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About us

Culture, art and education are the three pillars of Fundacja Dom Kultury.

Since 2007, Fundacja Dom Kultury has been conducting socially engaging activities, using art, culture and education as tools for bringing people back to society. It involves artists, cultural creators, social activists, and educators in activities for people who are socially excluded for various reasons. 

Fundacja Dom Kultury runs artistic and cultural education workshops for young people from educational institutions, prisoners, ethnic and cultural minorities, children with problematic backgrounds, seniors, and anyone who needs them. It helps people to be active on a cultural, artistic, social and professional level. It brings art and culture to places where it does not exist.

Fundacja Dom Kultury provides equal opportunities in universal access to art, culture, and education.

The most important activities of Fundacja Dom Kultury are "eWKratke" and the "Culture Under Lock and Key" programme.

eWKratke is a blog run by Fundacja Dom Kultury since 2014. It is created by women serving prison sentences at the Detention Centre in Warsaw Grochów. The blog runs despite the prisoners having no access to the internet. It exists thanks to the hard work of our foundation’s dedicated volunteers. The Foundation runs cultural education classes for the bloggers twice a week, so that the blog can operate.

"Culture Under Lock and Key" is a programme that has been running continuously since 2011, in the form of various sub-projects in women's prison at the Warsaw Grochów Detention Centre and short-term projects in other prisons in Poland. Together with artists, art curators and academic teachers, our Foundation has conducted over 300 artistic and cultural workshops in nine prisons.

In the past 10 years of our activity, we have gained the conviction that culture and art have a causative power. They have a positive impact on every person, regardless of their origin, status, age and life situation.

Projekty

W ramach naszych projektów prowadzimy działania artystyczne, edukację kulturalną i społeczną: antydyskryminacyjną, obywatelską, a także przygotowującą do samodzielnego życia osoby, które opuszczają ośrodki penitencjarne i wychowawcze. Uważamy, że sztuka, kultura i edukacja są skutecznymi narzędziami włączającymi ludzi w społeczeństwo.

Volunteers and Associates

Volunteers (in alphabetical order)

Zuzanna Brus: graduate of Journalism and Social Communications at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Zuzanna is involved in social media and online communication. She completed an internship at the Marketing Department of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and worked at the WSE Foundation as a social media coordinator. Currently, Zuzanna works as a social media specialist in many foundations and institutes. She runs a popular Instagram profile dedicated to fashion and makeup: Zuzjab has 12,000 followers.


Wioleta Kryńska: final year student of MA Special Pedagogy at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw, specialising in re-socialisation pedagogy and social prevention. She’s a huge fan of animals. After graduation, she plans to study felinotherapy to combine her pedagogical education with her passion for cats. Wioleta is a physically active vegetarian. She has been volunteering for Fundacja Dom Kultury since September 2021.


Sara Prekurat
: graduate of re-socialisation at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. Associated with the Foundation as a volunteer since 2020. She takes part in editorial work on the eWKratke.pl blog as well as organisational and conceptual work. She leads projects, presentations and elements of activities in prison, administers blog posts and is a secretary of the eWKratke.pl editorial team. Privately, she works as an educator in a common room in a school. She loves theatre and improvisation and hopes to combine this passion with her studies in the future.


Marcin Prokop
: graduate of International Relations and Administration at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He completed both majors with honours and several scholarships. He works as an investment specialist at Up-Telecom. He is passionate about history, geography and travels and is able to convey his knowledge in an appropriate, valuable and interesting way. Within the framework of cooperation with our Foundation, he has repeatedly conducted projects devoted to the topics of his interest for people serving prison sentences in detention centres in Warsaw Grochów, Służewiec and Białołęka.


Ada Szulc
: student of Eastern Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in the culture of the Far East and the Middle East. Her passions are social activities and learning foreign languages. In our Foundation, she deals with communication on social media.


Zosia Szulc
: graduate of MSc Environment and Sustainability at Birkbeck, University of London and BA (Hons) Photography at London South Bank University. She is passionate about exploring and solving environmental and social problems. She wants to contribute to finding and implementing sustainable solutions and lifestyles. Zosia has been working with the Foundation for 10 years. She’s been co-implementing various projects, including creative workshops in the female prison in Warsaw Grochów and the Warsaw Youth Centres. She conducts communication activities on Foundation’s social media channels, including the E-DROM Facebook profile.

 

Programme Council

Programme Council of Fundacja Dom Kultury
(in alphabetical order)

Tomasz Harasimowicz: therapist, coach, addiction consultant. He’s the Director of the Monar Addiction Prevention, Treatment and Therapy Clinic and a mediator for the Minister of Family and Social Policy. From 2010 to 2017, he was the chairman of the Social Dialogue Forum. Tomasz is also a member of the Warsaw Council on Public Benefit Activities, the Warsaw Revitalisation Committee, programme board of the monthly magazine "Remedium". He used to be a radio journalist in "Radiostacja'' and RDC. He’s a co-initiator of the "anti-discrimination record", moderator of the website www.pomocwarszawa.pl and the author of prevention, therapy and training programmes for students, educators, local governments, services and institutions.


Andrzej Grzymała-Kazłowski: a political scientist. For over 20 years, he's been associated with the Roma environment. In the years 2001-2010, he worked in the Ministry of Interior and Administration among others, as a co-author of the Government Programme for the Roma community in Poland. He’s an independent expert and researcher on Roma issues, a founder of the private Museum of Roma Culture in Warsaw.

Katarzyna Nawrocka: special educator, doctor of humanities, assistant professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education. Her research focuses on women's crime, penitentiary issues, women's imprisonment and their re-socialisation. She’s the author of numerous articles. She has published a monograph entitled "Victims of fate and harpies. Social competence of women convicted of murder". She participates in conferences, seminars and scientific symposia. She also conducts training for Prison Service employees that aims at constructing re-socialisation and readaptation programmes. She has been conducting classes with convicted women for many years.

Leszek Wejcman: Head of the Programme Council, theologian, journalist, filmmaker, copywriter. Leszek is a creator of the communication training programme lekcjapisania.pl. He worked on Polish Television in the "Panorama" programme, in nc+ (Canal+Group). He runs the eWkratke blogging classes in the Grochów prison. He’s a founder of the socio-cultural magazine 'W Kratkę'.


Anna Zajenkowska: psycholożka, kieruje Zakładem Psychologii Społecznej w Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej. Posiada tytuł naukowy doktora nauk humanistycznych (Wydział Psychologii, UW), studiowała psychologię także na Uniwersytecie Wiedeńskim. Ukończyła studia magisterskie w zakresie International Commerce na Uniwersytecie Korei oraz studium podyplomowym w zakresie bankowości Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Ma międzynarodowe doświadczenie w biznesie (Polska, Austria, Korea). Prowadzi warsztaty na rzecz szeroko rozumianej komunikacji międzykulturowej. Posiada Certyfikat Psychoterapeuty Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego oraz Certyfikat Analityka Grupowego. W Centrum Terapii Dialog prowadzi psychoterapię indywidualną oraz grupową.