs, and who also directs historical and mystery plays. The performance will be based on religious and love songs, as well as arias and ballads from medieval, renaissance and baroque songbooks from Wrocław. A festival of light musicin the form of a of history the propagating show multimedia Wrocław and the whole Poland. It was inspired by the idea of counterculture born under the wings of the social movement gathered around “Solidarity”, and it willremind of the important role of artistsin resisting totalitarianism. The event is linked with the opening of History Centre“Depot” – a modern centre for exhibitions and cultural events related to popularizing the history of Wrocław. Singing Europe July23 2016, 30 July 2016, 6 August 2016 www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/specjalne/ singingeurope June – July 2016 www.wieczorywarsenale.pl The 20thThe Chamber Festival Arsenal Music Nations’ The Nights. Nights The main idea of the project is a meeting of several dozen choirs from around Europe and presentation of splendid opera works, oratories and a capella pieces, in cooperation artists. The renowned experienced, with participants will be young amateur singers, as well as stars from around the world – altogether several thousand artists. Joint concerts and meetings will allow them to other know to get and experiences exchange cultures. A festival promoting the great richness richness great the promoting festival A of chamber music. Outdoor concerts are organized among the unique architecture of the historic complex of Wrocław Arsenal. The 20th edition in 2016, organized under the slogan “Evenings of Nations”, will consist of eight concerts, each of them devoted to a differentEuropean country. The invited artists are known for performing music homelands. their to related 1. Festival 2016 2016 June www.industrialart.eu/podwodny-wroclaw Wrocław Underwater Wrocław A festival presenting the artistic oeuvre artistic the oeuvre presenting festival A of creative environments from Wrocław, intermedia music, of domain the in working art, literature, photography andfilm. The 2016 edition will be divided into several dozen cruises on the Odra, each boasting a rich and varied programme. The cruises will be accompanied by an outdoor party on photography, of exhibitions and riverbanks painting and graphics art in Browar Mieszczański, as well as concerts and other artistic activities.

MUSIC public. to open rehearsals and authorities musical with –workshops projects educational popularizes classical music also through festival The music. European of history the in pieces instrumental and vocal and vocal greatest the present will we Cantans” “Europa entitled edition 2016 the During voice. human of beauty the of presentation on all of most focused Europe, in music classical of festivals important most the of One networking sessions. as well as panels discussion workshops, art groups, music Polish interesting most the of includes multicultural concerts meetings, programme The context. European wider a in culture Polish of apresentation as inspiration as for well artists, independent for searching and exchange cultural for cultural cooperation by creating a platform culture abroad and initiating international A festival promoting Polish independent 71 Cantans 2. 1. www.wratislaviacantans.pl September 2016 Cantans Wratislavia Festival 51st International www.artmeetings.eu September 2016 2016 Meetings Art concert, Wratislavia Wratislavia concert, Repent End the Before Wrocław Underwater Festival countries. organizers and audiences from many artists, between adialogue facilitating as well as Europe around music improvised of development the for support providing and improvised Its mission is music. promotion contemporary and jazz creative music, European association specializing in creative www.europejazz.net September 2016 Conference JazzEuropean 2. soloists. and orchestra an choirs, three for Botor Jan Henryk by composed apiece of premiere the be will project the of culmination The interpenetration. cultural for allow and ensembles musical integrate skills, vocal and musical perfect to is meetings the of aim The cultures. Jewish and Lithuanian Polish, from motifs musical with pieces performing Meetings of three choirs specializing in September – October 2016 ofMeetings Cultures

MUSIC 72 2. XV Wrocław XV Wrocław Industrial Festival November 2016 www.industrialart.eu One Love Sound Fest Sound Love One 19 November 2016 www.onelove.pl A festival promoting the industrial movement movement industrial the promoting festival A artists electronic and acoustic presenting and withrelations to film and visual arts. 2016,In Wrocław will be visited by world-renowned stars of industrial and related music, and they will be accompanied on stage by projects of this of uniqueness The generation. young the project is visible in the variety of styles – from rhythmic through neoclassicism, and ambient to industrial classic and music body electronic noise and radical avant-garde. A festival focused on reggae music. It wants to promote Wrocław and present it in the context of European art. Audience from around Europe will have a chance to listento the biggest reggae stars and get to know the local music scene, which forms a very active and strong part of Wrocław culture. European Student Symphony Orchestra November 2016 October 2016 October www.gitaraplus.pl Wrocław Guitar Wrocław Festival and Competition GITARA+ A project created for young musicians from selected European schools. It creates an higher musical opportunity integrate to from those including institutions, education partner cities of Wrocław. The basic idea behind the project is to create opportunities for integration and exchange of experiences during joint rehearsals and performances on the biggest stages in Poland and abroad. On the educational side, it allows students to particular attention with repertoire new learn paid to the oeuvre of Polish composers. A festival presenting musicians popular in in popular musicians presenting festival A other countries who have not yet performed in Poland. The goal is to promote world- class guitar music. Theprogramme includes masterclasses and workshops for beginning guitarists, lectures for teachers and guitar players, as well as open meetings with artists. The 2016 edition will be focused on artists Spain. from 1. Jazztopad Al Di Meola Band, Wrocław Guitar Festival Industrial Festival Wrocław 3. 1. and Competition GITARA+ 2. Musicam 2016 October www.paxetbonum.pl Pax et Bonum per per Pax Bonum et The idea of the festival – peace and goodness through musicon – the one hand alludes to the views of Saint Francis of Assisi, the ambassador of peace, and on the other – to the philosophyof striving for good through the beauty of music and interiors in which the concerts take place. In 2016, particularly interesting will be concerts of Sephardic music from between 13th and 16th century, tradition oral Arabic-Andalusian as well as and prepared romances and ballades of group. Mudejar by performed

MUSIC perform on an international stage. to achance them gives and musicians of festival promotes also younger generation Thanks to the JazzPlaysEurope platform, the cinema. Horizons New the by organized co- screenings film and masterclasses musicians, concerts in private apartments, pieces commissioned to world renowned of premieres includes It Poles. young and Australia) Japan, (Korea, world the of corners far from musicians by performed music A festival promoting jazz and improvised presentations. stage and musical as well as area, the and Wrocław in schools selected from adults young and children for theatre) arts, visual by educational workshops art (music, accompanied be will conference The adults. young and children of education artistic in arts of integration to devoted A project 73 www.jazztopad.pl 2016 November Jazztopad 2016 November People Children and Young Education of Artistic and TheatreArts in the Conference International Music, Fine Music, 3.

MUSIC 74 Notopop concert WROsound at Forgotten City 2. 1. WROsound 2016 December www.wrosound.pl A festival focusing on the richness and variety of the Wrocław music scene. The aim here is promotion of talented young artists creating music, electronic and alternative nu-jazz, hip hop, fusion, pop, rock and even blues. In 2016 the formula will be broadened to include workshops performance, installations, urban withmusicians and debates. 1. December 2016 December The International Ambient Festival A project born from resistance to superficiality in the process of creation and reception of art. It presents genres and artists mental and emotional complete demanding involvement fromthe audience. It allows for a dialogue between young creators who are aware of their avant-garde, artistic roots and identity. cultural their building audience the

Polyphony Competition Towards 2016 December Choir Conducting 7th International of Europe of Therapy in the Centre Centre the in Therapy years Wrocław Music Wrocław years 2016 December 1–3 www.muzykoterapiapolska.pl Music Therapists 45 European Forum for The only international musical competition competition musical international only The for choir conductors organized in Poland – for graduates. schools’ musical and students both choirmasters eminent of consist will jury The from several European countries. The aim of the tournament is to disseminate Polish choral music abroad, and at the same time to bring foreign repertoire to Poland. A project examining the therapeutic potential potential therapeutic the examining project A of music. The aim is to create the biggest in Poland discussion forum for exchange of between ideas and experiences information, musical therapists from various countries in Europe.

MUSIC in the world. known enough well yet not are who Wrocław promotes musicians outstanding from generation of composers. The project ayoung by written pieces and symphonies orchestra, performing solo concert concerts, Inter>CAMERATA with perform will European cities. Leading Wrocław musicians other from conductors and soloists with Wrocław from musicians jazz and classical between cooperation facilitating A project history. changing and turbulent unusually with city the of conventions social and cultural past of world the about learn to participants allow will project The Wrocław. of culture the in present still but times, bygone to related music of concerts of A series 2016, a series of concerts of aseries 2016, Culture for Capital European the Inter>CAMERATA in concerts of aseries 2016, Wrocław 1000 Years of Music in

photography, graphic film arts, and dance. sculpture, painting, included: be will arts more years, following In art. of language universal the for search the is premises main the of one and architecture, and music link to is project the of idea The underpasses. or backyards historic houses, Nuveau Art of stairwells Wrocław: around spaces „forgotten” in with elements of happenings, organized events artistic unconventional of A series 2016, a series of concerts of aseries 2016, City Forgotten 2.

stages. Wrocław on played yet not have who renown, world of artists and audience festival the to known already stars biggest the host will edition 2016 The music. jazz and ethno folk, dissemination of ethnic culture related to to dedicated concerts of A series www.ethnojazz.pl concerts of aseries 2016, –November February Festival Jazz Ethno

MUSIC Great Stars at the NFM Culture from the Inside Małe Instrumenty World-class stars of classical music will A project promoting active attitude to Samoróbka – perform on one of the most modern, and culture among young people. The task is to at the same time the youngest stage in create common ground of understanding for workshops Europe – the National Forum of Music in youth groups from various parts of the city Wrocław. NFM will host outstanding singers, and allowe them to present their own cultural dedicated to making instrumentalists, conductors, symphonic activities and create new original projects orchestras, choirs and chamber orchestras, together. They will learn about various stages experimental DIY and at the same time it will allow ensembles of creation, promotion and implementation of from Wrocław to improve their skills by joint artistic activities and acquire skills necessary musical instruments activities with most eminent artists. to act on their own in this domain. 2016, a series of concerts 2016 A project initiated by Małe Instrumenty artistic group from Wrocław. The aim is to generate new, innovative, original instruments, which allow the performers Bibliotheca Mummy, Daddy, Sing to create new music. A formed group of active participants of workshops will Rudolphina to Me become instrument constructors, and them performers and composers of music. The aim of this interdisciplinary project is Singing relaxes body and mind, it is a 2016 presentation of one of the most valuable respiratory training for pregnant women, www.maleinstrumenty.pl 17th century Silesian music collections. The positively influences emotional development project will consist of researching information of children and stimulates language learning – MUSIC on the preserved library, digitalisation of such is the basic premise of singing workshops the musical collection of prince of Legnica for parents with small children and those and Brzeg Jerzy Rudolf, and then making it expecting a baby. The meetings will take place available to the public. As part of the project, in birth schools, hospitals, nurseries and other there will be a series of concerts, and the family-friendly spaces, where parents will recordings on 6 CDs will be sent to audio receive practical tips and materials to help collections at most important libraries around them learn songs. the world. 2016 2016, a series of concerts www.rudolphina.pl

