Newsletter 14th November 2011
It seems the Golden Polish Autumn has said her goodbyes and it's time to brace up for some nippy weather and cloudy skies. Take a look at what you might want to do this week tucked safely and warmly indoors.ATTENTION: There's been a report of a rape attempt at the UMCS campus the other night, so PLEASE ladies, be extra careful after dark and gentlemen, do walk your female friends back home at night.
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AT HOMO FABER
After 2.5 years of its existence, the Welcome To Lublin project is drawing to a close (although our activities in this area as well as your interest in it still continue). We know that many of you are already learning Polish or are yet to start doing it. We'd like to help you with this. Our proposal is Polish Lessons In Tandem. The idea is that somebody teaches Polish in exchange for Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish etc. Homo Faber will help you to organise the pairs as well as provide space for your meetings. If you're interested, please write to ad@hf.org.pl, stating which language you'd like to teach in exchange for Polish.
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CULTURAL NEWS
ART EXHIBITION
Bruno4ever: festival opening
14th November (Mon), 6 p.m.
Public Library, ul. Narutowicza 4, gallery, 2nd floor (map)
The festival commemorates the 69th anniversary of the death of Bruno Schulz, one of the most original Polish writers whose unique brand of magic realism is as bewitching as it was several decades ago. A Polish Jew, he was killed by a Nazi officer in the streets of the town of Drohobycz, leaving two volumes of prose: The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, and a collection of fine drawings. One of his stories, "The Street of Crocodiles", has been made into an animated film by the Brothers Quay.
The festival events include lectures, plays and art exhibitions. If you think your Polish is good enough to appreciate events based on spoken word, you can find the whole programme at http://kultura.lublin.eu/wydarzenia,1,913.html?locale=pl_PL
For the rest of you, a list of art exhibitions:
Waterpaintings and graphics by Oleg Liubkivski (Czerniowce/Ukraine)
The artist presents his city - Czerniowce - as a living organism subject to the ruthless influence of passing time.
Graphics and drawings by Stanisłąw Ożóg (Rzeszów/Poland)
Stanisław Ożóg is the only Polish artist illustrator who has for years been creating artistic work inspired by the literary work of Bruno Schulz.
Photography exhibition: Boryslav by Stanisław Rachwał - by Oleksij Kaczmar and Julia Kysła (Boryslav/Ukraine)
Exhibition of photographs from 1920-30 by Stanisław Rachwał (1887-1971). The glass negatives were found in a certain backyard behind a pigsty and had been almost completely destroyed, but the positives survived in an album. Oleksij Kaczmar and Julia Kysła had them enlarged and exhibited as a document of their time.
The Intrigue of Infinity At the Crossing of Two Worlds Based On The Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz - a diploma project by Izabela Cichońska
The only diploma project of its kind in the world, devoted to connections between literature and architecture in Schulz's work.
The Inhabitants of Drohobycz: photography exhibition by Robert Chudzyński (Płońsk/Poland).
A photographer documenting the life of today's inhabitants of Drohobycz, sensitive to the nuances of passing time.
At Schulz's: photography exhibition by Jakub Grzywak and Mariusz Kubielas (Żywiec/Poland)
Photographs inspired by Schulz's literary and art work, made without the use of computer graphic programs.
admission FREE
Trzy Róże (Three Pinks): exhibition opening
18th November at 6 p.m., Galeria Labirynt, ul. Grodzka 5a (map), and 7.30p.m. at Galeria Lipowa 13, ul. Lipowa 13 (map)
Three Pinks is an encounter of three different artistic attitudes, temperaments and ways of expression within "the convention of pink".
Works by Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Basia Bańda and Maurycy Gomulicki.
admission FREE
MUSIC
CONCERTS
D.I.Y.GIG: Finisterre (Germany)
16th November (Weds), 8 p.m. at Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a (map)
admission 10 PLN
CLUBBING
(ROCK AND ROLL) AROUND THE CLOCK
16th November (Weds), 8.30 p.m. at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10 (map)
Music from the 50s and 60s: rock'n'roll, rockabilly, surf and some later garage rock.
admission 5 PLN
Ska, rocksteady, funk, punk, roots and drum'n'bass
admission 10 PLN
indie, electro and new rave plus some intriguing videoclips
admission FREE
admission 15 PLN presale, 20PLN on the day
JOEY FEVER (Stockholm/SWE) www.facebook.com/CheckJoeyFever
SPLENDID SOUND (Wrocław/PL) www.facebook.com/splendidsound
UKKUBIT DIVASS (Ula “Afro” Fryc, Sandra “Sandy Candy” Wołyniec, Kasia “Mad Katie” Kuwałek) www.facebook.com/ukkubit.divass
SENSITHIEF SOUND (Lublin/PL) www.facebook.com/sensithiefsound
www.myspace.com/syndromkreta
CULTURAL NEWS
ART EXHIBITION
Bruno4ever: festival opening
14th November (Mon), 6 p.m.
