Witold Gombrowicz Museum, which is a branch of the Museum of Literature in Warsaw, inaugurated its activities in Wsola five years ago. The opening ceremony took place on 10th and 11th of October and October 14th was the first day of exploring the exposure.
Witold Gombrowicz Museum wanted to recall the 75th anniversary of the deparure of Witold Gombrowicz from Poland and the 110th birthday anniversary of the Polish writer by creating the project „Gombrowicz moves (in) the world”.
"Apetite for Gombrowicz" is not weakened also in 2014: on 13 and 14 June there was another artistic picnic organized by Wsola's Witold Gombrowicz Museum with collaboration with the Municipality of Jedlińsk. The event programme was rich and addressed to a wide audience as every year: musical performance by Natalia Sikora, the concerts of Natalia Przybysz and Piotr Bukartyk and also Gombrowicz's monodrams prepared by theatre Scene TAM2.
Night of Museums in 2014 was modest but extremely successful, to which traditionally Witold Gombrowicz Museum invited at the eve of that European event. Traditionally, also in Wsola a good music resounded with good literary text because Jacek Kleyff was a guest of the museum, the legend, bard, poet, composer and painter. Co-founder of the Indipendent Saloon, founder of the Gesundheit Orchestra.
The starting point for a conversation with Andrzej Bart, an outstanding prose writer, screenwriter, author of documentaries and theater director, was the novel "Rien ne va plus", which was on the list of books selected for a plebiscite on the Polish book of 25th - anniversary, announced by the Programme I of Polish radio.
Promotion of the book "Gombrowicz and surroundings" published by the Witold Gombrowicz Museum was part of the 37th Radom's Literary Spring, what took place in Public Library. The meeting was led by the professor Krzysztof Ćwikliński of Radom's UTH, Witold Gombrowicz Museum was represented by the editor of the book Dominika Świtkowska and Piotr Miękus who participated in preparation of the publishing company.
Witold Gombrowicz Museum has shown widely unknown face (and maybe a map) of outstanding actor Jan Nowicki. In Wsola he presented a literary-musical spectacle "From banks to Earth", composed of the texts of Bolesław Leśmian, pr. Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyla.
The concert of Krzysztof Napiórkowski, the composer, pianist, singer who cares about literary level of singing texts, including those of his own authorship, we decided to please all the ladies, no matter what they think of the "International Women's Day".
Marek Bieńczyk, the winner of the Nike Literary Award in 2012, was the guest of Witold Gombrowich Museum on Thursday, February 27. (That is, the Mardi Gras, which has not gone unnoticed by the organizers of the meeting).
The author of “Abdication” writes poems with dense, organic stitch, a bit like in its early, imbruing human blood lines acting of Stanisław Barańczak and Ryszard Krynicki. Images, thoughts, words are tightly interwined, hands' vines are joined and mesh of rivers, the chain of nucleotides and Lebanese mountain range, tha carrier circulates among groundwater, arteries fill up with grit and gravel.
“ Lyrical Tuwim and more”- that was the title of the event, which with the date of 12th January Witold Gombrowicz Museum inaugurated another year of activity. The texts of Julian Tuwim were interpreted by Piotr Machalica and Piotr Borowski, accompanied by the pianist Agnieszka Garniewicz and the music of Zygmunt Konieczny.
Klaudia Kowalik and Stan Breckenridge appeared in Witold Gombrowicz Museum with the closing concert of the cultural calendar 2013. Polish- American jazz standards were enriched by Christmas Carols.
Meeting with Wojciech Sikora, director of the Literary Institute in Paris and a vernissage of Barbara Czartoryska’s photographic exhibition Widziane w Laficie (Seen in Lafitte), prepared by the Literary Institute and the Witold Gombrowicz Museum.
Text: – Piotr Rowicki. Directed by: Piotr Ratajczak. Actress: Agnieszka Przepiórska. Lights – Karol Rothkaehl.
The manuscript of Witold Gombrowicz’s private diary could be seen for only two hours at the Witold Gombrowicz Museum. The National Library’s convoy carrying the priceless manuscript stopped in Wsola to make this unusual exhibition possible.
The group’s own lyrics and compositions refer to the tradition of Polish folk music. Jazz arrangements and excellent vocals – this is a short characteristic of this event.
Meeting with the writers who live and write in exile: Mariusz Wilk, Bronisław Świderski and Zbigniew Kruszyński. The host of the meeting: Tomasz Tyczyński.
Meeting with Rita Gombrowicz and a concert of the Renata Przemyk Akustik Trio.
Instytucja współprowadzona przez Samorząd Województwa Mazowieckiego oraz Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego