Piwnica Poetycka

On Saturday 7 August 2021 it will be 30 years since the sudden death of
the outstanding actress and singer,
a dear, good person,
Kalina Jędrusik
On that day at 5 pm in the Kościół Środowisk Twórczych (Church of the Creative Communities)
at Plac Teatralny in Warsaw
a solemn Holy Mass will be offered for her
We ask for your presence and prayers
Friends

Since the end of July, as part of the second edition of the Klatka po Klatce project, courtyard cinema screenings dedicated to Kalina Jędrusik have been taking place. The programme is on the Facebook page of Kredens pod Oknami.

Dear Guests!
The Piwnica Poetycka ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage,
the Public Library in the Żoliborz District,
the Jerzy Ficowski Foundation www.jerzyficowski.pl,

the organisers of the second edition of the Jerzy Ficowski Żoliborz Recitation Competition, warmly thank you for your willingness to take part in the 2nd Jerzy Ficowski Żoliborz Recitation Competition.

We are pleased to announce that 64 people have registered for the competition auditions, from primary schools and secondary schools combined: 44 from primary schools and 20 from secondary schools.

The competition auditions will take place in the Reading Room under the Owls – a Local Activity Centre in the Library at 8 Gen. J. Zajączka Street, Warsaw, on 25, 26 and 27 November 2019. The order of the reciters’ performances will be decided by drawing the numbers of the participants in the group auditioned that day. Performers are asked to wear formal dress.

Day one – you are invited:

On Monday 25 November 2019, pupils of primary school years 1–3 and 4–6 – 29 people.

Programme of day one: 8:30–8:55 – registration of arrivals, drawing of competition performance numbers, arranging the participation cards according to the numbers drawn.

9:00 am–3:00 pm – competition auditions of the reciters. One break of about 15 minutes is planned during the auditions.

The presentation of the chosen repertoire for one person should not exceed 10 minutes by the clock.

Accompanying event.

4:00–6:30 pm – a recitation workshop for the Competition’s participants with Irena Jun, a master of the spoken word, an actress of the Teatr Studio in Warsaw. At the 1st Bolesław Limanowski Secondary School, 15 Felińskiego Street, Warsaw. The number of places is limited. Please send names of those wishing to attend the workshop to: poecipiwnicapoetycka@interia.pl by 23 November 2019.

Day two – you are invited:
On Tuesday 26 November 2019, pupils of primary school years 7–8 – 15 people.
Programme of day two:

Accompanying event:

4:00–6:30 pm – “Projekt Ficowski”: a screening of selected short film forms by pupils of the Film Secondary School at the Warsaw Film School, inspired by the poetry of Jerzy Ficowski. The young people’s films have been made for three years under the direction and subject-matter supervision of Andrzej Wolf, a lecturer at the Warsaw Film School, in cooperation with the Jerzy Ficowski Foundation. Discussion – poems and film. A meeting with Elżbieta Ficowska, a writer and the Poet’s wife.

The Assembly Hall of the 1st Bolesław Limanowski Secondary School, 15 Felińskiego Street, Warsaw. Free admission.

Day three – you are invited:
On Wednesday 27 November 2019, pupils of Warsaw secondary schools – 20 people.
Programme of day three:

Gala concert of the winners of the 2nd Jerzy Ficowski Żoliborz Recitation Competition

30 NOVEMBER 2019, 4 pm

Free admission. Attendance is compulsory for all participants of the auditions. Presentation of Certificates of Participation and prizes, recitations of one text each by the prizewinning participants, and a screening of a selected film from “Projekt FICOWSKI”. A concert by the Romani singer Krystyna Markowska, “Perełki”, the special guest of the evening, accompanied by musicians from the ensemble

PERŁA i BRACIA. The artists perform Romani vocal and instrumental music, as well as jazz and so-called world music. Performing with Krystyna Markowska will be: Krzysztof Kociszewski and Zdzisław Michał Markowski on classical guitars and Maciej Kałamucki on accordion.

Free admission

Classical guitar – Krzysztof Kociszewski

Guitarist, composer, teacher, and lecturer in accordion classes at first- and second-level State Music Schools, a graduate of the Academy of Music in Łódź, winner of the 3rd prize at the national classical guitar competition in Strzelce Krajeńskie in 1980. From 1989 to 1992 he performed in the guitar duo Roho Konar. Finalist of the International Classical Guitar Competition in Kraków, 1994.

