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February – March 2012
Photography Gallery „pf”
Centrum Kultury "Zamek"
Poznań
Bettina Von Zwehl exhibition confronts two series of portaits made by the artist – "Made up love song” and "Alina”.
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January 2012
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London. Her current research project investigates audience participation in contemporary art spaces, and questions whether audiences are perfomatively able to become part of the very nature of the exhibition.
The lecture was a part of Open Academy initiated by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
February 2012
CS Impart
Wrocław
Britain's culturally rich and diverse society is a complex one. Whilst the host country learns to adapt to a wide ethnic spectrum, those emigrating to the UK have to find their own place within an environment which often demonstrates very different values to their own.
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Grotowski Institute
Wrocław
Forward Motion, a British Council project co-produced with South East Dance, creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance industry. It celebrates British screen dance talent and aims to engage new artists, markets, audiences and participants in this exciting niche art form. Forward Motion is a collection of outstanding British screen dance works curated by experts and presenting interviews with artists and dance movies.
Forward Motion consist of three parts. Firs one entitled "Intros" has been a selection by proffesor Liz Aggis from Brighton University, second part "Insights" has been a selection by Dr. Vena Ramphal, the third part is a selection made by dance artists and it's entitled "Artist’s Choice".
Audience Development is fairly unknown In Poland, created in the UK method – a way of work of an organization and a cultural institution, which is concentrated on cooperation with an audience. It combines a cultural education with a non-standard promotional and marketing performance.
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November - December 2011
Gdańsk
The exhibition of Gilbert & George has become a pretext to present British culture in a slightly wider context. In order to achieve it, we have decided to organise BRIT CULT FESTIVAL in November and December 2011 in Gdańsk. Through a series of cultural events accompanying the exhibition we aim to show the most interesting phenomena of contemporary art and British culture, focus on its language, current trends, tendencies, and directions. Our goal is to present the art of established artists as well as the immense potential of the young generation. We would make an attempt at bringing Polish public closer to British arts.
The festival is mainly about getting to know British arts, culture, identity, nature of the nation and investigating if the cliché, sometimes caricature-like image of a typical Brit is anywhere near the reality. Gilbert & George approach the subject with deadly seriousness and humour but at the same time they are sympathetic and thoughtful. Concentrating on the symbols, traditions, national icons – and through juggling with forms and conventions – they make the viewers think deeply about the human nature and philosophy of life. We would like to follow these tracks, or even go one step further, and have a closer look at contemporary British culture, explore visual arts, music and film – often in reference or comparison to art of Gilbert & George.
Organised by Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk and the British Council
Curators of „Jack Freak Pictures” exhibition: Gilbert & George
Coordinator of the exhibition and curator of BRIT CULT FESTIVAL: Anna Szynwelska
BRIT CULT festival curatorial cooperation: Agnieszka Kulazińska, Kamila Wielebska, Jolanta Woszczenko (CSW Łaźnia), Błażej Kroplewski (DKF Marcello), Karol Schwarz (Nasiono Records)
Honorary Patrons of the Project:
- Polish Presidency of the European Union Council
- Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, Bogdan Zdrojewski
- Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Mieczysław Struk
- Mayor of the City of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz
Project supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland within the framework of “Artistic Events: Visual Arts” programme.
The events within the framework of BRIT CULT festival include:
- STREETART ACTION with London graffiti artist STIK – making a graffiti in Lower Town district in Gdańsk and meeting with the public to discuss British and Polish streetart.
- MAPPING MEMORIES AND NEW DISCOVERIES – art & education workshops with Sarah Marsh, freelance educator and artist from Manchester. She will realize two kinds of workshops: in the summer streetworking workshops with local communities in Gdansk and drop-in workshops for viewers of Gilbert & George exhibition at CSW Laznia in autumn.
- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OBJECT - British video art preview (from the collection of LUX arts agency, London). The screening will be connected with a lecture on British avant-garde video art by Gil Leung – art historian and curator from London.
- MR DEMOCRACY. A WRITTEN COSTITUTION FOR THE UK – an exhibition by Oliver Walker.
- BRITISH CINEMA PREVIEW – 4-day presentation of the most inspiring and influential films of the last four decades in the history of British Cinema. The screenings organized in cooperation with DKF Marcello, independent film society from Gdańsk.
- BEST OF BRITISH ANIMATION – screenings of the best British animations organized in cooperation with British Council in Warsaw. The British Animation Awards (BAA) covers all aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children's entertainment, short and experimental art films, music videos, new technologies.
- SPACE FEST! - shoegaze, space rock and indie festival and workshops. SpaceFest! will comprise of workshops for 15 musicians at CSW Łaźnia (conducted by Raymond Dickaty, ex-Spiritualized), a lecture by Simon Scott (Slowdive), two-day music festival held at in Sopot and Gdańsk concert venues and a album with the music created during the workshops and performed live at the festival. The workshops and concerts are organized in cooperation with Nasiono Records, independent record label from Gdańsk.
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September 2011 - March 2012
LIVE BROADCASTS OF SPECTACLES FROM LONDON NATIONAL THEATRE IN MIKRO CINEMA
After the great success of opera broadcasts that took place in various cultural centres all over Poland, Mikro Cinema in Kraków decided to initiate a new cycle of broadcasts. All theatre enthusiasts had a chance to see six spectacles in English live from the famous National Theatre in London.