Public Library, ul. Narutowicza 4, gallery, 2nd floor (map)
The festival commemorates the 69th anniversary of the death of Bruno Schulz, one of the most original Polish writers whose unique brand of magic realism is as bewitching as it was several decades ago. A Polish Jew, he was killed by a Nazi officer in the streets of the town of Drohobycz, leaving two volumes of prose: The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, and a collection of fine drawings. One of his stories, "The Street of Crocodiles", has been made into an animated film by the Brothers Quay.
The festival events include lectures, plays and art exhibitions. If you think your Polish is good enough to appreciate events based on spoken word, you can find the whole programme at http://kultura.lublin.eu/wydarzenia,1,913.html?locale=pl_PL
For the rest of you, a list of art exhibitions:
Waterpaintings and graphics by Oleg Liubkivski (Czerniowce/Ukraine)
The artist presents his city - Czerniowce - as a living organism subject to the ruthless influence of passing time.
Graphics and drawings by Stanisłąw Ożóg (Rzeszów/Poland)
Stanisław Ożóg is the only Polish artist illustrator who has for years been creating artistic work inspired by the literary work of Bruno Schulz.
Photography exhibition: Boryslav by Stanisław Rachwał - by Oleksij Kaczmar and Julia Kysła (Boryslav/Ukraine)
Exhibition of photographs from 1920-30 by Stanisław Rachwał (1887-1971). The glass negatives were found in a certain backyard behind a pigsty and had been almost completely destroyed, but the positives survived in an album. Oleksij Kaczmar and Julia Kysła had them enlarged and exhibited as a document of their time.
The Intrigue of Infinity At the Crossing of Two Worlds Based On The Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz - a diploma project by Izabela Cichońska
The only diploma project of its kind in the world, devoted to connections between literature and architecture in Schulz's work.
The Inhabitants of Drohobycz: photography exhibition by Robert Chudzyński (Płońsk/Poland).
A photographer documenting the life of today's inhabitants of Drohobycz, sensitive to the nuances of passing time.
At Schulz's: photography exhibition by Jakub Grzywak and Mariusz Kubielas (Żywiec/Poland)
Photographs inspired by Schulz's literary and art work, made without the use of computer graphic programs.
admission FREE
Trzy Róże (Three Pinks): exhibition opening
18th November at 6 p.m., Galeria Labirynt, ul. Grodzka 5a (map), and 7.30p.m. at Galeria Lipowa 13, ul. Lipowa 13 (map)exhibition open until 30th December
Three Pinks is an encounter of three different artistic attitudes, temperaments and ways of expression within "the convention of pink".
Works by Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Basia Bańda and Maurycy Gomulicki.
admission FREE
MUSIC
CONCERTS
D.I.Y.GIG: Finisterre (Germany)
16th November (Weds), 8 p.m. at Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a (map)
admission 10 PLN
Finisterre plays dark melancholy hardcore crust full of emotions
http://finisterre.blogsport.de
www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Finisterre/205715892775875
www.myspace.com/finisterror
D.I.Y. gig: Mars Red Sky + Major Kong + The Union + Dopelord
20th November (Sun), 8 p.m. at Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
admission 15 PLN
Mars Red Sky (France): psychedelic/shoegaze
http://www.myspace.com/marsredsky; http://www.marsredsky.com/
Major Kong (Poland): doom metal
http://www.myspace.com/majorkong666
Dopelord (Poland): doom metal
http://www.myspace.com/dopelord666
CLUBBING
(ROCK AND ROLL) AROUND THE CLOCK
16th November (Weds), 8.30 p.m. at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10 (map)Music from the 50s and 60s: rock'n'roll, rockabilly, surf and some later garage rock.
admission 5 PLN
LSM Sound System
18th November (Fri), 9 p.m. at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10Ska, rocksteady, funk, punk, roots and drum'n'bass
admission 10 PLN
DIRTY PRETTY SONGS vol.7 @ SCENA OPIUM
19th November (Sat), 9 p.m. at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10indie, electro and new rave plus some intriguing videoclips
admission FREE
Real Jamaican vol. 5 - SPLENDID, JOEY FEVER & UKKUBIT DIVASS
19th November, 9 p.m. at Czarna Owca, ul. Narutowicza 9 (map)admission 15 PLN presale, 20PLN on the day
JOEY FEVER (Stockholm/SWE) www.facebook.com/CheckJoeyFever
SPLENDID SOUND (Wrocław/PL) www.facebook.com/splendidsound
UKKUBIT DIVASS (Ula “Afro” Fryc, Sandra “Sandy Candy” Wołyniec, Kasia “Mad Katie” Kuwałek) www.facebook.com/ukkubit.divass
SENSITHIEF SOUND (Lublin/PL) www.facebook.com/sensithiefsound
SYNTHYZER PARTY vol.10 + SYNDROM KRETA (concert)
19th November (Sat), 8 p.m. at Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
admission 7 PLN
SYNTHYZER PARTY: synthpop, futurepop, electro, EBM, industrial rock, alternative, dark wave, new wave and cold wave.
SYNDROM KRETA: band playing garage rockwww.myspace.com/syndromkreta