1. Małe Instrumenty 2. Wroclaw Commenting Choir culminating in a grand scale concert in 2016. 2016. in concert scale agrand in culminating of meetings, rehearsals and performances aseries encompasses It time. spare for idea an and together be to away all of most is it but hall, aphilharmonic at aconcert or exhibition agallery performance, a theatre than more is culture that agree and city their for responsible feel who citizens for A project 77 2016 Choir Wroclaw Commenting 2. art created by children. by created art music-related of exhibitions and workshops Theremusical activities. will be mini-concerts, development of their social competences by and disabilities mental with people of integration is project the of premise The 2015–2017 Music in the Space Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. 2016. Wrocław Culture of Capital European the of programme music the from events various during place take will pieces winning of Premieres abroad. and Poland be assessed by renowned compositors from will they and city, the of history the to refer should compositions The Wrocław. in Music of Acedemy Lipiński Karol The at Composition of Faculty The by organized is It choir. capella a for apiece and orchestra symphonic for apiece categories: two into divided be will Culture of Capital European an as Wrocław to A competition for a composition dedicated Competition Competition Composition International The

MUSIC Ewa Michnik I perceive opera as the fullest synthesis which I feel a very strong relationship with of many arts. This richness of possibility metaphysical forces steering/controlling can allow for brilliant artistic expressions our fates. This opportunity to enter into an in many realms, and specifically in unreal world full of rapture and emotion those of singing, dance, music, acting, is extremely important for the audience, poetry, literature, visual arts, painting, because emotions communicated by architecture, costume design, light performers during their interpretation of direction, film projection, and using a piece then received by viewers remain contemporary techniques of expression, in their memories for a long time. This electronics, etc. creation of a different, more splendid world of theatre is available only for those who Entering the world of opera theatre was a desire it and want to understand it. very important moment in my life, because opera became my passion and consumed Opera theatre cannot function without its me whole. Opera music has a huge power audience. Reactions from the public trigger OPERA to influence the audience, whether we take added emotion from artists on stage. Opera them to bygone eras or make them identify theatre constantly changes and develops, with what’s happening at present. We adjusting to contemporary ways of introduce them to a fantastic, undiscovered thinking about society, constantly seeking new world. A performance prepared at new creative and re-creative methods. a very high artistic level always moves the audience, giving them emotional The performers’ responsibility is to prepare experiences and also forcing them to think the work in a way which is honest and and discuss, to seek personal, individual does not alter the primary intentions of the references. creator.

For me, opera also has a metaphysical And though attempts by many directors to dimension – I often treat opera seek universal issues in works of opera then performance as a mystery play, during transport them to contemporary times are

79 valuable, one must remember that not all operas can be adapted this way.

When we prepare a mega-production, we work with an opera as in the theatre, but the location of the performance (a stadium, a vast hall, a riverbank, a quarry) influence the size and type of the adaptation. Mega- productions are attended both by audiences who are practised theatregoers, and also new ones – people curious to see how such a show looks. There are also many tourist from across Poland and abroad, and for

OPERA them especially an important element of a production is its location (a historic palace courtyard, green spaces, water settings, etc.).

For the European Capital of Culture programme, we are staging the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, which is set in Spanish Seville. In the second act, during the tavern scene, there will be a zarzuela sequence – a 45-minute concert of the most beautiful Spanish vocal, instrumental and dance zarzuelas. This Spanish element emphasizes the fact that the other European Capital of Culture 2016, along with Wrocław, is San Sebastian.

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OPERA OPERA Chris Baldwin The art of performance is much more to life in a dialogue using creative and than the simple creation of a word in a theatrical tools. given space and time. It is an idea going beyond the dimensions of reality, though And this is my main goal: a dialogue it is inscribed in a particular place and between the past and future of Wrocław, a happens at a particular moment. It is dialogue at the heart of this multicultural history, events, relationships between city, a dialogue among artistic diasporas people, all concentrated in the unique here directly linked with its history in a melting and now. pot of Polish, Ukrainian, Israeli, German and Czech elements. Art, though it can’t That’s how I perceive my work – as the be contained within borders, can’t exist essence of creation, a never-ending process, without its setting in a particular space. involving everyone without distinctions Most important in a creative process are between performers and the recipients of points of view and stories of people related art. There are no creators and audience to this space – in this way, our life becomes because art is born along the boundaries the life of art itself , our space – the space of PERFORMANCE between their worlds, feeding from both culture and us as a society, its matter. of them, breathing and gradually taking shape, gaining its autonomous existence. In the art of performance, we celebrate The work abandons concepts such as storytelling and history above and beyond “professional” and “amateur”, because realism of any form. Our rehearsals begin most important is what these share: the without a text. We start with a dialogue process of creation itself, an evolution of about expectations, outcomes, stories, and meanings, metamorphoses in expectations only later do we inscribe this dialogue into and associations. There are no traditional a theatrical form – we give it a specific discussions, either, because we don’t focus shape, its meaning as important as the idea on the word but on expression. There it carries. is no supremacy, no predominance of a single voice – a constructive dispute comes

87 The true power of this art isn’t in its market value, and it’s this that constitutes its greatest potential. If we demanded that it become a simple commercial commodity, brought to life as the result of a calculable “transaction”, it wouldn’t only lose its spirit, it would simply stop being art. But the power of poetic, theatrical metaphors is incredible. It protects the Theatre de Creación from becoming simply devised, site-specific political theatre. And allows the method of creating a performance

PERFORMANCE to become in itself a tool for social communication – a pedagogical approach both to the training of theatre makers and – most importantly – to education of the social being. Because performance is a way of thinking about citizenship, and of shaping attitudes within society: creating and promoting involvement in art.

Culture, as we often forget, is a means by which to reflect what it means to be human. Our role, therefore, is to be constantly reminding – and guarding – that it remains inextricably linked with generating social empathy and identity.

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PERFORMANCE March 2015 . The , which – creative workshop with Chris Baldwin, Bridge Builders The Flow Quartet The Flow biggest events of the they year, interlink to tell the story of Wrocław and explore its place within contemporary Europe. cannot We tell the stories of Wroclaw without including the voices of the diasporas related to the city, and that’s why The Flow Quartet directed by Chris Baldwin will present a multitude of voices through which Wroclaw will tell the story of itself to its citizens, Poland, Europe and beyond. An important part of the 2016 celebrations are four key stone events – Bridge Builders, Spirits of Wrocław, Flow and Sky Web are collectively called The Flow Quartet

PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE 92 . Closing will take place at Centennial Hall. The 1. Ceremony of the of Ceremony European of Capital inCulture Wrocław Sky Web Sky 2016 December 17 The only indoor performance of The Flow Quartet closing ceremony will have an audienceof thousands of people. Sky Web will to merge threads performative and thematic the all from the three previous performances into a orchestra nation four The gesture. concluding and a mass choir will create the frame for a performance which will touch upon the main theme of the year: Wroclaw is a European city and belongs to all those who have lived here and left their marks. International artists from include will participants Germany, France, Israel, Czech Republic, UK. and Sweden is an event exploring the history of 11 June 2016 Flow Flow building, destruction of re-building and the city in the 20th century. The central point here is the Odra the river, liquid- likebackbone to the city, which has sometimes history, its throughout flowed river The angry. sometimes friendly, and its surrounding parks, buildings and accompanying bridges will be the centre of focus for a series of events and performances which tell the stories of 20th century Breslau/ Wroclaw. The activities will be based on creative reflections by local andEuropean artists upon the theme of diasporas, “other”. the and immigrations migrations, performances, of dozens day, the During happenings and cultural encounters will take place along the river banks, parks and Słodowa On courtyards. and bridges gardens, Island, we will build a rocket sculpture, where citizens will putpages with their wishes written down – they will later be projected during the final event of the Quartet. The university the Island, Cathedral the Odra, and other totemic buildings will also be the set for a major evening performance. Our audience will be invited to take up positions all around the bridges river, and buildings. They will listen to a concert by a specially Republic, Czech from orchestra formed Germany, Poland and Israel, playing a new symphony composed by four young artists from those countries. Flotillas of boats associated diasporas different representing with Wroclaw in the 20th and 21st century will background the against river, the on appear of major architectural features, telling the stories associated with Wroclaw. This event is designed to be a key moment for the way the city sees itself, it’s past and future, its evolving identity in the second decade of the 21st Century. : of Culture in Culture Wrocław of the European Capital Opening Ceremony of of Opening Ceremony Spirits of Wroclaw Bridge Builders A project designed with Philippe Geffroy, French visual artist and designer of of Spirit spirits: spectacular machines. Four Four Faiths, Spirit of Innovation, Spirit of Rebuilding, and Spirit of Flood will wake up in four corners of Wroclaw and make their way to Rynek, stopping along the way to tell their stories and why they had to come together on this When day. united during the opening ceremony, the Spirits will produce construction, high 14-metre extraordinary an an urban poetic metaphor for this microcosm of Europe. The event will include hundreds of performers from Wroclaw and Poland. 17 January 2016 On June 20th, bridges 26 will be transformed by young people from Lower Silesia into artist’s venues, concert stages, theatre Film, darkrooms. photographic and studios happening, literature, drama, radio dance, subtle and shows spectacular performance, installations – all happening on the multitude of Wrocław bridges. Thanks to several hundred creators, both professionals and amateurs, children and adults, Wrocław will gain new 26 artistic spaces, and invite the spectators to become artists as well. 20 June 2015

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VISUAL ARTS specific language and generating images Did Not Come, concerning post-war incomprehensible to a broad audience – identity formation in the newly Polish which it is often true. On the other hand, city of Wrocław, to Dresden. And in visual artists frequently have real impact Wrocław – along with dozens of Polish in the public sphere. Their interventions and international exhibitions in museums at the micro-scale of districts, streets and and galleries – we will organize around backyards, though often uncomfortable, 50 artistic interventions scattered across are tangible and close to everyday life, its public spaces throughout the entire routines and contradictions. Sometimes city, as part of the project Wrocław – actions of artists, permanently inscribed Backyard Door. in public space, come to define the look of an entire city – they become a trademark, a

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Wrocław, with its history and artistic output, should be perceived in a much wider context. That’s why in my programme I also focus on reclaiming valuable phenomena and underappreciated artists and promoting them abroad, with an exhibition devoted to Wrocław’s avant-garde, for example, which will be shown in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and elsewhere. And the presentation of Wrocław as European Capital of Culture during the 56th Venice Biennale through 2015, and the plan to extend the exhibition The Germans

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SZTUKI WIZUALNE 2. 98 , from the , Chillida-Leku Museum, BASK festival, July 2014 OpaniaTomasz Green Boarder III Música De 1. 2. 3. Hernani, Spain Dispossession exhibition Dispossession 8 May – 22 November 2015 An exhibition organized as an official event of 56th the of programme accompanying the Venice Biennale. The title means not only possessions, one’s of loss and dispossession but it also alludes to exorcism, expulsion of unwanted forces. Even though the departure point are past relocations in Wrocław, a city “someplace from comes everyone where and historical combines exhibition the else”, multi- a creating narratives, contemporary layered story about the loss of one’ home. In experiences individual works, presented the nations. entire of histories intertwine with Małgorzata Bieniek, Michał Curators: Miśniakiewicz Blind.Wiki May – June 2016 1. BASK July 2015, July 2016 An interactive project for people with visual impairments. It invites them to share their in face they difficulties the on opinions everyday life. A mobile phone application using GPS allows the participants to make and particular places from recordings In blind.wiki. on them publish instantly this we will way, gather stories about the experience of the city from the perspective of people with visual impairments. The project has been earlier implemented in Rome. Open workshop of BASK culture organized each summer in abandoned and neglected spaces around Wrocław. The project was Wrocław between bridge a as designed and together bringing Sebastian, San and at the same time promoting the culture of both cities. Every year for three days young citizens from Wrocław are invited to in space, public activities in participate in workshops, film screenings, concerts and parties. All of them are based on the search for links between Polish and Basque culture.

