Photo: Ada Szulc
Museum Auschwitz – Birkenau – Summer Workshop Camp
Autor: wojtek
Kraków
As part of the Summer Workshop Camp, we took a train trip to Cracow. Divided into three groups, we toured Cracow with guides who showed us around in our national languages: Polish, Czech and Slovak.
In the second part of the day, we went to the Rso Hranagos community center, which is located in the Utopia House in Nowa Huta. In these very friendly interiors, a painting workshop was conducted by young artist Marcin Janusz. We painted a puzzle dragon according to Marcin Janusz and Krzysztof Gil’s original concept.
Photo: Ada Szulc
Workshops
As part of the Summer Workshop Camp, we conducted a total of 9 workshops, including games, to develop participants’ social skills.
Sawore
Graphic: Krzysztof Gil
SAWORE/Everyone
SAWORE/Everyone our creative picnic, where Varsovians could talk about their identity and the City could show its diversity, was organised on 9 September 2023.
The picnic went so well that you couldn’t have dreamed better. There was great summer weather, a beautiful venue (Educational Pavilion Kamień), workshops led by talented artists: Krzysztof Gil, Józek Gałązka, Joanna Świerczyńska, Robert Kwaśniewski and there was, above all, an idea: the table.
The table became the key to artistic activities referring to Romani, blacksmith traditions. It was a symbolic place for communal action, on which the participants placed their works in the form of squares made using the technique of repudiation on copper plates.
Together, we created an unusual installation that brought together the thoughts and feelings of the participants, a story about their identity and thus about the diversity of Warsaw’s inhabitants. This collective statement was enclosed in the area of the table. The main tool was an iron anvil, but there were also hammers, pliers and points. Regardless of their age, participants created their artistic expressions in copper. A bonfire was burning in the background, which created an unusual atmosphere for working together.
The tinsel and table decorating workshop was followed by musical performances by Roma artists Jan Wiśniewski (guitar), Grażyna Markowska (dance) and Delfina Wiśniewska (singing and dancing). Jan Wiśniewski encouraged the participants to dance and sing together. Julia Rańda, who was present in the audience, sang a Roma song together with Jan Wiśniewski. Finally, there was a performance by Natan Kryszek, who played music on the saxophone which referred to themes of nature, the road, animal voices and birds.
The whole built up an event that we will ALL (Sawore) remember for a long time.
We would like to thank Paweł Althamer for his inspiration, support and guidance.
Sawore, or everyone (creative picnic)
9 September 2023. EVERYONE will meet under the Education Pavilion Kamień at Wybrzeże Puckie 1 St. for a creative picnic.
Creatively: together with the artists invited to the project, we will create a spatial metal installation under the creative direction of visual artists such as Paweł Althamer, Krzysztof Gil, Józek Gałązka, Joasia Świerczyńska and Robert Kwaśniewski. We will create a sculpture – a table, referring to the craft tradition of the Roma, using metalwork.
In the afternoon, we invite you to a guitar concert by Jan Wiśniewski and a dance show by the choreographer Grażyna Markowska, followed by a jam session led by musicians Jan Wiśniewski (guitar) and Natan Kryszek (saxophone) and willing guests (bring your instruments!).
Picnic: bring blankets, drinks and food, as there is no catering around the Education Pavilion.
Weather: any weather is good, in case of rain we will hide inside the pavilion.
EVERYONE is welcome.
9 September 2023.
Education Pavilion Kamień at Wybrzeże Puckie 1
Programme
11.00 start of creative activities
16.00 guitar concert and dance show
18.00 jam session.
„Sawore” was financed with funds from the City of Warsaw.
Paramisia “Yana and the Blacksmith”
Paramisia, or the fairytale „Jana and the Blacksmith” – a film animation (not only for children) will be realised by artists Małgorzata Jabłońska and Piotr Szewczyk, based on the fairytale written by the ingenious Roma artist, singer and poet Teresa Mirga.
The characters and elements of the scenography design for the animation will be created by Roma children from Wrocław, who, under the care of the intercultural integration assistant from the Nomada Association – Roksana Stojowska, will take part in animation workshops.
The results will be available online in autumn 2023. The fairytale will be available in three languages: Polish, English and Romani.
Graphics: Małgorzata Jabłońska and Piotr Szewczyk
Paramisia, or the fairytale „Jana and the Blacksmith” – a film animation (not only for children) will be realised by artists Małgorzata Jabłońska and Piotr Szewczyk, based on the fairytale written by the ingenious Roma artist,inger and poet Teresa Mirga.
The characters and elements of the scenography design for the animation will be created by Roma children from Wrocław, who, under the care of the intercultural integration assistant from the Nomada Association – Roksana Stojowska, will take part in animation workshops.
The results will be available online in autumn 2023. The fairytale will be available in three languages: Polish, English and Romani.
Paramisia „Jana and the blacksmith”
In a certain small village
lived two women, both beautiful
– mother and daughter – left abandoned.
