Newsletter 21st November 2011
VARIOUS
ŁAP CIUCH2 @ Opium Cafe
26th November 12 noon-3 p.m.Opium Cafe, ul. Langiewicza 16
Is your wardrobe bursting at the seems with clothes you don't wear any more and have even forgotten are there? Or perhaps the opposite: do you feel you need something new to wear but can't afford to spend much? Either way, come to Opium Cafe on Saturday, where you'll be able to:
- sell, buy or exchange clothes;
- have a coffee and listen to good music;
- enjoy good company.
Gentlemen are also most welcome! :)
Handicraft Fair
26th November 2p.m. - 4 .m.Spółdzielnia Cafe-Bookshop, ul. Peowiaków 11 (see map)
If you like and are looking for original, unique jewellery or other hand-made objects, you are cordially invited to the Handicraft Fair next Saturday.
If you yourself enjoy making such objects and would like to participate in the Fair as an artist/artisan, do contact the organisers at latajacewarsztaty@gmail.com
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AT HOMO FABER
ST ANDREW'S NIGHT PARTY
25th November, 7 p.m.
Homo Faber, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 39
We'd like to invite you to a party we'll be having at Homo Faber on 25th November, start 7 p.m.AT HOMO FABER
ST ANDREW'S NIGHT PARTY
25th November, 7 p.m.
Homo Faber, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 39
It's an old Polish tradition to celebrate St Andrew's Night (known as Andrzejki) on the night of 29/30th November. The celebrations are invariably accompanied by fortune telling games (e.g. dripping molten candlewax into a bowl of water and reading one's future from the shadow the resulting wax shape throws on the wall when held against light).
We are throwing our party a bit earlier so that on the actual St Andrew's Night you can participate in whatever the city's numerous clubs have to offer.
There will be lots of good music to dance to (you can bring your own music too; also, if you'd like to share with the others any of your countries' traditional dances you're very welcome to do so), snacks (if you feel like preparing something, feel free), fortune telling and generally lots of fun and games.
If you have any questions, please contact me at hs@hf.org.pl
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CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
CINEMA
CINEMA AT TEKTURA: OLDBOY
23rd November, 8 p.m.
Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
admission FREE
Oldboy (South Korea/2003)
dir. Chan-Wook Park
The protagonist is kidnapped and locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally and unexpectedly released, he finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence.
The theme of the Festival is the defiance of and challenge to staid reality, and it was already questioned at the festival's previous edition. Is the young theatre still defiant? Does anybody still need defiance and dissent at all? Finally, how do we understand Defiance?
The performances will take place at Chatka Żaka, ul. Radziszewskiego 16 (map) and Dom Kultury LSM, ul. Konrada Wallenroda 4A (LSM Cultural Centre - map). Each day of this year's edition will end with a discussion panel and a concert at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10 (map).
Ticket prices: full festival pass 40 PLN (students 30 PLN); one-day ticket 20 PLN (students 10 PLN); one-show ticket 10 PLN (students 7 PLN); concerts and afterparties at Opium 7 PLN.
Programme:
4th November
5 p.m. play: Neverending Witkacy (Chatka Żaka)
9, 10 and 11 a.m. play: Fiu Fiu (Chatka Żaka)
5.30 p.m. play: The War Is Still On (Chatka Żaka)
6.15 p.m. play: Jeppe (Chatka Żaka)
4 p.m. audiovisual project: Improbability Theory (Chatka Żaka)
5 p.m. drama reading room: Enter the Dragon: Trailer (Chatka Żaka)
festival website (in Polish): http://kontestacje.ack.lublin.pl/
ART EXHIBITION
Małgorzata Pomian was born in 1985 and has graduated from the UMCS Art Department.
In her own words: "According to research cited by Jake Halpem in his book Fame Junkies, the majority of teenage girls in the USA would rather be famous than intelligent. Half of those questioned think that being an assistant to a celebrity is a more prestigious position than that of a university professor. The mass media inundate us with advice on how to live, what to wear, what to eat and when to have a poo. Our self-preservation instinct is vanquished through this daily brainwash. In a quest for acceptance, an individual is able to entangle him/herself into a neverending chase after a jumper, handbag or pair of shoes . . .
As a child of my epoch, I show what I feed on, which is images of contemporary saints, blessed, gods and their muses, that is newspaper and internet human forms. The people I paint live in a totally different reality, that of an artificially created world. Those interested in it can actually forget about reality, which loses its attractiveness in confrontation with the glitter, opulence and guffaw emanating from the media. Similarly, when praying, people experience a state of temporary absence. This is why I will risk a comparison between those media personas and saints that used to be worshipped in the past. The contemporary gods wear brands that we should have in order to be as beautiful and happy as they are.
When working, I make a synthesis of selected photographs. The characters are taken out of their context and placed on a flat icon-like background."
MUSIC AND CLUBBING
Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10
admission FREE
From 1970s to today, from hippe-rock to alternative sounds, from ballads to chunky metal music.
CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
CINEMA
CINEMA AT TEKTURA: OLDBOY
23rd November, 8 p.m.
Tektura, ul. Wieniawska 15a
admission FREE
Oldboy (South Korea/2003)
dir. Chan-Wook Park
The protagonist is kidnapped and locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally and unexpectedly released, he finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence.
The film won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and high praise from the President of the Jury, director Quentin Tarantino. Film critic Roger Ebert has claimed Oldboy to be a "...powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". In 2008, voters on CNN named it one of the ten best Asian films ever made.
