since 26 January 2018

Foundation

The Piwnica Poetycka (Poetry Cellar) ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage. It grew out of the passion and many years of searching of two artists, Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański, and of the people they invited to work with them.

26 Jan 2018: The Foundation in its current legal form
2019: Kredens pod Oknami (the Dresser under the Windows)
2025: Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award

Welcome

to the website of Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański and the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation

We run a wide range of social and artistic, intercultural and historical projects. The flagship venue of our work is Kredens pod Oknami, an independent artistic centre for local activity at 4 Boremlowska Street in Warsaw. We warmly invite you to work with us.

Timeline

Fifteen years in nine dates: from the first poetry cellar to the award.

16 Oct 2011The first Piwnica Poetycka: poetry evenings with Irena Jun, Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański. More →
26 Jan 2018The Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation in its present legal form. More →
Apr 2019Kredens pod Oknami opens at Szklanych Domów 13. More →
Nov 2019 – Dec 2020Interviews with residents of Osiedle Młodych recorded: the oral history archive. More →
2020First edition of the Klatka po Klatce film series. More →
2024Anna Bojarska named Volunteer of the Decade of the Praga-Południe District.
Jul 2025Kredens moves to Boremlowska 4. More →
21 Oct 2025The Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award for lifetime achievement. More →
11 Apr 2026Premiere of Marek Urbański’s monodrama “Rozewicz.play.pl” at Teatr Kamienica. More →

The Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage was established with a mission of socially useful activity and creation.

It is the result of the passion and many years of creative searching of two artists, Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański, and of the people they invite to work with them.

It has existed in its current legal form since 26 January 2018.

It pursues its goals by preserving and creating new values, and by inspiring and teaching a new generation to develop creatively and to grow stronger in their sense of the need for patriotic activity and for the promotion of Polish culture.

It supports and promotes all activities that serve human harmony with one’s surroundings and with the context of social and cultural life and development.

It undertakes, consolidates and strengthens all creative and constructive initiatives that serve the mental and physical balance and health of people of all ages, and harmony with the landscape and the geopolitical environment, according to the broadly understood principles of humanitarian action and of coexistence, also with our so-called “lesser brethren”, that is, animals.

for lifetime achievement

Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award

On 21 October 2025, Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański, representing the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, received the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award for lifetime achievement from Marshal Adam Struzik.

The Foundation’s profile video, produced by the organisers of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award

A report from the gala: we are among the award winners

26th edition of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship Award: a recording of the ceremony of 21 October 2025

People of the Foundation

Anna Bojarska also runs Kredens pod Oknami. Her full biography is in the footer, under “Meet Anna”.

Anna Bojarska

Anna Bojarska-Urbańska, President of the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage

Actress, singer, theatre scholar and culture manager. Today she is not permanently attached to any theatre. She has more than thirty years of creative experience: theatre, film and TV (television theatre, series, concerts, recitals). From childhood to this day she has been connected with the spoken-word workshops run by Irena Jun. For 12 years she also worked at the Lalka Theatre in Warsaw, where, besides her artistic work, she promoted this special stage. She is interested in the creative and cognitive process in itself, in the context of various fields of art. She is a graduate of the Institute of Literary Theory, Theatre and Audiovisual Arts at the University of Łódź and of postgraduate pedagogical studies at the Kujawy and Pomorze University; a puppeteer and animator trained at the Puppetry Faculty in Białystok of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw; and a graduate of postgraduate management studies at the University of Warsaw and postgraduate voice production studies at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. She is a third-year student at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the “Dorośli do Sztuki – Akademia Otwarta” (Adults for Art – Open Academy) programme. She studies and creates in the drawing and painting studio of Professor Elżbieta Banecka.

Marek Urbański

Representative of the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage

A theatre, film and television actor who works with radio (radio plays, commentary, his own columns), dubbing and recording studios (documentaries, reportage, dialogue lists). The creator of many musical adaptations of contemporary drama and poetry.

Author and narrator of radio columns for Radio Łódź in the late 1990s:

A student of Irena Jun.

He has worked in the theatre since 1975. A pupil of Zuzanna Łozińska, Jelenia Góra.

He values the JOURNEY more than reaching the DESTINATION. He was given his first camera for his fifth birthday. Through his father’s mother, née Greim, he is a descendant of Michał Greim.