Classical guitar – Zdzisław Michał Markowski

From 1973 to 1975 a member of the folk ensemble “Czarne Perły”. Guitarist,

dancer; from 1999 to 2001 he worked with the Bałuty Cultural Centre in Łódź.

A certified instructor of traditional Romani dance and music with teaching qualifications.

Accordion – Maciej Kałamucki

Accordionist, teacher, graduate of the Academy of Music, winner of many prestigious awards. Teacher and lecturer in accordion classes at first- and second-level State Music Schools.

Vocals – Krystyna Markowska
From 1975 to 1980 she was a member of musical groups in Sulejówek.
She was given singing lessons by Prof. Irmina Matyjasek and Mr Potyrałło, MA.

In 1997 she performed at the 1st Romani Music Festival in Ciechocinek, winning a special festival prize.

From 1999 to 2001 she worked with the Bałuty Cultural Centre in Łódź, and since 2004 she has worked with the Municipal Cultural Centre in Konstantynów Łódzki.

Dear Friends!
As we wait for Christmas, we invite you to the 52nd Piwnica Poetycka!

On Sunday 9 December at 5 pm in the Czytelnia Pod Sowami – Local Activity Centre at ul. Zajączka 8 in Żoliborz

Dedicated to our audience, the next meeting of Piwnica Poetycka will be held, entitled CUD – Wiersze na Boże Narodzenie (Miracle – Poems for Christmas).

The special guest of Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański will be Agata Piotrowska-Mastalerz!

Jacek Prokopowicz will play the piano, and Wojciech Lubertowicz the duduk and frame drums!

Since the beginning of its existence the Piwnica Poetycka series has been dedicated to Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat and to the atmosphere of the houses of Żoliborz. Our meetings are under the patronage and with the support of Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District!

Free admission

Dear all!

On 29 July at 5 pm, at Fort Sokolnickiego in Żeromski Park, the jubilee 50th Piwnica Poetycka will take place, under the patronage of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District, Krzysztof Bugla!

We will read excerpts from "Pamiętnik z Powstania Warszawskiego" ("A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising") by Miron Białoszewski and poems by poets of the Columbus Generation. We will hear music by Zygmunt Konieczny and Joachim Mencel. Joachim Mencel will be the musical guest of the meeting and will play the hurdy-gurdy. On the piano we will hear Piotr Latoszyński. The special guest will be Adam Woronowicz, accompanied by the hosts of the series, Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański. The Polish Publishing Institute (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy) will display its publications at reduced prices. YAMAHA is the partner and patron of the project, and we offer them our sincere thanks for providing the piano for the Uprising Piwnica Evening. You are warmly invited!

Ladies and gentlemen!
We warmly invite you to the 49th Piwnica Poetycka!
"Szarlatanów nikt nie kocha..."(“Nobody Loves Charlatans...”)

We will read poems by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Julian Tuwim, Stanisław Grochowiak, Miron Białoszewski, Jerzy Harasymowicz, Fatos Arapi…

Our special guest will be Grzegorz Damięcki, and our musical guests Alina Mleczko and Buba Badije Kujateh.

Czytelnia pod Sowami - Local Activity Centre in Żoliborz, ul. Gen. J. Zajączka 8. Free admission.

The Piwnica evenings have been running since 2011! They are under the patronage and with the support of Mr Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District. The meetings are dedicated to Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat and to the atmosphere of Żoliborz homes!

We warmly invite you and ask for your personal and informational support!

Ladies and gentlemen!

With joy and pride we invite you to the 48th Piwnica Poetycka, the first this year – a special year marking the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining Independence!

We exist thanks to the support and under the patronage of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District, Mr Krzysztof Bugla.

Thank you, Mr Mayor, and through you we also thank all the staff of the Żoliborz District Office for their help and cooperation!

Our patrons are: the Polish Writers' Association, Warsaw Branch, Radio RDC, the Żoliborz District Public Library, Teatr Dla Was, Wolna Sobota and the Maga Printing House.

Thank you to our faithful audience!

"Piwnica"has wandered around Żoliborz since the beginning of its existence, visiting wonderful, friendly places in the District!

In this 2018 edition we invite you to a special place, the "Czytelnia pod Sowami"(“Reading Room under the Owls”) at ul. Gen. J. Zajączka 8.

Dear Guests!
We warmly invite you and ask you to pass this information on!

We have the honour and the joy of performing as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Polish Independence in Żoliborz. We will perform the show “Wit Stwosz”, created out of the series of Żoliborz meetings of Piwnica Poetycka under the patronage of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District, Krzysztof Bugla. Our show has been recommended by the Association of Polish Journalists and the Journalistic Solidarity Foundation.

We look forward to seeing you:

on 17 February at 5 pm at the Katyń Museum, 4 Jeziorańskiego Street, Warsaw. We are performing in an unusual and special place! In the entrance space of the Katyń Museum, arranged visually and compositionally by Jerzy Kalina. Free admission. After the event there will be a conversation with Kira Gałczyńska, the Poet’s daughter, a writer and columnist, and with the creators of the production. Please arrive at 4:45 pm. Latecomers will not be able to enter.

Young people will also take part in the introductory part of the show

from the Teatr Punkt, run by Dorota Gołaszewska, at the 13th Secondary School named after Col. L. Lis-Kula in Warsaw.

Address: Katyń Museum, a branch of the Polish Army Museum – Warsaw Citadel, entrance from 4 Jana Jeziorańskiego Street, www: muzeumkatynskie.pl

Buses:
– Stop Most Gdański: 118, 185
– Stop Park Traugutta: 178, 227, 503, N12, N62
Trams:
– Stops Most Gdański, Park Traugutta: 1, 4, 6, 18, 28
Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District
Katyń Museum, a branch of the Polish Army Museum – Warsaw Citadel
invite you to the show
“Wit Stwosz”
based on the poem by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński

“So how can we define, briefly and simply, the fundamental idea of the poem, which both hides and reveals itself? What is it ‘about’?

– About the spiritual kinship of artists from even the most distant eras.

– About the artist’s fidelity to art. And art’s fidelity to its mission – its calling.

And about the fact that this is what makes it timeless.”
Stanisław Balbus
Kraków, 25 May 2015

On 17 December at 6 pm, at Tęcza od Kuchni, ul. Suzina 8, there will be the opening of an exhibition of sketches by the artist, architect and teacher Witold Poraj-Kuczewski, who died in 1966. The exhibition of pen sketches, watercolours and colour impressions, entitled "Spojrzenia" ("Glances"), is held under the patronage of Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District, and will run until 31 January 2018. It covers works from 1954 to the mid-1960s. These are the "glances" of an architect-artist at fragments of historic architecture, landscape, and what lies around him. A fleeting moment of vanished life in miniature and line. It is a reminder of the work and creativity of a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology (1933) and winner of a 1935 prize in a nationwide competition for urban planning of the centre of Warsaw. These successes resulted in Kuczewski being invited to work on the construction of the port in Gdynia. The outbreak of war put an end to all plans and bound the artist's fate once more to his family's occupied Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising. Having survived, he returned to the coast, where he organised the Chair of Architecture at the newly founded Gdańsk University of Technology and taught drawing there, while also working, as an eminent pre-war urban planner, in the Spatial Planning Directorate in Gdańsk. He also helped rebuild devastated Warsaw, working in the Miasto-projekt studio of the capital. His artistic work is an expression of what he did professionally as a visionary urban planner. It confirms the soundness of his craft as a draughtsman, and the mission of an architect with deeply humanist views. Witold Poraj-Kuczewski's works were collected and kept by the artist's recently deceased daughter, the painter Ina Biol (Halina Kuczewska). And it is she who, symbolically, through a few of her own paintings, will welcome the exhibition's guests and lead them through the streets, small towns and roads in her father's drawings to an intimate, emotional meeting in... "Spojrzenia".

We warmly invite you to the 47th Piwnica Poetycka!
Performing: Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański

Alina Mleczko on saxophones, accompanied by Jakub Kasznia and his electronic instruments

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We invite you to the next, 46th Piwnica Poetycka, the first at "Tęcza od Kuchni"! We will be reading poems by Bolesław Leśmian.

15 October, 5 pm, ul. Suzina 8, Warsaw, in a new place for us: "Tęcza od Kuchni"! Piwnica is still wandering around Żoliborz! "Zielony dzban" ("The Green Jug"). Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański.

The special and long-awaited guest of Piwnica will be the wonderful actress of the Ateneum Theatre, Magdalena Zawadzka.

Our musical guest will be the excellent instrumentalist and composer Sebastian Wypych, who is also connected with Żoliborz!

The Piwnica meetings are dedicated to the atmosphere of Żoliborz homes, to Kalina Jędrusik and to Stanisław Dygat.

