Kredens pod Oknami

Dear Friends! On Monday 22 June 2026 at Kredens pod Oknami, 4 Boremlowska Street, we will host Włodzimierz Pigła in the original series of musical meetings by the wonderful violinist Joanna Okoń!

It will be about music, about life among the notes, and we will listen to a violin concert by Joanna Okoń and her musical protégée! Apparently a musical surprise awaits us too!

Włodzimierz Pigła is a Polish music librarian and musicographer. From 1971 to 1976 he studied musicology at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw under Jerzy Pikulik. Since 1976 he has worked in the Music Collections Department of the National Library in Warsaw, where in 1984 he became a curator, and from 1989 to 1997 he was head of the Department. From 1991 to 1996 he chaired the Music Libraries Section of the Polish Librarians’ Association. Since 1978 he has been an individual member of the Association Internationale des Bibliothèques Musicales, and since 2000 he has worked with the Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale. He has taken part in many national and international librarians’ conferences and also participates in the work of the Music Periodicals Working Group. He has been honoured with the “Zasłużony Działacz Kultury” (Meritorious Cultural Activist) badge (1986) and the Bronze Cross of Merit (1988).

His research interests focus on musicographic and documentation issues relating to Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries; in particular he devotes himself to work on a bibliography of Chopin transcriptions and of Chopin-related themes in the work of other composers.

You are very warmly invited! We are grateful to Włodzimierz and Asia for their effort and for sharing music, passion and creative time!

We warmly invite you to the Skwer Seniora (Seniors' Green), where we are organising a special meeting, exceptionally, on 13 June at 7 pm. Please pass it on and COME!

Let us be together!

This is the guiding idea of our evening of music and dancing! We hope the showers will be passing and will clear by the evening! Let us meet at the Skwer Seniora on 13 June 2026

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Wonderful guests from the group Pora na Kabarecik, and a quiz game about
our district! There will be prizes!

At the end of the concert there will be an auction of a painting by Hanna Chodzewicz! It could soon be yours. Starting price 600 zł! Our meeting, a multigenerational event, is being held as part of the “neighbourhood initiatives” programme

funded by the Capital City of Warsaw! Thank you very much for the recognition of our project in the neighbourhood initiatives proposals competition!

The funding is intended for organisational costs!

Everyone taking part in the concert, including the project's authors, is performing for you for charity!

Let us be together!

We are resuming the activities of the chamber stage at Kredens pod Oknami! Close contact with the actor, with the text. Theatre, thought, emotion! Kartoteka.play! You are warmly invited!

Let us meet! A young man from Kock will visit us; in recent years he has been launching his serious vocal career, including here with us. We will sing carols together! We warmly invite you!

Piotr Bagun – a vocalist of the young generation who performs well-known and
loved songs with passion, in exceptional interpretations of his own.

Winner of many national vocal competitions, including: – Finalist of “Szansa na Sukces – Opole 2025” – Winner of an episode of “Szansa na Sukces” with the repertoire of Włodzimierz Korcz – Grand Prix of Harfa Papuszy – “Nasz Kolorowy Świat” 2023 – Audience Award at the Gypsy-Slavic Feast (Biesiada Cygańsko-Słowiańska) in Połczyn

Zdrój – 1st place at Eleni’s song festival “Po słonecznej stronie życia” – Distinctions and places on the podium in carol-singing and themed competitions across

Poland
His repertoire is dominated by iconic Polish compositions, performed with passion and
respect for tradition.
In his recital he presents cover versions of the greatest hits
of Polish and international popular music – from Zbigniew Wodecki, Marek Grechuta,
Michał Bajor and Alicja Majewska to Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
Each of his performances is a musical journey full of emotion, elegance and sincerity.
Piotr easily connects with the audience and leaves behind something
more than just a good impression – he leaves emotion.

A sentimental journey around pre-war Warsaw in search of the values buried in the ruins of Warsaw after the Uprising, of which the “Singer of the Poles”, Mieczysław Fogg, remained the immortal embodiment to the end. A Pole, a Varsovian, a Warsaw insurgent, the longest-performing Polish variety artist, whose stage career lasted more than sixty years!

On the 35th anniversary of Mieczysław Fogg’s death, his figure, his times and the Warsaw to which he was ready to dedicate his life will be brought closer by the ambassador of Polish retro song, Jakub Gawrysiak.

Warsaw, Kredens pod Oknami, 4 Boremlowska Street
6 September 2025
6 pm
Admission: 30 zł
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Jakub Gawrysiak, known as a one-man band nicknamed “Maestro”, is a musician who is frivolously serious: a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and organiser of cultural life. A variety performer inspired by the music of the interwar period and a promoter of that music. A lover of musical improvisation. He studied in Great Britain and France. Co-founder and lead pianist of the British group “RetroSingers”. He has performed in Poland and abroad, including in Italy and Germany. In 2019 he played a concert for Japanese television NHK. Composer of the Hejnał (bugle call) of the town of Jabłonowo Pomorskie. Winner of the Złoty Liść Retro 2024. Honoured with the Medal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland – the Senate Eagle.

Dear all! You are warmly invited!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
the first meeting in the film series
Klatka po Klatce VI – Masters of Polish Cinema
Rafał Dajbor and his latest book
On the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the first episode of the series

The evening will be hosted by Anna Bojarska. Friday, 16 May 2025, 6 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Dear all! We warmly invite you!
The Neighbourhood Local Activity Centre
Kredens pod Oknami
warmly invites you to the
39th meeting in the series “Our Guests”,
whose guest of honour will be:
Barbara Bursztynowicz
Photo: Andrzej Tyszko
“My Life”
The evening will be hosted by

Anna Bojarska. Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 6 pm. Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Barbara Bursztynowicz

Polish theatre and film actress. In 1977 she graduated from the Acting Department of the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw.

Before she had even finished her acting studies, she made her professional stage debut as Katia in Maxim Gorky's “Barbarians” (directed by Aleksander Bardini), staged in 1976 at the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw. From 1977 to 2001 she was an actress at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw. In 2010 she played Ruth in Tim Firth's “Calendar Girls” (directed by Tomasz Dutkiewicz) at the Teatr Komedia in Warsaw. She has also played many roles in Television Theatre.

She made her film debut in Andrzej Kostenko's “Sam na sam” (1977). Television viewers know her mainly as Elżbieta Chojnicka in the soap opera “Klan”, in which she played the character from 1997 to 2025. For this role she was nominated for the 2002 Telekamera for the most popular TV series actress.

For a year she was a columnist for the television supplement of the two-day paper “Polska The Times”, and a selection of her columns was published in 2013 by Wydawnictwo G+J as a book entitled “Jak w życiu”.

The Neighbourhood Local Activity Centre
warmly invites you to
the opening of an exhibition of paintings
by Hanna Chodzewicz
“Ogród myśli” (Garden of Thoughts)
Thursday 27 February 2025, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
“Ogród myśli”
My world
Hanna Chodzewicz

The paintings are a record of impressions and feelings from journeys near and far. An important area of the artist’s creative exploration is nature. The strong influence of nature and yielding to impulses and emotions are an inseparable part of the creative act. An important source of inspiration for the artist lies in the phenomena of light, colour and form – the outer world colliding with the world of the imagination.

Artistic biography:
Journalist and political scientist
• graduate of the Open Academy of Fine Arts
in Warsaw, studio of Prof. Apoloniusz Węgłowski
• member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZAP), Mazovia Branch
• member of the Warsaw Association of Artists
• participant in painting workshops in the studios of the Śródmieście Cultural Centre
• laureate of national painting competitions
• participant in national and international painting plein-air workshops
Exhibitions:
• solo exhibition “Dwa światy” at the Metamorfozy Gallery – 2020
• solo exhibition “Drzewa jak ludzie” at Klubotece Dojrzałego Człowieka –
2021
• solo exhibition “Chodzę wśród drzew” at the Elektrownia Powiśle – 2022

• Group exhibition of the Artistic Studios (Foksal) of the Śródmieście Cultural Centre – 2023

• Post-plein-air exhibition of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers in Kazimierz Dolny – 2023
• Post-plein-air exhibition in the studio of Prof. Apoloniusz Węgłowski at the Academy of Fine Arts – 2023

• Group exhibition of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers “Uwaga, świeżo malowane” at the Fabryczka gallery – 2023

• Post-plein-air exhibition “Świeżo malowane” in Kazimierz Dolny – 2023

• Exhibition of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers “To lubię”, ZAP Gallery – January/February 2024

• Post-plein-air exhibition ZAP Kazimierz Dolny 2023 at the Communio Graphis Gallery in Góra Kalwaria – February/March 2024

• Group exhibition ZAP “Ogród – przestrzeń między filozofią i naturą” at the BUW (University of Warsaw Library) – July 2024

• Solo exhibition “Salon odrzuconej” of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers at the Elektrownia Powiśle – September/October 2024

www.zap.org.pl/hanna-chodzewicz
Contact: hanka.lula@gmail.com

We warmly invite you to Kredens pod Oknami, Szklanych Domów 13! Free admission! An extraordinary evening!

The neighbourhood Local Activity Centre Kredens pod Oknami, Szklanych Domów 13
warmly invites you to
An evening of remembrance:
Jerzy Gruza and his "worlds"
On the fifth anniversary of the director's passing
and a screening of his last film "DARIUSZ"
Special guests
Tatiana Sosna-Sarno
Zofia Czernicka
Rafał Dajbor
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 6:30 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Jerzy Gruza, pseudonym "Paweł Binke", born 4 April 1932 in Warsaw, died 16 February 2020 in Pruszków

Polish director and screenwriter, occasionally a film actor. Creator of many television programmes and shows.

The grave of Jerzy Gruza at the Military Cemetery at Powązki in Warsaw (headstone by the architect Tomasz Skorupa, "Kontrastowo")

Graduate of the Directing Department of the Film School in Łódź (1956). At the start of his career he worked at TVP with Bogumił Kobiela and Jacek Fedorowicz (the programmes Poznajmy się, Małżeństwo doskonałe, Kariera, Runda). He directed many TV Theatre productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1957), "The School for Widows" by Jean Cocteau, the monodrama "Sammy" with Zbigniew Cybulski (1962), and "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Molière (in 1969 Bogumił Kobiela played his last role in it).

He directed popular series: Wojna domowa (1965–1966), Czterdziestolatek (1974–1977), Pierścień i róża (1986), Czterdziestolatek. 20 lat później (1993), and feature films: Dzięcioł (1970), Przeprowadzka (1972), Motylem jestem, czyli romans 40-latka (1976).

In 1983 he became director of the Musical Theatre in Gdynia. On that stage he directed great musical hits: Fiddler on the Roof (premiere 1984), Jesus Christ Superstar (1987), Les Misérables (1989), Man of La Mancha (1991), Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1991). He is the author of the books: 40 lat minęło jak jeden dzień (1998) and Człowiek z wieszakiem – życie zawodowe i towarzyskie (2003). He was a juror in the programme Zostań Gwiazdą Filmową.

On 22 July 1964, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of People's Poland, he received a collective first-class state prize for artistic work in TV Theatre[2]. He was also a winner of the Super Wiktor award, given in 1993 for television work. At the gala of the 42nd Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia (2017) he received the "Platinum Lions" for lifetime achievement[3].

The Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation
Neighbourhood Local Activity Centre
Kredens pod Oknami
warmly invite you to:
A chocolate evening
For Ms Basia
On the third anniversary of ……
And in it, a film
by Maciej Kowalewski and Piotr Konstantinow
"KRAFFTÓWNA w krainie czarów"
A one-off screening with the consent of the film's producer
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 6:30 pm

Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission. Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Ladies and gentlemen! We are delighted to invite you to the 37th meeting in the series Our Guests!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
the 37th meeting in the series “Our Guests”
whose hero will be:
theatre and film actor
Adam Woronowicz
“Wolność jest w nas” (“Freedom Is within Us”)
Hosts of the evening:
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Friday, 25 October 2024, 6:30 pm, free admission. “Kredens pod Oknami”, Szklanych Domów 13, Warsaw

Dear Friends!
We are delighted to invite you to a musical evening in Kredens pod Oknami!
Our guest will be the outstanding Polish pianist
Przemysław Lechowski and the music of Maestro Fryderyk Chopin!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A musical visit
from Maestro Fryderyk Chopin
Przemysław Lechowski
CONCERT
Evening hosted by
Anna Bojarska

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 6:30 pm, free admission. “Kredens pod Oknami”, Szklanych Domów 13, Warsaw

We will hear, among other pieces:
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 2
Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4
Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
4 Mazurkas, Op. 24:
G minor No. 1
C major No. 2
A-flat major No. 3
B-flat minor No. 4
And more…

Przemysław Lechowski graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice and then perfected his skills in postgraduate studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He is also a graduate of the Postgraduate Studies in Diplomatic and International Service at the Faculty of Law

and Administration of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

He is a laureate of national and international piano competitions. He has performed in Poland, France, Russia, Germany, Norway, Italy, Lithuania,

the Czech Republic, Romania, China, Indonesia and Lebanon – giving more than two thousand concerts.

He is a juror of international piano competitions and president of the Henryk Neuhaus Foundation for the Art of Piano Playing. In recognition of his piano skills and his contribution to popularising Chopin’s music in Siberia, he received the honorary title of professor of Tomsk University, which he renounced in protest against Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Przemysław Lechowski has repeatedly given concerts in places connected

with Fryderyk Chopin. He gave a joint recital with Halina Czerny-Stefańska, the first Polish winner of the Chopin Competition. He is the initiator

and artistic director of the international piano festival
Chopin in the Heart of Warsaw, held in the Evangelical Holy Trinity Church – an official
Chopin site.

In 2022 he was diagnosed with a tumour of a nerve in his right hand. Thanks to a masterfully performed operation, after 10 months he returned to full fitness and to concert activity.

Przemysław Lechowski is a recognised piano teacher and leads master classes
in Poland and abroad.

He is an expert on Second World War fighter aviation, and his passion is

also public international law.

Dear Guests!

We are beginning another series – Restoring Memory… at Kredens pod Oknami – and in it Zofia Czernicka’s “Mój Dekalog” (My Decalogue). We recall her programme, her original conversations with artists who are no longer with us… On 18 October the first of these meetings with us… And the figure we recall… in excerpts from archive material, the wonderful actor Krzysztof Kolberger. You are warmly invited.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:

The first meeting in the original series by the popular journalist and television presenter

Zofia Czernicka, “Mój Dekalog”
Krzysztof Kolberger
“…ta chwila…” (…This Moment…)
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
Restoring Memory at Kredens pod Oknami!

Friday, 18 October 2024, 6:30 pm, free admission. “Kredens pod Oknami”, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, Warsaw

Dear all!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
A MEETING in the film series Frame by Frame V
Masters of Polish Cinema
Wojciech Jerzy Has
as told by
Małgorzata Burzyńska-Keller
“kadr pamięci” (“a frame of memory”)
The evening will be hosted by:
Rafał Dajbor and Anna Bojarska

Event documentation: TELEPRODUKCJA Tomasz Bajko; Marek Urbański. Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 6 pm. Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission.

Director of feature and documentary films and television programme producer. Since 1996 a lecturer in the Directing Department of the Film School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź, and until 2000 assistant to Professor Wojciech Jerzy Has. President of the Board of the "Solidaria" Foundation for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. Since 2008 author of the regular programme "Szma Israel", presenting the history, traditions and present-day life of Jews in Poland.

Rafał Dajbor

Rafał Dajbor – actor and journalist. Since 2002 he has performed at the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw. He has played several dozen small roles in Polish films and series, the most popular being the ecologist Tomasz “Mały” Tusiewicz in Klan. He heads the Drugi Plan foundation, whose aim is to save from oblivion the masters of the bit part in Polish cinema and television.

He is the author of the book "Jak u Barei, czyli kto to powiedział", which was very well received by readers and revealed the behind-the-scenes story of the cult scenes of Stanisław Bareja's films, and of its sequel "Mój mąż jest z zawodu dyrektorem, czyli Jak u Barei 2".

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
An intergenerational evening marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of
the Warsaw Uprising
Please bring emblems, ribbons and
white-and-red flags.
Free admission
Saturday, 3 August 2023, 8 pm
A presentation of an album of photographs from the collection of
the Warsaw Rising Museum
Poems and insurgent songs
Screening of the film “KANAŁ” by Andrzej Wajda, 8:30 pm
The start of the estate’s neighbourly review of films
Masters of Polish Cinema
Klatka po Klatce V (Frame by Frame V)
The lawn in front of “Kredens pod Oknami”, 13 Szklanych Domów Street
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

We warmly invite lovers of Warsaw, art and history to the ceremony unveiling City Information System (MSI) plaques commemorating outstanding artists of the former Osiedle Młodych estate in Grochów:

- Zbigniew Brodowski, creator of monumental mosaics

- Stanisław Kucharski, designer of innovative solutions in the flats on the Osiedle Młodych (now Szaserów) estate, including the PRL-era wall unit

- Teresa Kruszewska, designer of the iconic “Muszelka” and “Tulipan”
- Teresa Sułowska-Bojarska, author of historical novels
The ceremony will take place on Saturday 29 June at 3 pm.
Start at the plaque of Teresa Sułowska-Bojarska at ul. Wspólna Droga 31
Programme:
3:00 pm Official unveiling of the plaques and a walk around the Szaserów estate with guides
4:30 pm Artistic programme
Hosted by: Mirosław Zbrojewicz
Recitation of poems by Maria Znosko

Presentation of works of art by artists living in the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative: Dorota Brodowska and Anatol Karoń

Literary song concert by Zuzanna Gaińska
Performance by the saxophonist Tomasz Świtalski

The event is part of the project “Oko na sztukę”, carried out by the Flaneur Research and Animation Association (https://okonasztuke.art/)

The event is under the patronage of Tomasz Kucharski – Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw

Partners:
The Board of the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative
Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage
Kicia Kocia club-café
Museum of Warsaw

Dear all!

We warmly invite you to the 5th meeting in the series The Documentary Film and Its Makers! An evening with the outstanding Polish journalist and reporter Marek Miller and his latest book "Katechizm Reportera"! 19 June 2024 at 6 pm; free admission!

You will be able to buy it for twenty-five złoty. Volume II of the History of the Różycki Bazaar will also be on sale, for 100 zł. It is an exceptional publication. The conversation will be led by Anna Bojarska Urbańska and Marek Urbański.

Marek Miller: Creator and organiser of the Reportage Laboratory – a place of journalistic exploration and experiment, probing the space between journalism and writing and examining the possibilities of collective work on a text and of multimedia storytelling.

Marek Miller writes about himself, among other things:

"…I am a reporter. I believe in reportage. It is my vision, my passion, my obsession. For me reporters are a reference group, my guild, my trade, my way of life. Can I call it a vocation? Do I have enough aptitude for it? How can that be recognised? How defined?

The need to “be a gift for” others is written into human nature. A vocation is linked with a gift “for” others; the one called “walks in the direction in which love calls him”1, because only that can explain the willingness to bear hardships that do not pay off in temporal life. So at the origin of the mission of informing and educating the public there is a strong inner imperative. I am deeply moved by the nobility and gravity of your profession.

A vocation demands total dedication and sacrifice. What demands are made of a reporter, of the journalistic vocation? What lies behind what attracts, absorbs and inspires me? Knowledge? The desire to find an answer to the question of how it really was, what the truth is? How to seek it, how to report it? What follows from the fact that I am a Catholic?

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative

together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to "Post scriptum…" to the film series Klatka po Klatce IV:

Masters of Polish Cinema and Young People
Krzysztof Zanussi
Screening of the film "Liczba doskonała" ("The Perfect Number")

A meeting and conversation with pupils of years 3 and 4 of the Agnieszka Osiecka Secondary School in Warsaw

"There are things in heaven and earth that nobody has dreamt of..."

Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 11 am, free admission. Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Dear Guests!

We warmly invite you, on Violetta Villas’s birthday, to a meeting and a concert in her memory! A birthday evening! Kris Luis Siemiński, years ago a student of Ms Violetta, will perform. The evening will be hosted by the wonderful and well-known television journalist Zofia Czernicka, a friend of our Kredens, and Jakub Gawrysiak will provide the accompaniment!

Monday, 10 June 2024, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, entrance from Garwolińska Street

Dear all!
We have the joy and honour of hosting Maestro Wiesław Ochman once again!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative

and the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to the 32nd meeting in the series: “Our Guests”

whose hero will be
Maestro
Wiesław Ochman
“dla przyjaciół..” (“for friends..”)
Opening of a painting exhibition
Conversations about creativity, memory, music and painting...
At the piano:
Janusz Tylman
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 6 pm;
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission,

You are warmly invited!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to
an evening dedicated to our Mums!
"...ona mi pierwsza pokazała księżyc..." ("...she was the first to show me the moon...")
Let us remember them, and meet over homemade cake, tea
and the accompaniment of old hits performed by
Jerzy Machnicki
Let us meet in poems and singing together!
For ladies and mums, a symbolic gift
from the Jolanta Kwaśniewska Foundation
"Porozumienie bez Barier" ("Communication without Barriers")
Hosts of the evening:
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Thursday, 23 May 2024, 7 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Dear all! We warmly invite the multigenerational community of our neighbourhood, and of Warsaw too!

We invite you to Kredens pod Oknami for
EVENTS as part of the Warsaw Neighbours’ Days, May/June 2024
The first meeting in the series
.safety.Education.
.HELP.
The talk and conversation with the audience will be led by:
Grzegorz Jędrzejczyk
President of the 112 Foundation
“…Almost everything about fire and firefighters…”
Practical advice and anecdotes…
May is the month of the Fire Service holiday
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 6 pm;
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
Grzegorz Jędrzejczyk, President of the 112 Foundation

Specialist and expert in crisis management, fire protection, media communication, negotiation and environmental protection.

Officer of the State Fire Service with over 28 years of experience in fire protection. Member of a Volunteer Fire Brigade, long-standing Honorary Blood Donor of Merit working with DKMS, university lecturer,

graduate of the Main School of Fire Service, the National Defence Academy, the National School of Public Administration and the Higher School of Environmental Protection

Dear Guests!
EVENTS as part of the Warsaw Neighbours’ Days

Film evenings with a cup of tea in Kredens pod Oknami! A postscript to the series Klatka po Klatce IV: “Dyrygent”, a film by Andrzej Wajda from 1979

The story’s hero is John Lasocki (John Gielgud), an American conductor of Polish descent who, after an international career, decides to return to Poland to conduct a special concert of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. One of the conductor’s favourites is Marta Pietryk (Krystyna Janda), whose jealous husband Adam (Andrzej Seweryn) – an unfulfilled conductor with no authority – plots an intrigue against the guest.

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“… In second place among the distinguished eleven films singled out by Ingmar Bergman was the Polish film "Dyrygent" by Andrzej Wajda… Perhaps it is the motif of "the search for lost time" present in "Dyrygent", which also recurs constantly in the work of the author of "Wild Strawberries"?… Without doubt, Wajda’s film was received far better abroad than at home. "Dyrygent" won many prestigious awards, including at such well-known festivals as San Sebastián and Santander…”

Thursday 16 May 2024, 6 pm;
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Dear Guests!
YOU ARE INVITED!
To intergenerational events as part of the Warsaw Neighbours’ Days

Film evenings with a cup of tea at Kredens pod Oknami! A postscript to the series Klatka po Klatce IV: “WESELE” (The Wedding), Andrzej Wajda’s film from 1972

Monday, 20 May 2024; 6 pm; free admission.
The film lasts 109 minutes.
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, entrance from Garwolińska Street

A screen adaptation of Stanisław Wyspiański’s play of the same title. The characters of “Wesele” are members of the intelligentsia and the peasantry who come to a cottage in Bronowice to celebrate the wedding of an intellectual Groom and a peasant Bride. The wedding of the title is disturbed by apparitions that arrive at the celebration, whose presence becomes an occasion for reflection on the history of Polish society and its prospects for the future. The adaptation of Wyspiański’s play uses historical costume, though its message has been updated; for example, the figure of Wernyhora has been made up to look like Józef Piłsudski. The film “Wesele” won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The literary “Wesele” was based on a real event, the wedding of the poet Lucjan Rydel (the Groom) to the peasant Jadwiga Mikołajczykówna (the Bride) on 20 November 1900. The characters in the literary and film versions of the work are modelled on real people; for example, Włodzimierz Tetmajer embodied the Host, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer the Poet, Rudolf Starzewski the Journalist, Antonina Domańska the Counsellor’s Wife, and Józefa Singer Rachel. Some of the play’s symbolic characters also derive from authentic figures from Polish history.