VISUAL ARTS through the lens of art created here. here. created art of lens the through seen city exceptional this of history the but art, Wrocław about however, astory not, is It today. and Ludwiński Jerzy and Grotowski Jerzy here: work to started visionaries great two when 1960s, the between from Wrocław in life everyday and design film, theatre, studies, urban architecture, arts, visual of area the from objects 500 –almost recordings sound and objects and photographs films, art, of works presents exhibition The 99 3. 2016 –August January 2015, –December June Sylwia Piotr Stasiowski Serafinowicz, Prodeus, Adriana Piotrowicz, Paweł Mituś, Anka Herbut, Anka Duda, Michał curators: Monkiewicz exhibition commissioner: Dorota Wrocław of the Avant-garde of Wild West. The History Galleries of Contemporary Art. – BWA Wrocław and Museum Chillida-Leku with cooperation in organized is exhibition The Sáncheza-Verdú. M. José of concert opening the and Alda Gorka composer the a importance: soundparticular installation by enriched with two additional elements of be will there why is That reflection. musical instrument encouraging to aesthetic and musical metaphor, an acoustic element, an a as itself sculpture the is point starting The music. and works Chillida’s between relationships of presentation is project the of premise The world. the in museums and collections prestigious most the in found be can works whose abstraction, of representatives leading the of one world, the in sculptors important most the of one of the second half of the 20 the of half second the of artists Spanish important most the of one than more is Chillida Sebastian. –San 2016 Culture of Capital partner the with a dialogue of agesture is Country, Basque in born artist an Chillida, Eduardo of works of exhibition An www.museochillidaleku.com 2016 –13 March January 15 Chillida Ignacio Artola, R. Inés curators: Sonoridades Sonoridades Chillida. Eduardo th century, he is is he century, of art will meet. will art of performances, during which various domain special be will there exhibitions, current from selected paintings of front in evenings, dozen a over In Museum. National the at times performances which will be staged several small several prepare will artists, invited with together Wrocław, in Museum National the and IST SOWEIT ES WENN group Austrian masters. old of paintings the at look anew presenting and theatre and music A project combing painting, literature, www.ganymedgoeseurope.com 2016 –October January Europe Goes Ganymed

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Comicsofone Jarmoszczuk Agnieszka concept: 2015–2016 I’m myself I’m February – October 2016 The aim of the project is popularization of the art of comic books among people interested creates music with it Combining culture. in an entirely different medium – slightly closer to film. Each edition contains of three parts: film screenings presenting the oeuvre of two music, with artists book combined comic discussions with the audience and live drawing sessions. The task of the project is mobilisation of people living on the margins of social life. It is done by using their photographs as tool a endeavours. activity cultural in creative of It is important that the activity of people disabilities, mental addicted, homeless with only not stems shelters emergency from or from the need for self-therapy; it should also be an attempt to show individual recordings of everyday life filtered through personal of originator The emotions. and experiences the idea and organizer of the project is the Kilo of Culture Foundation. 2. 31 May – 2 August 2015 Invasion An installation designed by Jerzy Kosałka, an opening of a series of artistic presentations in the arrivals hall at Wrocław airport. It is a genre scene compiled of several realistic sculptures in the shape of dwarves flying on storks and trying to land on the floor in the hall. The figures are made in pop-art style and their oversized dimensions create a „king size” effect. The author of the sculptures is Maciej Albrzykowski. 1. Gorlitzer ART April 2016 – March 2017 A cooperative of Görlitz and Wrocław, a culmination of many years of partner relations between the two cities. It will have a form of a contemporary art exhibition in public space in Görlitz curated by the Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Six out of ten objects were selected in an open competition run between October 2014 and April 2015 the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław.

VISUAL ARTS viewers. among domain art this of understanding and painting and encourage deeper reception promote to also wants projects The artists. beginner only are participants the 1989, and since organized been has competition The artists. young promote to and country the various higher education institutions around way a full panorama of phenomena present in extensive most the in present to is project the of goal main The Art. Contemporary of –Galleries BWA Wrocław and Wrocław in Arts the by Academy Geppert of Fine organized painting new to dedicated project A cyclical 103 2014 Come Not Did Germans The exhibition the 3. 2. Wrocław 2015 1. October 2016 Contest Geppert Henryk Pobożny Henryk Kobylarz Szymon project myself Iam the during A workshop Invasion , installation by Jerzey Kosałka, Kosałka, Jerzey by , installation , from , from , metaphysical relationships. away in and private social, and reality priceless method of reconstructing physical –a photography is works selected the linking Groer, Franciszek Rychnowski. The element Romer, Franciszek Witold Mikolasch, Henryk Lviv photography: and Sahaydakovsky, Andrij painting: Vlodko Kostyrko, Mirosław Jahoda, his student Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, new and Koffler Józef dodecaphony of originator photographic and literary montage, the of phenomenon the Lan, Alina Jasieński, early publications of Tadeusz Peiper, Brunon (1932), Generation New the of exhibition members of Formist movement, the first of work the 1930s, and 1920s the from art (1931–1934), Ukrainian avant-garde graphic ANUM and (1929–1931) ARTES groups garde avant- of activities (1913), gallery STURM Berlin the of exhibition an be: will there works presented the Lvov. in Among art thorough presentation of the avant-garde but aconcise at attempt an is project The August – October 2016 –October August Bojarov Andrij curator: Lvivin since 1914 Photography and Art ≠МАЯКИ. MAJAKI in western Poland. western in territories’ Polish ‘ancient the re-Polonising in authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland socialist the of success the illustrate to tall propaganda monument that was supposed dismantling the Spire – a gigantic 106-metre- soldiers German tiny shows work ironic This Wrocław. from artist awell-known Kosałka, Disassembly the from Come Have Germans The titled awork on directly draws also It return. would Germans the war) that the after years (even many Wrocław of inhabitants the accompanied perverse reference to a widespread fear that a –makes Come Not Did Germans - The title The art. contemporary using city the of describe and creatively transform the history to tries and Wrocław, in left traces historic of meaning the for look to viewer the concealed The facts. exhibition encourages palimpsest of overlapping narratives and a is Wrocław past, complex its to Due 19 December 2014 – 23 February 2015 –23 February 2014 December 19 curator: Michał Bieniek Did Not Come Germans The 3. series, created by Jerzy Jerzy by created series, ,

VISUAL ARTS 1. photography never dies! – ever than better flourishing is and survived of idea very the photography, traditional of death the Despite Flickr. or Instagram from with contemporary amateur photographs daguerreotypes, carte de visite archive see to opportunity an have will we Lux, Loretta and Kessels Erik as such curators, and artists famous of works to addition In presenting since its history the beginning. and photography to dedicated exhibition An on contemporary German art. focused Ostrale of Out called presentation aspecial be will edition Wrocław The societies. capitalist of lifestyle destructive contemporary life: overpopulation and of problems the upon touch will festival year’s This video. and dance photography, –painting, art of domains various from works their present creators acclaimed and artists in Dresden since 2007. Young independent organized been has festival OSTRALE The preserving reality on still images have have images still on reality preserving 105 September – November 2016 Candrowicz Krzysztof curator: Mediumthe Past and the Future of The Story of the Dies. Never Photography www.ostrale.de/en 2016 –July June Out of Ostrale juxtaposed juxtaposed exhibition. specially invitedartists to in participate the of presentations be will there competition, the in selected works from Apart Wrocław. in barracks police in held be will Acts” topic. This year edition entitled “Prohibited anew on work to artists invites and location a new selects it year Each spaces. exhibition of contemporary outside art of traditional Contemporary Foundation Art is presentation Transparent Art by organized Review Art SURVIVAL annual the of premise The 2. www.survival.art.pl 2016 June 2015, June 26–30 Michał Bieniek Stec, Anna Kołodziejczyk, Anna curators: SURVIVAL Review Art new relationships, ideas connect and people. thinking and involve them in the creation of possibility to stimulate consumers to critical a have They life. social on impact significant a having designers of responsibility the of question the investigates project The issues. political and social important about speak designers who become activists in order to Wrocław gallery will present graphic BWA Dizajn at exhibition international An installation. ambiguous and universal complete ceramic an into merge will tile asquare of form the viewpoints, symbols and meanings through artistic nationalities, Various city. the of centre the in located amural create will who artists international for amaterial as serve will material noble This Wroclaw. of tissue the introduction of ceramics into the urban is Wrocław in Arts Fine of Academy Geppert the by organized project the of aim The 16 May – 4 July 2015 –4July May 16 Elbers Dennis and Ehmann Sven curators: Changes Resolute Elephant 2. 1993 Sahaydakovsky, Andriy by 1. 2016 May Teper Joanna hab. dr and Koczyńska-Kielan Idea and curating: prof. nadzw. Katarzyna 2016 Let’s meet Wroclaw – White White group deRothfils by Performance Progress in on Installation Documentation

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, 1969) OD-DO ( Viualisation of the work by Stanisław František Janák Sunny Man 1. Dróżdż Space-times 2. curator: prof. Małgorzata Dajewska prof. curator: April 2016 Joke, Sun exhibition Glass Ceramics. and Sensual Areas The aim of the exhibition Sensual Areas planned for spring 2016 at the City Arsenal is a presentation of the artistic environment of creators of glass and ceramic art associated withthe former State Higher School of Fine Arts, and now the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Play with Glass – Play European Glass Festival curators: Anita Bialic and Kazimierz prof. Pawlak 2016 October www.europeanglassfestival.com MyMyMy Krzysztof Drozdowska, Dominka curators: Kucharczyk November 2016 All Glass Around The first Polandin professionally prepared presentation of the European art of glass. It has aroused great interest among artists creating objects from glass or using glass and it is developing to become one of the most important events related to glass art in Europe. Glass and ceramics art from Wrocław and Lower Silesia are known almost all over the world. For the first time, as part of theEuropean Capital of CultureWrocław 2016 programme, we will present all environments relatedto this art The project implemented by SiC! BWA Wrocław is a competition for talented working graduates young and students withglass from Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Their task will be to create in autumn 2016 a coherent exhibition, which will be shown in Wroclaw, Prague and Bratislava.