The series is under the patronage, and has the support, of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District, Mr Krzysztof Bugla.
Free admission!

"Bolesław Leśmian lived in the interwar period, and his work escapes the influence of history, being realised rather in philosophical-metaphysical and psychological dimensions. The author drew on the work of the Baroque, Romanticism and Young Poland. The Romantic influences are above all everything that is mystical, spiritual and paranormal, everything deeply bound up with Nature and God. He drew on Romantic drama, used irony and paradox, and refreshed and modernised the ballad…

Dear all! After a long summer break we invite you, as every year before 1 August, to the so-called Uprising Piwnica. On 30 July we will meet the poetry of Tadeusz Gajcy and the poets of his generation! "...Bluszczem głosów..." ("...With an Ivy of Voices...") It is a Piwnica custom to invite interesting musical personalities. This time with us, in the poems of a poet of the Warsaw Uprising, will be the young, talented percussionist and composer Albert Karch. The special guest of Piwnica will be the outstanding and extraordinary Anna Milewska, already a friend of ours! You are warmly invited! Please pass the news on to your loved ones.

Dear all! After a long summer break we invite you, as every year before 1 August, to the so-called Uprising Piwnica. On 30 July we will meet the poetry of Tadeusz Gajcy and the poets of his generation! "...Bluszczem głosów..." ("...With an Ivy of Voices...") It is a Piwnica custom to invite interesting musical personalities. This time with us, in the poems of a poet of the Warsaw Uprising, will be the young, talented percussionist and composer Albert Karch. The special guest of Piwnica will be the outstanding and extraordinary Anna Milewska, already a friend of ours! You are warmly invited! Please pass the news on to your loved ones.

We warmly invite children and their parents and carers to the second meeting in the series “Gałązka z drzewa słońca” (A Twig from the Tree of the Sun), which will take place on 11 June at 10:30 am at Qlka Cafe in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district, 11 Przasnyska Street.

Free admission! This meeting is part of the celebrations of Children’s Day and the Żoliborz District holiday.

“Gałązka z drzewa słońca” is a proposed series of meetings for children aged 4–10, with poems and fairy tales read aloud by the distinguished Polish poet and translator Jerzy Ficowski, who is no longer with us, a soldier of the Warsaw Uprising and an artist connected with Żoliborz, together with painting visions from the imagination inspired by the poet’s work and poetry. The hosts of the next meeting will be: the Poet’s daughter Anna Ficowska-Teodorowicz, a psychologist; Aleksandra Gałaj, an actress, visual artist, animator and puppeteer; Anna Bojarska, an actress, puppeteer, teacher and singer; Marek Urbański, an actor and co-director of the meetings, concerts and open-air events; and invited musical guests. On 11 June the musical guests will be the duo of Marta Maślanka on the cimbalom and Małgorzata Szarlik-Woźniak on the violin. They will play a special concert for the children painting their impressions.

Marta Maślanka

Cimbalom player Marta Maślanka is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, where she studied percussion. She specialises in film and theatre music. She works with the best Polish composers, including Michał Lorenc, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Krzesimir Dębski, Paweł Mykietyn, Abel Korzeniowski, Bartłomiej Gliniak and Tadeusz Woźniak.

She has taken part in recording dozens of albums of film, early, folk and rock music.

She takes part in a variety of musical projects. Among others, she is a member of the groups DesOrient, Kapela Brodów and the early music ensemble Comtessa. She also works with Weronika Grozdew-Kołacińska and the Israeli vocalist Olga Mieleszczuk. She also plays the Persian santur, co-creating the group Persopolish.

Violinist, music therapist and teacher. A graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1995 she has also played the hollowed-out fiddle (skrzypce żłobione), a traditional Polish instrument.

We warmly invite you to the third Piwnica Poetycka this year, the 44th overall. Performing will be Irena Jun, Marek Urbański and Anna Bojarska. The musical personality we want to introduce to you will be the instrumentalist and trumpeter Robert Murakowski. We will be reading the somewhat forgotten poet Kazimierz Wierzyński. We ask for your help in spreading the word, and for your company! Let us talk with ourselves – WIERZYŃSKI!

Dear all! On 30 April, this coming Sunday, at 11 am, at Artystyczny Żoliborz, ul. Dygata 3, the first meeting in the series Mała Piwnica Poetycka (Little Poetry Cellar) will take place! It is a kind of continuation and extension of Piwnica Poetycka, which has been running in Żoliborz for six years! Our Mała Piwnica Poetycka – "Gałązka z drzewa słońca" ("A Twig from the Sun Tree") – is addressed to children aged 4 to 13 here… and their parents! The children will paint their thoughts while listening to music and to fairy tales and poems by Jerzy Ficowski, an outstanding Polish poet also connected with Warsaw and Żoliborz! Each meeting will have a different musical guest and a different instrument! Performing and reading will be: Anna Ficowska-Teodorowicz, Anna Bojarska, Aleksandra Gałaj and Marek Urbański, and Bartosz Łęczycki will play the harmonica!

There is also a surprise planned for the children and their parents! Selected children's works will be collected in an exhibition organised by Artystyczny Żoliborz, and promotional cards with the children's works will be printed. Free admission!

The series, under the patronage of the District Mayor Krzysztof Bugla, will be run by the ENS Foundation and the Jerzy Ficowski Foundation in a venue located in the block with the Jerzy Ficowski mural at Artystyczny Żoliborz! The series is also supported by the developer Żoliborz Artystyczny and the publishing house wolno! We look forward to welcoming anyone who wants to join us!

We warmly invite you! We ask for your help in spreading the news, in the media and through the reliable so-called "grapevine"!

Dear all! On 30 April, this coming Sunday, at 11 am, at Artystyczny Żoliborz, ul. Dygata 3, the first meeting in the series Mała Piwnica Poetycka (Little Poetry Cellar) will take place! It is a kind of continuation and extension of Piwnica Poetycka, which has been running in Żoliborz for six years! Our Mała Piwnica Poetycka – "Gałązka z drzewa słońca" ("A Twig from the Sun Tree") – is addressed to children aged 4 to 13 here… and their parents! The children will paint their thoughts while listening to music and to fairy tales and poems by Jerzy Ficowski, an outstanding Polish poet also connected with Warsaw and Żoliborz! Each meeting will have a different musical guest and a different instrument! Performing will be Anna Ficowska-Teodorowicz, Aleksandra Gałaj, Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański and Bartosz Łęczycki on the harmonica. There is also a surprise planned for the children and their parents! Selected children's works will be collected in an exhibition organised by Artystyczny Żoliborz, and promotional cards with the children's works will be printed. Free admission!

The series, under the patronage of the District Mayor Krzysztof Bugla, will be run by the ENS Foundation and the Jerzy Ficowski Foundation in a venue located in the block with the Jerzy Ficowski mural at Artystyczny Żoliborz! The series is also supported by the developer Żoliborz Artystyczny and the publishing house wolno! We look forward to welcoming anyone who wants to join us!

We warmly invite you! We ask for your help in spreading the news, in the media and through the reliable so-called "grapevine"!

We warmly invite you on 23 April 2017 to Kalinowe Serce in Warsaw for the 43rd Piwnica Poetycka, with the participation of Irena Jun, whom we have not heard or seen for a long time! Together with the mistress of the word we will read poems by Julia Hartwig. Accompanying us in this special conversation will be Anna Mocarska on the transverse flute and Iwona Rapacz on the cello! Free admission!

"...Such a presence fills itself so with absence
That cold thaws from long-gone warmth
That days are fortified so by days gone by
That greenery always recalls that other greenery"

We warmly invite you to the first Piwnica Poetycka of this year, the 42nd in the series: “Miłość to Ty” (Love Is You) – a concert-reading of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, with songs from her lifetime, from the interwar period to Ewa Lipska. The meeting will be dedicated to Wojciech Młynarski, who died recently and was one of the most important guests of Piwnica on 29 September 2013. You are warmly invited. Free admission!

We warmly invite you to the last Piwnica Poetycka of this year. Its special guest will be the wonderful Anna Milewska, and the musical guest an extraordinary artist of the younger generation, Jacek Prokopowicz! We will read Christmas poems by various poets, including those from Żoliborz who help to create our Piwnice… At the end, together with the host of Kalinowe Serce, we will decorate the Christmas tree in Kalinowe Serce with our poems, names and thoughts… We exist and work thanks to the support of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District, Krzysztof Bugla, and thanks to the kindness of many friends of Piwnica and staff of the District Office! We especially thank Ewa, Grażynka and the invaluable Zbyszek! We also warmly thank Kasia Masłowska! We look forward to seeing you! Please share this information! Invite your loved ones…!

We warmly invite you to the 40th, very special Piwnica Poetycka, "Amulety…" ("Amulets…")! We will read poems by poets of Jewish origin, or whose work is linked with Jewish culture and tradition, writing in Polish: Julian Tuwim, Bolesław Leśmian, Antoni Słonimski, Maurycy Szymel, Icyk Manger, Izrael Sztern, Tadeusz Nowak, Jerzy Ficowski… Performing will be Anna Bojarska and Marek Urbański and a special and extraordinary guest: Bieta Ficowska. Ms Bieta's presence is also symbolic for us and, in a sense, metaphysical... This year Piwnica Poetycka celebrates its fifth anniversary... Ms Bieta was the patron of the first Piwnica, at which on 16 October 2011 we read poems by Jerzy Ficowski! Now we will read as a trio! After the meeting-performance we invite you to a conversation! Ms Irena Jun, with whom we have the honour of co-creating the PIWNICA meetings in ŻOLIBORZ, is recovering and we are really LOOKING FORWARD to seeing her!

The musical guests will be the excellent instrumentalists Marta Maślanka (cimbalom) and Małgorzata Szarlik-Woźniak (violin).

And all this as part of the series of meetings "Muzykalność na życie" ("A Musicality for Life"), dedicated to the atmosphere of the homes of Old Żoliborz, to Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat.

Under the patronage and with the support of Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District. You are warmly invited, AND PLEASE INVITE your loved ones too!

We warmly invite you, on the eve of the 1 November holiday, to the 38th Piwnica Poetycka, with poems from the volume “Umarli ze Spoon River” (Spoon River Anthology) by Edgar Lee Masters. The special guest will be Adam Woronowicz, and Iwona Rapacz will play the cello. For some time now Piwnica has been a guest at Kalinowe Serce, 25 Krasińskiego Street, Warsaw. The meeting will take place, as always, at 5 pm.

Please pass the news and the invitation on to your loved ones!

Piwnica Poetycka
Zaduszki Kalinowe (Kalina All Souls’ Evening)
Poems
by Edgar Lee Masters
Read by
Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański,
Special guest
Adam Woronowicz
Cello – Iwona Rapacz

22 November 2015, 5 pm, Kalinowe Serce in Żoliborz, Warsaw, ul. Krasińskiego 25

Free admission
The thirty-second Piwnica

In the series of meetings “Muzykalność na życie”, dedicated to the atmosphere of the houses of Old Żoliborz

Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat
Patronage
Mayor of the Żoliborz District
Krzysztof Bugla

Media patrons: Żoliborz District, ENS Foundation Kalinowe Serce; Polish Writers’ Association; Teatr Dla Was; Wolna Sobota; Maga Printing House

Dear Friends!

This meeting is a November remembrance of our nearest and dearest, those who have departed recently and many years ago. Those who "are on the other side"

We will speak of them and think of them through the poems of Edgar Lee Masters, together with Adam Woronowicz and Iwona Rapacz.

Each of us already carries departures within. This will be about that. About departure through life. We warmly invite you. Please invite those close to you and those not so close. Pass it on.

On 27 October 2015 at 8 pm, the Warsaw Rising Museum will host an extraordinary, intergenerational concert of the music of Zygmunt Konieczny, “Jeśli miłość jest prawdą, to ciała nie widać” (If Love Is the Truth, the Body Cannot Be Seen) (Fr Jan Twardowski). It is a distinctive musical portrait of the Composer. The music of Zygmunt Konieczny will be translated into the sounds of violas da gamba, large harps, Celtic harps, the duduk, pianos, and the voices of choirs and soloists. The programme includes instrumental works written by Zygmunt Konieczny between 2011 and 2014 – contemporary pieces scored for early instruments, violas da gamba. The composer wants to show an audience that lives daily in a rush, in a world full of noise, the qualities of the warm, quiet and subtle sound of an early instrument, the viola da gamba. In the concert we will also hear selected pieces of film music (“Jancio Wodnik”, “Pornografia”, “Jasminum”, “Prymas Tysiąclecia”) and theatre music (“Wyspiański”, “Kontrapunkt”, “Sztukmistrz z Lublina”, “Brat Naszego Boga”, “Szopka Krakowska”) by Zygmunt Konieczny, arranged for the sounds of harps, gambas, duduk, pianos and voices, composed between 1959 and 2014. There will also be new arrangements of famous songs performed in the 1960s and made famous by Ewa Demarczyk and Anna Szałapak of Kraków’s Piwnica pod Baranami – songs to poems by Polish poets: Stanisław Wyspiański, Julian Tuwim, Czesław Miłosz, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Fr Jan Twardowski, Agnieszka Osiecka, Miron Białoszewski, Bolesław Leśmian, Andrzej Dobrzański, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer and Tadeusz Śliwiak.