Dear Guests!

We invite you to the fourth screening in the series The Documentary Film and Its Makers. Another film by Paweł Wysoczański, about an extraordinary Polish doctor helping people with leprosy in India. The film was made in 2019. After the screening there will be a meeting with the doctor and the director of the film. You are warmly invited. Free admission.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative
together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to the series:
The Documentary Film and Its Makers
Paweł Wysoczański

A graduate of directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice and of film studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Author of documentary and feature films awarded at festivals in Poland and abroad, including the documentary Jurek about Jerzy Kukuczka. An expert of the Polish Film Institute.

Screening IV: “Jutro czeka nas długi dzień” (A Long Day Awaits Us Tomorrow), a film shot in India about Dr Helena Pyz, an outstanding Polish doctor helping people with leprosy. A meeting with the director and the heroine of the documentary!

Thursday, 9 May 2024, 6 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission

Dear Guests, we are glad to invite you!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative

together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to the 31st meeting in the series “Our Guests”

whose heroine will be:
Agata Tuszyńska
Writer, poet, reporter
“Czarna torebka…” (The Black Handbag)
and conversations about creativity, memory and longing…
An evening
on the eve of the 81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
with the special participation of
Janusz Tylman
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Thursday, 18 April 2024, 6 pm; Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission,

Agata Tuszyńska

Writer, poet, reporter, daughter of the well-known sports reporter Bohdan Tuszyński and the journalist Halina Przedborska. She graduated from the Faculty of Theatre Studies at the State Drama School (PWST) in Warsaw. She lectures at the University of Warsaw. She is the author of books on theatre and of biographies, among others of Maria Wisnowska, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Irena Krzywicka. Her latest autobiographical book, “Rodzinna historia lęku” (A Family History of Fear), published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, was warmly received (nominated for the Prix Médicis, published by the French publisher Grasset, it enjoyed international success). Among the author’s achievements is the Ksawery Pruszyński Prize, awarded by the Polish PEN Club.

A theatre historian by training, she took her doctorate at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She worked as a researcher at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 1992. Since the 1990s she has taught students her reporter’s craft – she currently runs seminars at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw and at the Literary and Artistic Studio of the Jagiellonian University.

“…The writer went on delving into the history of her ancestors and their wartime fates, the result of which was ‘Czarna torebka’, published in April 2023 – the story of a handbag hidden for decades in the author’s family home. It belonged to her Jewish grandmother Dela, and it was with this very handbag that Dela and her daughter Halinka left the ghetto.

Tuszyńska is a winner of the Ksawery Pruszyński Prize of the Polish PEN Club for outstanding achievements in reportage and non-fiction, the Gloria Artis medal for Merit to Culture and the French Order of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Hebrew, Greek, Korean and Macedonian. Since March 2022 she has been a columnist for the Polish edition of Vogue.”

Dear Friends! We are delighted to invite you to:
A MEETING
whose hero will be
Krzysztof Przybysz
and an exhibition of his photographs
“Między wierszami” (Between the Lines)

Exhibition curator: Anna Carpenter. The conversation with the guests will be led by Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Thursday 11 April 2024, 7 pm; Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Krzysztof Przybysz
About himself:
I was born in Praga, Warsaw. I lived here, and I was also professionally
connected with Praga, working in logistics in the broad sense.

I have many interests, from history to sailing, and over the years there was never enough time. After retiring I decided to live life to the full, look for new paths and return to old passions. I have always taken photographs

– now I can devote more attention to photography again.

To look, to see, to notice – this is the guiding thought, the motto with which I once framed my activities with a camera. To perceive

with the awareness that a moment is fleeting, and that a photograph taken a second earlier or later fixes the world differently and may capture something entirely different from what I noticed as I released the shutter...

Nowadays everyone takes photographs. Everyone can also (and I hope they will want to) share with me their impressions of how they see what I have stopped in the frame. Will they see and feel what is “between the lines”? Finally, one more fact that matters to me: it is good to have someone who believes in you and sees in you that SOMETHING! I am that lucky – I have my wife, Anna Carpenter. She, as an artist, noticed it and then encouraged, persuaded and motivated me, including for this exhibition. Knowing that you have a supportive person at your side gives you wings!

Krzysztofprzybysz. Wixsite. Com/fotografie

Dear all! We are delighted to invite you to a meeting about Cezary Harasimowicz's latest book, "BIETA", and its heroine, the wonderful Elżbieta Ficowska, a friend of our Kredens pod Oknami!

We will also have the honour of hosting representatives of the Lira publishing house, and the books will be available to buy, with an inscription from the story's heroine and the author! 4 April 2024, 6 pm; free admission! Szklanych Domów 13

We warmly invite you to the first documentary film in the series and to its maker, the film by Paweł Wysoczański:

"Kiedyś będziemy szczęśliwi" (We Will Be Happy Someday), 2011
Free admission. After the screening, a meeting with the director.

"Kiedyś będziemy szczęśliwi" is a film about a boy from the poorest district of Silesia – Lipiny. The hero of the film, Daniel Furmaniak, wants to live differently. He begins to shoot a film with his mobile phone. He asks his peers questions about their dreams.

Who would they like to become in the future? Will the teenagers be able to fulfil their dreams? Will reality not destroy their plans? Do dreams make sense? The film shot by Daniel is an opportunity to show the relationship between the boy and his charismatic grandmother Aniela.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A meeting and evening
for
our dear Barbara Krafftówna
On the eve of the second anniversary of her passing …..
“KRAFFTÓWNA
W
KRAINIE ……”
Special guest:
Elżbieta Łukaszewicz
the Artist’s niece and manager
Guests close to Barbara who would like to come to us for her….
Krzysztof Szuster
President of ZASP (the Polish Actors’ Union), actor, director, friend
STORIES from life, from radio AND from the stage
Monday 22 January 2024, 6:30 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Dear all! We are delighted to begin 2024 at Kredens pod Oknami with an author meeting with Joanna Hempel and her latest book "Księgi wojny i miłości" (“Books of War and Love”), Volume I "Wanda". We warmly invite you!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
An author meeting
whose heroine will be:
Joanna Hempel
and her latest book:
“Księgi wojny i MIŁOŚCI”
VOLUME I
WANDA
A gripping portrait of a multigenerational family on both
sides of the eastern front
during the First World War.
The evening will be hosted by:

Jan Rychner – president of the Literary Club "Nasza Twórczość" of the Wspólnota Polska Association, poet, member of ZAiKS, member of the Slavic Academy of Literature and Art in Varna

Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop

“Great stories demand great narratives. They are nothing without full-blooded characters. Joanna Hempel does not let her ancestors fade in photographs. She shows them in their hour of trial, weaving them into the enormous fabric of European history. If one is to get to know the eastern front of the Great War – then only like this!”

Tomasz Kosiorek – Polish Radio

“It is hard to put down a book that so vividly interweaves great history with human fates. This novel tugs at the heartstrings. I am enchanted!” Barbara Wysoczańska, author. “I finished reading the whole thing in two days; some of it I even read twice, I simply could not put it down. I had been waiting impatiently for this novel, expecting an ordinary, biographical one… But this book is particularly well written – the structure, the way the plot is built, the insightful analysis of the realities and the descriptions…”

Halina Czernuszyn Robinson, Sydney, writer, Holocaust survivor

“I have finished reading it for the second time. A masterly work – especially the dialogue used to tell historical and political events. The characterisations of women such as Wanda or Bronia, who grew from inexperienced, sheltered girls into strong young women, made a particular impression on me.

I gave it 5 stars on Amazon.” Penelope Collet, art historian, France

We warmly invite you to the concert-performance which premiered at Kredens pod Oknami on 19 April 2023, on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A memorial concert
on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak
of the WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
"okno na tamtą stronę…" ("A Window to the Other Side…")
Poems and songs
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
At the piano
Janusz Tylman
On clarinet
Oliwier Andruszczenko
Monday, 27 November 2023, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Project partners: the Jolanta Kwaśniewska Foundation "Porozumienie bez Barier", Auto-Szaser, Yamaha-Polska; Pasja music shop, Veolia S.A.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative
and the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
Opening and exhibition:
Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz paints gel-art
A MEETING with Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
outstanding Polish composer AND PAINTER, and
his paintings FROM the gallery of
Katarzyna Cybertowicz
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Thursday, 23 November 2023, 6 pm. Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission. Photo: R. Nowacki

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative,
together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
an evening in the series
of courtyard meetings with film

Klatka po Klatce 2023. Edition IV: Masters of Polish Cinema, Krzysztof Zanussi – Andrzej Wajda

whose heroine will be the wonderful actress and professor at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Warsaw

Anna Seniuk
"Zielnik" ("Herbarium") of my days, films and roles
The meeting will be hosted by
actor and journalist
Rafał Dajbor

Monday, 13 November 2023, 6 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A meeting around the new book
by Prof. Maria Szyszkowska
“Mijamy się…” (We Pass Each Other By…)
In the book, reflections on life are intertwined with personal threads from the author, a philosopher
Special guest of the evening
Prof. Mariusz Jędrzejko
Meeting hosted by
Anna Bojarska-Urbańska

“…Prof. Maria Szyszkowska, full professor, is the rector of the Pedagogium in Warsaw, a University of Social Sciences, the author of 43 books, including in the field she herself founded: the philosophy of everyday life. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize…”

Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.

Ladies and gentlemen!

We warmly invite you to two premiere performances on the chamber stage of Kredens pod Oknami! Halina Rowicka will appear in the monodrama “Moje Ulotne Miłości” (“My Fleeting Loves”), created from the work of Agnieszka Osiecka! Free admission. Places are limited, so we are performing on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th at 6 pm! Szklanych Domów 13, entrance from Garwolińska.

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
the chamber stage of “Kredens pod Oknami”
A performance inspired by the work of Agnieszka Osiecka
FLEETING
My loves
Halina Rowicka
Script and production:
Set and costume design: Musical arrangement:
Andrzej Lewczuk Mikołaj Hertel
Assistant set designer:
Adam Samsel
A project realised under a ZASP (Polish Actors' Union) creative scholarship
PREMIERE

Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 6 pm. Thursday, 28 September 2023, 6 pm

Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
(entrance from Garwolińska Street)

We warmly invite you to Kredens pod Oknami on 15 September 2023 at 6 pm. The first part of the "Oko na sztukę" ("An Eye on Art") project by the Flaneur Association, which has begun cooperating with us!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
AN EVENING with the project "Oko na sztukę"
of the FLANEUR Research and Animation Association

Following the traces of places and the artistic lives of residents of the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative estate

PART I
A meeting dedicated to the creative profiles of
Zbigniew Brodowski; Andrzej Bersz; Wojciech Bersz;
Guests of the evening:
Dorota Brodowska, artist, daughter of Zbigniew Brodowski
Wojciech Bersz, co-creator of the Grochów Ceramics Studio;
Urszula Dudek, author of the publication "Studio: Ceramika"
An event in cooperation
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation
Friday, 15 September 2023, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

Dear Friends!

Let us meet at the end of the summer holidays! We warmly invite you to a musical evening of memories with the wonderful, charming artists who live permanently in Israel, Zofia and Czesława Rajfer! It will be an evening launching Zofia Rajfer’s book "Lechaim za życie", in which she tells of the rich artistic life of the singing sisters! The special guest of the evening will be Alina Świdowska, an actress of the Jewish Theatre. The Rajfer sisters are in Poland for the Singer Festival and we are delighted to host them! The book will be on sale at a promotional price together with a CD!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
AN EVENING WITH THE SISTERS
ZOFIA AND Czesława Rajfer
and the launch of Zofia Rajfer’s book
“The story described here shows what twin strength, determination and persistence are,
with a touch of luck. We accompany two artists,

Zofia and Czesława Rajfer, from their first steps on stage to performances in the ensembles “Śląsk” and “Roma” in the most prestigious concert halls around the world”

Saturday 2 September 2023, 7 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission

We warmly invite you to an evening with Elżbieta and Krzysztof Zanussi at Kredens pod Oknami!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative
together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
Summer courtyard film meetings entitled:
Klatka po Klatce 2023.

This is the start of the 4th edition of our courtyard cinema Klatka po Klatce (Frame by Frame) – Masters of Polish Cinema. From 4 July to 9 October, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, there will be screenings of films by Krzysztof Zanussi, Masters of Polish Cinema;

Krzysztof Zanussi – Andrzej Wajda.
Estate meetings with film.
Discussion Film Club
at Kredens pod Oknami.
Meetings with Polish film and programmes from the TVP and WFDiF archives
In October, two films by Andrzej Wajda.

On Monday 3 July, at the meeting with Mr and Mrs Zanussi, you will be able to buy books and have them signed: “Życie rodzinne Zanussich…” by Barbara Gruszka-Zych, “Filmy, których już nie nakręcę” by Krzysztof Zanussi and “Samotność Fausta – Rozmowa z Krzysztofem Zanussim” by Jacek Moskwa. All at a promotional price. Free admission. You are warmly invited.

Dear Friends!
We invite you to a musical summer evening at Kredens pod Oknami!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative
together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you
to a musical, intergenerational evening:
CONCERT
A meeting with Baroque music
Performers:
On oboe and Baroque flute (traverso)
Katarzyna Marcinkowska

Baroque oboist and flautist, a graduate of the Józef Elsner State Music School (second level) in Warsaw. She is currently in her diploma year at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, in the Early Music Department – historical oboe, under Dr Tytus Wojnowicz, and at the Academy of Music in Kraków – traverso flute, under Prof. Małgorzata Wojciechowska.

On cello:
Olena Zhurova-Tsolka

Cellist, a graduate of the Academies of Music in Lviv and Warsaw, an orchestral and chamber musician with many years of experience, a teacher and a licensed Suzuki Method teacher.

Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 6 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative
together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite

pre-school and school-age children and their families to a MEETING with Olena Zhurova-Tsolka and her

Stories Spun with a Bow
Meeting four
“Who Is Mr Moniuszko to Us…”

Stories Spun with a Bow teaches about the lives and work of composers and about musical genres and styles, and provides musical illustrations for favourite fairy tales and poems. It is a series of concert-lessons with the cello in the leading role, a music and education project created and performed by the cellist Olena Zhurova-Tsolka, a graduate of the Academies of Music in Lviv and Warsaw, an orchestral and chamber musician with many years of experience, a teacher and a licensed Suzuki Method teacher.

Tuesday, May 2023, 10:00 am and 11:15 am
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.

You are warmly invited! Before the concert, pupils from the primary school will hand out daffodils – stickers from the POLIN Museum.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A concert in remembrance
on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
“Okno na tamtą stronę…” (A Window onto the Other Side…)
Poems and songs
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
At the piano
Janusz Tylman
On clarinet
Oliwier Andruszczenko
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, free admission
Project partners: Auto-Szaser, Yamaha-Polska; Pasja music shop, VEOLIA

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to

The chamber stage of “Kredens pod Oknami” and the 2nd meeting in the series Masters of “the Word”

Special guest of the evening
Irena Jun
in the monodrama
“Jun mówi Szymborską”
based on poems
by Wisława Szymborska
in the year of the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth
Wednesday 8 February 2023, 6 pm
Free admission
Kredens pod
Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from Garwolińska Street)
Project partners: YAMAHA
Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
An evening for
our dear Barbara Krafftówna
On the first anniversary …..
“KRAFFTÓWNA W krainie czarów”
A screening of the documentary directed by
Maciej Kowalewski and Piotr Konstantinow
Special guests of the MEETING:
Elżbieta Łukaszewicz
the Artist’s niece and manager
Piotr Konstantinow
the film’s director and producer. Monday 23 January 2023, 6 pm
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13, free admission
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

We warmly invite you to the 22nd meeting in the series Nasi Goście (Our Guests), whose hero will be Rafał Podraza, music journalist, biographer and Kossak scholar.

It will be an evening of storytelling and a book, during which you will be able to buy the author’s book at a promotional price.

The conversation will be led by Anna Bojarska.

Rafał Podraza is a music journalist, poet, biographer and lyricist. He is regarded in literary circles as a specialist on the Kossak family and the history of Polish song.

Rafał Podraza comes from Lower Silesia. He graduated in history from the University of Wrocław. He is a member of the Polish Writers’ Union, the ZAKR Union of Authors and Composers, and the ZAiKS Association of Authors.

He made his literary debut at the age of seven with a cycle of poems, Milioner, in the local paper Polska Miedź. In 1992, in the national competition Dramaturgia Młodych (Young Dramatists), organised by the Teatr Polski in Wrocław, he received a distinction for the play Grzesiek, Antek i reszta. He has published five volumes of poetry. His book Magdalena, córka Kossaka (PIW 2007) influenced the renaissance of the work of Magdalena Samozwaniec. Building on this success, he prepared for print previously unknown books by the writer:

Z pamiętnika niemłodej już mężatki (WAB 2009),
Moja siostra poetka (PIW 2010),
Trzymajcie się! Porady dla młodych i starych (Iskry 2017)
Baśnie, bajki i bajeczki (nie tylko) dla dzieci (Oficyna R 2022).

Podraza’s edition of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s wartime notes, Wojnę szatan spłodził. 1939-45 (Agora 2012), met with a great response in Poland. On its basis, in 2015 the stage production Lilka, cud Miłości was created, directed by Waldemar Śmigasiewicz (performers: Magdalena Zawadzka, Krystyna Tkacz, Joanna Żółkowska, Paulina Holtz), later transferred to the Polish Radio Theatre.

He is the author of a radio play – premiered in the Polish Radio Theatre – entitled Cyrograf. Historia z życia Heleny Majdaniec. The radio play is currently being adapted for the stage in Szczecin.

The radio play grew out of another area of Rafał Podraza’s interest, Polish popular music, hence the books devoted to Janusz Kondratowicz, Helena Majdaniec, Krzysztof Dzikowski, Anna Jantar and Irena Jarocka.

In the magazine “Prestiż” of Koszalin, Szczecin and the Tricity he ran his own column, Prestiżowe Książki, in which he presented what he considered the most interesting publications. Together with Róża Czerniawska-Karcz he ran the weekly Kącik Literacki (Literary Corner) on TVP3 Szczecin. He worked with TVP Rozrywka, for which he prepared a 24-episode programme, Na festiwalowej scenie…, presenting profiles of outstanding Polish artists.

As an expert he took part in TVP programmes: Gwiazdozbiór and Muzeum Polskiej Piosenki: Historia jednego przeboju.

Since 2017 he has co-edited the column Historia jednej piosenki in the national weekly “Na żywo”. So far he has described more than 300 stories in the press. In 2021 the column was awarded the Kryształowe Pióro (Crystal Pen) by the ZAKR Union of Authors and Composers.

His articles and interviews are also printed in Życie na Gorąco and Dobry Tydzień.
WORKS – volumes of poetry:
1. “Życie przez palce mi przecieka” (1998)
2. “Moja Intymność” (2006)
3. “Przemijanie…” (2008)
4. “Z Jasnorzewską w tle. Wiersze o miłości” (2010)
5. “bilans. 1987-2012” (2012)
1. WORKS – books:
“Magdalena, córka Kossaka. Wspomnienia o Magdalenie Samozwaniec” (PIW 2007)
“Wojciech Kossak” (2012)

2. “Córka Kossaka. Wspomnienia o Magdalenie Samozwaniec”, 2nd expanded edition (IW Latarnik 2012)

3. "Helena Majdaniec Jutro będzie dobry dzień" (ZLP 2013)
4. "Rozmowy o zmierzchu" (series: akcent 2014)
5. “Wojciech Kossak”, 2nd expanded edition (series: akcent 2015)

6. "Wieczór nad rzeką zdarzeń. Janusz Kondratowicz w rozmowie z Rafałem Podrazą" (Oficyna R 2015)

7. “Helena Majdaniec. Jutro będzie dobry dzień”, 2nd expanded edition (WAB 2015)

8. “Przegrane Medale. Jak działacze niszczyli sportowców” (Oficyna R 2015)
9. “Kłobukowska. Przerwany bieg” (Oficyna R 2016)
10. "Tekściarz. Rozmowa z Krzysztofem Dzikowskim" (PIW 2016)
11. “Madzia i… Magdalena”, co-author: Róża Czerniawska-Karcz (Oficyna R 2017)
12. “Anna Jantar. Ikona z przypadku?” (Oficyna R 2018)
13. “Szlagiery… Sentymentalne” (Oficyna R 2019)
14. “Anna Jantar. Ikona z przypadku?”, 2nd expanded edition (Oficyna R 2020)
15. “13 historii ukrytych w piosenkach. Kondratowicz” (Oficyna R 2020)

16. “Cyrograf. Nieznana historia z życia Heleny Majdaniec” – radio play (2020)

17. “Mój Paryż. Śladami Heleny Majdaniec” (Oficyna R 2021)
18. “Tango Notturno… Z gramofonowej płyty” (Oficyna R 2021)
19. “13 historii ukrytych w piosenkach. Jarocka” (Oficyna R 2022)
20. “Królowa twista. 20 szczecińskich wspomnień o Helenie Majdaniec” (SAA 2022)
WORKS – introductions
M. Samozwaniec, Na ustach grzechu, (2012)
M. Samozwaniec, Z pamiętnika młodej mężatki, (WAB 2011)
WORKS – editions of unknown books by Magdalena Samozwaniec
and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
“Z pamiętnika niemłodej już mężatki” (WAB 2009)
“Moja Siostra Poetka” (PIW 2010)
“Wojnę szatan spłodził. Zapiski 1939-1945” (Agora 2012)

"Moich listów nie pal! Korespondencja Magdaleny Samozwaniec do rodziny i przyjaciół" (WAB 2014)

"Trzymajmy się! Rady dla młodych i starych" (Iskry 2017)
“Baśnie, bajki i bajeczki (nie tylko) dla dzieci” (hogben 2022)
IV plays
Grzesiek, Antek i reszta, 1992
Lilka, cud miłości [co-written with Waldemar Śmigasiewicz], 2015
Cyrograf. Historia z życia Heleny Majdaniec, 2022
V radio plays and audiobooks
Lilka, cud Miłości, Polish Radio Theatre in Warsaw
Cyrograf. Historia z życia Heleny Majdaniec, Polish Radio Theatre in Warsaw
Helena Majdaniec. Jutro będzie dobry dzień, Polish Radio Szczecin
AWARDS
A/ decorations and medals:

“Zasłużony Dla Kultury Polskiej” (Meritorious for Polish Culture) Medal (Minister of Culture and National Heritage).

Gold Honorary Medal of the Griffin of West Pomerania (Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship);

Silver Honorary Medal of the Griffin of West Pomerania (Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship);

Medal for the 70th anniversary of the ZLP Szczecin (Polish Writers’ Union, Szczecin branch)
B/ literary and artistic awards:

Distinction in the national competition “Dramaturgia Młodych” (Teatr Polski in Wrocław)

Gold Record for the promotion of Polish song (Polskie Nagrania)

Skrzydła 2010 for the most popular book of the year (Z pamiętnika niemłodej już mężatki by Magdalena Samozwaniec);

Perła Mądrości (Pearl of Wisdom) for services to spreading knowledge about cervical cancer with the book “Wojnę szatan spłodził. Zapiski 1939-1945” by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska;

Róża Poetów – ZLP award for literary activity and 25 years of creative work (Board of the ZLP Szczecin Branch);

Award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship at the International Competition "Wspomnienia Miłośników Rock and Roll’a", for work in two categories: for the publication "Rozmowy o zmierzchu" and for the article "Ikona z przypadku. Rzecz o Annie Jantar";

Złota Kaczka (Golden Duck) – Journalists’ Award 2016; SDRP – West Pomerania

Klemens Janicki Award for humanistic and artistic content carried in a rich literary output; (ZLP Bydgoszcz)

Kryształowy Motyl (Crystal Butterfly) of the Irena Jarocka Foundation for promoting Irena Jarocka’s legacy

Kryształowe Pióro (Crystal Pen) – Award of the ZAKR Union of Authors for popularising knowledge about Polish song.

Złoty Mikrofon (Golden Microphone) – Award of the President of Polish Radio Szczecin for saving Helena Majdaniec’s work from oblivion

Dear all! We warmly invite you to the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Anna Carpenter

http://annacarpenterart.wix.com/painting
http://www.facebook.com/AnnaStolarskaCarpenter
• Studied at the Faculty of Interior Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

• Diploma with distinction (1987) under Prof. Wiesław Nowak and Prof. Tadeusz Kobylański. Painting annex under Prof. Jan Lis.

• Member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers since 1996.

• Disciplines practised: painting, drawing, exhibition work and interior design (over 50 completed projects). Independent curatorial activity.

Solo exhibitions in recent years:
2020 – Odlot – K&K Galeria – Warsaw
1018 – Spectrum – Galeria TAK – Łódź
2016 – Pokusy – In Between project – Hotel Bristol – Warsaw.

2016 – Matka & Córka – Synergia – Galeria Centrum Wikliniarstwa, Rudnik nad Sanem.

2015 – Relacje – Museums Night – Centrum Artystyczne Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw.

2014 – Malarstwo – 7th anniversary of the Centrum Wikliniarstwa, Rudnik nad Sanem.

2014 – Konteksty – "Lex Gallery", Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers, Warsaw.
2013 – Energia koloru – Museum of Technology – Historic Ironworks in Maleniec.
2013 – ...Kolorem kuszenie – Galeria Centrum Wikliniarstwa, Rudnik nad Sanem.
2013 – Matka i Córka – Jubileusz – "Mediateka – Start-Meta", Warsaw.
2011 – 7 według Carpenter – Galeria DAP3 – ZPAP, Warsaw.
Participation in about 100 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Awards and distinctions:
Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art for Young Artists – 1987,

Honorary Diploma of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts – 1988, Ars-Hit Award – 1993, Honorary Diploma of the Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Blood Diseases – 2000,

Certificate for an Artist with a Big Heart from the International Chapter of the Order of the Smile – 2007.

Works in the collections of:
Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
The opening of the exhibition of paintings
by Anna Carpenter
"NOSTALGIE"
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 6:30 pm
Free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from ul. Garwolińska)
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.
The painting of Anna Carpenter: the energy of colour.
It was colour precisely – the luminous spaciousness
characteristic of Anna Carpenter's painting and the positive energy it carries – that fascinated me
and captivated me at first sight.
Saturated, resonant colours, a mysterious depth
and something else elusive –
perhaps the magic of the cheerfulness that is typical of
the artist – radiate from her paintings to the viewer
and do not let them pass by indifferent. Regardless of
the subject – whether they are semi-landscapes, portraits, miniatures –
or large-format abstract compositions.
When in 2010 the artist began her
adventure with acrylic, the colours of her paintings took on
even greater power. It was then too that she broadly developed
the strand of her painting that she describes as emotional
abstraction.
Anna Carpenter's work has, moreover,
a special virtue – the longer one lives with her works,
the more one can discover in them. Perhaps it is precisely this
phenomenon that the artist calls playing with inner
landscapes... For example, the story that the painter
spins in the series "Pokusy", which, as she wrote, is a very
personal record of the emotional equivalent of a process
of thought, contains, besides an interesting play of form, so many
layered messages, hidden subtexts and
playful associations that it is impossible to grow bored with her
paintings.
Ada Elektron

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
the chamber stage of “Kredens pod Oknami” and a meeting in the series Masters of the “Word”
Special guest of the evening:
Wiesław Komasa
in the monodrama
“RÓŻEWICZOGRANIE”
based on “Kartoteka”, “Matka odchodzi” and “Wiersze rozsypane”
by Tadeusz Różewicz
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street
(entrance from Garwolińska Street)
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

We warmly invite you to a concert and a sing-along with songbooks.
Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw

The "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:

A CONCERT and sing-along
of Polish folk melodies arranged for instruments from faraway countries

Sitar (India), bouzouki (Greece), "bansuri" flute (India), oud (Arab countries) and saz (Middle East)

"Albośmy to jacy tacy…" ("Are We Just Anybody…")
Performing and hosting the evening:
Lucjan Wesołowski
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, ballad singer
Renata Sobczak, singer, instrumentalist, painter and sculptor
Sunday, 16 October 2022, 5 pm, free admission

An original project, carried out with a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from ul. Garwolińska)
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw,
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
the 20th MEETING in the series “Our Guests”, whose hero will be:
Jerzy Górnicki
Architect. Urban planner. Poet and grandfather
“ZATRZYMAĆ W BIEGU…” (To Stop in Mid-Run…)
The poems will be read and the meeting hosted by

Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański. Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 6 pm, free admission. Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street

(entrance from Garwolińska Street)
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S

You are warmly invited!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw

The "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:

The close of the series of summer courtyard meetings with film
"Klatka po Klatce III"
A neighbourhood, courtyard film discussion club
MEETINGS with Polish film and PROGRAMMES from the archives of TVP and WFDiF
Third edition – Masters of Polish Comedy
Dedicated to Stanisław Bareja on the 35th anniversary of the director's death
A MEETING with Krystyna Tkacz
"W drodze pod wiatr…" ("Heading Against the Wind…")
The evening will be hosted by Rafał Dajbor
and the hosts of the Klatka po Klatce III film meetings,
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 7 pm, free admission

Screening of episode 9, "Upadek" ("The Fall"), of the series "ALTERNATYWY 4", at 8:30 pm. Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska)

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7 pm: Meeting with Krystyna Tkacz at Kredens pod Oknami. 8:30 pm: Alternatywy 4 – 1983, episode 9, "Upadek", a Polish comedy series from 1983 directed by Stanisław Bareja, first broadcast on Polish Television's Channel One from 30 September to 25 November 1986. Directed by St. Bareja, screenplay by St. Bareja, Jan Płoński, Maciej Rybiński, music by Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, cinematography by Wojciech Jastrzębowski. Episode one. Running time approx. 77 min. Starring: Roman Wilhelmi

Bronisław PawlikStanisława CelińskaBożena DykielBolesław PłotnickiWojciech Pokora Witold PyrkoszKazimierz KaczorWiesław Gołas erzy KryszakJanusz GajosMieczysław Voit Hanna BieniuszewiczBarbara RachwalskaElżbieta JagielskaJerzy BończakEwa ZiętekZofia CzerwińskaJerzy TurekHalina KowalskaAnna ChitroKrystyna Tkacz

The series is about the struggles of the tenants of the title Warsaw apartment block with the caretaker Stanisław Anioł (Roman Wilhelmi), who, in the name of his own ambitions, tries to make their lives difficult. The makers intended Alternatywy 4 to present a collective portrait of the society of the Polish People's Republic, through the example of the residents of a housing-estate block in Warsaw.

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
the 19th MEETING in the series “Our Guests”, whose heroine will be:
theatre and film actress, poet
Anna Milewska-Zawada
The meeting will be led, and the poet's poems read, by:
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from ul. Garwolińska)
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S

Meeting with Jerzy Kornowicz
Music
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Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with

the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to intergenerational meetings in the series

"Na tropach tajemnic mistrzów malarstwa" ("On the Trail of the Secrets of the Masters of Painting")
Making copies, stories and anecdotes
PRESENTED BY
Helena Urbańska
Painter and copyist
Vermeer and Caravaggio
The gaze and the craft
Second meeting, conversations about painting
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from Garwolińska)
Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, Pas

We warmly invite you to an author’s evening and the launch of Barbara Maria Rustecka’s book "Mieszkańcy innych miejsc"

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A book launch and author meeting with
Barbara Maria Rustecka
“Mieszkańcy innych miejsc”
Excerpts from the book and the author’s poetry will be read by:
Iwona Rulewicz
The evening will be led by
Eugeniusz Orłow, President of the Association of Polish Authors
30.03.2022, 6 pm
Free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska Street)

During the event you will be able to buy the author’s books and poems at a promotional price and also support, with donations, a Ukrainian family who will be living on our estate; we are still collecting items, food, medicines, plasters and bandages, which will be sent to the front.

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, Veolia S.A.

Dear Friends! We warmly invite you to a special charity concert in our Kredens pod Oknami. An event and collection for Ukraine! The pianist announced earlier has left for Wrocław. These are fast-moving times! The concert will open with two pieces by Fryderyk Chopin played by the outstanding Polish pianist Piotr Latoszyński. In the concert we will also hear a string quartet of artists from Ukraine, refugees from Putin’s war, and Ukrainian songs performed by Ukrainian artists.

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to an exceptional
intergenerational evening, a concert, the 14th meeting in the series “Nasi Goście” (Our Guests),
whose heroes will be Ukrainian and Polish artists:

Diana Havryliuk – vocalist from Lutsk, Yaryna Horbachevska – violist from Lviv, Venera Ibragimova – theatre and film actress, director, artistic director of the Salamandra Drama and Puppet Theatre in Kyiv, Dorota Jasińska-Urbańska – violinist, Marta Kaczkowska – violinist, Olena Zhurova-Tsolka – cellist from Lviv and Warsaw,

Piotr Latoszyński – outstanding Polish pianist
My Chopin, My Ukraine, My Escape
The first evening of support for Ukraine in “Kredens pod Oknami”
Saturday, 26 March 2022, 5 pm
Hosted by Anna Bojarska
Free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska Street)

During the event you will be able to support the artists and a Ukrainian family who will be living on our estate; from 4:30 pm we are collecting items, food, medicines, plasters and bandages, which will be sent to the front.

CONCERT on the birthday of Wojciech Młynarski, poet of song, the Master, who died 5 years ago; we dedicate it to him

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Dear Friends! We warmly invite you to the 13th meeting in the series Nasi Goście (Our Guests)! The heroine of the evening will be the outstanding Polish saxophonist Alina Mleczko! We will hear her musical story about her life, with the saxophone and its sounds as her guide. At the meeting you will be able to buy our guest’s own CD at a promotional price. Here is the Artist’s biographical note:

Dr hab. Alina Mleczko – artist, saxophonist, teacher

In 1994 she gave a brilliant diploma recital at the Academy of Music. In 1995 she made her debut as a soloist at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. As early as October 1996, the American trade magazine Saxophone Journal devoted a monographic article to her in a special issue dedicated to the world’s most outstanding female saxophonists.

She is the first woman to have graduated (with the highest grade) from the saxophone class of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.

Within just a few years of her debut she was invited to give concerts in England, France, the USA, Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, and her concert tour of the USA in 2000, on which she performed with the pianist Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio, ended with a satellite broadcast of that recital from the Chicago Cultural Center, produced by the station WFMT.

She recorded and released her first solo album while still a student. "Wiatr od Morza" (Wind from the Sea) consists mainly of compositions dedicated to her by Jacek Grudzień, Paweł Mykietyn, Maciej Zieliński, Waldemar Miksa and Michał Kulenty. Dorota Szwarcman wrote in her review that it is “music for quiet conversations and friendly confidences at twilight”, and Jacek Marczyński wrote in his review in Rzeczpospolita “that the heroine of this album is above all the soloist herself, because the saxophone here is not so much a solo instrument as one that creates the music. Alina Maria Mleczko can do this with grace and lightness.”

She made her debut at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw in 1995, performing the Fantasia for soprano saxophone and orchestra by Heitor Villa-Lobos at the opening concert of the Latin American Culture Festival. A year later she made her debut at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music with the premiere of the Concerto for soprano saxophone and string orchestra by Jacek Grudzień, written for her and enthusiastically received by the audience.

With equal success she performs the most famous works of the classical saxophone literature – Alexander Glazunov, Claude Debussy, Pierre Max Dubois, Jacques Ibert – as well as the newest compositions, such as the concerto by Robert Kritz or Osvaldas Balakauskas, which received its Polish premiere in her performance with the string orchestra Kyiv Virtuosi at Warsaw Autumn 2000.

Polish composers readily entrust her with the premieres of their works, among them Paweł Szymański, Paweł Mykietyn, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Edward Sielicki, Jacek Grudzień, Piotr Grella-Możejko, Hanna Kulenty-Majoor, Dariusz Przybylski, Jerzy Derfel and Zbigniew Kozub.

Since 1995 Alina Mleczko has taken part in many music festivals: Warsaw Autumn, the Lutosławski Forum at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Musica Polonica Nova. As a Batory Foundation scholarship holder she represented Poland at the Two Days & Two Nights festival. She works with the orchestras of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Polish Radio and Sinfonia Varsovia, with whom she has made numerous recordings. She has been on many concert tours, including with the music ensembles of the Teatr Dramatyczny and Teatr Studio in Warsaw. She has collaborated with the Teatr Dramatyczny and Teatr Studio in Warsaw.

She has taken part in numerous productions directed by, among others, Krzysztof Warlikowski, with music by Paweł Mykietyn.

She co-creates theatre productions performing her own music, among others with the actor Wojciech Siemion in the production by Tomasz Walczak, “Treny mojej Matce”; with Mariusz Bonaszewski in the monodrama “Saksofon”, based on Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel “Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli”; and with Olgierd Łukaszewicz in the aforementioned “Treny mojej Matce”.

She engages in unusual musical projects, such as Adam Jarzębski – Music of the Polish Baroque, in which she plays solo parts in her own arrangement on the soprano saxophone together with period instruments.

She has worked with the ensemble Nonstrom and with Maria Pomianowska’s Polish Ensemble. She works with Tytus Wojnowicz’s quartet Arundo and with the pianists Agnieszka Kopacka and Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio.

She has also worked with Włodek Pawlik, now a Grammy winner, with whom she prepared, among other things, the recital programme Druga struna medalu (The Other Side of the Coin) – jazz and classical music.

As a soloist she has performed with orchestras including Capella Istropolitana from Bratislava, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Danish Radio Orchestra and many philharmonic orchestras in Poland.

She has performed with conductors including Jacek Kaspszyk, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Vladimir Sirenko, Jurjen Hempel, Roman Kofman, Victoria Zhadko, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Krzysztof Słowiński, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Paweł Kotla, Jose Maria Florencio and Wojciech Michniewski.

She was the first Polish saxophonist to tour Germany with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in 2010, performing Alexander Glazunov’s concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra.

In 2003 she released the album Siesta with DUX, which was nominated for the Fryderyk 2003 award in the chamber music category. Siesta also received an award from the French music magazine Classica and was at the top of the bestseller list. In January 2005, again with DUX, another album was released, entitled Fiesta, also nominated for the Fryderyk phonographic award in the chamber music category. As before, she is accompanied by the string quartet Prima Vista. Fiesta received the Rewelacja Audio Video (Audio Video Revelation) distinction.

In 2010 she released another album, Alina Mleczko – Saxophone. It features saxophone sonatas by Paul Creston, Paul Hindemith, Phil Woods and Takashi Yoshimatsu.

The album received excellent reviews in, among others, the renowned magazines Gramophone in Britain and Classica in France.

In 2014 another of her own albums was released, Sonatina für Alina. Recorded with the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, it features compositions by the Polish composers Paweł Mykietyn, Jacek Grudzień, Edward Sielicki and Jerzy Derfel. Most of these works are dedicated to the artist.

In April 2016 the artist gave another premiere, of the First Concerto for Saxophone and Symphony Orchestra by the outstanding Polish composer Hanna Kulenty-Majoor, at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2019 she recorded Roman Palester’s Concertino with the Sinfonia Juventus orchestra under Łukasz Borowicz, in the 1947 version, and this is a world premiere recording. The album, released by Anaklasis, was nominated for the Fryderyk 2021 phonographic award.

Her record includes many premieres and first recordings, among others for Polish Radio, TVP and TVP Kultura. She has released 9 solo albums. As a chamber and orchestral musician she has taken part in several dozen other releases.

Recently Alina Mleczko has increasingly engaged in projects connected with improvised music, jazz and ethno.

With great success she teaches the saxophone class at the Fryderyk Chopin School Complex of Music in Warsaw and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Instrumental and Pedagogical Faculty in Białystok, where, with the title of habilitated doctor of musical arts, she teaches the saxophone class.

She is a lecturer at prestigious music workshops, including the International Course for Young Composers in Radziejowice. Her students are laureates of many competitions and scholarship holders of the National Children’s Fund and of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Excerpts from reviews

…The wonderfully quixotic and at the same time exotic “Fuzzy Bird” Sonata by Yoshimatsu is a true gem in the repertoire. One senses the artist’s complete identification with the music she plays. One may therefore assume that we will hear more than once about this talented performer.

Gramophone Magazine 2010

…Alina Mleczko plays with great freedom of sound, at moments achieving an astonishing power of tone…

Classica 2010

Alina Mleczko, an exceptional musician who leaves her mark even on the simplest melody. She can tell a story and create the right mood. Every phrase is very natural, more sung than played.

Kamerton 2003

“The characteristic sound of Alina Mleczko’s saxophone – phrases that will leave no one indifferent; on the other hand, independence, freedom in moving between genres, playing with sound and a distance from herself – all of this guarantees an interesting, exceptional concert.”

Announcement of one of the concerts (Gazeta Wyborcza)

... The soloist’s technical mastery is beyond dispute; she effortlessly draws colours and moods from an instrument that is condemned mainly to existence in jazz.

Klasyka 2005

…with her artistic path Alina Mleczko proves that the saxophone is an instrument with a fascinating sound and great possibilities, giving room both for virtuoso display and for showing sensitivity to mood and colour. It gives composers an opportunity to cross the boundaries between classical music and jazz….

Hi Fi Muzyka, February 2010

The saxophonist Alina Mleczko specialises in unusual projects; she often performs contemporary compositions that she commissions from her young colleagues. Her new album “Siesta” contains, this time, more popular, though ambitious, repertoire. These are well-known hits of serious music, chosen for their melodiousness and nostalgia – just right for a rest during a hot siesta. There is Ravel’s “Pavane for a Dead Infanta”, Debussy’s “Clair de lune” and Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”, but there is no lack of the obligatory Piazzolla, Jobim or Ennio Morricone from “Cinema Paradiso” in such sets. One might think it a cliché, and yet it is not: this is thanks to the special, original combination of instruments – the saxophone with a string quartet. It is the Prima Vista quartet, made up of musicians who for many years played in the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra and have recently set out on their own. Alina Mleczko tunes in superbly to the musicians accompanying her.

Polityka 2003

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
An author’s evening
A meeting with the songs and ballads of
Hubert Bojarski
“Stulecie 1863–1963 w słowie i dźwięku” (A Century 1863–1963 in Word and Sound)

The concert refers to the historical heritage of the January Uprising and to events in Polish history up to the Second Conspiracy.

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 7 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street (entrance from Garwolińska Street)
Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop

Hubert Bojarski is a writer of lyrics and music in the literary song genre, brought up on the poetry of Jacek Kaczmarski and Jacek Kowalski. His songs mostly tell of historical events, both Polish and from world history.

He is a prizewinner of many poetry competitions and a two-time winner, and Grand Prix winner, of the national “Turniej Bardów” (Bards’ Tournament). He is connected with the historical re-enactment movement.

Dear Friends!

This year has been declared the YEAR of Maria Konopnicka! A special person, writer, individualist! An OUTSTANDING woman!

In these special times we invite you to the first meeting this year, and the 12th in the series Nasi Goście (Our Guests), with Teresa Kaczorowska, author of the just-published letters to Maria Konopnicka. The evening will be led by the writer and poet Marta Berowska, already known to us.

Free admission! During the evening you will be able to buy the book at a promotional price and get the Author’s dedication.

Tomasz Kucharski
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you
to an
intergenerational meeting with
Teresa Kaczorowska
poet, prose writer, columnist
"Maria Konopnicka – czarodziejka osobliwa"
The evening will be led by
Marta Berowska
Wednesday 26 January 2022, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska Street)

During the meeting you will be able to buy the author’s latest book, “Listy do Marii Konopnickiej, 2010-2020”, at a promotional price of 25 zł

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VE

Guest of Kredens pod Oknami: Przemysław Herburt

Dear all! Because of the rise in infections, we are inviting only vaccinated people directly to Kredens, and ask you to let us know you will be attending, by e-mail or by message on Kredens's Facebook page.

The meeting will be streamed online because the audience has to be limited.

Most probably one of the last of this calendar year. You are warmly invited!

The "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together
with the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
the 11th meeting in the series "Nasi Goście" ("Our Guests"), whose guest will be:

Przemysław Herburt, Director of the Documentation and Programme Collections Centre of TVP S.A.

Lecture: The fashion for Polish classics. Digital reconstruction – a new life for masterpieces of the Polish television and film school. An evening as part of the project "Klatka po Klatce II" ("Frame by Frame II"), neighbourhood meetings with film and a film discussion club at Kredens pod Oknami, second edition, dedicated to the outstanding actress and singer Kalina Jędrusik in the year marking the 30th anniversary of the artist's sudden death. Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 6 pm, at "Kredens pod Oknami", ul. Szklanych Domów 13. Free admission. Please follow the epidemiological guidelines. Audience numbers are limited.

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Dear all! Because of the limited number of places and the Covid risk, we will also make Mr Staszek's concert available online on the Facebook page of Kredens pod Oknami

"Ach Panie Panowie..." ("Oh, Ladies and Gentlemen..."), a concert-meeting with Stanisław Górka

Dear all! We warmly invite you to the 10th meeting in the series "Nasi goście" ("Our Guests")

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with

the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to the 10th MEETING in the series "Nasi Goście", whose hero will be

Stanisław Górka
and his musical story
"Ach Panie panowie …"

CONCERT. We will hear pieces from our Guest's own shows as well as songs by Marian Hemar, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Bulat Okudzhava, Agnieszka Osiecka and Jeremi Przybora, which have accompanied him since his early youth

Thursday, 25 November 2021, 6 pm, free admission.

Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska). Please follow the epidemiological guidelines

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop
Photo on the poster by Katarzyna Sudaj

The actor brings every audience together, invites them to sing along, and, to the accompaniment of a guitar, carries us into the world of poetry, beautiful words and lyricism, a world that is fading into oblivion too quickly.

"Ach Panie Panowie" is a kind of journey through the rich artistic life of this fine actor.

Prof. Stanisław Górka – theatre, film and television actor, teacher.

A graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre School in Warsaw. After finishing his studies in 1977 he performed in the company of the Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw (until 2006), and also worked with the Dramatyczny and Nowy theatres in Warsaw, the Baltic Dramatic Theatre in Koszalin and the Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz.

For many years an academic teacher at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, where he taught students voice production (voice placement) by his own method. He currently teaches voice production in the English department at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Audiences remember Stanisław Górka above all from the series "Plebania", in which he played Zbyszek, the sexton, but also from films by Kazimierz Kutz, "Zawrócony" and "Pułkownik Kwiatkowski", and by Andrzej Wajda, "Dyrygent" and "Biesy".

He is the leader of the "Teatralne Towarzystwo 'Pod Górkę'" (Theatre Society "Pod Górkę"), founded in 1992, a theatre specialising in chamber vocal-acting forms. With almost thirty premiere productions, the actors of the "Pod Górkę" Theatre have travelled the whole world, performing several thousand shows.

In 2011 Prof. Stanisław Górka was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit, in 2013 the Gloria Artis Medal; in 2015 he received from the President of Poland the title of professor of theatre arts.

"Ach panie, panowie…" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6P6tsCll8
"Konie narowiste" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz-8WCxR57g

Dear all! We are starting a new fortnightly series of meetings! "Na tropach tajemnic mistrzów malarstwa" ("On the Trail of the Secrets of the Masters of Painting"). Making copies, stories and anecdotes. The painter and copyist Helena Urbańska will tell the stories and share her experience.

We invite you to the first meeting:
National Painting.
Its role and meaning
which will take place on Wednesday, 10 November 2021
on the eve of Polish Independence Day
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
and the "Szaserów" Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to intergenerational
meetings in the series
"Na tropach tajemnic
mistrzów malarstwa"
Making copies, stories and anecdotes
PRESENTED BY
Helena Urbańska
Painter and copyist. National painting
Its role and meaning
First meeting, on the eve of Polish Independence Day
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami
ul. Szklanych Domów 13
(entrance from Garwolińska)
Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VE

We warmly invite you to another multigenerational
MEETING with
Marta Berowska
on
fairy tales, anecdotes and legends about saints
Saints of keys AND JOURNEYS
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 6 pm, free admission
Kredens pod Oknami, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (entrance from Garwolińska)

During the evening you will be able to buy the book for 15 zł, signed and dedicated by the author

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
at Kredens pod Oknami.

“Święci naszych kluczy i podróży” (“Saints of Our Keys and Journeys”) is a collection of fairy tales, legends and anecdotes about our own Polish saints and those from all over Europe who are important to us.

Saints have accompanied us since the dawn of our history, since the legendary brothers Cyril and Methodius came to our lands and left our priests the first written records of the Gospel. They left them in a language close to the one spoken by our ancestors, the first Slavs.

Holy figures are not only martyrs, kings and princesses endowed with extraordinary gifts. They are also simple people who worked for others, in defence of the land, the tribal community and the Church. People from all over Europe whose names are today symbols of devotion for us and for our culture, which was taking shape in times long past.

Legends about them were created over hundreds of years. Told to children by older generations, by grandmothers and grandfathers, they were enriched with various details and

fairy-tale motifs. Depending on the knowledge and imagination of the tellers, stories of various events, spells and miracles were added to them. That is why the accounts of them are so colourful, full of events more or less true. But they are certainly educational stories, full of ever-relevant truths and wisdom, presenting the saints as models of every virtue worthy of imitation.

This collection of fairy tales and legends is not a collection of lives of the saints. Rather, in each legend I tried to convey an interesting history lesson, and with its help to fix in readers' minds, in a light and pleasant way, a historical imagination and love of their homeland.

Dear Friends!

We warmly invite you to Kredens pod Oknami at Szklanych Domów 13 in Warsaw! We invite you to an intimate, lyrical concert of songs by outstanding authors and composers. It is a tender conversation with the audience, an evocation of a somewhat different world, the world of conversations with Kalina and her favourite pieces, her literary and musical taste and her sense of humour. We will evoke the atmosphere of the Kabaret Starszych Panów, of French songs in Wojciech Młynarski’s Polish translation, of settings of poems by Polish poets, and of works by acclaimed authors of Polish song. Free admission.

The number of seats is limited because of the size of our venue and also the Covid restrictions. Please also arrive on time: because of the size of the venue, latecomers cannot enter unnoticed.

Those interested are warmly invited to reserve seats in advance by e-mail, telephone or online, or to take them from 6:30 pm. Please let us know if you are coming, if possible.

Everything that happens this summer in Kredens and on our Plac pod Dębami is dedicated to Kalina Jędrusik in the 30th anniversary year of the Artist’s sudden death. We also want to recall her outstanding generation of actors and artists.

Performing: Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański, with the outstanding Polish pianist Piotr Latoszyński at the instrument!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
The second intergenerational meeting and concert
“Mosty wędrownych aniołów” (Bridges of Wandering Angels)
that is
the birthday of the poet
“a Man of the Borderland”
Jerzy Ficowski
Special guests of the birthday evening
Elżbieta Ficowska
the poet’s wife, a writer
Krystyna Markowska
SINGER

The Romani ensemble “Perła i Bracia” and the dance group “Cygańska Jesień” from the Wawer Cultural Centre, Marysin branch

Hosts of the event

Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański. Saturday, 4 September 2021, 6 pm, free admission.

The SQUARE at 9a Szklanych Domów Street, conventionally known as “under the oaks”
Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with

the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to: the 8TH MEETING in the series “Nasi Goście” (Our Guests), whose heroine will be

Magdalena Zawadzka
A Jasmine meeting
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT love, creativity AND KALINA
HOSTED BY
Anna Bojarska-Urbańska

During the event you will be able to buy, at a promotional price, Magdalena’s book “GUSTAW I JA” (Gustaw and I) /Marginesy Publishing/, which evokes the figure of her husband, the outstanding actor and Master

Gustaw Holoubek

Sunday 11 July 2021, 5 pm, Plac pod Dębami, Szklanych Domów 9a. Free admission.

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines
Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.
Magdalena Zawadzka –
https://film.wp.pl/magdalena-zawadzka-6030994957513345c

We warmly invite you to the next, seventh meeting in the series Nasi Goście (Our Guests)! A story about Polish actresses!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with

the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to: the 7TH MEETING in the series Nasi Goście, whose heroine will be Professor

Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska
theatre historian
A story entitled:
“Skąd się wzięły polskie aktorki..” (Where Polish Actresses Came From)
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska-Urbańska and Marek Urbański

Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 6 pm, in front of Kredens pod Oknami, or inside depending on the weather, Szklanych Domów 13. Free admission.

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines

Project partners: YAMAHA Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A. The project is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw

Ladies and gentlemen! We have the honour and joy of welcoming Maestro Wiesław Ochman in our series Our Guests!

Here is the link to the live video broadcast on Facebook and on YouTube. https://www.facebook.com/Kredens-pod-Oknami.../live_videos

The event will take place on our Plac pod dębami at Szklanych Domów 9a on 19 June 2021 at 5 pm.

We warmly invite you, and ask that you observe the epidemiological safety rules: chairs will be spaced apart and the meeting will be held in the open air. The event will also be streamed online for those of you who cannot be with us in person! If it rains, we will move, with a smaller audience, to Kredens pod Oknami, and the online broadcast will go ahead regardless of the change of venue. But we hope, and ask FATE, for a dry day!

Please pass this news on to your loved ones. We are very much looking forward to this meeting! Free admission!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and

the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to the 6th MEETING in the series Our Guests, whose hero will be Maestro

Wiesław Ochman
“Zaczynam się i kończę śpiewem..” (“I begin and end with song..”)
/K. Iłłakowiczówna/
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska-Urbańska

Saturday, 19 June 2021, 5 pm. Plac pod Dębami, Szklanych Domów 9a. Free admission.

Please follow the epidemiological guidelines

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A. The project is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw

Dear Guests!

We warmly invite you to the first meeting this year, the first during the pandemic and the fifth in the series Our Guests! We will have the joy of welcoming a special, distinguished guest! The writer, playwright, journalist and poet Remigiusz Grzela with his latest book, “Z kim tak ci będzie źle jak ze mną” (Who Will Treat You as Badly as I Do), the story of Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat. The title of the book is significant; it is also the earlier title of a song with words by Wojciech Młynarski and music by Roman Orłow, with which Kalina Jędrusik won the Grand Prix at the Festival of Polish Song in Opole and cemented her popularity with audiences. Remigiusz Grzela’s book is an author’s look at the history of the relationship of two outstanding creators, well known in the 1960s: the actress and singer and the writer Stanisław Dygat, 17 years her senior and a famous writer at the time. It is a wonderfully readable story about time and love; it is also a meeting with oneself… The OTWARTE publishing house of Kraków has set aside 20 copies for the meeting’s participants at a special lower price. It will be possible to get the Author’s dedication and exchange a few words.

Please observe the epidemiological safety rules.

The meeting will take place on the lawn in front of “Kredens pod Oknami” at 13 Szklanych Domów Street in Warsaw. It will also be recorded online. Afterwards we invite you to an opening, prepared specially in cooperation with the Kalina Jędrusik Artistic Foundation “Kalinowe Serce”, of an exhibition of lesser-known, home photographs of Kalina Jędrusik, organised with the support of the City of Warsaw in the grant competition “Intergenerational educational and cultural initiatives”.

This year marks 30 years since the Artist’s sudden death. We would like to recall her profile, the time in which she lived and the artists who worked with her, outstanding and well-loved, from the time of the Kabaret Starszych Panów, the time of black-and-white films and colourful sensual imaginings, an era that today is… little known to younger generations.

Free admission!

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
The fourth meeting in the series “Our Guests”, with
Remigiusz Caban, playwright and theatre director
Title: Aleksander Fredro’s “Zemsta” (Revenge)
and other passions
Excerpts from the play read by
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Free admission. Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 6–7:30 pm, Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street, in our estate’s Local Activity Centre. The projects of the Club of the Local Activity Centre are co-funded by the City of Warsaw. We remind you and warmly invite you to use our space, which we make available as part of the Local Activity Centre by prior arrangement of dates. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual requests and suggestions of days and times. Contact us by message on Facebook.

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
the Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
An evening of stories about outstanding women.

Anatol Karoń will talk about great women painters through the centuries and illustrate his talk with photographs of paintings. We remind you that you are welcome to use our space, which we make available as part of the Local Activity Centre by prior arrangement. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual requests and suggestions of days and times. Contact us by message on Facebook. The projects of the Club of the Local Activity Centre are co-funded by the City of Warsaw.

Free admission. Friday, 25 September 2020, 6–8 pm. Kredens pod Oknami, 13 Szklanych Domów Street

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.
Great women painters, or can an artist be a woman?

While studying the history of art, I wondered about the complete absence of women in that history. There were no great women painters, sculptors or architects, or at any rate nothing was said about them. But were there really none?

The Advancing Women Artists Foundation, founded in 2009, after a cursory look through the storerooms of Florentine museums, found more than 2,000 paintings, sculptures and drawings by women artists kept there.

Who were these women painters, whose works proved valuable enough to be kept in museums, yet not valuable enough for the history of art to mention them in its textbooks?

Tormented by curiosity, I began, one by one, to look for information about artists active in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century and, above all, to look at their works. And before my eyes appeared an enormous number of paintings completely unknown to me, among which were absolutely enchanting works. These were not the timid attempts of amateurs trying to paint something pretty. This was genuine, professional painting, thanks to which these women supported not only themselves but often their whole families. It also turned out that many of these artists had enormous careers in their lifetimes. They were court painters to princes and kings, travelled all over Europe and were eagerly invited to the courts of rulers. Some ran their own painting schools and were admitted to academies of art and to painters’ guilds. Their paintings were highly valued and often fetched higher prices than the paintings of the painters we consider the greatest today. Their biographies, too, often turned out to be extraordinarily interesting. In a world in which women counted for little and their rights were usually limited to being a wife and mother or a nun, these artists, thanks to their talent, determination and intelligence, were often able to achieve far more than men, whose rights were limited by nothing. I wanted to present to you some of these great artists.

Dear Friends!

We warmly invite you to our courtyard – to Plac pod Dębami, 9a Szklanych Domów Street, Warsaw!

Join us in singing together on the 76th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Please bring emblems, ribbons and white-and-red flags.

Let us remember the Warsaw insurgents! Let us pay tribute to them!

We remind you that you are welcome to use the space of our Kredens pod Oknami club, which we make available, by prior arrangement, as part of the Local Activity Centre. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual requests and suggestions of days and times. Contact us by message on Facebook. The projects of the Local Social Activity Centre Kredens pod Oknami are co-funded by the City of Warsaw.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
Szaserów Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
An intergenerational sing-along of songs
of the Warsaw Uprising
“Nie złamie wolnych żadna klęska…” (No Defeat Will Break the Free…)
Hosted by
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
Special guests:
The historical project “Konspiracja”
Accordion
Tomasz Ostaszewski
Photograph from the collection of the Warsaw Rising Museum

Free admission, Sunday, 2 August 2020, 6:30 pm, the square “under the oaks”, 9a Szklanych Domów Street – the COURTYARD

Project partners: YAMAHA – Polska, Pasja music shop, VEOLIA S.A.
Tomasz Ostaszewski

Tomasz Ostaszewski was born in 1989 in Augustów. He began learning the accordion at the age of 7 at the State Music School in Augustów, in the class of Tadeusz Giedrojć. He completed the general second-level music school with distinction in the accordion class of Prof. Jerzy Kozłowski in Białystok. He is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, in the accordion classes of Prof. Jerzy Jurek and Prof. Klaudiusz Baran (diploma with distinction in 2013). During the University Day celebrations on 22 February 2014, the Rector of the UMFC awarded Tomasz Ostaszewski the

Magna cum Laude medal as one of the most outstanding graduates of recent years.

