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Wandering Festival programme

Wandering Festival programme

 

 

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.

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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

PROGRAMME PDF

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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

 

 

 

Graphics: Małgorzata Jabłońska and Piotr Szewczyk

„Conversation” is a series of workshops aimed at building language and social skills for boys in isolation at the Youth Educational Center on Barska Street and boys and girls at the Youth Sociotherapeutic Center No. 8 in Radość.

The six-month program includes classes dedicated to young Polish poetry, author meetings with poets Ewa Frączek-Biłat and Mateusz Marczewski, an author meeting with rapper Muflon, workshops for writing their own poetic-rap texts, rap and improvisation workshops, and finally preparing a concert based on texts written by the participants (rehearsals, rehearsals, and rehearsals again!). In October 2023, we will invite you to the final live hip-hop concert at the Klub Komediowy in Warsaw.

The texts rapped by the boys will be recorded in audio format, and the concert will be recorded in video format. The productions created within the „Conversation” project will reach a wide audience online.

„Conversation” is an example of good practices in conducting Polish language classes for excluded youth and social inclusion through participation in culture. We have invited professionals – charismatic personalities who will guide the participants into the world of the Polish language, poetry, rap, and their own creativity.

The „Conversation” project is implemented in partnership with the Youth Educational Center of the Orionist Fathers in Warsaw, the Youth Sociotherapeutic Center No. 8 in Radość, and the Klub Komediowy theater in Warsaw.

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Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage within the National Center for Culture program: Homeland – add to favorites. Edition 2023

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We painted a children’s corner!

In the visitation room at the Grochów prison… Thanks to the funds obtained from the Orlen Foundation as part of the „My Place on Earth” program, we painted a children’s corner in the visitation room at the Warsaw-Grochów Detention Center. Women serving prison sentences took part in the project, and under the guidance of an artist, painter, and art therapist Joasia Świerczyńska, they first created the mural design and then painted it themselves. Time became the guiding theme of the painting, or rather the idea that „only time separates us.” Not walls, not distances, but just time. Soon, in some TIME, the women from prison will be free and with their families.

Volunteers, including members of the Resocialization Scientific Circle at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw, led by Dr. Katarzyna Nawrocka, also participated in the painting actions.

The mural has warmed up and decorated the austere interior of the visitation room. We believe it will help reduce the stress of children visiting a parent in prison.

 

 

 

„Finger in the Inkwell” is an educational campaign dedicated to the works and life of Aleksander Fredro, promoting reading among women and men serving prison sentences. The core of the campaign revolves around the fables and well-known sayings by the writer, which continue to be a part of Polish culture today. Using the pretext of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) declaring 2023 the Year of Aleksander Fredro, we have created a reading education program aimed at people in prisons. Aleksander Fredro, the creator of the original Polish comedy, is also the author of humorous poems, fables, and sayings that are well-known and used in contemporary times. It is this aspect of his work that we want to emphasize in our project. Sayings like „jaki pan, taki kram” (like owner, like shop) or „pleciesz trzy po trzy” (which means “you’re talking nonsense) are known to everyone, even those participating in culture without advanced cultural competencies. However, not everyone is aware of their origin. The Year of Aleksander Fredro is a great opportunity to remind and raise awareness among modern Poles of the immense contribution of the writer to Polish culture, including contemporary culture. As part of the project, we will conduct lectures on the writer’s works and life, as well as workshops on text analysis, loud reading, rewriting selected fables, and illustrating them. From the materials, manuscripts, and illustrations created by incarcerated individuals during the workshops, invited artists will develop artbooks. These artbooks will be available in printed form at literature museums and in digital form online. Thanks to the campaign, participants of the workshops, who are usually excluded from culture due to their isolation, will improve their reading skills, contribute to the popularization of the Writer’s work and his contribution to Polish culture, and participate in commemorating his birthday.

The project involves women serving prison sentences in the Warsaw-Grochów Detention Center and men from the Warsaw-Białołęka Detention Center.

