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Between.Education

Education is a key component of Between.Pomiędzy’s activities. Organized in cooperation with specific schools and cultural institutions, our workshops, lectures, and meetings with authors are directed at high-school students and their teachers, those working in cultural institutions, and everyone interested in literature and theatre. There will be educational sessions, too, during the Twelfth Between.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre. The second virtual festival will make it possible for schools from the Three Cities and the whole country to take part. In cooperation with the II Liceum in Sopot, we join in the celebrations connected with the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Tadeusz Różewicz.

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“The Poetry of David Constantine”: Monika Szuba, Tomasz Wiśniewski, and David Malcolm

David Constantine was for many years the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and a teacher at Oxford University. He was a guest at the Festival in 2011, and at last year’s Festival he read a selection of his poems for us. Last year he received the Queen’s Medal for Poetry. During this session, the organizers introduce the poet’s work and discuss poems they have chosen themselves. You can hear the poet reading his own work at (https://vimeo.com/415301970/cb10781adc).

Monika Szuba, David Malcolm, and Tomasz Wiśniewski, as creators of the original Between.Pomiędzy Festival, traditionally open education day.

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“Tadeusz Różewicz: tradition – avant-garde”: Joanna Lisiewicz

All texts of culture are a never-ending story, a mimetic trace of human creative activity. If we wish to hear the human voice, know human thoughts, fears, dreams, commentary on the world in which that human being lived and worked, and if we then wish to ask to ask the reality that lies beyond our windows the eternal questions, we must read the great tale of humanity as a common volume, we must enter the rhythm of the eternal narrative. Let us try to listen closely to and look carefully at the characters of Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady, and then let us put our ear to the wall of the room of the Hero from Tadeusz Różewicz’s Kartoteka. We will consider who they are, what they speak of and what they are silent about, what influences their states of being, their plans, their moods, what they have had enough of, and what they dream of. And finally, we will consider whether we, people from the first half of the twenty-first century, with our experiences and observations, still have anything in common with them, whether we would have anything to talk about with them, anything to be silent about, whether more binds us than separates us. We will look closely at the forms of the literary texts and think about when tradition ends and the avant-garde begins, and about whether there is, in general, any sense in speaking about literature in this way, setting the borders of end and beginning. The webinar is part of the project Tadeusz Różewicz: Tradycja – awangarda.

Joanna Lisiewicz

Joanna Lisiewicz

Joanna Lisiewicz – PhD, is author of the study Milczenie w teatrze Samuela Becketta i Tadeusza Różewicza, and the script writer of the comic 15 urodziny infantki in Człowiek w probówce. Antologia komiksu polskiego, Egmont 2004. She is an education enthusiast and lecturer, a theatre studies scholar. For many years, she has been associated with the Department of Theatre at the University of Gdańsk, and for the past two years has taught Polish in the II Liceum in Sopot. She is a member of the Samuel Beckett Research Group, and regularly works with the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre and the City Theatre in Gdynia on educational projects. She does research into the work of Tadeusz Różewicz and popularizes his writing. She is an organizer of and a member of the jury in literary-theatrical competitions related to Różewicz’s work. She publishes in Teatr, Topos, Tekstualia, and Bliza. She is author of articles published in the Between. Pomiędzy series.

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“Remus, or A Kashubian Tale”: Ewelina Stefańska

Monday, 10 May 2021, 12.00 CET

Życie i przygody Remusa (The Life and Adventures of Remus) by Aleksander Majkowski was published more than eighty years ago. Majkowski’s work has been called a Kashubian epic and has been compared to Pan Tadeusz. The Kashubian tale of Remus is multi-plotted, full of metaphor, and unusually interesting characters. Although it is rooted in Kashubian landscape and society, it has proved exceptionally interesting to readers from beyond Kashubia. The magic realism of Majkowski’s novel arouses the imagination of everyone who reads of the adventures of the main character, his comrades, and the mysterious figures whom he meets on his travels. Mission, journey, the struggle of good and evil, friendship and love – these are only some of the motifs that appear in the Life and Adventures of Remus.

Ewelina Stefańska

Ewelina Stefańska, fot. Aleksandra Józefiak

Ewelina Stefańska – is a graduate of BA studies in Arts Management (with focus on management) and an MA student in cultural studies at the University of Gdańsk. Her interests include: theatre (especially Kashubian theatre), culture, ceremony, the Kashubian language, and social activism. She is a member of the “Pomorania” Student Club (President, 2017-2019). Since 2019, she has been a co-organizer of the Between.Pomiędzy Festival and coordinator of the project “Between.Education: Kosmopolis 2020.”