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10:00 Wednesday, 13.05.2015

Exhibition of the Illustration Studio of the Academy of Fine ...

Drawings from A Book of Luminous Things

Exhibition

Galeria Fundacji Sztuki Nowej ZNACZY SIĘ

<p><strong>Exhibition of the Illustration Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, “Rysunki z ksiąg użytecznych” (Drawings from <em>A Book of Luminous Things</em>)</strong></p><p>The exhibition presents interpretations of poetry by young students of illustration, using various techniques from pencil to digital. Students of the Illustration Studio of the Fine Arts Academy in Katowice designed illustrations for poems selected and translated by Czesław Miłosz in the volume <em>A Book of Luminous Things</em>. The works presented in this intimate exhibition were designed as book illustrations.</p><p>The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and the New Art Foundation ZNACZY SIĘ.</p>

20:00 Wednesday, 13.05.2015

REPUBLICA POETICA 1.0: 111 poems

Premiere: REPUBLICA POETICA 1.0: 111 wierszy (REPUBLICA POETICA 1.0: 111 poems) by Marta Eloy Cichocka

Meeting

Lokator, Mostowa 1

<p><strong>Participants: </strong>Marta Eloy Cichocka, Elena Medel, Erika Martínez</p><p><strong>Host</strong>: PIO Kaliński</p><p><strong>Venue:</strong> Lokator, Mostowa 1</p>

10:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

A visit to ul. Czereśniowa

A visit to ul. Czereśniowa – a meeting with Susanne Rotraut Berner

Meeting

Goethe-Institut

<p>A meeting with the popular German illustrator and children’s book author.</p>

10:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Photography exhibition of Joanna Gromek-Illg’s

“Privilege of the stones?”

Exhibition

Pałac Pod Baranami

<p><strong>Photography exhibition of Joanna Gromek-Illg’s “Privilege of the stones?”</strong></p><p>The poems of Czesław Miłosz dedicated to Vilnius would make a considerable tome. Now, over ten years after the poet’s death, the author of the exhibition, Joanna Gromek-Illg, attempted to find traces of the places frequented by Miłosz. She walked all over the old town centre with a book of poetry, trying to answer the question contained in the <em>Bells in Winter</em> poem: is persistence the privilege of stones? Can we, wandering through beautiful Vilnius years later, find the sense that Miłosz gave the statement “Nothing has changed here”? The answers to these questions are contained in the photographs of Joanna Gromek-Illg.</p>

10:30 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

Poetry translation workshop with Elena Medel and Erika Martínez

Workshop

Librería Elite

<p><strong>Host</strong>: Marta Eloy Cichocka</p><p><strong>Venue:</strong> Librería Elite, Mały Rynek 4</p>

12:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Dong, the One with a Luminous Nose

A spectacle by Teatr Uszyty

Spectacle

Scena Pod Ratuszem

<p>A spectacle about Dong’s love for a certain Girl, based on the poems by Edward Lear.</p>

12:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

The Second Life of a Book

Miłosz Festival Edition

Meeting

Pałac Pod Baranami

<p><strong>The Second Life of a Book</strong></p><p>The Miłosz Festival gives books new life. Therefore, continuously from 14 to 17 May, we will exchange books in the Centrum Festiwalowe (Festival Centre) at the Palace under the Rams (Rynek Główny 27), which will house specially prepared bookshelves. Note: among the books are items brought by our guests from their private, extensive libraries.</p><p>More information about the event: <a href=\\\"http://www.drugiezycieksiazki.pl\\\">www.drugiezycieksiazki.pl</a></p>

13:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Poetry criticism workshop

“In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”

Workshop

Galeria Fundacji Sztuki Nowej ZNACZY SIĘ

<p><strong>Poetry criticism workshop “In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”</strong></p><p><strong>Host:</strong> Tomasz Kunz i Marta Wyka<br /><strong>Coordinator</strong>: Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski</p>

14:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

With Marie Lundquist

Workshop

Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

<p><strong>Poetry translation workshop with Marie Lundquist</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Zbigniew Kruszyński</p>

14:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

I Poetry Meeting

Participants: Valzhyna Mort, Marta Podgórnik, Charles Simic, Krzysztof Siwczyk

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>I Poetry Meeting</strong></p><p><strong>Participants:</strong> Valzhyna Mort, Marta Podgórnik, Charles Simic, Krzysztof Siwczyk <br /><strong>Host: </strong>Jerzy Jarniewicz</p>

16:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Workshops with Masters of Illustration

Maciej Szymanowicz

Workshop

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

<p>Illustration workshops with the author of the illustrations in <em>Asiunia </em>[<em>Joanie</em>] and <em>Wszystkie moje mamy </em>[<em>All My Moms</em>].</p><p><strong> </strong></p>

16:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Inaugural lecture of the 4th Miłosz Festival

By: Ruth Padel

Lecture

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>Inaugural lecture of the 4th Miłosz Festival<br /></strong><strong>By: </strong>Ruth Padel<br /><strong>Introduction:</strong> Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough</p><p>The inaugural lecture by the acclaimed British poet. Padel loves opera and rock, Ancient Greece, and modern London, where she lives and teaches poetry at King’s College. She knows quite a bit about the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as the laws of nature and love. Her great-great-grandfather was Charles Darwin, to whom she dedicated a book of poetry on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. This time, she will speak about her encounters with the work of Czesław Miłosz.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

17:30 Thursday, 14.05.2015

The opening of Joanna Gromek-Illg’s

photography exhibition “The Privilege of Stones?”

Exhibition

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>The opening of Joanna Gromek-Illg’s photography exhibition “The Privilege of Stones?”</strong></p><p>“There are few cities in Europe that have been as mythologised as Vilnius,” Miłosz wrote. “The history of this city is so strange that it simply begs to be moved into the realm of fairytale.” The city was captured in detail, with love and nostalgia, in the photographs of Joanna Gromek-Illg.</p>

18:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

I Debate “Useful Books”

Participants: Robert Hass, Anna Kałuża, Piotr Śliwiński

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>I Debate “Useful Books”</strong><br /><strong>Participants:</strong> Robert Hass, Anna Kałuża, Piotr Śliwiński<br /><strong>Host:</strong> Zofia Król</p><p><em>Wypisy z ksiąg użytecznych</em> (<em>A Book of Luminous Things</em>) is Miłosz’s most complete poetic manifesto, a collection of poetry focused on the world, understandable, loyal to reality and – in accordance with the title – illuminating for the reader. This is why the book provides a good beginning for a discussion not about Miłosz himself, but about modern poetry. Is “objective” and “loyal” poetry possible, with the opacity of language standing in its way?</p><p>simultaneous interpreting</p>

19:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Reading after dark

Reading after dark, part of the European Night of Literature

Meeting

Taras Widokowy & Lounge Bar Hotelu Sheraton

<p>Indian fairy tales read by Maciej Włodarczyk – founder of the Indian Village in Szczyrzyc</p>

19:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Kinetic poetry demonstration

This is Miłosz translated into the language of modernity.

Exhibition

Róg ul. Brackiej i Rynku Głównego

<p><strong>Kinetic poetry demonstration</strong></p><p>This is Miłosz translated into the language of modernity. During the demonstrations of kinetic poetry, Czesław Miłosz’s poetry will be displayed on the wall of the building at ul. Bracka street. Dynamics, space, rhythm and light will cause the poetry to challenge the perception of it as words just meant for reading. The show uses the Miłosz typeface, awarded in the Type Design International Student Competition organised in Krakow to commemorate the centennial of the birth of the Nobelist.</p><p>In cooperation with: Fundacja Poemat, The New Art Foundation ZNACZY SIĘ, and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology</p>

20:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Poetry Evening A Book of Luminous Things

Host: Jerzy Illg

Meeting

Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Ludwika Solskiego w Krakowie

<p><strong>Poetry Evening <em>A Book of Luminous Things<br /></em></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Jerzy Illg</p><p>A multilingual description of the world, <em>A Book of Luminous Things</em> is a true celebration of poetry taking a position “on the side of being and against nothingness”. All the Festival guests will participate in this event.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

21:30 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Concert: Białoszewski for the Ear, pt. I