(1969). (1970), inspired (1970), bywork a by Dróżdż 1. concept: dr Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka May – December 2016 Text Paths Stanisław Dróżdż.Stanisław of the same title (1968), and a publication – a bookof poetry – a collection of previously Stanisław texts by poetic 35 unpublished Dróżdż. The title of the book is Pozasłowne międzysłowiaśrodsłow The project of a presentation of visual works of Stanisław Dróżdż in public spaces of the city in the form of murals on four walls of buildings in and out of the centre of Wroclaw. The artist’s works will also be presented in advertising spaces located at selected bus and tram stops. The culmination of the project will be a sculpture by Barbara Kozłowska entitled Solitude

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TIFF Festival // Rivers Rivers TIFF Festival // (2016) and Roads 2016 September 2015, September www.tiffcollective.pl TIFF Festival // Polska Polska TIFF Festival // Now! (2015) curators: dr hab. Przemysław Pintal, Tagowska Daniela December 2015 – January 2016 www.ttt.wroclaw.pl Think TankThink lab Triennale A festival of photography organized in Wrocław, and recognized as one of the three most important events of this type in Poland.In the last days of summer there are exhibitions, slide shows, workshops and meetings with artists. In 2015 the motto of the festival will be “Polska Now!” and will feature what is best in Polish photography by both recognized as well as young artists. The 2016 edition, under the motto “Rivers and Roads” will focus on travel – both that on pictures taking photographers by revealed the road and those documenting the various movements. and migrations of shades The anniversary edition of the Triennialle of Drawing in 2016, organized incooperation of GeppertAcademy Eugeniusz the with Fine Arts, wants to present in four major the ones accompanying six and exhibitions of area the activities in spectrum of full the of form The drawing. contemporary considerably activate will festival Trienniale addition in them offering viewers, more a symposium, numerous workshops and meetings. Think lab Tank Trienniale will become a forum, a place of confrontation of different attitudes, ways of thinking about art. and drawing contemporary Design Now! 2016 Wrocław Kaszewska Ewa curator: July – September 2016 Art SeeksArt Artists of IQ. The purpose of the educational program of WrocławBWA Dizajn Gallery is promotion of contemporary design understood as an constant undergoing field, interdisciplinary creative enabling and metamorphoses programme the of formula The experiments. is based on a set of thematic meetings based or exhibition ongoing currently the on research, and thanks to its diverse nature the workshops, seminars and discussions are open to both children and young people, teachers and students, as well as expert and amateur. An unusual, abstract idea of Wrocław own William Stern, the creatorof the concept of intelligence quotient, was turned into a challenge for the local community of artists. Their work will be shown at the Wroclaw Stadium, which is more often associated withsport events and mass concerts. The achievements promote to want organizers of local artists who are already making appearance on the cultural map of the country. will We also show outstanding artists of the younger generation. Some of the works will be prepared specially for the show.

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Jarosław Fret „I can take any empty space and call it a Faith in theatre creating a stage for human bare stage. A man walks across this empty experience. space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged”, Peter Brook wrote This stage begins beneath my feet and is in The Empty Space in 1968. That same perhaps no bigger than the plot of ground year, Eugenio Barba and Jerzy Grotowski I’m standing on. On this stage, condensed prepared the latter’s Towards a Poor into a metre of sounds, harmony of tones, Theatre. pulse of dance, I express myself to myself and to all who surround me: partners, Theatre became a meeting place forever. actors, viewers, witnesses. This stage, THEATRE beginning inside my body, then broaches beyond buildings named theatres, beyond Today, such a description of theatre seems corridors and streets, stations and fields. obvious, even banal. But for me, it remains It then comes back, in rare cases having basic, it’s fundamental. It is a dogma, a touched the horizon. THEATRE profession of faith.

Faith in theatre as a medium, faith in the I believe in theatre which is a shared mediation of theatre. space, unifying the gaze of citizens of polis. Theatron (Greek, theaomai: Faith in theatre as a place of human I watch, I look) – the phenomenon of the transformation and, as a result, of social united look creating anew the assembled transformation. community, as it was created when it was born, helping build democracy in Athens. Faith in theatre as a liturgy of memory. I believe that from theatre stages we still hear the most clearly stated questions about multicultural European identity,

111 tolerance and a shared sustainable vision of open society. That today, as when theatre was being born, it becomes a place for dynamic description of comparably dynamic changes in the modus of our lives. And that in this description, which involves the entire human, theatre errs far less than other media. I believe in theatre which, by describing humankind in action, continually creates humankind anew. In this sense, it remains the foundation of our self-understanding and the foundation of democracy. THEATRE

Thus the motto for the theatre programme of the European Capital of Culture, and of the Theatre Olympics at the same time, are Jerzy Grotowski’s words: “The world should be a place of truth”.

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European Theatre Theatre and European . Wrocław will become a centre Theatre Olympics International 14 October to 14 November 2016 Theatre Olympics is an international theatre theatre international an is Olympics Theatre festival organized since 1993 and presenting artists theatre greatest the of achievements from around the world. The initiators of Terzopoulos Theodoros were Olympics the and Melina Mercouri (the originator of the EuropeanCapital of Culture competition). Theatre International the of Members Theodoros are: Committee Olympics Terzopoulos, Tadashi Suzuki, Robert Wilson, Heiner Müller (1929–1995), Wole Soyinka, Harrison, Tony LyubimovYuri (1917–2014), Ratan Tiyam, Núria Espert, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Georges Lavaudant, Antunes Filho, Jürgen Flimm, Choi Chy-Rim, and Jarosław Fret. The motto of the 7th edition of the Olympics will be “The world as a place of truth” – a paraphraseof the title of a text by Jerzy Grotowski. The programme will be arranged in the form of a season between October and November. Each day will be devoted to one artist. Among the masters invited to Wrocław there are: Tadashi Suzuki, Theodoros Barba, Eugenio Wilson, Robert Terzopoulos, Peter Brook, and Romeo Castellucci, and they will present already appreciated and premieres as well as performances co-productions prepared for the European Capital of Culture. The Olympics in Wrocław will be enriched conference a including themes, new with Theentitled Protagonists of Changes of the European Stage at the Age of Bloom 1916- Landscape a 2016: Perspectives for deep reflection on the history, present development for perspectives and situation of the art of theatre. It will be a creative continuation of the idea of the Open Nations, of Theatre the of Festival University organized in 1975 by Jerzy Grotowski. Apart from the masters programme, the thematic five of consist will Olympics Theatre lines:

THEATRE region. region. the of culture the of element a permanent during the Theatre will Olympics, become programme, implemented for the first time The Wrocław. in theatres Silesian Lower of presentations regular means formula second The towns. small in viewers to plays theatre with reaching also and performances, guests of form the in repertoire their share to theatres allowing network, exchange an creating at –aims Dolnośląska – Obrotówka first The formulas. two in region Silesia Lower the from theatres drama of Presentation social commentary to contemporary events. introduces, and Dziady be will context –asocio-cultural publications and screenings film debates, thematic to thanks hand, other the On cult. Égun Brazilian Afro- or voodoo Haitian to Radaunica anthropological context: from Belarussian awider evoke will painting) (photography, shown in video installations and exhibitions ancestor veneration, performed live and of rituals The Konwicki). to Swinarski, and Grotowski and Białoszewski, through Dejmek remixes of past famous performances (from adaptations of Mickiewicz’s Dziady latest the of apresentation encompass will it and aweek for last will festival The 115 Theatre Platform Silesian Lower Dziady. Recykling will become ameta- become will as well as as well as focusing on show. show. on focusing culture the from theatre of culture the of defence of aline is It avant-garde. past and commenting on both the institutional theatre the idea of third “the theatre”, critically theatres. Eastern Line is a festival developing of theatrical languages used by particular variety the to attention paying Athens), and Bucharest to Prague, and Warsaw Petersburg, (from Europe Eastern and Central from Presentations of young theatres independent life. in difficulties with people for art to right equal reclaiming to devoted workshops and conferences of aseries be will there plays, theatre of presentation from Apart problems. human universal express to a space find theatre in who disabilities, with people of paying attention particular to creations stage art, of functions social on focused A projects condition of Polish theatre. theatre. Polish of condition and power unique the of source the are creations whose generation young and middle of directors by works of presentations for aplace become will Showcase Theatre Polish together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. organized festival adynamic of aform have will review The season. last the in theatres performances which premiered in repertory of areview with closed be will Olympics The Showcase Theatre Polish Line Eastern More than Theatre English. English. the Central and Eastern European theatre in on materials presenting portal aweb be will which of apart forum, apermanent building and exchange critical of network European a initiate will conference The Britain. Great from Cultures Across Performance and TAPAC:and Theatre publishing initiative of the Grotowski Institute –a Perspectives Theatre Polish to paid and critic in Europe, with attention particular writings theatre to dedicated A conference November 2016 November Perspectives Theatre European by T.by Terzopoulos 3. T. by Terzopoulos directed 2. 1. 3. Mauzer Bound Prometheus Theodoros Terzopoulos , The Grotowski Institute, directed directed Institute, Grotowski , The , Attis Theatre, Athens, Athens, Theatre, , Attis

THEATRE 116 1. Solo Performance in Meeting Theatre Wroclaw www.wrostja.pl The oldest monodrama festival organized organized festival monodrama oldest The since 1966. It is a confrontation of the best Polish solo performances with theatres from various parts of the world. 2016 will be the 50th anniversaryof the festival. want We to show the most important laureates from previous years, organize an international meeting of solo performance theatres and a photographyexhibition Actors and Performances Performance of WROSTJA [Solo Theatre Meeting in Wrocław]. The main motif of this edition will be cooperation between Poland and Ukraine. October 2016 – the September 2016 September The Programme of The Pantomime Wrocław Theatre The programme encompasses five projects: projects: five encompasses programme The 1. Cities on the Move theatre educational – workshops of pantomime organized in 5 selected towns. Education 2. Action: finale of workshops for three age groups (presentation of a joint short theatre play). anniversary 60th of the for Publications 3. Wrocław Pantomime Theatre children’s (a bookand an anniversary picture album). 4. A performances Theatre the of festival/review prepared for the 60th Anniversary. 5. New accompanying –activities Horizons Pantomime the T-Mobile New Horizons Festival in 2016. , , Och-Theatre, ThePlay That Goes The final night Invisible Boy Invisible contact 2016_festival 2016_festival contact 2016 December – October www.wteatrw.pl/index.php/strefy-2016 wtw://zones_of_ 3. Wrong directed by G. Warchoł 2. gala concert at Stage Reviewsongs Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny, directed Szczawińska by W. 1. The aim of the four-year project of Wrocławski Współczesny Teatr is the presentation of Wrocław as place of creation and staging of works of contemporary Polish Tymoteusz Kajzar, Helmut – playwrights Karpowicz and Tadeusz Różewicz, and their followers. The festival will consist of two parts. The first will be a presentation of premieres of selected works sent for a closed drama competition, and the second – stage adaptations of works by Kajzar, Karpowicz and Różewicz.