Projects

Shows, series and archives that the Foundation has been running for years.

for children aged 4 to 7

Moja tajemnica (My Secret)

Devised and performed by Anna Bojarska. Directing supervision: Dariusz Wiktorowicz. Set design: Jan Zieliński. Music: Błażej Dowlasz. Accordion: Przemysław Wojciechowski. A literary and theatrical game for children aged 4–7. This introduction to theatre for the youngest, performed by Anna Bojarska, takes the audience into the world of theatrical ideas and into the magical atmosphere of Danuta Wawiłow’s poems, drawn from children’s imagination. The show is a game meant to inspire the audience to name feelings and emotions in their own language. This is how crumbs of children’s poetry come into being; we will collect them in a children’s book of thoughts.

The show, which is also a meeting, aims to jointly create a “Children’s Book of Thoughts”, a book written and painted by children. During or after the meeting we ask carers to write down the children’s thoughts spoken during the shared activity.

We collect them in the CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THOUGHTS… they can also be drawings.

In the spirit of Danuta Wawiłow’s idea that “every person is an artist, every child is a poet”, crumbs of children’s poetry come into being!

55 minutes without an intervalages 4 and upperformed since 1996

Devised and performed by Anna Bojarska. Directing supervision: Dariusz Wiktorowicz. Set design: Jan Zieliński. Music: Błażej Dowlasz. Accordion: Przemysław Wojciechowski.

TheatreMoja tajemnicarecording of the show, part 1Watch

From press reviews

“The secret of the show lies in a very serious approach to the youngest audience. (…) With the help of very simple props and Danuta Wawiłow’s charming poems, the actress created a separate world of theatrical imagination, a world meant to inspire us to name feelings and emotions in our own painterly or literary language.”

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress sits on top of a little house full of puppets

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress with wings beside the puppet house

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress dances in front of the children in the audience

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress twirls a long ribbon above the stage

“Moja tajemnica”: the stage from above, children sitting around the little house

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress with a hat and a glove puppet in her hand

“Moja tajemnica”: the actress with a puppet in blue light

Book the show: 695 893 954

since 2017

Gałązka z drzewa słońca (A Twig from the Tree of the Sun)

A series of reading and painting sessions based on Jerzy Ficowski’s poems and fairy tales, which Anna Bojarska began in 2017 in cooperation with the Jerzy Ficowski Foundation.

Gypsy fairy tales and poems for children, episode 1 “Gałązka z drzewa słońca”“Afisz”: TVP Kultura recommends

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Album of memories

The Foundation’s events and 3959 photos, year by year: from 2026 back to the 1950s.

Piwnica Poetycka

Poetry evenings with Irena Jun in Żoliborz, from 2011 to 2018.

1956

The Estate Archive

An oral history of Osiedle Bezdomnych Kochanków (the Homeless Lovers’ Estate): conversations with residents who built their homes themselves.

Multiculturalism

Roma culture. Romani artists.

Randia

“Randia …po polsku – drapieżna”

The Foundation presents Roma culture and the work of Romani artists. Its main project is Anna Bojarska-Urbańska’s book “Randia …po polsku – drapieżna”, the written and sung story of the Roma singer Bronisława Korsun, known as Randia, long connected with Warsaw. The book is dedicated to the memory of Jerzy Ficowski; its CD has sixteen songs by him, Elżbieta Bussold and Roma and Polish composers.

In 1964, at the 2nd Polish Song Festival in Opole, Randia was among the ten artists distinguished by the jury. On 5 August 2023 in Połczyn-Zdrój, during the 7th Gypsy-Slavic Feast, she received a special award from the Royal Roma Foundation. The book was launched with the concert “Mój fach szczęśliwy” (“My Happy Craft”), on the Romani paths in Jerzy Ficowski’s work, on 13 November 2024 at the Centrum Promocji Kultury in Praga-Południe, with the Roma culture group Miro Iło.

Recordings

Launch of the book “Randia …po polsku – drapieżna”“Mój fach szczęśliwy”, a concert for Jerzy Ficowski and the book launch Meeting about the book at Kalinowe Serce From the launch at the Centrum Promocji Kultury: “Patra”, translated by Jerzy Ficowski The Royal Roma Foundation award for Randia, Połczyn-Zdrój 2023 Promoters of Roma culture: the story of Randia and the Piccolo Roma Dzieci Świata group

Under the patronage of TVP Kultura. Funded by the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Department of Religious Denominations and National and Ethnic Minorities).