He deepened his knowledge and skills at master classes, where he worked under teachers such as Prof. Włodzimierz Lech Puchnowski (Poland), Aleksander Dmitriev (Russia), Aleksander Selivanov (Russia), Yuri Shishkin (Russia), Claudio Jacomucci (Italy), Teodoro Anzellotti (Italy) and Alfred Melichar (Austria).

He is a prizewinner of many prestigious accordion competitions. His competition successes include the most important awards:

– 1st prize at the National Accordion Competition in Mława, 2008 and 2011
– 1st prize at the National Accordion Competition in Chełm, 2008 and 2011
– 1st prize at the International Accordion Competition in Sanok, 2010
– 2nd prize at the International Accordion Competition “Carlo Civardi”
in Val Tidone (Italy), 2010
– 1st prize at the International Accordion Competition in Vilnius (Lithuania), 2011

– 1st prize at the National Accordion Music Competition in Solec-Zdrój, 2011

– 1st prize at the International Accordion Music Festival in Przemyśl, 2012

– 2nd prize and a special prize for the best performance of the compulsory piece at the International Accordion Competition in Arrasate-Mondragón (Spain), 2012

– 1st prize at the 11th National Accordion Competition in Przemyśl, 2013

In July 2012 Tomasz won the IBLA Grand Prize “World Music Competition” in Ragusa, Sicily (Italy). As part of the prize he toured the United States and performed in one of the most prestigious concert halls

in the world – Carnegie Hall in New York in May 2013.

He has performed solo, in chamber ensembles and with orchestras throughout Poland

and abroad, including in the United States, China, Japan, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine and Lithuania. He has made recordings for American, Japanese, Polish and Lithuanian radio and television.

In 2011 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
“Młoda Polska” to buy a high-quality concert accordion, and a scholarship from the

Pro Polonia Dongsan Research Foundation for outstanding artistic achievement. In 2013 he became a Société Générale bank scholar and recorded his first solo CD.

In 2014 Tomasz Ostaszewski took up work in first- and second-level music schools as an accordion teacher. In 2019 he was hired as a teacher in China.

Since 2018 he has worked with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. He gives several hundred educational concerts a year across the country.

The historical project Konspiracja

A historical project dedicated to recreating the soldiers and civilians, from the January Uprising to the German and Soviet occupation, who were active in the underground, in partisan units or in other armed formations. The period we cover is the years 1863–1963. However, we are not limited to it, and as needs and possibilities allow, we also take up other subjects. Our basic mission is the most faithful historical reconstruction possible, which we carry out by taking part in manoeuvres, historical incubators, re-enactments and other activities that bring us closer to the times we recreate.

We do not limit ourselves to this, however, and also engage in education in the broad sense. We organise lessons, lectures, meetings and exhibitions, including interactive ones.

We invite everyone interested to join us.

The focus of the exhibition is a cult object – the historic cycling track (velodrome) Orzeł, located close to our estate, on the border of Kamionek and Grochów,

on ul. Podskarbińska.
It is 333 metres of the history of Warsaw track cycling.

In its heyday the best Polish cyclists raced on it – Czesław Lang, Mirosław Jurek, Szymon Kornacki and many others. The facility was taken out of use in the early 1990s.

It is Mirosław Jurek – a legend of the Orzeł cycling track, as a rider and coach – who will be the guest of the opening. The conversation with him will be hosted by Adam Probosz – sports commentator (commenting on cycling competitions for more than 20 years) and actor.

The meeting will take place in front of the entrance to Kredens pod Oknami, the neighbourhood Local Activity Centre, and in case of bad weather it will be moved inside the club.

The exhibition can be visited in small groups (up to 5 people).
A reminder about face masks!
Kredens pod Oknami
ul. Szklanych Domów 13

We remind you that you are welcome to use the space of our Kredens pod Oknami club, which we make available as part of the Local Activity Centre by prior arrangement. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual requests and suggestions of days and times. Contact us by message on Facebook. The projects of the Community Activity Centre Kredens pod Oknami are co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.

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After the conversation we invite everyone who would like to:
take a short ride on a track tandem,

make a commemorative cycling screen print (under the eye of Kwiaciarnia Grafiki), a badge, and a photo during the photo session “Być jak Czesław Lang” (To Be Like Czesław Lang).

Bring a light-coloured T-shirt (on the spot you will be able to have a graphic printed on your own T-shirt) and a camera

or a phone with a camera function (for the photo session).
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About the exhibition:

The exhibition will present photographs collected from Warsaw residents and former riders, as well as ones from the collections of the National Digital Archive,

and also sports memorabilia of the “Orzeł” Sports Club – pennants and club shirts, and at the opening an original track tandem!

The exhibition brings closer the history of a place that was once bustling with sporting life, and the profiles of the people connected with it – riders and coaches. It may also be an opportunity to recall your own memories and create a personal narrative about this place. We look forward to your stories!

The originator of the exhibition is the Nowe Dynasy Initiative, www.nowedynasy.pl
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We remind you that until 5 August 2020 comments can be submitted
on the local development plan for the area of ul. Podskarbińska,

within which are the Nowe Dynasy cycling track, entered in the municipal records of monuments, and the sports hall building, entered in the register of monuments, designed by the outstanding Polish architect Maciej Nowicki.

The draft plan can be found at: konsultacje.um.warszawa.pl/podskarbinska

and in front of the RKS “Orzeł” building.
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Graphic: Kwiaciarnia Grafiki

In the photo: Orzeł rider Sylwester Pokropek riding on the Praga velodrome. In the background the characteristic lighting. Photo: Dariusz “Szafa” Gajewski archive / Nowe Dynasy

Ladies and gentlemen!

We warmly invite you to an online meeting with Anatol Karoń and his pastel heroes. Let us meet at the virtual exhibition Jazz colour.

On 7 March 2020 the opening of Anatol Karoń's musical pastels and a jam session took place at Kredens pod Oknami. The evening was dedicated to the memory of Michał Zduniak, a drummer who lived in our neighbourhood. Right after the opening the coronavirus epidemic broke out and Kredens is still closed! We invite you to ONLINE meetings. Let us be together. Let us stay at home but be together.

We remind you that you are welcome to use the space of the Kredens pod Oknami Club, which we make available by prior arrangement as part of the Local Activity Centre. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual bookings and suggestions of days and hours. Contact us by Facebook message. The projects of the Local Social Activity Centre – Kredens pod Oknami are co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw. We look forward to your proposals and initiatives despite the pandemic.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation
invite you to an exhibition of
Jazz pastels
Free admission, online
The exhibition opening took place on Saturday 7 March 2020 at 5 pm
During the opening there was a
jam session
The special guest was the outstanding instrumentalist
Bartosz Łęczycki,

Playing with him were: Wojciech Zduniak, Krzysztof Ostas, Marek, Piotr Gliński, Damiano Zieliński and the audience gathered there. All this in

“Kredens pod Oknami”, ul. Szklanych Domów 13
in Warsaw.
Project partners: Yamaha Polska
“Pasja” music shop
Veolia Energia Warszawa S.A.
Warszawa Lokalnie
Social Communication Centre of the Capital City of Warsaw

Dear Guests!
An unusual event and a magical exhibition!
We warmly invite you to take an active part!
We look forward to seeing you and professional musicians!

The evening is dedicated to the memory of the late Michał Zduniak, a drummer who lived on our estate.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of Warsaw
Szaserów Housing Cooperative
Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation
invite you to the exhibition
Jazz Pastels
Free admission
Exhibition opening: Saturday, 7 March 2020, 5 pm
During the opening there will be a
jam session
Special guest
Bartosz Łęczycki
“Kredens pod Oknami”, 13 Szklanych Domów Street
(from Garwolińska Street)
Anatol Karoń
Jazz colour
Project partners: Yamaha Polska
“Pasja” music shop
Veolia Energia Warszawa S.A.
Warszawa Lokalnie

We remind you that you are welcome to use the space of our Kredens pod Oknami club, which we make available, by prior arrangement, as part of the Local Activity Centre. Contact us by message on Facebook. The projects of the Local Social Activity Centre Kredens pod Oknami are co-funded by the City of Warsaw. We look forward to your proposals and initiatives.

Ladies and gentlemen! The meeting with Anna Milewska has been moved to another date. Ms Anna has a cold. As part of our multigenerational seniors' Wednesday, we invite you instead to a meeting about PARIS, Art and dreams! If you have Paris stories, come! If you have never been to this city of painters, come! We will travel there together in our imagination!

We remind you that you are welcome to use the space of the Kredens pod Oknami Club, which we make available by prior arrangement as part of the Local Activity Centre. We also accept individual bookings and suggestions of days and hours. The schedule of available hours in March is in the Kredens pod Oknami events on Facebook. Contact us by Facebook message. The projects of the Local Social Activity Centre – Kredens pod Oknami are co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw. We look forward to your proposals and initiatives despite the pandemic.

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative and
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation invite you to:
a multigenerational meeting in the series:
CHATS WITH HUMOUR
Paris, Art and DREAMS
or
Journeys of the imagination
Hosts of the evening:
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
Project partners: Yamaha Polska
“Pasja” musical instruments
Veolia Energia Warszawa S.A.
Free admission

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 6 pm. “Kredens pod Oknami”, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (from the Garwolińska side)

Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A birthday evening
for Kalina Jędrusik
“I wciąż się na coś czeka..”
Special guest
Piotr Gacek

A friend and author of books about the outstanding actress and singer, “the icon of femininity of the 1960s”

Readers and singers:
Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański
At the piano
Jacek Prokopowicz

Barbara Krafftówna has announced that she will take part in the Kalina evening, and we are eagerly awaiting her!

Project partners: Yamaha Polska
“Pasja” musical instruments
Veolia Energia Warszawa S.A.
Free admission

Wednesday 5 February 2020, 6 pm, “Kredens pod Oknami”, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (from Garwolińska Street)

As part of the Warszawa Lokalnie campaign, we warmly invite you to use the space of our Kredens pod Oknami club, which we make available as part of the Local Activity Centre by prior arrangement. Because of the unusual and difficult time of the epidemic, we accept individual requests and suggestions of days and times. Contact us by message on Facebook. The projects of the Local Activity – Community Centre Kredens pod Oknami are co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw. We look forward to your suggestions and initiatives despite the pandemic.

Kalina Jędrusik-Dygat (born 5 February 1930 in Gnaszyn[1][2], died 7 August 1991 in Warsaw) – Polish theatre and film actress, singer and cabaret artist. Kalina Jędrusik was born in 1930 (some sources give 1931, which according to her half-brother Maciej Jędrusik is incorrect[1]) in Gnaszyn (since 1977 a district of Częstochowa). In 1949 she graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki 1st General Secondary School in Częstochowa[4], then in 1953 from the State Higher School of Acting in Kraków, and in the same year made her stage debut at the Teatr Wybrzeże in Gdańsk. From January 1955 she performed in Warsaw theatres: the Teatr Narodowy (1955–1957), Teatr Współczesny (1957–1963), Teatr Komedia (1964–1967), Studencki Teatr Satyryków (1969–1972), Teatr Rozmaitości (1972–1985) and Teatr Polski (1985–1991). She played dramatic and character roles. Kalina Jędrusik gained enormous popularity from her appearances in the television programmes of the Kabaret Starszych Panów and from film roles, among others as Joanna in Lekarstwo na miłość, directed by Jan Batory.

In the 1960s and 1970s she was regarded as a sex symbol. In 1976 she performed for the Polish diaspora in the USA in duets with Violetta Villas, mainly in the United States.

In a poll for the best actress in the history of Polish film, organised in 1996 by the magazine “Film” on the 100th anniversary of cinema, she took third place.

Dear Friends!
Come! We are waiting!
Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor
of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw,
the “Szaserów” Housing Cooperative, together with
the Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation, invite you to:
A meeting dedicated to the memory of
the writer and poet
Bogumiła Dziekan
“Już nie zdążę cię zapomnieć..”
Readers:
Barbara Dziekan
the poet’s daughter, an actress
and
Barbara Majewska and Milena Vajda
Special guest
COMPOSER AND PIANIST
Marek Błaszczyk
Project partners: Yamaha Polska
“Pasja” musical instruments
Veolia Energia Warszawa S.A.
Free admission

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 6 pm, “Kredens pod Oknami”, ul. Szklanych Domów 13 (from Garwolińska Street)