THEATRE www.ppa.wroclaw.pl 2016 13–22 May screenings. films’ musical and discussions as well as Song, a of Interpretation Actor’s for Competition the and club festival the in concerts projects, theatre –small presentations OFF be also will Lviv. from There and German, Polish, history: Wrocław to related galas song three be will there and artists, European to dedicated be will edition The programme. the allow us to include outdoor performances in will May, which in place take unusually will it 2016, In theatre. in song of art the to entirely dedicated world the in festival only The 117 Singing That’sin Best Stage Everything Review: The SongsStage comedy. comedy. Polish of capital asummer become could which Wrocław, in attraction holiday a major become to wants festival The stages. Polish on performed comedies best the selecting Wrocławski Teatr Komedia, consisting in by proposed endeavour theatre A unique June 2016 Festivals of Comedy.Best Festival 3. 2. themselves and develop artistically. promote to achance artists improvisation groups, up stand comedian and theatre whichyoung gives artists, amateur cabaret for acompetition is festival The media. the in or in Wrocław find usually cannot viewers which those and forms well-known both of presentation the for astage time same the at and exchange, cultural for aplatform is It to broadly understood comedy and satire. and the most valuable phenomena related The festival promotes the most interesting the first world war. world first the including Europe, of history the in elements reconstruct on stage the most dramatic Hemophilia The projections. video with combined technique produced using an innovative spatial sound –are theatre Grotowski’s Jerzy of story one. The performances – among them the General History merges with local and private Great where Wrocław, of story the sound theatreSpectatores is dramatizing with Ad of project this behind idea The www.festiwalwrocek.pl 2016 November WROCEK Festival Comedy International 2015–2016 Hemophilia Wrocław and Stories project is an attempt to to attempt an is project

THEATRE 118 International Children’s Theatre Festival 2016 September www.festiwalteatrowdladzieci.pl A great celebration of children and art for performances, outdoor and Stage children. radio stage readings, public workshops, theatre shadow puppetry, dramas, dance, and musical, big stage productions and small over be will There performances. interactive Impart, of stages the on performances 20 over a dozen outdoor performances in the poorest districts of the town for children and audience with limited access to broadly performances as well as culture, understood for children in hospitals and hospices. 1. May – June 2016 www.przeglad.teatrlalek.wroclaw.pl Showcase of the New the New of Showcase Theatrefor Children The oldest theatre festival for children in Wrocław. The creators want to inspire creativity among children and youngadults, phenomena, artistic valuable new, promote methods new of development the support of cultural education and organize artistic and educational events. The idea behind the showcase is to present the most interested, which children for performances innovative were created during previous seasons in Polish theatres, as well as the latest premiers of Wrocławski Lalek. Teatr Theatre in Backyards July 2016 Academy 2015–2017 Alternative Theatre Theatre in Backyards, organized by The Legnica, from Theatre Modrzejewska Helena will be a series of stage events linked by of atmosphere local to references shared Lower Silesian backyards, their history and cultural variety. The activities will aim at microcosm the in place unique a creating neighbouring the backyard, uniting the of performances” “backyard Four community. will travel around the region. The premieres will take place in Wrocław, Legnica, Bystrzyca Kłodzka and Gryfów Śląski. Alternative Theatre Academy is a result of Kana others, among between, cooperation from theatre Brama Szczecin, from theatre Goleniów and Ad Spectatores from Wrocław. The audience of this interdisciplinary project young its is theatre alternative promoting meetings, monthly During generation. there will be theatre and singing workshops, lectures. The and consultations trainings, participants will also organize their own theatre festival in one of the towns in Lower Silesia and – forthe culmination of the Academy – a review of graduation performances.

THEATRE create their own filmand theatre works. will who groups, in working people young of acommunity build and heritage cultural the use creatively to encourage to is Społecznego Rozwoju Centrum Wrocławskie by organized project this of aim The literature. and cinema foreign and Polish with participants and similarities, as well as acquainting the differences to attention paying cultures, different between adialogue build to review) young in people participating an Iranian film by prepared afilm be will project the for point departure (a medium film the of possibilities the Using people. young for created Iran, and Poland countries: two of endeavour A joint stage and outdoors. classical big for version the in both presented and ages all of audiences to addressed performance Afamily creatures. living all for respect propagate to want creators the – animals of suffering the to opposed here is Thecircus of beauty puppet artists. theatre as actors and Elephant, the Giraffe, the Lion, the including size, natural of marionettes and puppets with performance circus Ecological 119 2015–2016 Boundaries Culture beyond September 2016 Violence without Circus

2. of working with the body. the with working of representing various traditions and methods and masters of movement techniques artists, eminent teachers, with PWST) with cooperation (in seminar apractical be will of regular trainings and working meetings Norway. The culmination of the programme and Poland from teachers and performers young to directed is it and Institute, groupsand artistic working at the Grotowski based on experience and practice of studios is project The training. performer in them and kalarippajattu incorporatingcapoeira, aikido, as: such traditions, physical selected to dedicated programme educational A pilot www.bodyconstitution.art.pl 2016 April BodyConstitution 3. Culture beyond Boundaries 2. 1. BodyContitution 3. Isfahan Children for Theatre New the of Showcase Training of Two Paths Studio, Two of Studio, Paths Training , directed by R. Mehrafzoun, Mehrafzoun, R. by , directed

THEATRE 120 3. Making Tomorrow’s Making Tomorrow’s Theatre June – July 2016 Biennale meetings of acting departments acting of meetings Biennale and schools from the whole Europe. The cooperation permanent initiate will project between Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna and schools from six other European cities, including London, Madrid, Moscow and Athens, thus creating a network for exchanging experiences. Involving students and teachers of staff international in workshops and presentations of their work will allow the participants to learn in practice a variety of working methods in the domain acting. of 2. 1. VoicEncounters VoicEncounters (Giving Voice) April 2016 www.voicencounters.art.pl A project dedicated to vocal techniques and the idea of voice as means of communication going beyond the border of languages and cultures. It is a follow up of the cooperation Research Performance for Centre between from(CPR) Cornwall with the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław. The project will end participation the with conference a with of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) about teaching voice. Special guests of VoicEncounters project will be, among others, Meredith Monk and Diamanda Galás. April – May 2016 www.cyrkulacje.wroclaw.pl CIRCULATIONS A festival based on workshops, which allows the participants to experience the contemporary forms of work with the body and movement expression. It is organized Inicjatyw Twórczych Stowarzyszenie by „Momentum” and it creates an opportunity to deepen the awareness and skill in dance and movement for integration and mutual environments: various between inspiration professional dancers and amateurs, people of of experiences different with and ages various body. the with working

THEATRE grant applications. and projects writing in skills the example for developing care, methodological as well as support organizational and formal with who face their firstprofessional challenges artists beginner provide will programme The it. for space or funds no have but projects, their own theatre, social and educational implement to like would who directors and actors young for support programme and financial is aim The Arts. Visual and cooperation with Foundation for Performing Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna, implemented in Państwowa of graduates for devised A project debates. and exhibitions concerts, discussions, as well as performances, of presentations with filled be will programme The technologies. new for traditional puppet animation, also using alternative an puppetry, of forms new for search which schools at addressed A project 121 2015–2017 Programme Formation Self Post-graduate 2016 May Puppetry Schools Meetings of International producer of their performances. Terzopoulos, Eugenio Barba, and was co- theatre, including Peter Brook, Theodoros been hosting many masters of world has Institute Grotowski the 2010, Since take place during the Theatre Olympics. Flying performance the of will premiere an international audience of observers. The for Barba Eugenio by conducted rehearsals of aseries be will Mind, Collective The work, the of phase first The Wrocław. in performance new their on work will Teatret Odin Institute, Grotowski the at programme Residence in Masters the of part As including Istanbul, Berlin and Lisbon. cities, European other six in continued be will Stroux Stephan by project original The station. the at appear will countries European seven from writers seven with together music, photography, theatre and installation film, in working artists 30 Over identity. borders, people’s longings and European discussionartistic about migrations, moving for aspace become will years, 200 last the of migration biggest the with linked aplace station, railway Świebodzki The 4. September 2015, October 2016 Odin Teatret The Residence of August – October 2016 –October August Unfinished Palace

4. 3. 2. 1. Eugenio Barba Eugenio Galás Diamanda Tomorrow’s Theatre Making CIRCULTIONS

THEATRE 122 More than Theatre than More 2015–2016 The programme encompasses a series series a encompasses programme The one’s expressing concerning projects of activities of creative especially and identity, people with disabilities, who thanks to art can consciously shape the space for their subjectivity, andas a result, for the universal problems of mankind. Their practice can become a source of support for therapeutic processes and a tool against exclusion and self-exclusion from culture. The programme will include a series of seminars and issues. practical on based workshops

Excluded Voice 2014–2016 2015–2016 www.ptp.press Polish Theatre Perspectives The idea of the project implemented by Foundation Jutropera and Znaniecki Michał team is cooperation of socially excluded groups with professional artists to create theatre and musical performances. Each of the spectacles invites a different excluded group – including inhabitants of old people’s mental with people prisoners, homes, amateurs The minorities. national disorders, are joined in their work by professional artists, such as Wojciech Malajkat, Mela Koteluk, Zbigniew Zamachowskiand Agata Trzebuchowska. A series of research and artistic publications artistic and publications research of series A of an internationalrange, presentingPolish and international approaches to theatre, includes It studies. performance and drama magazine the Polish Theatre Perspectives as well as audio- visual and book publications. As part of the and researchers by texts various series, The published. are theatre practitioners of goal is to make Polish theatre culture available and toenter it into a dialogue with critical and the of areas other practices from creative world.

