Milosz Festival at Villa Decius 30.06.2024
We invite you to the festival events and meetings at Villa Decius.
On the occasion of the Czesław Miłosz Year, we would like to invite you, together with the Miłosz Festival and KBF, to events and literary meetings at Villa Decius.
The programme of the Krakow Poetry Festival, whose motto this year is RESCUE, will include author meetings, debates, performance readings, discussions around the works of poets of the older and younger generation.
The official start of the Milosz Festival will this year begin at Villa Decius - on 30 June, the anniversary of the poet's birth.
PROGRAMME OF FESTIVAL EVENTS AT THE VILLA DECIUS:
SUNDAY, 30.06.2024
12.30 pm | Anthology of Ukrainian Modernism
Guest speakers: Marianna Kijanowska, Adam Pomorski
Moderation: Iwona Boruszkowska
Pre-premiere meeting around the publication In memoriam. An Anthology of Ukrainian Modernism Poetry. From Lesa Ukrainka to Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, translated, selected and with commentary by Adam Pomorski. This collection of almost a thousand pages will be the most comprehensive presentation of Ukrainian modernism poetry in Poland to date. At the meeting, the invited guests will talk about it and present selected translations.
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
14:00 | Confrontations and revisions: Miłosz and Gombrowicz. Culture in exile
Guests: Andrej Chadanowicz, Aldona Kopkiewicz, Olesia Mamczycz, Michał Szymański
Moderated by: Żanna Słoniowska
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
16:00 | Official opening of the Milosz Festival | Discussion: Unde bonum? Or the Land of Ulro after many years
Guests: Andrzej Franaszek, Dariusz Czaja
Moderator: Joanna Zach
Almost half a century has passed since the first edition of The Land of Ulro. Czesław Miłosz intended it as a sequel to The Captive Mind, an attempt to reach the sources of the fundamental conflicts and aporias that dominated 20th-century culture. The new edition of this book with a commentary by Olga Tokarczuk is an opportunity for another revision of the image of man and his nature presented in it, and of the place and role of the art of the word in the social universe. Are Milosz's diagnoses and prognoses still relevant to us? If Ulro is the land of the 'disinherited imagination', what is Ulro of the 21st century? The framework of the debate is therefore set by the second member of its title. The first segment, unde bonum? is a reversal of the question repeated in Milosz's work: unde malum? In this way, we refer to the reflections of Ireneusz Kania, who in conversations with Miłosz on evil and suffering (Buddhism and Gnosticism, Swedenborg and Schopenhauer) shared his bitter diagnoses of the condition of the world. Perhaps this is why he valued most in Miłosz's work the poet's desire to build a counterbalance to extremely sceptical assessments and diagnoses.
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
Sunday, 07.07.2024
11.00 - 14.30 | Poetry criticism workshop
Participation: Paweł Kaczmarski, Grzegorz Jankowicz and Łukasz Żurek
Coordination: Zuzanna Sala
A ranking of the hottest premieres, marketing slogans or sponsored notes? Nothing of the sort! In this literary criticism workshop, we will look at the goals we set ourselves when writing about books, the position from which we speak, and - perhaps most importantly - the writing workshop that serves us. Led by three literary critics, the class will encourage participants to engage in meta-critical reflection, that is, to look at how and why we write when we write about literature.
Each participant will have a short consultation with one of the presenters. After such discussions, they may be recommended for a critical-literary collaboration with the quarterly KONTENT and invited to write a text to be published in the autumn issue of the magazine (on the occasion of the Krakow Poetry Night).
More at: https://miloszfestival.pl/pl/program/q/-/-/d2024-07-07/event_960/
4 p.m. | Edward Pasewicz Benefis and premiere of the new issue of the KONTENT magazine
Guests: Joanna Oparek, Paweł Kusiak, Joanna Łępicka
Hosting: Aleksandra Kucharska (Issue premiere), Weronika Janeczko (Benefis)
A benefit to honour the work of poet Edward Pasewicz, combined with the premiere of the quarterly KONTENT, presenting the latest voices in Polish poetry. The entire event will consist of conversations with Edward Pasewicz and discussions about his work - all in the company of wonderful guests and guests, and there will also be an authoritative reading of his poems.
Admission free.
Full programme of the Miłosz Festival:
https://miloszfestival.pl/
.
The programme of the Krakow Poetry Festival, whose motto this year is RESCUE, will include author meetings, debates, performance readings, discussions around the works of poets of the older and younger generation.
The official start of the Milosz Festival will this year begin at Villa Decius - on 30 June, the anniversary of the poet's birth.
PROGRAMME OF FESTIVAL EVENTS AT THE VILLA DECIUS:
SUNDAY, 30.06.2024
12.30 pm | Anthology of Ukrainian Modernism
Guest speakers: Marianna Kijanowska, Adam Pomorski
Moderation: Iwona Boruszkowska
Pre-premiere meeting around the publication In memoriam. An Anthology of Ukrainian Modernism Poetry. From Lesa Ukrainka to Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, translated, selected and with commentary by Adam Pomorski. This collection of almost a thousand pages will be the most comprehensive presentation of Ukrainian modernism poetry in Poland to date. At the meeting, the invited guests will talk about it and present selected translations.
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
14:00 | Confrontations and revisions: Miłosz and Gombrowicz. Culture in exile
Guests: Andrej Chadanowicz, Aldona Kopkiewicz, Olesia Mamczycz, Michał Szymański
Moderated by: Żanna Słoniowska
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
16:00 | Official opening of the Milosz Festival | Discussion: Unde bonum? Or the Land of Ulro after many years
Guests: Andrzej Franaszek, Dariusz Czaja
Moderator: Joanna Zach
Almost half a century has passed since the first edition of The Land of Ulro. Czesław Miłosz intended it as a sequel to The Captive Mind, an attempt to reach the sources of the fundamental conflicts and aporias that dominated 20th-century culture. The new edition of this book with a commentary by Olga Tokarczuk is an opportunity for another revision of the image of man and his nature presented in it, and of the place and role of the art of the word in the social universe. Are Milosz's diagnoses and prognoses still relevant to us? If Ulro is the land of the 'disinherited imagination', what is Ulro of the 21st century? The framework of the debate is therefore set by the second member of its title. The first segment, unde bonum? is a reversal of the question repeated in Milosz's work: unde malum? In this way, we refer to the reflections of Ireneusz Kania, who in conversations with Miłosz on evil and suffering (Buddhism and Gnosticism, Swedenborg and Schopenhauer) shared his bitter diagnoses of the condition of the world. Perhaps this is why he valued most in Miłosz's work the poet's desire to build a counterbalance to extremely sceptical assessments and diagnoses.
Free tickets available at www.kbfbilety.krakow.pl
Sunday, 07.07.2024
11.00 - 14.30 | Poetry criticism workshop
Participation: Paweł Kaczmarski, Grzegorz Jankowicz and Łukasz Żurek
Coordination: Zuzanna Sala
A ranking of the hottest premieres, marketing slogans or sponsored notes? Nothing of the sort! In this literary criticism workshop, we will look at the goals we set ourselves when writing about books, the position from which we speak, and - perhaps most importantly - the writing workshop that serves us. Led by three literary critics, the class will encourage participants to engage in meta-critical reflection, that is, to look at how and why we write when we write about literature.
Each participant will have a short consultation with one of the presenters. After such discussions, they may be recommended for a critical-literary collaboration with the quarterly KONTENT and invited to write a text to be published in the autumn issue of the magazine (on the occasion of the Krakow Poetry Night).
More at: https://miloszfestival.pl/pl/program/q/-/-/d2024-07-07/event_960/
4 p.m. | Edward Pasewicz Benefis and premiere of the new issue of the KONTENT magazine
Guests: Joanna Oparek, Paweł Kusiak, Joanna Łępicka
Hosting: Aleksandra Kucharska (Issue premiere), Weronika Janeczko (Benefis)
A benefit to honour the work of poet Edward Pasewicz, combined with the premiere of the quarterly KONTENT, presenting the latest voices in Polish poetry. The entire event will consist of conversations with Edward Pasewicz and discussions about his work - all in the company of wonderful guests and guests, and there will also be an authoritative reading of his poems.
Admission free.
Full programme of the Miłosz Festival:
https://miloszfestival.pl/
.