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A series of games run in Warsaw on the identity of the city, the placement of culture and business within the Polish capital and the issue of centralization within the city. These games will be a part of Warsaw's preparation for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016.
First game entitled “MY WARSAW ? – identity of the city. How to develop the feeling of identifying oneself with Warsaw ?” will be held on the 5th of December in Dom Kultury Śródmieście on Smolna street 9.
Second game entitled “MY WARSAW ? – zoom on Mokotowska street. Scenarios for a street in Warsaw.” will be held on the 7th and 8th of December in the home of the Association for Creative Initiatives “Ę” on Mokotowska street 55/50
Third game entitled “MY WARSAW ? – zoom on Bródno. Scenarios for the Bródno Sculpture Park” will be held on the 10th and 11th of December in Dom Kultury Świt on Piotra Wysockiego street 11.
For more details please contact Monika Komorowska
Which university? We'll help you decide!
On 27 November 2009 27 British universities will hold education fairs in Warsaw.
Use this great opportunity to find out which university offers the course you want, to meet the representatives and ask them anything you want to know, so that you can make an informed decision as to which university is best for you. Representatives from the universities will answer more specific questions regarding curriculum, admission procedures, funding, research, postgraduate courses and more.
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The Drama Volunteer Academy - change your reality in creative and active way! Become a participant of the Academy!
The project is run by the Association of Drama Practitioners Stop-klatka in partnership with the British Council.
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On Sunday, 11 October, in our Warsaw office we held Let’s Get Digital Open Day for teachers of English from Warsaw and neighbour cities. Let’s Get Digital was a great opportunity to familiarise them with the latest developments in IT technologies that can be easily applied in English language teaching and testing. The BC team prepared and presented three presentations running at the same time in three time slots from 10:30 till 14:30. These were:
• Boost your students motivation – KET & PET for Schools;
• ActivExpression – handheld instant response device for the IWB, and
• How to Get Digital in the classroom.
Moreover, one of our computer classrooms was technically prepared to show teachers the latest innovation in English language testing, i.e. computer-based testing. Each participant could sit at the computer and check how to take an exam on screen.
Teachers also had a great opportunity to meet some of the biggest EFL publishers in Poland (Egis & Express Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Pearson Longman) and familiarise themselves with their wide offer of EFL teaching and learning publications. Representatives of Egis & Express Publishing also prepared two presentations on how to use the IWB and how to create exercises for the IWB for example for FCE preparation course.
The feedback we received was very positive. Hence we would like to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who joined us at Let’s Get Digital.
For those who attended and for those who could not come finally, we prepare a little something. Please click here to download materials from the Open Day.
From 5 till 11 October we will be celebrating Customer Service Week. Visit our offices in Warsaw and Krakow and you will have a chance to:
- ask us what you always wanted but never did
- tell us what, in your opinion, makes a perfect Customer Services Assistant
- have a candy and have a good time with us
- meet a surprise Customer Services Assistant
- visit us daily to see what colour we’re wearing on that day!
Come to see us! Your visit is always welcome.
DOS TTS together with academic partners: British Council, Fundacja Szkoła Niezwykła, The Teacher magazine and Szukaj-Lektora.pl would like to invite teachers of all subjects, educationalists and school headmasters to the Uczę po ludzku conference. The conference will focus on the issues of lack of discipline and low motivation of students and cyber bullying.The conference will be conducted in Polish.
Warsaw-17 October 2009
Krakow-18 October 2009
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Take part in a haiku competition - create a haiku inspired by Warsaw and win a MP3 player! The best haikus will be displayed in the Warsaw Underground.
The Haiku for Warsaw competition is a part of the Wiersze w Metrze project aiming at popularising poetry among people living in and visiting Warsaw.
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Would you like to follow the icons of British music and visit Liverpool?
Take part in the BritainRocks competition organised by Visit Britain. Winners will go on a music trip to the UK with three of their friends!
Find out more about the competition
If you are an emerging social innovator who wants to work out solutions to real city challenges across Europe then join the Urban Ideas Bakery. Apply now.
'My City' has been conceived by the British Council together with Anadolu Kultur and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is funded by the European Commission and the British Council. 'European Residencies' [MCER], a part of 'My City', is a one-off programme to be realized between 2010 and 2011, to enable visual artists from Turkey to develop their work in six prominent host institutions across Europe through residencies, with the aim of establishing partnerships between artists and institutions in Turkey and Europe.
One of the hosts for 'European Residencies' [MCER] is the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (CCA), the premier interdisciplinary contemporary art centre in Poland and one of the most vibrant art centres in Central and Eastern Europe. The CCA has supported, documented and presented art since 1989. The audience consists of professionals, artists, students but also people unacquainted with art on an everyday basis.
For more information see www.platformgaranti.blogspot.com and www.csw.art.pl
We’d like to invite you to the Alter Ego exhibition. The exhibition consists of artistic works by the finalists of the Alter Ego competition including two finalists from Poland: Patryk Iwanek and Joanna Socha.
Alter Ego is one of the seven flagship projects chosen by the European Commission to celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Young people (14–18 years old) were encouraged to explore different and varied identities in their local communities by creating a double portrait using video, photographs, text, music, etc. Each double portrait comprises a self portrait alongside a portrait of a person from a different background and tradition.
Come and see how the theme of different cultures, traditions, backgrounds and languages was exploited by young people from around Europe.
The exhibition is accompanied by educational materials for teachers to use in the classroom – a lesson scenario prepared by Iga Kazimierczyk from the Centre for Citizenship Education (CEO).
The exhibition will tour 11 cities in Poland. From 1 till 27 November you may visit the exhibition in Katowice at the British Library of the Silesian University in Katowice Admission free.
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MY WARSAW ? Games for the future of the city