THEATRE 123 Elektra , directed by Tadashi Suzuki Tadashi by , directed

THEATRE The Wrocław Stage METAMORPHOSIS OF CULTURE FRIENDLY SPACES DIVERSITY STAGE WROCŁAW THE STAGE SILESIAN LOWER THE STAGE NATIONAL THE THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD STAGE CELEBRATIONS SPECIAL EDITIONS ACTIVATION AND EDUCATION REFLECTIONS ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS SOURCES PUBLICIZING CULTURE

mikroGRANTY ECoC 2016 • • • • • • • • • Volunteering 2016 • • • Ministerium of Culture • • • • • • Excluded from Culture • • • • • Cultural Education against Social Exclusion • • • • • Parks of the European Capital of Culture • • • • • Young Citizens of Culture • • • • • Music of Young Wrocław • • • • • • Social Academy of Culture • • • Forum ECoC • • • Wrocław Cultural Debates • • • • • Academy of the European Capital of Culture • • • • Cultural Leaders Academy • • Audience Development • • • World Youth Day – Day in Dioceses • • • • Creativity Olympics • • • • Barbara – info point, café, space for culture • • • • Domek Miedziorytnika • • • • • Goethe-Institut Pop Up Pavillon • • • • Walking Laboratory – Bazaar • • • • • Computer game • • • • Breaking Muse – Wrocław2016TV • • • • • I am European – the Role of European Parliament in My Life • • • • • • Dolnośląska Platforma ESK+ • • • • ART-BUS • • • • Clip. Free Ideas From Lower Silesia for 2016 and Beyond • • • • • Not-A-Congress of Cultural Activists at SLOT ART Festival • • • • • Silesia Art_Biennale. Art Festival • • • • Culture of Small and Medium-sized Towns • • • Dolnoskaskosc.pl • • • • Reading the City • • • • 7 Miracles of Dolny Slask Exhibition • • • • Wroclaw – City / Lab of Future • • • • • City Coalition 2016 • • • • • Eco Expanded City Exhibition 2016 • • • Church: beauty and kitsch • • • • Artist-in-Residence Program Wro • • • • • • Cyber Academy • • • • • Wrocław-Lviv. A Month of Lviv Culture • • • • Photographs by Milton Greene. Exhibition • • • • Lux in Oriente – Lux ex Oriente. Poland and The Holy See – 1050 years of history • • Reconciliation – Bolesław Kominek • • • Partner Schools Convention • • • • The Right to Culture • • • • Cultural Infrastructure Projects Reclaiming Beauty

Centennial Hall Capitol Music Theatre Four Dome Pavilion Ruska 46 Formaty Club

New Spaces for Beauty

“Krzywy Komin” Centre for European Capital of Culture National Forum of Music History Centre “Depot” Professional Development Housing Estate Nowe Żerniki

The Grotowski Institute. Wrocław Contemporary Museum New Horizons Cinema Pan Tadeusz Museum Studio na Grobli

The Henryk Tomaszewski Cultural Centre and Library Bar Barbara Wrocław University Library Theatre Museum FAMA

Revitalisation of districts

Nadodrze Psie Pole Four Temples District mikroGRANTY ECoC 2016 A programme in the form of a cyclical competition, organized each even-number month. Each citizen of Wrocław can propose their idea for an artistic, social, cultural or educational activity. During each edition, 5 a jury comprised of representatives of various areas of social life selects eight most Establishing details interesting proposals, and then two additional of cooperation. ideas are selected in Internet voting. The projects are implemented together by their authors and the European Capital of Implementation of the Culture Wrocław 2016 office. Since they are projects – 6 months organized also outside of the city centre, since signing the agreement. even inhabitants of the farthest corners of 6 Wrocław can search for beauty, define it and reveal it in various spheres of their lives – in this way implementing the slogan “Spaces for Beauty”. The programme offers help in in coordinating projects, as well as professional administrative, programme, technical, legal, 4 promotional and financial support. 2014–2016 www.wroclaw2016.pl/mikrogranty Two more ideas are selected by the citizens of Wrocław via the Internet.

3 THE WROCŁAW STAGE Negotiations with the Selection of eight winners. winning projects. Applications are assessed by a panel consisting of independent experts and one winner from a previous edition.

1 Projects are submitted via wroclaw2016.pl/ A series of mikrogranty website. information meetings in various parts of Wrocław. Advice on who can participate in the programme and how to fill in an application.

127 128 5. Cooperation with with Cooperation various social groups – seniors, people with disabilities, foreigners. and designing Also, implementing a system of cooperation with corporations , which – by participating in the ECoC volunteering system – can implement their CSR strategies 4. Volunteering for for Volunteering foreigners 3. Family volunteering Family 2014–2016 We cooperateWe withvolunteers in several volunteering, short-term/action ways: family volunteering, long-term/permanent volunteering, volunteering for foreigners, as well as cooperation with various social groups – seniors, people with disabilities. The programme will support volunteers in the role the in independence gaining of process of creators of social and cultural life. 2. Long-term/permanent Long-term/permanent volunteering 1. Volunteering 2016 Volunteering Short-term/action Short-term/action volunteering The aim of the volunteering programme is social mobilisation, involvement of citizens in events organization, as well as increasing their knowledge of the history and identity of the place in which they live. Special attention is paid to cooperation with those cultural and social participation in whose life has so far been limited. Ourvolunteers satisfaction derive and experience acquire participate in they that conviction the from the metamorphosis of their city. They are “ambassadors” of the European Capital of Culture in Wrocław.

THE WROCŁAW STAGE Kultury Wrocław Kultury Centrum by organized project the of aim The probation officers of supervision the under persons –for On Turn Culture and exclusion, of alabyrinth in culture of –zone MiserArt are: important removing architectural particularly barriers, or description audio to devoted projects many Among Wrocław. in culture to access deeper transformation, which will facilitate and broader for also but ECoC, for only not recommendations create will which group aworking create to is Ministerium of idea The repetitive self-exclusion of disabled people. and situation social on based exclusion inparticipation culture, consolidating from exclusion for responsible are which dedicated toprojects diagnosing mechanisms Open initiative focusing on innovative Silesia region and neighbouring voivodeships. voivodeships. neighbouring and region Silesia Lower the Wrocław, from people disabled to dedicated is It theatre. or photography workshops of artistic filmartists, animation, theatre performances, concerts of disabled films, as: events such in charge of free participate all can They status. financial low of people seniors, disabilities), mental and visual impairments, physical and available to disable (with people hearing Excluded from CultureExcluded 2016 October 2016, May 2015, December of Culture Ministerium 129 www.wykluczeni.ckwz.art.pl 2011–2016 ‑ Zachód is to make culture culture make to is Zachód encompassed 16 parks. have will Społecznego, Rozwoju Centrum Wrocławskie by coordinated project, the 2016 By implemented. be will there happening informationbetter system about activities a and broadened be will parks the at offer cultural The Wrocław. in parks various in to in participate cultural activities and sport communities and encourage their members local mobilise to is project the of aim The teachers “I Don’t Exclude”. for aproject as well as workshops, artistic organizes for activities children, including Centrum exclusion. by threatened groups for creating spaces facilitating access to culture own cultural (theatre, activities dance), exclusion), bringing up through children’s inparticipation culture (to prevent self- implemented in three areas: bringing up to be will It culture. in children of participation increase to is Dziecka Twórczości Centrum Wrocławskie by project this of aim The 2015–2016 Capital of Culture of European Parks the 2015–2016 Exclusion against Social Cultural Education

theatre reviews. as well as festival, dance – a Galop films), filmowy.wroc (a review of students’ short Art, Functional of Biennale Young Talents. of AReview Evening, AMuseum Wrocław, Young of Music Wrocław, of Young Citizens for Forums Discussion projects: cyclical some and line, agiven to dedicated events both offers programme the and Year Dance), of the is (2015/2016 line thematic a different has year Each results. their of presentations researchers, many creative and activities university and artists, teachers, by conducted cooperation with schools, art workshops activities: of avariety encompasses It critically and creatively in participate culture. encourage young people to actively, to is programme the of goal main The city space. city in ensembles musical and vocal by concerts professionals), conferences, reviews and final by conducted vocal, and (instrumental works by young people, training workshops of presentations include They autumn). and (spring ayear twice place taking festivals of aseries is programme Culture of Citizens Young of part as organized project This 2013–2016 of Culture Young Citizens 2013–2016 Wrocław Music of Young

THE WROCŁAW STAGE Social Academy of Wrocław Cultural Academy of the Culture Debates European Capital of A series of debates which aimed at A series of debates based on a confrontation Culture broadening cultural awareness of the of the latest research in the area of citizens. The moderator was Jacek Żakowski, culture (sociology, cultural studies, media, The aim of the Academy is to strengthen the a renowned Polish journalist, and they were anthropology, economy, politics) with people potential of the cultural sector in Wrocław. devoted to broadly understood culture, and interested in the issues of participation The programme is devised to encompass its interrelations with other areas of life: in culture, readership, cultural activism, most areas important for functioning and economic, educational and ecological. A creating strategies for cultural development organization of cultural life. Particular series of debates entitled Wrocław – a Better at self-government level, etc. The second activities are directed at various groups: City was dedicated to problems of urban life, area of discussion is the condition of culture cultural managers, employees of cultural non-standard ideas and ways to implement in Wrocław. The originator of the debates is institutions, volunteers. The Academy also them, as well as various forms of education. professor Tomasz Szlendak, and they will be supports non-governmental organizations 2013–2014 implemented as part of Forum EcoC. working in the area of culture in raising funds. 2015 2014–2016

Forum ECoC THE WROCŁAW STAGE WROCŁAW THE Cultural Leaders A series of meetings devoted to discussing the work of the ECoC 2016 curators, Academy explaining the concepts behind their programmes and presenting implemented A pilot project of post-graduate studies in projects. The main goal of the Forum the area of cultural economy and psychology is to create an exchange platform for of leadership, directed at managers complimentary, contradictory and implementing activities in cultural sector and counterpointing ideas about the curators’ searching for new strategic directions for programmes. their organizations and paths for individual 2014–2016 development. The original concept for the project was developed by the team from Faculty of Economics and Public Administration of The Malopolska School of Public Administration Cracow University of Economics led by professor Jerzy Hausner. The project is co-organized by the National Centre for Culture. 2014–2015

130 Audience Development for Wrocław 2016 A project designed for employees of cultural institutions and non-governmental organizations from Wrocław and the region, who want to strategically develop relationships with their audience. As part of the project organized by Fundacja IMPACT, Polish and British experts conduct workshops and individual consultations regarding work with the audience of cultural events and acquiring new audience. On the basis of the knowledge and experience they will gain, the participants will create individual plans for their organizations to be implemented in 2016 and 2017. 2. 2015–2016 www.rozwojwidowni.pl World Youth Day – Creativity Olympics Day in Dioceses Teams from around Poland are preparing for the participation in Olympics during On their way to Kraków for the main events school year, working on a selected task. The of World Youth Day, the participants will meetings help them to develop creativity, visit dioceses they have selected, taking part teamwork, and creative problem solving. in the so called Day in Dioceses. Wrocław They learn technics for stimulating creative will be visited by over ten thousand young thinking. This project, which is organized

people from several dozen countries. The globally, allows young people to discover THE WROCŁAW STAGE programme prepared for them will include, various talents, overcoming barriers, among others, Mercy Fest – meetings and shaping self-motivation and strengthens the concerts in several places in the city. Another participants’ belief in their talents. important element will be an event at the 2015–2016 stadium on 23 July 2016 – a joint concert of www.kreatywnosc.pl Mercy Fest and Singing Europe! 2016