The project’s organizers are Piotr Prasuła, curator of the Literature Museum in Warsaw; artists from the Warsaw artistic community: Joanna Świerczyńska, Józek Gałązka and Małgorzata Brus, collaborating with Fundacja Dom Kultury; and actress Kinga Kosik-Burzyńska from the Comedy Club in Warsaw.

The resulting artbooks will be donated in paper form to the A. Mickiewicz Literature Museum in Warsaw and the Aleksander Fredro Museum in Rudki, Ukraine, and will be available in digital form HERE.

The educational campaign „Finger in the Inkwell” is carried out by Fundacja Dom Kultury in partnership with the Warsaw-Grochów Detention Center and the Warsaw-Białołęka Detention Center.

 

The task was co-financed from the funds of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, originating from the Culture Promotion Fund.

 

Vzájemné soužití o.p.s. / Life together NGO/ has been working with children, youths and adults in excluded localities of mainly Silesian part of Ostrava since 1998. About half of the employees are Roma. We work with and help people who find themselves in need or difficult situation (support in the field of education, housing, training, work, finance etc.).

Life together provides several registered social services (professional social, legal counselling, field work, 2 community centres for children and youths, service for endangered families with children), and also educational, preventive and other activities provided to the vulnerable and disadvantaged with the aim to eliminate the negative impacts of social exclusion.

Mixed teams of Hrušov and Liščina centres offer Roma children and youths a wide range of activities and events in locations and also outside, so that they may get out of the excluded environment and gain new skills, knowledge and experience.

In the field of education, we respect the basic human right of every child to equal opportunities (our organization stood at the birth of the so-called DH case vs. the Czech Republic). We run preschool clubs so that children from less stimulating backgrounds can enter kindergartens and schools with the necessary skills and have the same starting line as their peers. We provide tutoring for children and youths, communicate with schools, support students in the form of moral support, counselling, excursions, scholarships and motivation.

We support the development of needy/talented children in art schools, organize a summer camp, various lectures, realize preventive events like Stop drugs, we take kids to adventure events, trips, involve them in activities to improve and localities and centers, children perform at public performances or festivals, we organize excursions or internships of students of elementary, secondary schools, universities in our centers.

We support empowerment of people, try to support those who have the potential to further work with and motivate children, youth and the community.

Link to our annual reports: https://www.vzajemnesouziti.cz/file.php?nid=15768&oid=8273170

FB link

https://www.facebook.com/vzajemnesouzitiops

Examples of our projects

Supporting the integration of Ukrainian refugees (donation from the SOS Ukraine collection), subsidies for the provision of social services, EU funds (education, employment,..), individual projects to support children, pupils, students (scholarships, tuition fees at the Art school etc.), projects aimed at financial literacy, support for football teams, dancing groups, community-based projects etc.

Project team

Project coordinator – Simona Reichlová – 13 years of experience in leading and implementing various NGO projects (cultural, educational, cross-border etc.) mostly for disadvantaged children and youths (state, regional, municipal sources, Norway Grants etc.).

The team leader from Liščina children and youth centre Zdeněk Kroščen – 20 years of experience in leading the centre and its team – qualified to social work with children and youths. Zdeněk was once as a volunteer, he grew up in the locality. He has especially manual, sport and leadership skills, is a qualified camp leader. He knows well the community and has their trust and respect, he also serves as an inspiration to children and youths.

FB link https://www.facebook.com/nzdmkc.liscina, more info on our website https://www.vzajemnesouziti.cz/nizkoprahove-zarizeni-pro-deti-a-mladez–liscina

The team leader from Hrušov children and youth centre Eva Šuterová – years of experience with social work, qualified to work with children and youths, knowledge of the community. Manual, educational and leadership skills, qualified for the camp leader and basic medic course, inspiration for the community, children and youths, trust of local residents.

FB link https://www.facebook.com/nzdmkc.hrusov, more info on our website https://www.vzajemnesouziti.cz/nizkoprahove-zarizeni-pro-deti-a-mladez–hrusov