Performed by: Asi Mina, Marcin Staniszewski

Concert

Klub Re

<p><strong>Concert: Białoszewski for the Ear, pt. </strong><strong>I<br /></strong><strong>Performed by: </strong>Asi Mina, Marcin Staniszewski</p><p>Contemporary artists from the Polish alternative music draw upon the archival recordings of Miron Białoszewski from the 1960s and embellish them with modern sounds. The result is an experimental blend of language and sound. Clumps, noise and electronica, post-rock, alternative and jazz; all the genres will be there.</p><p>Tickets on sale in select Info Kraków information points and at the Re Club on the day of the concert.<br />Ticket prices: 15 PLN. Pass for all the festival concerts: 30 PLN.</p>

22:00 Thursday, 14.05.2015

Hyde Park of Poets in the courtyard

An informal poetry evening: poems, vodka and herring

Meeting

Pasaż & Ambasada Śledzia

<p><strong>Host</strong>: Szymon Słomczyński<br /><strong>Venue:</strong> Pasaż & Ambasada Śledzia (Pasaż Bielaka, Rynek Główny /ul. Stolarska 5)</p><p>On the opening day of the Miłosz Festival, the Herring Embassy and Pasaż Café, invite everyone for an informal poetry evening with Szymon Słomczyński. Słomczyński will read poems from his latest volume “Dwupłat”.<br />He will be accompanied by other invited poets reading their work. Later, the microphone will pass to those intrepid poets who wish to share their poems with the audience gathered in the night garden.</p>

10:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

A Walk through the Main Square

With Michał Rusinek

Meeting

Rynek Główny

<p>A walk with Michał Rusinek, the author of the guidebook <em>Krakowski Rynek dla chłopców i dziewczynek </em>(<em>Krakow Main Square for Boys and Girls</em>).</p>

10:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Poetry criticism workshop

“In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”

Workshop

Galeria Fundacji Sztuki Nowej ZNACZY SIĘ

<p><strong>Poetry criticism workshop “In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Krzysztof Siwczyk i Piotr Śliwiński<br /><strong>Coordinator</strong>: Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski</p>

11:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

Franciszka

A meeting with Anna Piwkowska

Meeting

Pracownia Pod Baranami

<p><em>Franciszka</em> – the story of a thirteen year old girl who discovers her love of poetry. The book won the Book of the Year 2014 award from the Polish section of IBBY.</p>

11:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

Announcement of the nominations

for the 3rd Annual Wisława Szymborska Award announced

Meeting

Ogrody Muzeum im. Emeryka Hutten-Czapskiego, oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie

<p><strong>Announcement of the nominations for the 3^rd Annual Wisława Szymborska Award announced<br /></strong><strong>Venue:</strong> Garden of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum, branch of the National Museum in Krakow</p><p>Who has a chance to win the prestigious award, one of the most important poetry prizes in Poland? For the first time, the five nominees will be announced during the Miłosz Festival.</p>

11:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

Premiere: “Collected poetry translations”

Czesław Miłosz’s “Collected poetry translations”

Meeting

Pracownia Pod Baranami

<p><strong>Premiere: Czesław Miłosz’s “Collected poetry translations”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Andrzej Franaszek, Magda Heydel, Jerzy Illg</p><p>“Good translation is a precious and rare thing; it stands in the history of language and influences it no less, and sometimes even more than the works considered ‘first-born’,” Miłosz wrote in <em>The Translator’s Zeal</em>. A conversation about the poet’s work as a translator, whose translations co-created the landscape of Polish literature of the 20^th century.</p>

11:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

With Charles Simic

Workshop

Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

<p><strong>Poetry translation workshop with </strong><strong>Charles Simic</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Agata Hołobut</p>

12:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

The film event series of the Festival of Literature for ...

Gucio zaczarowany (Gucio Enchanted) and Opowieści Krasnogrudzkie ...