THEATRE
7th All-Poland Student Theatre Festival: Defiance (Kontestacje)
24th-27th November
24th-27th November
The theme of the Festival is the defiance of and challenge to staid reality, and it was already questioned at the festival's previous edition. Is the young theatre still defiant? Does anybody still need defiance and dissent at all? Finally, how do we understand Defiance?
The performances will take place at Chatka Żaka, ul. Radziszewskiego 16 (map) and Dom Kultury LSM, ul. Konrada Wallenroda 4A (LSM Cultural Centre - map). Each day of this year's edition will end with a discussion panel and a concert at Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10 (map).
Ticket prices: full festival pass 40 PLN (students 30 PLN); one-day ticket 20 PLN (students 10 PLN); one-show ticket 10 PLN (students 7 PLN); concerts and afterparties at Opium 7 PLN.
Programme:
4th November
5 p.m. play: Neverending Witkacy (Chatka Żaka)
6.15 p.m. Performance stage - Szymon Pietrasiewicz (Chatka Żaka)
7 p.m. play: Moon, moon, dying - improvised sequences (Chatka Żaka)
8 p.m. play: 52 (LSM Cultural Centre)
9.15 p.m. discussion panel (Chatka Żaka)
10.15 p.m. concert: Sex Machine Band (Scena Opium)
7 p.m. play: Moon, moon, dying - improvised sequences (Chatka Żaka)
8 p.m. play: 52 (LSM Cultural Centre)
9.15 p.m. discussion panel (Chatka Żaka)
10.15 p.m. concert: Sex Machine Band (Scena Opium)
25th November
9, 10 and 11 a.m. play: Fiu Fiu (Chatka Żaka)
5.30 p.m. play: The War Is Still On (Chatka Żaka)
6.15 p.m. play: Jeppe (Chatka Żaka)
7.15 p.m. performance stage: Paweł Korbus (Chatka Żaka)
7.45 performance stage: Dominik Złotkowski (Chatka Żaka)
8.15 p.m. play: Staging Hamlet in the village of Głucha Dolna (Chatka Żaka)
7.45 performance stage: Dominik Złotkowski (Chatka Żaka)
8.15 p.m. play: Staging Hamlet in the village of Głucha Dolna (Chatka Żaka)
9.30 p.m. discussion panel (Chatka Żaka)
10.30 concert: JoãoBAB (Scena Opium)
11.30 p.m. afterparty: Śmierć Disko Sound(s)
11.30 p.m. afterparty: Śmierć Disko Sound(s)
26th November
4 p.m. audiovisual project: Improbability Theory (Chatka Żaka)
5 p.m. play: Bolko Kantor (Chatka Żaka)
6.30 p.m. play: Pozor uż nemôżem (Chatka Żaka)
7.30 p.m. play: Macbeth/Impressions (Chatka Żaka)
8.30 p.m. discussion panel (Chatka Żaka)
10 p.m. concert: Karolina Cicha Solo (Chatka Żaka)
11 p.m. afterparty: Multi-kulti (Scena Opium)
10 p.m. concert: Karolina Cicha Solo (Chatka Żaka)
11 p.m. afterparty: Multi-kulti (Scena Opium)
27th November
5 p.m. drama reading room: Enter the Dragon: Trailer (Chatka Żaka)
6.30 p.m. play: November (Chatka Żaka)
7.30 p.m. play: Russkij Ostrov (Chatka Żaka)
8.30 p.m. play: Spokojnie (Chatka Żaka)
9.15 p.m. discussion panel (Chatka Żaka)
10 p.m. concert: Pary Ludzi (Scena Opium)
11 p.m. afterparty: jam session (Scena Opium)
10 p.m. concert: Pary Ludzi (Scena Opium)
11 p.m. afterparty: jam session (Scena Opium)
ART EXHIBITION
ICONS by Małgorzata Pomian
until 9th December
Galeria Biała, ul. Narutowicza 32 (see map) [entry through Centrum Kultury]
Małgorzata Pomian was born in 1985 and has graduated from the UMCS Art Department.
In her own words: "According to research cited by Jake Halpem in his book Fame Junkies, the majority of teenage girls in the USA would rather be famous than intelligent. Half of those questioned think that being an assistant to a celebrity is a more prestigious position than that of a university professor. The mass media inundate us with advice on how to live, what to wear, what to eat and when to have a poo. Our self-preservation instinct is vanquished through this daily brainwash. In a quest for acceptance, an individual is able to entangle him/herself into a neverending chase after a jumper, handbag or pair of shoes . . .
As a child of my epoch, I show what I feed on, which is images of contemporary saints, blessed, gods and their muses, that is newspaper and internet human forms. The people I paint live in a totally different reality, that of an artificially created world. Those interested in it can actually forget about reality, which loses its attractiveness in confrontation with the glitter, opulence and guffaw emanating from the media. Similarly, when praying, people experience a state of temporary absence. This is why I will risk a comparison between those media personas and saints that used to be worshipped in the past. The contemporary gods wear brands that we should have in order to be as beautiful and happy as they are.
When working, I make a synthesis of selected photographs. The characters are taken out of their context and placed on a flat icon-like background."
MUSIC AND CLUBBING
ROCK UNTIL YOU DROP VOL. 5- rockotheke
23rd November, 8.30 p.m.Scena Opium, ul. Langiewicza 10
admission FREE
From 1970s to today, from hippe-rock to alternative sounds, from ballads to chunky metal music.
