The buding exists The building does not exist The building of the European Solidarity Centre, under development Buildings and sites available for sightseeing. Gate no 2 Do not approach other areas without a guide – it is dangerous. Canal Hall 89A Warning! BHP Hall Please do not approach construction sites. Supervision Building A1 / S1 GATE NO 2 Telephone Switch Building Gate no 1 Director’s Villa Hall 49A Hall 42A Hall 90B Wyspa Institute of Art Hall 57B Modelarnia o A7 DIRECTOR’S VILLA Gate n 3 Sport Arna WAŁOWA The wall at Jana z Kolna street DOKI Monument of the Fallen Shipyard Workers JANA Z KOLNA ŁAGIEWNIKI Women Routes of Gdansk Shipyard Routes Women SKM GDAŃSK STOCZNIA WE INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE THE PATHS OF PKP GDAŃSK GŁÓWNY WOMEN IN THE FORMER GDANSK SHIPYARD Shipyard Administration Shipyard cranes are one of the characteristic symbols of The Shipyard may be visited on three routes: Gdansk. The same can be said about the Gdansk Shipyard, A3 / S3 BHP HALL Representative Canteen a place of utmost importance in the contemporary history about women artists creating in the Shipyard area; of Poland. Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity” Hall 42A („Solidarność”) ̶ the first non-communist party-controlled about the women workers of the Shipyard; trade union in a Warsaw Pact country was started in the „Szatniowiec” Shipyard. Recently, the post-shipyard space was opened for about women activists of the Solidarity movement. visitors. In cooperation with the “Metropolitanka” project, Floating bridge City Culture Institute invites you for regular walking tours We will visit the places where, for several decades, up to from the perspective of herstory – through the roles and 5,000 women worked, created, and lived at one time. We W2 Department experiences of women. will tell the history of the woman who decorates the Ship- The Gdansk Shipyard used to be one of the biggest work- yard’s gate with flowers, recall the contributions of Solidar- The clinic places in the Pomerania region, employing up to 17 thousand ity movement activists, and look at the everyday contribu- people at its peak. Until recently, it had been associated tions of women who worked as crane operators, insulators, Ramps exclusively with men: welders, ship-builders, strikers, and we and forklift operators. We will meet the artists who went tended to forget that there were also women among them, on the shipyard welding course inspired by the place which composing up to 1/3 of the staff. In the 1980s, several women was their home and place of creative work. even engaged in oppositional activities and distributed illegal On our tour, we will discover the Shipyard gardens where magazines and leaflets in the Shipyard area. Dismissal of one the tulips and carnations for Woman’s Day were grown, of them led to the strike outbreak, which ended with the where the, now non-existent Director’s Villa and AKU Sound signing of agreements perceived as the beginning of the end Gallery were located, and the cranes that Solidarity activist of USRR domination in Central Europe. „Metropolitanka” re- P6 W2 DEPARTMENT A2 HALL 89A Anna Walentynowicz worked on as well as what had one of A5 TELEPHONE SWITCH BUILDING discovers this forgotten fragment of the Shipyard’s history, by the cranes to do with the famous theatrical play “H.”. walking the paths of women whose lives and actions changed the course of history. Authors: Anna Miler, Barbara Borowiak, Gate no 2 Excursions are led by project authors and artists connected Marta Tymińska, Ania Urbańczyk with the Shipyard. Project authors: Barbara Borowiak, Grażyna Knitter, Representative Canteen Monika Kwiatkowska, Anna Miler, Elżbieta Okroy, Ewa Okroy, More information about the project: Marta Tymińska, Anna Urbańczyk, Agata Włodarczyk, Irena BHP Hall www.metropolitanka.ikm.gda.pl Wojcieszak, Anna Zielińska, Alicja Żarkiewicz Editing and verification: Agata Włodarczyk Supervision Building Translation: Michał Ciemiński Proofreading: Anna Walters Gate no 1 Partners Graphic design: Katarzyna Majchrowska Photographs: Collections of the European Solidarity Centre Organized by Organized (cover picture: Stanisław Składanowski / ECS) Hall 42A Special thanks to Special thanks Organized by: The City Culture Institute o Partners: The European Solidarity Centre, Arteria Association, Gate n 3 The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk Contact: The City Culture Institute The clinic ul. Długi Targ 39/40, 80-830 Gdańsk, Poland e-mail: [email protected], A9 / P3 / S6 HALL 42A A4 / S4 SUPERVISION BUILDING P8 RAMPS Monument to the telephone: +48 58 760 72 16 Fallen Shipyard Workers Alina Pienkowska and Joanna (“Seaside Acquaintances”) Pienkowska, Henryka Krzy- located here while the new (“Organization Without Inter- ing as a crane operator connected with the Ship- HALL 57B 1994). Once finished, it was connected with health ser- Duda-Gwiazda, among others, (2012), co-created by Ania wonos, and Joanna Du- museum is under construc- esting Name”) was located when, due to a health yard space. The exhibition one of