Programme:
RICHARD BEAN
based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
One Man, Two Guvnors
ARNOLD WESKER
The Kitchen
JOHN HODGE
Collaborators
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Comedy of Errors
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Drama Lab would like to invite you to workshops for playwrights and dramatists held by the Scottish dramatist Catherine Grosvenor. The workshops will be held from the 13th to the 15th of January 2012 in Teatr na Woli.
Catherine Grosvenor is a dramatist and a translator. She has graduated from Polish and German philology at Cambridge University. She leads a course in writing at Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
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REGRESS PROGRESS
21.06.2011 – 15.01.2012
New series of exhibitions and events under the title Laboratory of the Future will be presented from the 21st of June 2011 (opening on the 20th of June at 6 PM) in Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. This large-scale, long-term programme is aiming at research of possible scenarios of the years to come.
British Council invites you to the exhibition:
• WHERE IS THE GREEN RABBIT ?
curator: Ewa Gorządek, (June - September 2011)
Hubert Czerepok, Annie Dorsen, Fischli & Weiss, Vadim Fishkin, Jarosław Kozakiewicz, Robert Kuśmirowski, Aleksandra Mir, Steven Pippin.
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WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film is one of the oldest and largest human rights film festivals in the world, which annually garners 70 000 viewers in the whole country.
All screenings are free with the entry pass
This year the British Council is supporting the festival and the masterclasses lead by Marc Isaacs.
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Witness a large dancing, singing group of youth coming from different environments of Łódź plus the choir and orchestra of Łódź Philharmony conducted by Grzegorz Wierus.
The entire show is based on specially composed piece - Antyk/Trans/Orchestra - compositions by Maciej Maciaszek and Tomasz Krzyżanowski.
The show is produced by:
Robert Hayden - recognized American dancer and choreographer
Lara Lloyd Weber - Earthfall Dance Limited, Cardiff
Tomasz Rodowicz - Chorea Theatre, Łódź
More info: www.oratorium-chorea.pl
time: 5.11 (Saturday), 4:00 pm
venue: Warsaw, Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 55
speakers: Alastair Donald, Grzegorz Piątek, Aleksandra Wasilkowska + OSSA
chair: Claire Fox / Institute of Ideas, London
partners: Battle of Ideas / London, British Council, Polish Association of Architecture Students (OSSA)
producer: Angus Kennedy / Battle of Ideas, Szymon Żydek / Bec Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw
for further details pls contact: szymon[at]funbec.eu
The discussion will be held in English. Entrance is free of charge.
The economic crisis in Europe makes it difficult to predict the future, let alone plan it. So what does this mean for architects? Should they seek to put forward a bold vision of the future, despite current uncertainties? Or should they improvise with and adapt existing 20th century architecture? Will new social movements bring about new forms of spatial organisation, and if so what role can architects play?
The meeting will be held as part of Synchronicity 2011, a project realised with the financial support of the City of Warsaw: www.synchronicity.pl
The meeting will held as part of the festival Battle of Ideas 2011 Satellite Events 2011: www.battleofideas.org.uk
Festiwal projektowania miasta
1-30 October
Opening: 1st October (Saturday), 7 PM, Aula Spadochronowa Szkoły Głównej Handlowej
British Council supports:
- Marc Sands: Lecture Building the audience, Mozaic Hall, Musuem of Modern Art, 5.10.2011, 6 PM
- Jane Pavitt : a symposium in the main festival auditorium in the Palace of Culture, Kisielewski Hall, Post-modernism Session - 8.10. 2011, 3 PM
- Emily Pethick: a symposium in the main festival auditorium in the Palace of Culture, Kisielewski Hall, Participation Session – 29.10.2011 4 PM
- Richard Reynolds: a lecture in an auditorium in the Warsaw School of Economics - 27.10. 2011, 6 PM
- Prof. Erik Swyngedouw: a symposium in the main festival auditorium in the Palace of Culture (The symposium will be the final part of the workshop “New Urban Deal”) - 15.10. 2011
Entry is free
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Spoken Word is about the author and the text. Spoken Word is about the direct confrontation between the artist and the audience. Spoken word is about poetry. In Poland Spoken Word made its first appearance on Poetry Slams – a mix of poetry and performance, an open competition during which the audience chooses the best poet/performer of the night. Spoken Word is a western phenomenon which came to refresh the literature scene and to make our poetry nights more vibrant. This year FreeFormFestival has decided to follow in the footsteps of all big festivals from the UK or USA and to organize the first Spoken Word stage at a music festival in Poland !
During the festival on the Spoken Word stage you will be able to see: Harry Baker, Deborah Stevenson, Kamila Janiak, Mateusz Andała, Weronika Lewandowska, Grzegorz Bruszewski and Roman Boryczko
British Council is the Spoken Word Stage Partner and Coordinator.
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Wednesday, 19th of November 2011, 7.30 PM
Concert Hall
Orchestras of the world
BRITTEN SINFONIA
James MACMILLAN - conductor
Nicholas DANIEL - oboe
Erkii-Sven TÜÜR - Action-Passion-Illusion
James MACMILLAN - Oboe concert (Polish premiere)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN - Symphony № 2 in D-dur, op. 36
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Zachęta National Gallery of Art
02.09.2011 – 6.11.2011
curator: Magda Kardasz
cooperation: Anna Tomczak, Magdalena Komornicka, Sebastian Gawłowski
Meeting with Shezad Dawood will take place on Tuesday 25.10 at 6 PM
After the screening of the movie entitled "Feature" we will initiate a discussion with the artists, moderated by the curator of the exhibition - Magda Kardasz
Zachęta National Gallery of Art
multimedia room
entrance from ul. Burschego
entry is free
The Generation in Transition exhibition presents the artworks of a young generation of artists of Indian origin, living and working in India, as well as in America and Europe. It is the first extensive showcase of contemporary art from this region presented in Central Europe in recent years. For about twenty years now, India has been experiencing an enormous economic and technological development, which has had a substantial impact on social structures. This change, with its positive and negative aspects, is frequently reflected in the works of contemporary artists, especially in those of the youngest ones who have grown up in these interesting times of transition.
