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GORLICE CELEBRATING REPORTAGE

alicja — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:34:55 +0000

From 18th to 27th of September Gorlice will be visited by several dozen representatives of poetry, prose, theatre, and music. There is more, however, for there are also valued reporters coming to the charming Lower Beskids on the occasion of the Zygmunt Haupt Festival.

The series of meetings will be inaugurated by Paweł Smoleński – reporter and journalist documenting events taking place in Israel, Iraq, Poland, and Ukraine. The guests of the festival also include: Michał Olszewski – in his books he shows the less-representative, but often very true and painful side of Poland; Ewa Winnicka – the author talks about Polish emigration, simultaneously painting a clear picture not only of Poles facing foreign reality, but also of UK citizens; Ziemowit Szczerek – with whom we will go on “a journey through the Polish heart of darkness, through national insecurities and fantasies, through centuries of history”; Lidia Ostałowska – the protagonist of her reportages is Poland B.; Małgorzata Szejnert – taking up the topic of small hopes and great disappointments, she entwines micro-scale history with History with a capital “H”; Angelika Kuźniak – the topics of her books are other people’s biographies, also reaching where standard short bios do not; Taras Prochaśko – the author “leads us through the pagan, political, cultural, national wilderness, called Ukraine”; Andrzej Niewiadomski – with whom we will go on a journey in the footsteps of Zygmunt Haupt, and we will draw the maps of consciousness, memory, and remembrance.

Admission to all festival events are free. Details and descriptions of all events can be found under the PROGRAM tab.

POETIC ACCENTS

alicja — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:53:14 +0000

Among the authors invited to the 1st edition of the Zygmunt Haupt Festival there are not only renowned writers of prose and reporters but also representatives of the art of poetry. It is their creative work that the section “In the medium of poetry,” moderated by Darek Foks, is dedicated to.

Poetry-focused meetings shall begin on September 21st at 7PM in the building of the Municipal Public Library. Darek Foks will be talking to Artur Szlosarek – poet and translator, laureate of the Kościelski Foundation Award, author of collections of poems, including “Camera obscura,” “Pod obcym niebem,” and “Ołówek rzeźnika.” Another guest will be Bohdan Zadura – writer of poetry and prose, translator, editor-in-chief of the “Twórczość” magazine. The meeting will be a chance to talk about the 2011 Wroclaw Silesius Poetry Award-winning book “Nocne życie,” but also to touch upon the author’s last poetry collection, “Kropka nad i.” We invite you to this meeting to the Municipal Public Library on September 25th at 4:15PM. This year’s poetry collection “nice” is one of the topics which Darek Foks chose for the discussion with Barbara Klicka. The meeting with the Wroclaw Silesius Poetry Award nominee (2013), poet, and animator of culture, will take place in the Gorlice Culture Centre on September 27th at 5:30PM.

Admission to all festival events is free. Details and descriptions of all events can be found under the PROGRAM tab.

NOT JUST A LITERARY FESTIVAL

alicja — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:34:50 +0000

The Zygmunt Haupt Festival comprises events that focus on the figure and artistic output of Zygmunt Haupt, events dedicated to contemporary literature… but not just that.

For everyone who decides to come to Gorlice and Szymbark on September 18th-27th, the organisers have prepared interesting musical program highlights.

The first concert will take place on Sunday, September 20th, at the Groblewski Manor IGiPZ PAN in Szymbark-Bystrzyca, where at 8:45PM we will hear the group LABORATORIUM PIEŚNI. The Tricity vocal band will present traditional Ukrainian, Balkan, Polish, Georgian, and Scandinavian songs, and the Groblewski Manor will be filled with the sound of ethnic instruments – shaman drums, percussion, and bells. Whereas on September 25th (Friday) at 8PM in the Gorlice Culture Centre we will listen to MISHA ALPERIN, Ukrainian pianist, composer, and arranger who is collaborating with the prestigious record company ECM. Apart from his own compositions Alperin plays jazz pieces and performs a repertoire inspired by classical and traditional music from eastern and Scandinavian countries. The festival’s last concert will be a performance by Yuri Andrukhovych with the band Karbido, presenting the ATLAS ESTREMO project. The starting point for this musical-literary show was Andrukhovych’s book of prose – “The lexicon of intimate cities.” The concert will take place in the Gorlice Culture Centre on September 26th at 8PM.

Admission to all festival events is free. Details and descriptions of all events can be found under the PROGRAM tab.

PROSE AT THE ZYGMUNT HAUPT FESTIVAL

alicja — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:27:00 +0000

The program of the 1st Zygmunt Haupt Festival is rich in meetings that are not only dedicated to the patron of the festival and his work.

Events held at the Municipal Public Library and the Gorlice Centre of Culture will give literature lovers a chance to meet valued prose writers from Poland and abroad.