1. Debata w ramach Forum ESK 2. Uczestnicy projektu Olimpiada Kreatywności

131 132 Goethe-Institut Pop Goethe-Institut Pop Up Pavillon 2016 www.goethe.de/wroclaw2016 To celebrateTo Wrocław’s tenure as the Goethe- the Culture, of Capital European Institut is setting up a temporary exhibition and performance space in a public square of the city from April to July 2016 in the form of a 6 x 3 x 3m container, enclosed in glass walls. The pavilion will serve as the basis for an a with programme cultural interdisciplinary concerts, DJ including focus, German-Polish performances, readings, literature talks, sets, more. much and games interactive Domek Miedziorytnika Stankiewicz, and now is a place ‑ Domek Miedziorytnika 2013–2016 Better known as „John House”, in the past it was a studio of copperplate engraving belonging to an outstanding Wrocław artist Get Eugeniusz devoted to disseminating and promoting his work. The person responsible for adapting the house for open cultural activity is Marek exhibitions many organizes who Stanielewicz, and cultural events and continually archives the heritage of Get-Stankiewicz. He is also working on a permanent exhibition of his works. café, space for culture for café, space 2015–2016 Barbara – info point, Barbara point, info – A cult quick service bar opened in the 1960s returns after a 20-year break as an information centre for ECoC2016. Carefully design interior modern with renovated, characteristic with columns preserved and mosaics and stone walls, it will become a activities, musical and film theatre, for space as well as discussions and workshops. A will counter multimedia designed specially events. particularcultural finding facilitate

THE WROCŁAW STAGE Walking Laboratory – Wrocław Quest I am European – the Bazaar A computer game, or rather a set of ten Role of European mini-games presenting 10 most popular A project implemented in 2013 as a laboratory locations in Wrocław, which is an easy and Parliament in My Life combining art, architecture and economy. pleasant way to get to know the city – the During the project, at the market on Ptasia most important monuments, history, as well A project for children from high schools Street in Wrocław a unique new territory as cultural events. The task of the player is to in Wrocław. It is a two-stage competition appeared, a city-state, a community of find a mythical treasure of dwarves. You can for the best short documentary film traders and artists, called BAZARISTAN. The play the game online at: www.wroclaw2016.pl/ about relationships between the European project culminated in a debate of traders, gra or download it for free from Google Play Parliament and everyday life of young people. artists, architects, activists, curators and (for Android) or iTunes (for iOS). During the first stage, several hundred scripts officials about the role of such activities in the 2014 will be assessed, and during the second – strategy for ECoC 2016. Results of the work selected pupils will produce ten best ones in at the market were presented in BWA Dizajn cooperation with well-known filmmakers. gallery. 2015–2016 2013 Breaking Muse – Wrocław2016TV An unconventional TV programme about the creativity of the citizens of Wrocław, produced under the patronage and with the support of IMPART Festival Centre 2016. The idea is to present original phenomena in Wrocław culture, which are less known or more difficult to categorize. The formula of the programme is very dynamic and based on combining reports from cultural events

taking place in Wrocław with mini-interviews THE WROCŁAW STAGE and short reportages on the creativity of its citizens, according to the idea expressed in the slogan “Show us what you have!”. 2014–2016 www.youtube.com/user/Wroclaw2016tv

133 The Lower Silesian Stage Lower Silesian Platform ECoC+

A programme implemented in cooperation with the Open Workgroup ECoC – Lower Silesia, gathering together cultural institutions and organizations from the region. Among many projects within this programme you will find:

ART-BUS Not–A– Culture of Small 7 Miracles of A series of cultural expeditions Congress and Medium– Dolny Slask to Wrocław by bus, from far areas of the region, to facilitate of Cultural sized Towns Exhibition Lower Silesia inhabitants access to culture. Activists at A year-long discussion on the A multimedia educational condition of the future of local exhibition presenting the SLOT ART culture based on the experience greatest treasures of the of Lower Silesia. Programming cultural heritage of the region, Clip. Free Ideas Festival changes in the culture of the among others: design sketches region. for Centennial Hall and the From Lower Brings together two events historic first sentence written during a special edition of in the Polish language in the Silesia for 2016 SLOT ART Festival in Lubiąż, Book of Henryków, or the fist where participants will conduct dolnoslaskosc.pl Our Father prayer printed and Beyond discussions in working groups in Polish. The project will be and meet in plenary sessions with A web portal devoted to culture accompanied by a publication Ideas for mini-projects published guests from around Europe. of Lower Silesia, describing of an picture album cataloguing THE LOWER SILESIAN STAGE in the form of practical cards, to places and people, texts and the presented objects and an help teachers, librarians, scouting events. opening of a special tourist path instructors, cultural institutions around Lower Silesia. The aim and organizers. Silesia Art_ of the exhibition prepared by Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość” Biennale. Art Reading the City is promotion of cultural heritage and encouraging tourists to visit Festival City is a text (Toporov). Lower attractive spots in Wrocław and Silesia is a palimpsest (Kichler). An the Lower Silesia region. The second edition of the festival activating and research project 2016 will be focused on the concepts and a conference of the UNECC of local identity, awareness of network (University Network of community and dialogue with the European Capitals of Culture). history. The aim of the festival is 2014–2016 to integrate local environments by inspiring them to act creatively and for the region.

135 The National Stage Wroclaw – City / Eco Expanded City Church: Beauty and Lab of Future Exhibition 2016 Kitsch Wrocław 2016 will become a laboratory of the The exhibition, organized by WRO Art The idea behind the project organized by the future, where artists, researchers, citizens Center as part of the City / Lab of Future, European Capital of Culture office is critical and guests of the European Capital of Culture will analyse various relationships between reflection on contemporary sacral art. There events will face the approaching challenges, society, art, nature and technology present will be an architectural competition for a for example the responsibility not only for in artistic and design activities, and present concept of a church, as well as an exhibition, their fate, but also for the fate of the entire a wide spectrum of artistic projects, from meetings and discussions. The participation planet. The subject of the project curated social and ecological innovations, striving of artists, architects, architecture critics, by Edwin Bendyk is the future, which we for sustainable development of the city, art historians and representatives of cannot plan or predict, because it depends to a dystopia, intercepting and abuse of various denominations will allow for an on people – it is created as a result of the contemporary resources. It will discuss exchange of thoughts and experiences sum of individual decisions they will make as the subjects of ecology of information, between representatives of various cultures, citizens, consumers, employees, businessmen, communication, control of resources, the nationalities and environments. politicians. Those decisions depend on a nature-culture dichotomy. The exhibition will 2015–2016 variety of factors: beliefs, values, ideas be accompanied by workshops, screenings about good life and the knowledge about and meetings. opportunities, challenges and threats for the 2016 community, which they share with others. The space for the meeting and confrontation of those factors is the city itself, and that is why the city and future become synonyms. The future is our task and our responsibility, and it would be very hard to find a better time and place to face it. 2015–2016 THE NATIONAL STAGE NATIONAL THE City Coalition 2016 The coalition as created to present cities through their most important and most characteristic cultural narrations, flagship projects and what constitutes their genius loci. An important dimension of the programme is a debate on municipal responsibility for Polish culture. Wrocław invited four cities to cooperate: Lublin, Katowice Gdańsk and Łódź, and they will present projects demonstrating their own unique culture and its value. This initiative will enrich the programme of events planned for 2016, and introduce new contexts, so important for promotion of Polish culture on the international arena. 2013–2016 The European and World Stage Wiesbaden. others Dresden, Grodno, Lviv Kaunas, and –among Wrocław of cities partner from programme offers also residencies for artist the 2015 Since art. of domains various from creators We invited development. their and artists support should it time same the At experiences. exchange and organizations and institutions to cooperate curators,artists, organizers, managers, allow would which platform international an build to is programme the of aim The there. work creative own their situate and environments new know to get develop, to Artist-in-residence programmes help artists 139 Wro A-i-R Programme Artist–in–Residence Lille department Vienne and La THE NETHERLANDS Breda FRANCE

Drezno and Wiesbaden Silesia and around Poland. Poland. around and Silesia Lower in those also but organizations, local strengthen the cooperation not only between to wants it time, same the At world. the around from artists for open organizations cultural institutions and non-governmental in projects such of implementation the to quality new bring to Wro wants A-i-R 2014–2016 GERMANY

CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH Hradec Králové Hradec

LITHUANIA Kaunas BELARUS UKRAINE Grodno Lviv

THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD STAGE Cyber Academy Wrocław–Lviv. A Photographs by An international project aimed at Polish and Month of Lviv Culture Milton Greene. international cultural organizers, focused on developing competences in the area of media A presentation of contemporary Ukrainian art Exhibition and information, an exchange of experiences and culture, as well as historical relationships and a transfer of knowledge. The idea it to between Wrocław and Lviv and the shared Milton H. Greene (1922–1985) was an prepare creators of cultural life, bloggers, Polish-Ukrainian heritage. The idea for this American photographer of the world of marketing and PR specialists to consciously project was to look into the future, the past fashion and film who cooperated with many use new media and information resources being just a pretext to build new relationships. magazines, including Look and Vogue. The related to promotion of cultural activities. By inviting Lviv to the European Capital of collection of his photographs which will The organizers are: European Capitals of Culture programme, Wrocław proposes a be presented includes the most beautiful Culture 2016 Wrocław and San Sebastian and one of a kind pilot programme, which will portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Lviv as a strategic partner. encourage to build permanent partnerships Sophia Loren, and also documentary and 2014–2016 with countries outside the European Union. artistic photographs and sessions with The Month of Lviv Culture will begin with models. The first exhibition is planned for a several-day-long debate about building summer 2015 and it will be set in a unique

THE EUROPEAN AND WORLD STAGE identity and the roots of Wrocław society, scenography, transporting the viewer into the but also about current social and political 1960s. problems of Ukraine. There will also be, 2015–2016 among others, an exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art, Ukrainian Cross Section triennial and screenings of recent films produced there. We will also open a dedicated Café Lviv, Lux in Oriente – Lux where for a mont we will organize meetings with eminent writers accompanied by live ex Oriente. Poland and music. April 2016 The Holy See – 1050 years of history An exhibition commemorating the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. Selected treasures from Vatican collections as well as previously not exhibited Polish works of art will for the first time be presented to a wide audience. The exhibition will consist of five parts presenting events linking our country with the Vatican capital: Piast dynasty, Jagiellonian dynasty, Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth, 19th and 20th century. It will remind about over 1000 years of joint history of Poland and Europe. 2016