Artists invited to participate in the exhibition: Jaishri Abichandani, Prayas Abhinav, Ravi Agarwal, Ashish Avikunthak, Sarnath Banerjee, Devendra Banhart, Ansuman Biswas & Jem Finer, Nikhil Chopra, Baptist Coelho, Shezad Dawood, Rohini Devasher, Gauri Gill, Shilpa Gupta, Tushar Joag, Vishwas Kulkarni, Swati Khurana, Anay Mann, Rakhi Peswani, Prajakta Potnis, Prasad Raghavan, Gitanjali Rao, Akshay Rathore, Malik Sajad, Sharmila Samant, Mithu Sen, Charmi Gada Shah, Tejal Shah, Yashas Shetty, Bharat Sikka, Janek Simon, Praneet Soi, Kiran Subbaiah, Anup Mathew Thomas, Navin Thomas, Nandini Valli Muthiah
Following its presentation in Zachęta, the exhibition is be shown in the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius.
British collective based in Sheffield, founded in 1984 the group has maintained a six way partnership for nearly thirty years under the artistic direction of Tim Etchells, is a group of artistic daredevils, capable of anything. Their rich output, besides theatre productions, features exhibitions, video art, installations, books, even an artistic guided bus tour. The collective has travelled the whole world with their productions and played at nearly all the major theatre festivals.
Out of their projects so far there emerges a picture of an unusual, ingenious group which in their artistic activities always takes into account needs and expectations of their audience. As they themselves write about their work: ”[it] is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We’re interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain’”. They are especially interested in the mechanism of theatre performance itself, the role of audience, the machinations of contemporary urban life. Their achievements place them in the top rank of the contemporary theatre avant-garde, not only in Britain, but worldwide.
Quizoola!
Friday, October 7, 18:00 (360')
Bunkier Sztuki
Szczepański Sq. 3a
Language: English
„Quizoola!” is a “near-unclassifiable” performance, which has been shown around the world over the last 15 years. Six-hour-long presentation allows the audience members to leave any time, and come back later if they feel like it. But, as the director Tim Etchells recollects, “As performers, we’ve all seen audience members who have picked up their coats and are trying to leave, but it takes them 40 minutes to get out the door because they keep thinking, ‘I just want to hear the answer to the next question’.” The basis of the show consists of two thousand questions and answers. The list of questions includes the most simple (“Are you a natural blonde?”) as well as philosophical ones, requiring reflection (“What are trees?”). There are also humorous questions (“Do you think people have sexual fantasies about John McCain and Sarah Palin?”), as well as very personal (“Have you ever killed someone?”), and intimate (“Do you love me?”) The answers to these questions are improvised on the spot leaving the audience guessing whether they are sincere.
Conceived and devised by the company
Performers: Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden
Text: Tim Etchells and the company
Design/Lighting Design: Richard Lowdon
Commissioned by ICA Live Arts & National Review Of Live Art
The Thrill of It All
Sunday, October 9, 18:00 (120')
Laznia Nowa Theatre
os. Szkolne 25
Language: English + Polish subtitles
Forced Entertainment’s spectacular production is a peculiarly grotesque vaudeville, unpredictable and perverse. It seems to be a sure failure from the start: it is noisy, full of seeming imperfections, performed by a consistently shoddily dressed bunch of mediocrities. Apparently it should not be able to arouse interest. However, the performers’ exertions and the banal aesthetics contain strangely moving elements, winning the audience. A large amount of humour, resulting from the divergence between the characters’ intent and the effect of their efforts, plays an equally important part here.
The show disintegrates before our eyes and every comic trick seems to enforce the first impression. However, the chaotic structure of the play is irresistibly entertaining, incessantly laying bare its own theatricality. “The Thrill…” builds its strength on theatrical shoddiness, a strength that grants one a truly unforgettable evening, during which “the reckless Forced Entertainment beat theatre to smithereens.”
Direction: Tim Etchells
Cast: Thomas Conway, Amit Hadari, Phil Hayes, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor, John Rowley
Design: Richard Lowdon
Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards
Music and Sound: John Avery
Choreographic Advise: Kate McIntosh
Director’s Assistant: Hester Chillingworth
Production: Ray Rennie andFrancis Stevenson
Co-producers: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne (Paris) and Theatre Garonne (Toulouse)
Supported by Sheffield City Council
This year the oldest film festival in Poland is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The British Council once again takes pleasure in partnering this special feast of young Polish cinema.
British accents of the Festival:
As part of special screenings – ‘Best international debuts of last year’:
14 September – 14:30, Kino Kryterium
SKELETONS, director: Nick Whitfield, 2010
As part of “Truth for truth” talks:
14 September – 16:30, Galeria Bałtycka
Mentor or manager? On relations between producer and director. British experience – meeting with Carol Harding (Vicarious Dreams), a TV and film producer from the UK
Opening and main events: 10-15.05.2011
Exhibitions: May–September 2011
Main Organiser: WRO Center for Media Art Foundation / WRO Art Center, Wrocław
The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art and society.