the state-of-the-art vice. She watched over the were reading and sorting de- Witkowska. Currently, the da-Gwiazda served. tion. ECS employs numerous here, where, among others, condition, she demanded is open from Tuesday to The building no longer concert venues in northern food consignments. Nurses mands coming from factories Hall is occupied by Gdansk Here, the Gdansk Agreement women as culture animators, Joanna Grochocka created to be transferred to the Sunday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., exists. However, experi- Poland, hosting political, and doctors, among others joining the Interfactory Strike Shipyard Centre, where Anna was signed by the following historians, and archivists. At hers screen prints. Also, the position of a welder. Unlike admission is free. mental music lovers still social, and cultural events, Joanna Muszkowska-Penson, Committee (MKS). They have Maria Jopek, Kora, Speech signatories: Walentynowicz, the main staircase, on the Klosz.Art gallery was located men who transferred, her remember events taking including the famous In- provided the strikers with influenced their final wording Debelle, and Tricity-based Pienkowska, and Krzywonos. landing, paintings by shipyard in the Switch building, with earnings were decreased. place in the former Galeria ternational Song Festivals medical aid. of the demands. fire show female group Duda-Gwiazda, a graduate workers can be seen, togeth- exhibiting works and perfor- While many crane operators INSTYTUT Dźwięków AKU (“AKU Sound (currently Sopot Festival) Mamadoo have performed, of Faculty of Ship Technology er with corresponding works mances by Angelika Fojtuch, were women, the brigade SZTUKI Gallery”), co-established by from 1961–­­ 1963. In 1957, among others. For Solidarity from the Gdansk University by Iwona Zając. Ania Witkowska, Agata Now- was usually supervised WYSPA Joanna Maltańska. Miss Wybrzeża (Miss Seaside) The women (doctors, SHIPYARD anniversary ceremonies, of Technology, was also the osielska, Anna Kalwajtys, and by a man. Walentynowicz competition took place nurses, physical therapists) artists such as Marianne co-author of the demands. others. was dismissed on 7 August (“WYSPA here, honoured by Maria composed the majority of ADMINISTRATION Faithful, Macy Gray, and Political scientist Jadwiga In front of the Super- The book devoted to the 1980. The demand to rein- INSTITUTE MODELARNIA Koterbska with Wagabunda the staff at the Complex of Kylie Minogue have perfor- Staniszkis participated in vision Building, there was Colony of Artists, “Kolonia state her became the main (“HOUSE OF (“Vagabond”) cabaret. Industrial Health Service of Alina Pienkowska, photo: Stanisław Składanowski / ECS Składanowski Stanisław photo: Alina Pienkowska, photo: Wojciech Milewski / ECS Milewski Wojciech photo: OF ART”) med in the plaza in front negotiations with the gov- a cabinet where photos of Artystów w Stoczni Gdańsk- was located here, surround- source of strike in the Ship- MODELS”) Also in 1957, the first Miss Gdansk Shipyard. The pride Here, the Shipyard of the Hall. Inside, there is, ernment (as a member of udarniks (the most efficient iej 2001–2011” (“Colony of ed with a garden and a yard in August 1980 and the Polonia competition for of the shipyard health centre O GATE N 2 offices were located, among others, an exhibition the Committee of Experts at workers) were displayed. Artists in Gdansk Shipyard greenhouse. In the time of first demand of the strikers. The Wyspa Institute of 20 years (won by Alicja was, directed by Dr. Hanna employing mainly women. of Young City Gdansk’s vision MKS Gdansk). Maryla Płońska, In 1950s, one of them was 2001-2011”) (2012), was the Colony of Artists, the Art has existed for 25 years The building no longer “Kaszubka” Bobrowska) took Kisielnicka, the Physical As accountants and staff for development. The project co-author of the defence Anna Walentynowicz. As a published by custodian Teatr Znak (“Sign Theatre”) and has made its home in exists. An artistic space es- place in the Hall. In 1966, Therapy Clinic, offering full For over thirty years, managers, women dealt with envisages conservation and manifesto of dismissed welder, she achieved up to Jolanta Woszczenko and was located there. Also, „SZATNIOWIEC” the area of the former Ship- tablished by Wyspa Progress Marlena Dietrich gave a recovery after illnesses and Aleksandra Olszewska has logistics, sales, and supplies. restoration of the most Walentynowicz, served as 270% of the norm, and for printed by the Gdansk-based Alicja Mojko’s „Teatr Lustra (“THE CHANGER”) yard since 2004. Its Director Foundation. Its programme concert here. injuries. The women enter- cared for the Gate and dec- The administration decided important historical shipyard a secretary in works of MKS, her exemplary work she was Laznia Centre for Contem- Strona Druga” (“Of the Mir- is Aneta Szyłak, thanks to was co-created by Lena ing the clinic were mostly orated it with flowers. In the on assignation of flats and buildings, their adaptation to participated in formulating rewarded multiple times porary Art.