Film screening

Kino Pod Baranami

<p>The favourite childhood book of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz made into film by a group of children and youth from Sejny, creators of the Fairy Tale Film Collection “Tales from the Borderland.”</p>

12:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Marie Lundquist

Host: Justyna Czechowska

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Marie Lundquist<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Justyna Czechowska</p><p>Simplicity, economy of style, yet at the same time an extraordinary confidence of literary expression balancing between poetry and prose. Marie Lundquist, a unique voice of Swedish poetry, in her first appearance in Poland.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

13:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Xavier Farré

Host: Marta Eloy Cichocka

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Xavier Farré<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Marta Eloy Cichocka</p><p>Catalan ardour, Central European melancholy, classic poetic tone and references to the great myths of modernity. Central Europe, seen through the eyes of Farré, becomes a battleground between light and darkness.</p>

13:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Miś Fiś presents

Wojciech Bonowicz!

Meeting

Pracownia Pod Baranami

<p>A meeting based around <em>Bajki Misia Fisia </em>[<em>The Tales of Miś Fiś</em>] by Wojciech Bonowicz.</p>

13:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

With Uroš Zupan

Workshop

Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

<p><strong>Poetry translation workshop with </strong><strong>Uroš Zupan</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Miłosz Biedrzycki</p>

14:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Charles Simic

Host: Agata Hołobut

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A </strong><strong>Conversation </strong><strong>with a Poet: Charles Simic<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Agata Hołobut</p><p>The voice of the Old and the New World: providing a hint of Serbian folk poetry and Eastern European contemporary poetry in his work. The creative turmoil of the French surrealists, the excesses of jazz and the simplicity of the blues, metaphysics and sardonic humour. This is the work of Pulitzer Prize winner and Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award laureate, Charles Simic.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

15:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Debate II “To Nature - a Challenge”

Participants: Julia Fiedorczuk, Grzegorz Jankowicz, Ruth Padel

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>Debate II “To Nature - a Challenge”<br /></strong><strong>Participants: </strong>Julia Fiedorczuk, Grzegorz Jankowicz, Ruth Padel<br /><strong>Host: </strong>Krzysztof Zajas</p><p>Miłosz constantly wrote about nature, which was an important subject of his poetic reflections. Nature is a mirror that reflects the thoughts of man. A debate about the compatibility of words and things, ecoliterature, and what the poet-naturalist may have to say to mankind.</p><p>simultaneous interpreting</p>

15:30 Friday, 15.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

Poetry translation workshop with Luis Vicente de Aguinaga and Vicente Luis Mora

Workshop

Librería Elite

<p><strong>Host</strong>: Marta Eloy Cichocka</p><p><strong>Venue:</strong> Librería Elite, Mały Rynek 4</p>

19:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

II Poetry Meeting

Participants: Wojciech Bonowicz, Xavier Farré, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Marie Lundquist, Uroš Zupan

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>II Poetry Meeting<br /></strong><strong>Participants: </strong>Wojciech Bonowicz, Xavier Farré, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Marie Lundquist, Uroš Zupan<br /><strong>Host: </strong>Abel Murcia Soriano</p>

21:00 Friday, 15.05.2015

Poetry Evening

“Requiem for the Poets”

Meeting

Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Ludwika Solskiego w Krakowie

<p><strong>Poetry Evening: “Requiem for the Poets”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Miłosz Biedrzycki, Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, Jerzy Illg, Ryszard Krynicki, Leonard Neuger, Charles Simic, Abel Murcia Soriano, Joanna Zach<br /><strong>Host: </strong>Adam Zagajewski<br /><strong>Musical accompaniment: Joachim Mencel</strong></p><p>A meeting dedicated to the memory and work of Stanisław Barańczak, Juan Gelman, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Tadeusz Różewicz, Mark Strand, Tomaž Šalamun, and Tomas Tranströmer. Friends of Czesław Miłosz, guests of the Festival’s previous editions, who passed away in recent years, will return through their poems and stories shared by their friends and translators.</p>

09:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Letures

1. Ikuyo Yoshimura (Japan) – Haiku Kobayashi Issy

Lecture

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

<ol><li>Ikuyo Yoshimura (Japan) – Haiku Kobayashi Issy</li><li>Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda (Poland) – Warsaw School of Haiku: between the original and its translation. How “Polish haiku” revolves around the themes of Japanese culture.</li><li>Rob Scott (Australia/Sweden) –  The world of haiku from an Australian perspective</li><li>Martyna Rozesłaniec (Poland) – Creation of poetic images in the translations of haiku by Matsuo Bashō. The issue of translating Japanese into Polish.</li><li>Ludmila Balabanova (Bulgaria) – Dragonflies have transparent wings: a look at haiku as an international art</li></ol>

10:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Summary panel on the poetry criticism workshop

“In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”

Meeting

Pałac Pod Baranami

<p><strong>Summary panel on the poetry criticism workshop “In the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Tomasz Kunz, Krzysztof Siwczyk, Piotr Śliwiński, Marta Wyka<br /><strong>Host</strong>: Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski</p>

10:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Discussion panel

“Poetry Criticism in the Shadow of Miłosz, after Miłosz”

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>Discussion panel: “Poetry Criticism in the Shadow of Miłosz /after Miłosz”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Tomasz Kunz, Krzysztof Siwczyk, Piotr Śliwiński, Marta Wyka<br /><strong>Host:</strong> Tomasz Cieślak-Sokołowski</p><p>A panel discussion summarising the Festival’s poetry criticism workshop on the interpretation of poetry by Czesław Miłosz and contemporary Polish poets, with the participation of recognised literary critics and authors.</p>

11:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

The magic of literature

A city game

Workshop

Kraków

<p>A family city game organised jointly with <em>Gazeta Wyborcza.</em></p>

11:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Uroš Zupan

Host: Xavier Farré

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Uroš Zupan<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Xavier Farré</p><p>A meeting with the intriguing Slovenian poet and translator, who believes that “the creation of a poem is always a miracle (...), and the poet is aware that he basks in the grace of capturing the world as it was, as it is and as it will be in just a few lines of verse.”</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

12:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A literary walk

In the footsteps of Czesław Miłosz

Meeting

Rynek Główny

<p><strong>A literary walk in the footsteps of Czesław Miłosz</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong><strong>:</strong> Anna Hojwa</p><p>Czesław Miłosz welcomes you to the city. All those wishing to follow in the footsteps of the Nobelist will be able to take part in a commemorative literary walk. The story of Czesław Miłosz will begin in Kazimierz. We will focus on the poet’s work in the last ten years of his life. The places he walked, bookstores, favourite restaurants – these are only a few of the places we will visit.</p>

12:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Robert Hass

Host: Anna Arno

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Robert Hass<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Anna Arno</p><p>A snapshot, an intense experience that doesn’t require an explanation, a context, or a footnote. The joy of life and the search for order in the world. A meeting with the poetry of Robert Hass – Beatnik and longtime friend of Miłosz.</p>

14:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Who’s looking at Kacperek?

Participants: Jerzy Stuhr, Marianna Bończa-Stuhr

Meeting

Centrum Kongresowe ICE Kraków, sala S3

<p>The book about the adventures of Kacperek is a collection of childhood stories told by Jerzy Stuhr to his daughter Marianna, and later illustrated by her.</p>

14:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Lecture: Miłosz’s Haiku

Miłosz’s Haiku and the search for Japanese poetic expressions in Polish poetry

Lecture

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

<p><strong>Lecture: Miłosz’s <em>Haiku</em> and the search for Japanese poetic expressions in Polish poetry</strong></p><p><strong>By:</strong> Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda</p><p>Czesław Miłosz and the shortest form of poetry in the world. The selection of haiku by the Japanese masters of the 17^th-19^th century, as well as modern American and Canadian authors translated from English by Miłosz and published in the <em>Haiku</em> collection in 1992 greatly contributed to the popularisation of this poetic form in Poland.</p>

14:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Debate III

“In Praise of Translation”

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>Debate III “In Praise of Translation”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Xavier Farré, Alice Oswald, Dariusz Sośnicki, Mira Rosenthal<br /><strong>Host: </strong>Magda Heydel</p><p>Praise of translation is the praise of a literary art in its deepest humanist dimension. It is worth asking what it means to translate poetry, how and why one does it, and what is the importance of translation in today’s literary culture. A fascinating conversation between translators, writers, and translation critics.</p>

15:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Acoustic workshops

Acoustic workshops based on the book Dzwięk (Sound)

Workshop

Centrum Kongresowe ICE Kraków, sala S3

<p>Can you measure or weigh sound? Workshops with Irena Cieślińska – physicist and populariser of science.</p>

15:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Discussion panels

How haiku reached Europe and why has it become popular?