Warsztaty międzynarodowej grupy w ramach Cyber Akademii – edycja 2014

140 Reconciliation – The Right to Culture Bolesław Kominek A series of debates, exhibitions and conferences, which strive to develop an The City of Wrocław, Ośrodek „Pamięć i stand on access and participation in culture Przyszłość” from Wrocław, Maximilian Kolbe of all Europeans in the era of the Internet Foundation Bonn, The Museum of Europe and digitalisation of cultural resources. It in Brussels and the Foundation for Polish- has a chance to become a pretext for an German Cooperation will join for the project interdisciplinary debate with participation consisting of many events remembering the of Polish and foreign experts about the Pastoral Letter of the Polish Bishops to their role of culture as a driving force of political German Brothers and its author Bolesław and economic changes and a domain which Kominek. The most important events will guarantees humans their right to develop. include two exhibitions: Cardinal Kominek, the The project is co-organized by the National Unknown Father of European Reconciliation Centre for Culture. and Pojednanie/Versohnung in progress... 2014–2016 Catholic Church and Polish-German relations www.nck.pl/prawo-do-kultury after 1945. Both exhibitions will be presented abroad as well. 2015–2016

Partner Schools Convention A project designed to strengthen the existing cooperation and built new relationships with schools from other European cities. Its aim is to build a permanent platform for student

exchange and encourage young people to STAGE WORLD AND EUROPEAN THE systematically visit Wrocław and actively participate in culture. It promotes tolerance and openness to other cultures. During the convention, there will also be a presentation of activities in the area of theatre and dance, as well as short films screenings. 2016

141 Cooperation with Donostia San Sebastian

Tamborrada

Eduardo Chillida. Sonoridades

Tradycja Europejskich Stolic Kultury przewiduje współpracę z miastem partnerskim, dla nas jest to San Sebastian w Krainie Basków w Hiszpanii. Sztuka, muzyka, kuchnia, a także tradycje i język są inspiracją dla pokazania kultury baskijskiej we Wrocławiu.

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Artist-in-Residence Programme A-i-R Wro

142 International Cooperation Map

80% of the European Capital of Culture projects are organized with foreign partners. Below, we present the participation of particular countries/regions in those partnerships.

Scandinavia 20%

Great Belarus Japan Britain The 5% 20% 10% Netherlands Ukraine Czech Belgium 10% Germany Slovakia 30% Republic 5% 5% France 60% 15% 40% the Balkans Italy 10%

Spain 30% Greece 40% 5%

Israel

143 15% Many thanks!

Co-organizers

Strategic Partner

Media Partners PARTNERS: partners • Association of Polish Architects (SARP) Wrocław Branch • Academy of Performing Arts in Prague • Active Communications Society • Adam Mickiewicz Institute • Agencja Artystyczna NONA Izabela Morawska-Torres • Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu • ART TRANSPARENT Contemporary Art Foundation • Artistic Council Dialogue in Lviv • Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” • Avant Art Foundation • Bente Kahan Foundation • Biuro Projektu „Kino za Rogiem” • Breakthru Films • British Embassy Warsaw • BWA Wrocław - Galleries of Contemporary Art • Café Szafé • Carpathian Border Guard Support Center • Centennial Hall • Centrum Kultury „Zamek” („The Castle”) • Centrum Kultury AGORA • Centrum Kultury w Lublinie • Centrum Rozwoju Zawodowego „Krzywy Komin” • Cervantes Institute • Chorągiew Dolnośląska ZHP • City Culture Institute Gdańsk • City of Literature Foundation • City Promotion Office at the Municipality Office of Wroclaw • Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Wrocław • Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv • Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ • Convention Bureau Wrocław • Creative Europe • Cultural Association Dzyga in Lviv • Czas Dzieci Foundation • Czech Cultural Center • Department of Culture of the Municipal Office Wrocław • Donostia/San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016 • Embassy of France in Poland • Embassy of Israel in Poland • EU Japan Fest • Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw • EUNIC European Union National Institutes for Culture • Europa Cinemas • European Capital of Culture Pilsen 2015 • European Film Academy • European Glass Festival • Europejska Fundacja Edukacji Filmowej • Festiwal Teatru Ulicznego • Filmoteca Vasca • Filmplus Foundation • Foreign Relations Department of the Municipal Office Wrocław • Forum Kraków • Foundation for Performing and Visual Arts • Foundation for Polish - German Cooperation • Foundation for Wroclaw Musical Culture WRATISLAVIA • Foundation Zukunft Berlin • French Cultural Institute • Fundacja Dokument i Świat • Fundacja Doliny Pałaców i Ogrodów Kotliny Jeleniogórskiej • Fundacja Eclectica • Fundacja Impact • Fundacja Jutropera • Fundacja Katarynka • Fundacja Małe Instrumenty • Fundacja na Rzecz Kultury i Edukacji im. Tymoteusza Karpowicza • Fundacja Proces Ciągły • Fundacja Promocji Sztuki „Transformator” • Fundacja Przestrzeń Filmowa • Fundacja Rusza Festiwal • Fundacja Teatr NieTaki • Fundacja Utalentowani • Fundacja Wspierania Filozoficzno-Humanistycznych Działań Społecznych SOKRATES • Fundacja Wspierania i Rozwoju Kreatywności • Galeria Entropia • Garaże Kultury Society • General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military Academy of Land Forces • German Cultural Center for Middle and Eastern Europe • German-Polish Youth Office • Goethe Institute • Görlitzer Kulturservicegesellschaft mbH (GKSG) • Grotowski Institute • Henryk Tomaszewski Wroclaw Pantomime Theatre • High School of Music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden • IMPART 2016 Festival Centre • Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations • Institute for Music Science in Madrid • Instytucja Kultury Katowice - Miasto Ogrodów • Instytut Etxepare w San Sebastian • Instytut Muzyki i Tańca w Warszawie • Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego w Warszawie • International Book Fair in Krakow • International Booksellers Federation • International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions • International Publishers Association • Jednostka Architektury Foundation • Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance • Kabaretowy Międzynarodowy Festiwal WROCEK • Kadry Wrocławia • Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wroclaw • Klinika Lalek • Klub Muzyki i Literatury • Kolegium Europy Wschodniej im. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego we Wrocławiu • Komiksofon • Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013/Kosice Artist in Residence • Krakow Festival Office • Kulturhaus Dresden • Legnickie Centrum Kultury im. Henryka Karlińskiego • Lower Silesia Chamber of Architects • Lux in Oriente • Łódź Art Center • Maximilian Kolbe Foundation Bonn • Military Bras Band in Bytom • MiserArt - strefa kultury w labiryncie wykluczenia • Młodzi Obywatele Kultury • Municipal Public Library • Museum of Architecture in Wrocław • National Forum of Music • New Horizons Association • Nieformalna Otwarta Grupa Robocza ESK 2016 – Dolny Śląsk • Odin Teatret • Odra Film • Ostrale – Center for Contemporary Art. • Ostrale Foundation • Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość” • Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych Firlej • Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki we Wrocławiu • Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych • Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna • Państwowe Pomaturalne Studium Kształcenia Animatorów Kultury i Bibliotekarzy we Wrocławiu • Park Wielokulturowy Stara Kopalnia w Wałbrzychu • Pax Et Bonum Foundation • Pécs Writers’ Program • Polish Air Force Bras Band in Poznan • Polish Army Bras Band in Wroclaw • Polish Film Institute • Polish Institute in Madrid • Polish Institute in Paris • Polish Institutes in Europe • Polish National Centre for Culture (NCK) • Polish Navy Bras Band in Gdynia • Polish Writers’ Association • Polski Związek Niewidomych • Pro Fantastica Foundation • Rita Baum Foundation • Song of the Goat Theatre Association • Sound Factory Foundation • Spichlerz Kultury Foundation • Stephan Stroux - Europa Oculta • Stowarzyszenie Artystyczne Coolturalny Wroclaw • Stowarzyszenie „Industrial Art” • Stowarzyszenie „Świat Nadziei” • Stowarzyszenie Dyrektorów Samorządowych Instytucji Kultury • Stowarzyszenie Eklektik na rzecz integracji międzykulturowej i rozwoju środowisk artystycznych • Stowarzyszenie FRONTIS • Stowarzyszenie Kameralny Chór Męski Cantilena • Stowarzyszenie Lokalnych Ośrodków Twórczych • Stowarzyszenie Lokalnych Ośrodków Twórczych SLOT • Stowarzyszenie Momentum • Stowarzyszenie Na Rzecz Integracji Społecznej „Nasz Świat” • Stowarzyszenie Planeta Młodych • Stowarzyszenie Wspierania Inicjatyw Kulturalnych Nasze Miasto Wrocław • Studio Miniatur Filmowych • Tadeusz Mikulski Lower Silesian Public Library • TAPAC • Teatr Ad Spectatores • Teatr Biuro Podróży • Teatr Brama • Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Legnicy • Teatr Kana • The Book Institute • The Capitol Musical Theatre • The Chillida-Leku Museum • The City Museum of Wrocław • The Institute of National Remembrance • The International Cities of Refuge Network • The Kilo of Culture Foundation • The Museum of Europe in Brussels • The National Museum in Wrocław • The National Ossoliński Institute • The Society of Municipalities and Districts of the Agglomeration of Wrocław • The World of Hope Association • The „Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre • Think Tank lab Triennale • TIFF Festival • Towarzystwo Brata Alberta • Twin Towns and Sister Cities of Wrocław • UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) • University of Wrocław • Warsaw Police Headquarters • WENN ES SOWEIT • Wędrujące Forum Kultury Dolnego Śląska • Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards • World Makes Sense Foundation • WRO Art Center • Wroclaw Contemporary Museum • Wroclaw Medical University • Wroclaw Provincial Police • Wroclaw Technology Park • Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency • Wrocław City Historic Preservation Office • Wrocław Good Book Promotion • Wrocław Guitar Society • Wrocławscy Kameraliści Cantores Minores Wratislavienses • Wrocławska Fundacja Filmowa • Wrocławska Rewitalizacja Sp. z o.o. • Wrocławski Klub Formaty • Wrocławski Teatr Komedia • Wrocławski Teatr Lalek • Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny • Wrocławskie Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli • Wrocławskie Centrum Rozwoju Społecznego • Wrocławskie Centrum Twórczości Dziecka • WROSTJA • Wydawnictwo EMG • Wydział Kultury Urzędu Miasta Lwowa • Zachęta - National Gallery of Art • Zrzeszenie Filharmonii Polskich • Special thanks to 500 organizations, informal groups and private persons who have so far become involved in the Bridge Builders programme, and to informal groups and private persons involved in the implementation of the MikroGRANTY ECoC 2016 programme. Rhythm of the Year

The framework of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in Wrocław will be three big projects – Spirits of Wrocław, Flow and Sky Web. The rhythm of the year will be set by a dozen or so weekends, during and around which events of the most interesting projects will accumulate. Not accidentally, points of reference for the whole programme are cyclical events organized in Wrocław. They are trademarks of the city and one of the important roles of the European Capital of Culture is to give them a new dimension and attractiveness.