The theme of the 14th WRO Biennale, which starts on May 10th 2011, is ALTERNATIVE NOW, highlighting the roles of individual artistic stances and strategies that keep a deliberate distance from the institutionalized mechanisms and standardized expectations of the art world.
Britsh artists in the exhibition and performance program:
Niall Farrell
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman + Joe Gerhardt)
Ralf Nuhn
Common Courtesy symposium panel:
Geoff Cox and Joanna Krysa +
Andy Prior
Phil Ellis
Helen Pritchard
Anya Lewin
Robert Jackson
Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver
More information http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en
Four days of non-stop culture. Exhibitions, concerts, films, theatre performances, and panels. Over 300 artists and renowned intellectuals from all over the world gather in one city.
Besides discussions with European intellectuals and artists, the programme includes theatre and other performances, concerts, screenings, visual arts exhibitions, architectural presentations and design projects. The majority of events – in accordance with the Congress’ formula and the contemporary arts’ interdisciplinary nature – cross boundaries of just a single area. Apart from small and chamber projects, like experimental sound projections, there will be spectacular performances for a wider audience – a pyrotechnic outdoor show or concerts of well-known stars. Presented will be new, rarely seen in Poland format projects, actions that refer to the cultural heritage of Wrocław, and performances that on the one hand show the potential of independent cultural organizations, and on the other hand interfere in the social area and activate the audience.
British Council is supporting the atendance of David Barrie, Julia Rowntree, Richard Barbrook, Jonathan Mills, Brian Eno, Jonny Greenwood, Aphex Twin.
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Forward Motion, a British Council project co-produced with South East Dance, creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance industry. It celebrates British screen dance talent and aims to engage new artists, markets, audiences and participants in this exciting niche art form. Forward Motion is a collection of outstanding British screen dance works curated by experts and presenting interviews with artists and dance movies.
Forward motion consist of three parts. Firs one entitled "Intros" has been a selection by proffesor Liz Aggis from Brighton University, second part "Insights" has been a selection by Dr. Vena Ramphal, the third part is a selection made by dance artists and it's entitled "Artist’s Choice".
The screenings are a part of Bodily Choreography exhibition at Zachęta Gallery.
23rd of July 2011 (Saturday), 6 PM Part 1
24th of July 2011(Sunday), 6 PM Parts 2 and 3
Zachęta National Art Gallery, Pl. Małachowskiego 3, Warsaw
The screenings are free.
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Opening on Friday 17th June 2011 at 7 p.m.
Exhibition is open until 14th August 2011
Partner of the exhibition: British Council
phot. Aneta Grzeszykowska, Bolimorfia, 2008/2010, photo courtesy of the artist
British Council and Zachęta National Gallery of Art invite you to the opening of the exhibition Bodily Choreography:
Wojciech Bąkowski
DV8 Physical Theatre
Ayşe Erkmen
Fatboy Slim
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Oliver Herring
Jesper Just
Anna Molska
Adrian Paci
Mark Raidpere
A. L. Steiner + robbinschilds
Type A
John Wood & Paul Harrisom
This is already the 7th year when Warsaw is hosting the Spoke’N’Word Festival, an event combining international poetry performances and slams featuring Polish poets. It is a great opportunity to see and hear poets from all around Europe performing live in front of a Polish audience. Anyone wanting to try their hand at performing will also have a chance to do so at the open poetry slam: a relatively new and energetic phenomenon which came to Poland 7 years ago and has since then been growing in popularity among both participants and viewers.
16.07 (SATURDAY)
20.00 Performances by Hollie McNish (United Kingdom), Lara Stoll (Switzerland), Ana Reis (Portugal), Jimi Lend (Austria)
and an open poetry SLAM (please send your applications to: spokenword@wierszewmetrze.eu)
Entrance: free
Klub Powiększenie, ul. Nowy Świat 27, Warsaw
17.07 (SUNDAY)
12.00 – 14.00 Spoken word workshop in English hosted by Hollie McNish
Limited number of participants ! (please send your applications to: spokenword@wierszewmetrze.eu)
Klub Powiększenie, ul. Nowy Świat 27, Warsaw
The festival is a part of Wiersze w Metrze campaign.
British Council invites you to Forward Motion screenings organised as a part of EUROPEAN FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, organised across 2 cities: Bytom and Krakow. Each part will be screened only once:
Forward Motion: INTROS
1.07.2011 at 16.00, , Goethe Institute, Rynek 20, Kraków
Forward Motion: INSIGHTS
2.07.2011 at 16.00, Śląski Teatr Tańca, sala Akwarium, ul. Żeromskiego 27, Bytom
Forward Motion: ARTISTS’ CHOICE
3.07.2011 at 16.00, Śląski Teatr Tańca, sala Akwarium, ul. Żeromskiego 27, Bytom
Forward Motion, a British Council project co-produced with South East Dance, creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance industry. It celebrates British screen dance talent and aims to engage new artists, markets, audiences and participants in this exciting niche art form. Forward Motion is a collection of outstanding British screen dance works curated by experts and presenting interviews with artists and dance movies.
Entrance is free
LIVE BROADCASTS OF SPECTACLES FROM LONDON NATIONAL THEATRE IN MIKRO CINEMA
After the great success of opera broadcasts that took place in various cultural centres all over Poland, Mikro Cinema in Kraków decided to initiate a new cycle of broadcasts. All theatre enthusiasts will be able to see six spectacles in English live from the famous National Theatre in London.
