The programme included the compositions of, among others, Jonasz Kofta, Jeremi Przybora, Marek Grechuta, Wojciech Młynarski, Włodzimierz Wysocki and Edward Stachura.
Lyricism, dynamics and irony – it is how this very successful concert can be summarised.
Meeting with two poets of the younger generation: Agnieszka Mirahina and Szczepan Kopyt. The host of the meeting was Dominika Świtkowska.
Lena Ledoff’s second visit to Wsola. The programme included jazz impressions revolving around the works of Polish classics and French and Russian film music.
Varsovia Piano Trio (Adam Zarzycki – violin, Piotr Hausenplas – cello and Ewa Skardowska – piano) and Gabriela Kurylewiczfot. Ewa Witkowska
A concert with participation of Ewa Cybulska, Wojciech Karolak, Piotr Cieślikowski and Arek Skolik.fot. Ewa Witkowska
The “Pustki” group was set up in August 1999. The group has released five albums.
1st Gombrowicz Panel Discussion on Using Gombrowicz’s texts, or What We Do With the Classics?
Participants: Jerzy Sosnowski –a writer, historian and literary critic, journalist of the Trójka Radio, feature writer and columnist of a monthly Więź; Krzysztof Kopczyński, Ph.D. –a historian of literature from the Department of Rhetoric and Media at the Institute of Applied Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, film producer specialising in documentaries on cultural and social issues. The discussion was chaired by Tomasz Tyczyński.
At that time a rising star of the Polish rock
The concert was given within the framework of the 23rd International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music, Radom-Orońsko (the event was held within our cycle The Place of Culture, Local Culture).
A performance by Anna Chodakowska.
Artistic picnic co-organised by the Witold Gombrowicz Museum and Wsola-Pomost Foundation.
Adrian Szary, a poet and a Polish language teacher presented to children his poems and fairy-tales from the cycle Szarówki czyli bajki do czytania o zmierzchu/Gray of the Day or Fairy-Tales to Be Read at Twilight (a meeting within The Place of Culture, Local Culture cycle).
Of freedom in the Internet, information society, copyright and public debate in the context of civil rights – Dominika Świtkowska talked to Jarosław Lipszyc
The programme included: A Feast at Countess Kotłubaj’s an adaptation of W. Gombrowicz’s text according to the idea of Jan Bończa-Szabłowski; directed by: Asja Łamtiugina.
Contestants: a critical Russophile – Prof. Andrzej de Lazari, graduate of Russian Studies from Łódź University, and a Russophobe out of practical wisdom – Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, a co-founder and long-time director of the Centre for Eastern Studies. Answers were sought to the questions describing the Polish Russia complex: can the attitude of Poles to Russians be only servile or disdainful? Are we closer to western rationalism or rather to Russian messianisms which perceive the civilisation of the West as an embodiment of Antichrist? Can we understand each other - both literally and metaphorically - after we have stopped to learn our respective languages?
An evening of poetry and music based on Zbigniew Herbert’s texts. Performers: Aleksander Trąbczyński – reciting, singing and guitar; Michał Kulenty –saxophone, piano and flute; Zbigniew Wegehaupt – double-bass. The programme included, among others, Mr Cogito’s Late Autumn Poem, To Marcus Aurelius, A Sense of Identity and nearly twenty other poems written by Zbigniew Herbert.
Inauguration of a cycle Miejsce kultury, miejscowa kultura/The Place of Culture, Local Culture, presenting artists connected with the Museum and its vicinity, that is the Radom Region. The first event of the cycle was a concert of Bartosz Kołsut, an accordionist and a student of the Schools of Music Complex in Radom, laureate of national and international accordion competitions, grant holder of the Polish Children’s Fund.
A concert of Russian romances. The best-known Russian romances performed by the artists singing in domestic and foreign opera houses and concert halls : Izabella Wardak – alto and Jan Kierdelewicz – bass.
Instytucja współprowadzona przez Samorząd Województwa Mazowieckiego oraz Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego