GORLICE CELEBRATING REPORTAGE

Małgorzata Szejnert © fot. Jarosław Antoniak, archiwum Festiwalu Dwa Brzegi

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.