Among the guests we will find writers with notable literary output, well known among readers, as well as new authors. They all have one thing in common – they will come to Gorlice to share the best literature. We will hear about the recent books by Krzysztof Varga, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Justyna Bargielska. Together with Artur Daniel Liskowacki we will face the Polish-German Szczecin. The meeting on the recent books by Yuri Andrukhovych, on the other hand, will take us across the eastern border. Zofia Król’s questions about the books “Pająki pana Roberta” and “Uprawa roślin południowych metodą Miczurina” shall be answered by their authors – Robert Pucek and Weronika Murek. Darek Foks and Waldemar Bawołek will take a look at the social landscape of contemporary Poland, and Krzysztof Środa will take us on a phenomenological journey. The meeting with Wojciech Nowicki will be an opportunity to touch upon the topic of time and space travel, and the fear and longing that they evoke. The person to talk with Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało about her novel “Zaćmienie” will be Jarosław Klejnocki.

Admission to all festival events is free. Detailed plan and descriptions of the events can be found under the PROGRAM tab.

REVOLVING AROUND THE WORK OF ZYGMUNT HAUPT

alicja — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:22:58 +0000

The Zygmunt Haupt Festival gives an opportunity to move into the world of the best contemporary literature for ten days, but not only that.

It is also a chance to get familiar with the life and work of the festival’s patron – an outstanding, interesting artist of many talents and, at the same time, inequitably forgotten.

The audience will have an opportunity to admire sketches by Zygmunt Haupt, who studied architecture and urban planning. The exhibition “A lesser-known Haupt. Drawings 1933-1975” includes art pieces from the Paris period of the writer’s life, when he created his first literary works and sketches. There shall also be a screening of the film “Erratum to biography,” directed by Zbigniew Kowalewski. The film features prof. Aleksander Madyda, Krzysztof Rutkowski, Andrzej Stasiuk, and others, sharing their fascination with Haupt’s creative output.

In the program one can find three topical meetings attended by theoreticians of literature, historians, and researchers of Haupt’s work. The focus will be on the following topics: “Podolia – Lviv – Paris – USA,” “Mysticism – Mannerism – Modernism,” “Worldview.” Specialists who will partake in the meetings are: prof. Aleksander Madyda, Andrzej Niewiadomski, PhD, Paweł Panas, PhD, Zofia Król, PhD, Marek Dziedziak, Darek Foks, Michał Sowiński.

More information about the events can be found under the PROGRAM tab. Admission to all festival events is free.

PROGRAM OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ZYGMUNT HAUPT FESTIVAL

alicja — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:11:20 +0000

On September 18th-27th we are inviting you to come to Gorlice and Szymbark for the first Zygmunt Haupt Festival.

The organisers have prepared a program that teems with events focusing on the figure and creative work of the patron, as well as on modern literature and the authors creating it.

During the 10 days of festival, Gorlice and Szymbark will be home to a number of events focusing on the biography and literary output of Zygmunt Haupt, an extraordinary and inequitably forgotten Polish writer. Among the invited guests there will be historians, experts on and lovers of Haupt’s writing, as well as literature researchers – prof. Aleksander Madyda, Andrzej Niewiadomski PhD, Zofia Król PhD, Paweł Panas PhD, Marek Dziedziak. The writer’s son, Arthur Haupt, will be the festival’s special guest.

The program features the vernissage of Zygmunt Haupt’s drawings exhibition (from Arthur Haupt’s collection), the screening of the film “Errata to biography,” and Sławomir Grzymkowski’s monodrama “Non-remembering,” directed by Antoni Ferency. We will also listen to fragments of Haupt’s stories, read by Tomasz Schimscheiner.

We have also invited renowned writers and poets to Gorlice, ones whose creative work in many aspects relates to the writing, and also to the world view of Zygmunt Haupt. Readers will have the opportunity to meet Jurij Andruchowycz, Justyna Bargielska, Waldemar Bawołek, Barbara Klicka, Angelika Kuźniak, Artur Daniel Liskowacki, Weronika Murek, Andrzej Niewiadomski, Wojciech Nowicki, Michał Olszewski, Lidia Ostałowska, Taras Prochaśko, Robert Pucek, Paweł Smoleński, Andrzej Stasiuk, Małgorzata Szejnert, Artur Szlosarek, Ziemowit Szczerek, Krzysztof Środa, Krzysztof Varga, Ewa Winnicka, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, and Bohdan Zadura. The moderators of the auteur meetings will be Darek Foks, Jarosław Klejnocki PhD, Zofia Król PhD, Monika Rogowska-Stangret PhD, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Monika Stopczyk.

The rich literary program will be complemented by interesting musical events. We will listen to Jurij Andruchowycz and Karbido, Laboratorium Pieśni, and Misha Alperin, pianist and composer working with the prestigious record company ECM. Admission to the concerts, as to all festival events, is free.

We invite you to get familiar with the list of GUESTS and the PROGRAM of the festival, and to visit Gorlice and Szymbark in the second half of September.