Zygmunt Konieczny will take part in the concert as the composer of the project and a performer. Free tickets can be collected at the Warsaw Rising Museum box office from 16 October 2015 during box office hours. The number of places is limited. Detailed information about the project is available on the website www.fundacjaens.org.pl.

The organisers are the ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage and Piwnica Poetycka, with the support of the National Centre for Culture.

Co-funded by the National Centre for Culture under the Kultura-Interwencje 2015 programme.

Details on the website www.fundacjaens.org.pl

On 7 August 2015 at 5 pm, in the Chapel of St Francis of the Church of St Stanislaus Kostka at ul. Hozjusza 2 in Warsaw's Żoliborz, on the 24th anniversary of the death of Kalina Jędrusik, a special Mass will be held for Kalina Jędrusik and her husband Stanisław Dygat, outstanding figures of Polish culture and friends of people and animals.

The Mass will be led by Father Wojciech Drozdowicz. You are warmly invited. We ask for your presence, prayer and remembrance.

After the Mass, at Kalinowe Serce, ul. Krasińskiego 25, at 7 pm there will be a screening of the film "Kalina" by Jan Sosiński and Zbigniew Dzięgiel. Free admission.

You are warmly invited, and we ask you to share this information!

The ENS Foundation for Culture and National Heritage and the Kalinowe Serce Foundation

We invite you to the 27th Piwnica Poetycka – entitled "Miłość jest wszystkim co istnieje" (“Love Is All That Exists”)

A reading of poems by Stanisław Barańczak – the outstanding Polish poet and translator, who died on 26 December 2014. Readers: Irena Jun, Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański. Special guests: Mateusz Damięcki and the composer and double bassist Tadeusz Wielecki. The date of the meeting was set more than two months ago and it turned out to be election Sunday. WE INVITE YOU! Be with us. Piwnica is wandering around Żoliborz – this time in a newly opened, friendly and artistic place in Żoliborz at ulica POTOCKIEJ 14 in Warsaw. Coco art & music Club! At 5 pm.

The special guest of Piwnica 24 will be Ewa Lipska
Piwnica Poetycka
“Miłość jest jasnowidzem…” (Love Is a Clairvoyant…)
Poems
by Ewa Lipska
Read by
Irena Jun
Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański,
Special guests
Ewa Lipska and Prof. Stanisław Balbus
Bogdan Hołownia AND MUSIC
by Andrzej Zarycki

28 September 2014, 5 pm, Kalinowe Serce in Żoliborz, Warsaw, ul. Krasińskiego 25

Free admission
http://piwnicapoetycka.pl
The twenty-fourth Piwnica

In the series of meetings “Muzykalność na życie”, dedicated to the atmosphere of the houses of Old Żoliborz, to Kalina Jędrusik and Stanisław Dygat

Patronage

Krzysztof Bugla, Mayor of the Żoliborz District; Kalinowe Serce; Polish Writers’ Association; Teatr Dla Was; Wolna Sobota; Maga Printing House; ENS Foundation

We will post the traditional Piwnica poster soon!

The thirteenth Piwnica Poetycka! Readings of poems by Julian Tuwim! Irena Jun, Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański! Music by Karolina Brodniewicz! Karolina Brodniewicz on trombone, Artur Krawczyk on double bass.

FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR the Gdański Station IN AUGUST 1944.

The eleventh Piwnica Poetycka in the Żoliborz series of poetry readings, devoted to poems by poets of the Warsaw Uprising. It will take place in an unusual space for us – outdoors, after a solemn field Mass on the anniversary of one of the largest Home Army operations carried out during the Warsaw Uprising, 22.8.2012.

Performing: Maja Komorowska, Anna Bojarska, Marek Urbański and the multi-instrumentalist and composer Mieczysław Litwiński.

We warmly invite our regular audience, residents of Żoliborz, and all Varsovians...

The eleventh Piwnica in the Piwnica Poetycka series – a series of poetry evenings under the patronage of the Mayor of the Żoliborz District of the Capital City of Warsaw.

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