Programme:
A DISAPPEARING NUMBER - 11.11.2010 (Thursday) at 7 PM
Simon McBurney (*1957) based on the idea of the Complicite group
Drama in one act (2007)
Spectacle created by the Complicite group (2007)
David Annen as G.H. Hardy
Shane Shambhu as Srinivasa Ramanujan
Directed by Simon McBurney
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes, no intervals
HAMLET - 09.12.2010 (Thursday) at 8 PM|HD LIVE
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) (The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark)
Tragedy in five acts (1601–2)
Spectacle produced by the National Theatre group (2010)
Rory Kinnear as Hamlet
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Duration: 3 hours, one interval
FELA! – 13.01.2011 (Thursday) At 8 PM|HD LIVE
Shawn „Jay-Z” Carter and Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith present: Fela!
Musical theatre about the life of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti based on the idea of Bill T. Jones, Jim Lewis and Stephen Hendel (2008–9)
Libretto by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones , words and music by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, additional words by Jim Lewis, additional music by Aaron Johnson and Jordan McLean
Guest appearance of a Broadway show in National Theatre (2010)
Sahr Ngaujah as Fela
Choreography / directed by: Bill T. Jones
Musical direction by Aaron Johnson, Michael Henry, Lawrence Corns
Duration: 2 hours, 45 minutes, one interval
KING LEAR 03.02.2011 (Thursday) At 8 PM|HD LIVE
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Tragedy in five acts (1606)
Spectacle produced by Donmar Warehouse group (2011)
Sir Derek Jacobi as Lear
Directed by Michael Grandage
Duration: 3 hours, one interval
FRANKENSTEIN – 17.03.2011 (Thursday) at 8 PM|HD LIVE
Nick Dear (*1955) based on a novel by Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
Spectacle in two parts (2011)
Spectacle produced by the National Theatre group (2011)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes, one interval
THE CHERRY ORCHARD – “Вишнёвый сад” 30.06.2011 (Thursday) At 8 PM|HD LIVE
Anton Czechow (1860–1904)
Comedy in four acts (1904)
Spectacle produced by the National Theatre group (2011)
Zoë Wanamaker as Lubow Raniewska
Directed by Howard Davies
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes, one interval
All spectacles are in English
Tickets: in advance regular 35 PLN, reduced 30 PLN, 4 days before the spectacle regular 40 PLN, reduced 35 PLN
Read more at: www.ntlive.com
Ola Uduku (Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh/ School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture University of Edinburgh )
introduction: Łukasz Stanek (ETH Zurich)
16 May (monday) 2011,. 19.00
Following the move to national ‘independence’ in Africa at the end of World War Two, a new post war period of economic prosperity resulted in the evolution of new Modernist Architecture and Planning schemes being built across West Africa, where Ghana become the first sub-Saharan country to attain independence in 1957. These projects included school building programmes, University campuses, and notable modernist office and residential buildings designed and built with the involvement of an international group of Architects, many from the UK, but also with others from as far afield as Eastern Europe and Australia. This talk discusses this postwar architectural climate and focuses specifically on the under-reported influence of Eastern European architects and planners in the 1947 – 1970s “Modernist” Period in West Africa.
Radio workshops and club party with
great British radio DJ,
the star of world-renown Selector
Goldierocks
Wednesday, 11th of may 2011
Radio Roxy z Miasta Club
Ul. Chmielna 9a, Warsaw
Famous Polish presenters from Radio Roxy that will take part in the workshops:
Novika / Lexus / Tymon Tymański
Register for workshops from 18 – 29 April by sending an email to warsztaty@roxy.fm , first come, first served, limited number of places !!!
Workshops: 11th of May from 10.30-16.00 free entrance, register: warsztaty@roxy.fm; download the programme
Club party: 11th of May, from. 19:00-01.00, entrance: 10 PLN, free for workshop participants
Goldierocks is Sam Hall; DJ, presenter and party planner du-jour. Now most renowned for her energised DJ appearances, invading parties and aftershows all over the world - at some point in time, Sam's probably hijacked your fave electro/indie haunt. But she's much more than London's latest party-person, skilled DJing aside, Goldierocks is also growing her reputation as a respected producer, presenter and music journalist. Some of her highlights include: presenter of the weekly 'Selector Radio Show' for the British Council, broadcast across 23 countries to 2 million listeners, Reading & Leeds Festival, The Great Escape Festival, Lovebox Weekender, SXSW conference in Austin, USA.
Workshops and club party are a part of the second edition of Warsaw Music Week
28 March 2011, 6 p.m.
Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa in Warsaw and the British Council invite you to "Intros" - films being the first part of a dance on screen series Forward Motion.
Forward Motion, a British Council project co-produced with South East Dance, creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance industry. It celebrates British screen dance talent and aims to engage new artists, markets, audiences and participants in this exciting niche art form. Forward Motion is a collection of outstanding British screen dance works curated by experts and presenting interviews with artists and dance movies.
A set of movies “Intros” presented by professor Liz Aggiss from Brighton University, who will also give a lecture before the screening.
Liz Aggiss is a performer, choreographer, screen dance filmmaker and Professor at the University of Brighton. Her work is eclectic, cross-genre, unclassifiable, and dodges categorization. Existing on both stage and screen it blurs the boundaries between high art and popular culture.
Admission free, prior to registration by sending an e-mail to asapiego@teatrwielki.pl
Poetry Slam has become a regular part of Poland's cultural landscape and this year we are celebrating its 8th birthday. The first poetry Slam was organised by Bohdan Piasecki and it took place in Warsaw's own Stara Prochoffnia. Slam is a combination of poetry and performance, which puts emphasis on the relationship between the poet and his audience. Slam is also an event, during which artists present their own texts and the audience rates their texts as well as their performance and oratory skills and by the end of the night chooses the winner.