The widow buried her husband –
many years ago.
And thus alone in this world
struggles in poverty with her daughter Jana.
Both love each other and stick together.
Her daughter is obedient – as good as an angel!
Ah, there is a big ruckus in the village – the Roma,
Roma people with a caravan!
They’re preparing a camp on a clearing by the forest.
– Let me out of the house, Mother,
for the Roma are playing in the village!
And the pretty maiden ran off to listen to Romani music.
And the music was so sweet that her heart
at once overflows with joy and tenderness.
Jana stood and listened, stood and admired,
until at last her cheeks blushed
under the hot gaze of the fiddler
of the charming Roma man.
She felt his gaze on her, which burned like fire.
Their eyes met and bewitched each other.
It’s time to go home.
Let go of my hand, my mother awaits anxiously
what can I do?
Enchanted by Romani eyes
could not fall asleep,
still thinking of the fiddler.
How beautiful he is, raven hair and such heat in his eyes.
They met in secret and more and more
the flame of love flickered in their hearts.
Jana revealed to her mother her deepest secret
about the forbidden love,
which she could not renounce.
Even if the whole world was against it,
there’s nothing in the world that would give her heart to another.
There is a stir in the camp as we must move on.
The horses are being prepared and fires put out.
But our young man in love
will not go further, he will stay in the village,
he’ll build a forge, become a blacksmith.
The mother of the two in love
gives her blessing and for the son-in-law prepares a place
in her home and opens her heart.
May he be accepted in the village as a brother,
his musicianship and blacksmithing appreciated.
My dear friends, this is how it turned out.
Jana and her beloved moved in together.
Wonders were created by his hand in the forge next door.
All kinds of tools for the farmers in the fields,
chain, horseshoes, axes.
His skill had been appreciated in the village.
and in the evenings, in the moonlight
the bonfire was lit.
Jana baked potatoes in the fire,
and her beloved played the fiddle
romantic notes – for his Jana.
The stars in the sky were watching them
and danced merrily in the sky.
Translation: Ada Szulc
Wandering Festival- Romani Kultura
Programme
Wandering Festival Romani Kultura – Wrocław 2023
We would like to invite you to the third edition of the Wandering Festival „Romani Kultura”, which will take place on the 18th of June 2023 in Wrocław.
The Wandering Festival „Romani Kultura” wanders around Poland and is a platform for presenting the most interesting artistic and cultural achievements of Roma communities from different regions of the country. This year it has made its way to Wrocław. Creative workshops will be held by artists and cultural animators from Wrocław and Legnica. The programme includes, among other things, painting workshops, art workshops for children, a jazz concert and jam session, a panel discussion on Roma culture in Lower Silesia and a presentation of selected collections from the Museum of Roma Culture in Warsaw.
Programme
11.00 – 15.00 inclusive painting workshops led by artists Krzysztof Gil and Noemi Łakatosz
15.00 – 17.00 art workshops for children, run parallel to other events by kindergarten teacher and art education teacher Jadwiga Tomczuk
15.00 – 16.00 lecture and multimedia presentation by Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski on Roma culture in the Lower Silesian Voivodship over the centuries – based on his collection from the Museum of Roma Culture in Warsaw
16.00 – 17.00 panel discussion on the situation of the Roma community in Wrocław and Lower Silesia
and the state of Roma culture in the area, to be attended by:
– Maria Łój, Roma activist, retired teacher supporting the education of Roma children
– Roksana Stojowska, Roma education assistant and activist
– Joanna Panciuchin PhD Roma Studies at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wroclaw
(moderation)
– Dariusz Tokarz, Voivodship Inspector at the Department of Civil Affairs and Foreigners at the Lower Silesian Voivodship Office in Wrocław
17.00 – 18.00 musical “feast”: concert of musicians Wiktor and Mirosław Dymitrak
18.00 – 19.00 jam session – joint playing of Mirosław and Wiktor Dymitrak – jazz and gitanswing.
During the festival we will be presenting a slide show of Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski’s graphics from his collection from the Museum of Roma Culture in Warsaw.
Hosting the Festival: Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski.
Coordination: Małgorzata Brus (mbrus@fundacjadomkultury.pl; phone 608852830).
The Wandering Festival “Romani Kultura”: Wrocław 2023 is organised in cooperation with the Wrocław Cultural Institute (Backyard Festival) and the Roma Culture Museum in Warsaw.
Club cafe “Recepcja” and Backyard
46 Ruska Street
11.00 am – 7.00 pm
Wrocław
Organisation of the Wandering Festival: Dom Kultury Foundation in cooperation with: Wrocław Institute of Culture and the Museum of Roma Culture in Warsaw.
Wandering Festival „Romani Kultura: Wrocław 2023
18 June 2023
11.00 – 19.00
46 Ruska Street
Wrocław
More information on the Dom Kultury Foundation website
Co-financed with funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the programme of the National Centre of Culture EtnoPolska. Edition 2023