Thanks to the cooperation with the British Council this year's birthday will be honoured by the presence of Birmingham's own Polarbear - one of the key personas on the spoken word scene today. He will perform in Warsaw at the Powiększenie Club during the anniversary slam and the day after will deliver an open lecture on "Spoken Word - Writing for your own voice" at SWPS in Warsaw.
From Warsaw he will travel to Cracow where he will take part in a talk on Slam poetry and the spoken word and take part in the poetry Slam in Kazimierz at Kolanko No 6 Club.
Polarbear is not a bear at all, but a Brummie, raised on hip-hop and Arthur Scargill, who writes stories and sometimes talks them on stage. He came to national prominence as part of Apples & Snakes’ Exposed tour and through touring the summer festivals. His work has featured on BBC Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6 and he has performed around the world from Kuala Lumpur to California. He leads writing and performance projects nationally and internationally. His first feature length performance story, ‘If I cover my nose you can’t see me’ toured nationally in 2008/09 and closed the London Literature Festival.
Thursday 10th of March at 8 PM
Poetry Slam at Powiększenie Club (ul. Nowy Świat 27, Warsaw) + performance by Polarbear
Friday 11th of March at 1.45 PM
Polarbear "Spoken Word - Writing for your own voice" open lecture at SWPS Room S302 (ul. Chodakowska 19/31, Warsaw)
Saturday 12th of March at 5.00 PM
Meeting with Polarbear + talk on Slam poetry and the spoken word at Empik (Rynek Główny 5, Cracow)
Saturday 12th of March at 8.00 PM
Poetry Slam in Kazimierz at Kolanko No 6 (ul. Józefa 17, Cracow) + performance by Polarbear
Photo exhibition by Dan Holdsworth entitled “Blackout” in the Photo Gallery pf, in Poznan’s “Zamek” Culture Centre is the first ever presentation of works by this British photographer in Poland. The “Blackout” series consists of large format landscape arts, showing the volcanic landscape of Iceland in negative. Choosing photo negatives as the final way of presentation is not accidental. The tonal reversal of the image strengthens the symbolic aspect of the photo, triggering its journey toward the unreal. Thanks to the technique of negative, the pictures taken by Holdsworth during the day resemble night scenes or even lunar landscapes. Moreover, enlarging the photo negative lets us direct our attention to the technological aspect of photography as a medium and the magical aspects of the traditional photographic processes. The “Blackout” series seems to fluctuate between the real and the magical, the possible and fantastic, and the “desolate” photos radiate with a huge amounts of emotion.
The exhibition was organized thanks to cooperation with the British Council.
curator: Witold Kanicki
vernissage: 07.03.2011 (Monday) 7.00 PM
exhibition available from 08.03. – 10.04.2011 (tickets: 2, 3 PLN)
Dan Holdsworth exhibition will be accompanied by a meeting with the artist, planned for the 8th of March 2011 at 6.30 PM. During the meeting the audience will have a chance to become acquainted with the artist’s portfolio and to hear his commentary on the exhibition in Zamek. The meeting with Dan Holdsworth will be organised as a part of a curatorial series of lectures initiated by the pf gallery, entitled “New Perspectives of Photography”.
Dan Holdsworth (born in 1974) one of the most renowned and recognized British photographers of the young generation. His photographs have been presented at many individual and group exhibitions. Many of them are a part of known collections (The Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Saatch collection in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris) Dan has cooperated long-term with the Patrizia Low Gallery.
British Council and Lablab Foundation is pleased to invite you to a meeting with Mark Power - a photographer represented by Magnum Photos, the most prestigious photo agency in the world. Mark Power is the author of acclaimed photo series dedicated to contemporary Poland The Sound of Two Songs.
Mark Power is one of the most important contemporary documentary photographers; he is also an important ambassador of British culture in Poland, and a bond for the photographic tradition of both countries. Both The Sound of Two Songs, released in 2010 in a book published by Photoworks, and the exhibition that premiered during Photomonth in Krakow 2010, were internationally applauded events. Mark Power is one of the few foreign photographers who so widely depicts contemporary Poland, exploring it to Poles themselves. The dialogue between the foreigner and the country he discovers gives unusual effects. Very contemporary images presented in a classical form allowed for documenting changes that occurred in Poland over the years. It is very valuable that these changes were primarily seen by someone from the outside, with an extensive experience as an observer and a beautiful professional career.
The meeting organized by British Council, Lablab Foundation and Yours Gallery Foundation is an excellent opportunity to present the artist and his works to the audience. This meeting, promoting The Sound of Two Songs, will be the first opportunity to see this project in Warsaw as well as possibility to buy the album.
Mark Power is represented in Poland by ZPAF i SKA Gallery.
Partners: ZPAF i Ska
Date of Meeting: 01/29/2011 at 4pm.
Venue: Press Club, Krakowskie Przedmieście 64, Warsaw
10-12.12.2010 in SOHO FACTORY complex (Mińska Street 25) Warsaw
OPENING TIMES
Artists start their work on Thursday and Friday (9th and 10th of December)
RECYCELS 5 exhibition will be open for the public
on Saturday (11th of December) between 3pm-8pm
on Sunday (12th of December) between 12am-7pm
THEME: HOW TO SURVIVE?
Eco-friendly design bound with recycling methods is nowadays strong tendency in global product making. It is hard to avoid questions of shrinking natural resources, raising consumerism and programmed insolidity of contemporary products when being in a position of a designer or product manager today. We live in a circle of buying, using, collecting, disposing and sharing of consumer products. The XXI – century man is virtually sinking in the amount of produced, collected and used objects. We are rarely aware of a process that every product has to go through before getting into our hands. Terms „recycling“ and „sustainability“ made their way through global consciousness becoming a trend and a real motivation for reaching viable solutions in many fields of life. This process can be summed up with a question: how to survive? After four-year struggle related to organizing RECYLES event we can easily position ourselves on the radical other end of the rainbow towards mass production. We are promoting totally different approach to the product by supporting D.I.Y. idea and by endorsing unique design solutions.
This year we are willing to go one step further by asking the artists a provocative question: HOW TO SURVIVE?
This year‘s fifth edition of the RECYCLES festival will have an international rank.
Organizers with the support of the British Council invited to Warsaw artists from the United Kingdom, who together with Polish designers will ‘recycle‘ during the festival. Among the invited guests are: El Ultimo GRITO/EUG Studio and Tom Price.
Within frameworks of RECYCLES 5 a workshop will be created by students of Royal College of Art in cooperation with students of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts Faculty of Design (PG13 Group).
Same as in previous years we will award the best ideas as RECYCLE OF THE YEAR in two categories – recycled during the festival and recycled before.
Results will be announced by the Jury on Sunday (12.12) at 6 pm.
Lectures’ schedule:
Saturday (11th of December)
18:30 – El Ultimo GRITO Projects of EUG Studio
Sunday (12th of December)
12:00 – Tom Price Interest in chance and process-driven design.
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International Film Festival WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film.
3 - 12.12.2010 Warsaw
www.watchdocs.pl
Enemies of the People
UK 2009, 94' dir Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath
Saturday 4.12 4.30 PM Laboratorium CSW Meeting with the authors after the screening
Sunday 5.12 8.00 PM Muranów Cinema Meeting with the authors after the screening
Thet Sambath, the film’s protagonist and co-director, devoted more than a dozen years of his life to exposing the truth about genocide by the Khmer Rouge. Western historians have documented the actions of Pol Pot’s governments, but Cambodia has been enshrouded in silence about the horrors of 1975–79. Unable to come to terms with the secrecy surrounding the death of his dear ones, Sambath decided to extract the truth about the Killing Fields from those who gave the orders, and those who carried them out. He painstakingly worked to find the people who most likely murdered members of his family. The scenes where executioners demonstrate the actual killings are unforgettable. Sambath also found one of the last living Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kampuchea, so-called “Brother No. 2” (number one was reserved for Pol Pot). Aware that he must first gain his trust, the filmmaker befriends this elderly though slightly apodictic old man to lay the groundwork for his decisive interview. The film revolves around the special patriarchal relationship that develops between the two men. After years of working up the strength to ask the final question, Sambath ultimately begins to doubt the sense of his mission, for which he often sacrificed time with his family and career.
Directors Talk
4.12 6.00 PM Education Room CSW
Sean Mc Allister, Rob Lemkin, Stefan Ronowicz (+Ksawery Szczepanik, director of „Prawda, dobro i piękno – film o Bohdanie Porębie") – fragments of films and discussion „Do we have to like our heroes?”
Masterclass
5.12. 4.30 PM Laboratorium CSW
Sean McAllister – masterclasses for young filmmakers and people interested with documentaries, organised in cooperation with The Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Please register at masterclass@watchdocs.pl
MUNCH MUNCH (GB)
Visualizations: Robert Bęza (PL)
1st of December 2010- Warsaw
CSW (Loboratory), ul Jazdów 2, 8.30 PM
live broadcast @ www.from-stage.com
2nd of December- Cracow
RE Club, ul. Św. Krzyża 4, 8.30 PM
Munch Munch (Richard Manber, Thomas Carrell, Jack O'Connor, Sarah Louise Renwick) is the group of young and talented people. They started their career very early for while still students at Bristol University they had already played 8 applauded concerts at SXSW in Austin, Texas, called the king of showcase festivals. They have also shared the stage with world famous alternative bands such as the Dirty Projectors, Hot Chip, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Late Of A Pier and Mount Kimbie. On the 14th of November this British band had their first record – “Double Visions” released by the prestigious company Upset The Rhythm.
Munch Munch’s music is a combination of power pop and experimental music. It is nothing else but creative compositions enriched with an orchestra’s melody, colourful explosions of sounds and energetic twists of tempo and action. Their music has been evolving from the day the band was created, which was in 2006. At first it was quite chaotic development since the music grew up along with its creators. Yet, “Double Visions” is a completely considered work. It took the artists over 6 months to compose all the pieces, first being played on the piano and only then arranged for a group of various instruments such as drums, Farfi’s keyboard, the organs of Hammond, vibraphone, marimba and analogue synthesizer. Munch Munch is coming to Poland with all those instruments.
Munch Munch is also famous for their energetic and dynamic performances. On the stage members of the band exchange instruments and often simply improvise. At both of their concerts in Poland they will be supported by the Polish visual artist Robert Bęza, who is responsible for terrifying visualizations during the concerts of Paris Tetris.
Their Warsaw performance will be broadcasted live on www.from-stage.com.
Featuring historic, seminal and ground breaking films, Forward Motion creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s prolific screen dance output, which crosses the boundaries of experimental film and contemporary dance. Co-produced by the British Council and South East Dance, with support from Arts Council England, Forward Motion celebrates British screen dance talent and aims to engage new artists, markets, audiences and participants in this exciting niche art form.
During the 14th International Dance Theatre Meeting in Lublin we will showcase two sets of movies: “Intros” (presented by professor Liz Aggiss from Brighton University) and “Insights” (presented by Dr. Vena Ramphal)
The screenings will take place on the 12th and 13th of November at 17.00 in Kino Bajka in Lublin. Ticket fee is 5 PLN.
More about the 14th International Dance Theatre Meeting in Lublin
David Pearson is the author of the classic design of Penguin Books and its flagship series Great Ideas, Great Loves, Great Journeys that have become a model example and a reference point for publishers all over the world. On the one hand they continue the typographic and ornamental tradition of Penguin Books and on the other hand they explore the heritage of the decorative richness left by the British Arts and Crafts movement.
David Pearson will deliver his speech entitled “Money for old rope - repackaging the classics” on the 28th of October at 6 PM in the Conference Room of the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków.
Please feel invited. The number of participants is limited.
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Architecture Festival
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
October 1 - 31, 2010
Grand Opening:
October 2 (Saturday), 19:00
“Warsaw under construction II” is a programme of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, devoted to broadly understood design. It was launched in autumn 2009 within the framework of Warsaw’s candidacy for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016. The first edition of WUC came as a “trailer” of the festival, exploring various fields of design – from graphic design and typography, through industrial and social design to macro-scale urban planning. For two months the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and several satellite venues (including the furniture pavilion Emilia, neighbouring the museum’s temporary seat) hosted lectures, exhibitions, urban space projects, workshops and conferences. There was a special focus on consultations with specialists in various domains (sociologists, journalists, officials, architects, NGO activists, etc.) as well as participation of the inhabitants of Warsaw, who presented their own visions of change in the city within the cycle “Proposals Department”.
This year’s edition of the WUC Festival is held throughout October 2010 and preserves the form of a varied programme of debates, exhibitions and social events, embracing manifold aspects of design that involves inhabitants, groups, collectives, organisations and institutions into the process of planning and reorganising urban space in Warsaw. Recently there is an easily discernible trend pertaining to grassroots, extra-official initiation of urban changes as well as an increase in the pool of available “scenarios” of using public space by the inhabitants. NGOs, public institutions and informal collectives are strengthening their presence in the debate on the shape of Warsaw, e.g. by forming alliances for the sake of protection of the architectural heritage of modernism or by establishing alternative cultural hubs: club-cafés, galleries or independent educational centres.
The UK involvement involves lectures, sessions and installations:
- "Pleasure" - site specific installations by three architectural ateliers from London: Common Office, Dallas Pierce Quintero and Office for Subversive Architecture on one of Warsaw's key problems – unfriendly, overwhelming and under-designed public space.
- „City Destroyed by Cash” by Damon Rich, Cambridge (artist, designer, founder for the Center for Urban Pedagogy). Damon will talk about using and abusing of public space, having Warsaw as the case study.
- „A Guide to the New Ruins” by Owen Hatherley, London (lecturer, writer, architecture critic). Owen will talk about the future of cities and what is still left to be predicted.
- AD SPACE workshops by Finn Williams from the The Common Office in London and 'Moje Miasto A w Nim' Association from Warsaw. These workshops are meant for young architects and advertising agencies people that will be seeking better and more useful forms of the outdoor advertising
The programme is realised within the framework of the Capital City of Warsaw candidacy for title of the European Capital of Culture 2016.
More information and the programme:
www.warszawawbudowie.pl
www.artmuseum.pl
Free Form Festival is exceptional and unique Polish cultural project. The festival presents modern and independent music and art in an urban environment and its aim is to identify new trends in world music and art.
This year's programme is full of British headliners and among them we might find The Light Surgeons who wre performing for their first time in Poland.
British Council is the official patron of Free Form Festival.
Warsaw Music Week is a brand new innovative event on Warsaw’s cultural map, providing with the opportunity to take part in the best clubbing events of the city, and it’s brought in cooperation with many international institutions.
The strategic partner of the Festival is Liverpool Music Week, with its analogical project: Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008. As a part of cooperation and support, a cultural exchange of artists will take place. Thanks to an international conference DON’T PANIC, as well as Adam Mickiewicz’s Cultural Institute, young and talented Polish performers and artists will have a chance to present themselves to music industry professionals from abroad and even perform at Liverpool Music Week 2010.
The British programme includes: ‘Warp Night’ with films and music from the Warp label, launch of the renowned Seklector radio programme in Roxy FM, concerts by the British Artists: Ladytron, UNKLE, Gravenhurst and workshops on visualising sound.
1) WARP NIGHT
19.09 – Powiększenie - ul. Nowy Świat 27
•WARP films: All Tomorrow’s Parties (82 min.)
19.09 and 22.09
•Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (71 min.)
19.09 and 22.09
•Launch of the THE SELECTOR RADIO programme, created by the British Council. The Selector Radio – etery Sunday from 16:00 till 18:00 at the ROXY FM
•Concert: Gravenhurst / UK – WARP 19.09
2) Audiovisual show: THESMOKEEATERS / UK
21.09 – Klub 1500 metrów do wynajęcia - ul. Solec 18
Start: 20:00; Admission: FREE
3) Audiovisual workshop with the THESMOKEEATERS / UK
21.09 – Klub 1500 metrów do wynajęcia - ul. Solec 18
Start: 16:00; Admission: FREE
The number of places is limited.
The main organiser is the Good Music Productions in cooperation with WARSAW – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2016 CANDIDATE.
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