Meeting

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

<p><strong>Discussion panels</strong></p><ol><li><strong>How haiku reached Europe and why has it become popular?</strong></li></ol><p>Discussion: Charles Trumbull (USA), Agnieszka Żuławska-Umeda (Poland), Max Verhart (Netherlands)</p><ol start=\\\"2\\\"><li><strong>Classical and modern (<em>gendai</em>) haiku in Central and Eastern Europe</strong></li></ol><p>Discussion: Robert Kania (Poland), Iliyana Stoyanova (UK/Bulgaria), Ralf Broker (Germany)</p><ol start=\\\"3\\\"><li><strong>Beside haiku: Haibun and Haiga – European and American experiences</strong></li></ol><p>Discussion: Roberta Beary (USA), Lidia Rozmus (Poland/USA), Margaret Chula (USA)</p>

15:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

Poetry translation workshop with Rocío Cerón and Cristián Gómez Olivares Librería Elite

Workshop

Librería Elite

<p><strong>Host</strong>: Marta Eloy Cichocka</p><p><strong>Venue:</strong> Librería Elite, Mały Rynek 4</p>

15:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Poetry translation workshop

Poetry translation workshop with Rocío Cerón and Cristián Gómez Olivares Librería Elite

Workshop

Librería Elite

<p><strong>Host</strong>: Marta Eloy Cichocka</p><p><strong>Venue:</strong> Librería Elite, Mały Rynek 4</p>

16:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A meeting with Ryszard Krynicki

The Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award laureate

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A meeting with Ryszard Krynicki, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award laureate<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Andrzej Franaszek</p><p><em>A meeting with the poet, selected by the international jury of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award in 2015 in recognition of “his great ambition for words, honesty in the search for truth and the source of brotherhood of all creatures.” A poet of “endearing empathy towards all existence; from an illustrative poem to a taciturn work, where the poet hides behind that which is greater than himself.”</em></p>

16:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

The Reader of the Year award ceremony

Special ceremony

Meeting

Centrum Kongresowe ICE Kraków

<p><strong>The Reader of the Year award ceremony</strong></p><p>This year in Krakow we will give out the first Reader of the Year award to the person who read the most books in the entire city during the last 365 days. In recognition of their achievement, the Mayor of the City will give them a special library card, guaranteeing entry to the most important cultural events. The prize is awarded in two categories: Child and Adult Reader of the Year.</p>

17:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Concert

Jerz Igor

Concert

Centrum Kongresowe ICE Kraków, sala S3

<p>The musical project of Jerzy Rogiewicz and Igor Nikiforov is a revolutionary approach to music for children – indie-pop lullabies for children aged 3 to 83, played on live instruments and broadening musical horizons.</p>

17:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A Conversation with the Poets:

Valzhyna Mort and Aleś Razanaŭ

Meeting

Pracownia Pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with the Poets: Valzhyna Mort</strong> and<strong> Aleś Razana</strong><strong>ŭ<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Marek Radziwon</p><p>A meeting of two extraordinary Belarusian poets: the metaphysical inspirations of Aleś Razanaŭ together with the fresh, expressive and laconic poetry of Valzhyna Mort.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

17:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Alice Oswald

Host: Magda Heydel

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Alice Oswald<br /></strong><strong>Host: </strong>Magda Heydel</p><p>Alice Oswald constantly expands the range of her abilities and surprises her readers with the themes in her work and the form of her original poetic endeavours. The poet experiments with recordings of people’s voices, creates a hypnotic and anecdotal world captured from the fragments and multiplicity of perspectives, and asks questions about the role and power of the poetic word.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

18:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

III Poetry Meeting

Participants: Julia Fiedorczuk, Ruth Padel, Kornelijus Platelis, Michał Sobol

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>III Poetry Meeting<br /></strong><strong>Participants: </strong>Julia Fiedorczuk, Ruth Padel, Kornelijus Platelis, Michał Sobol<br /><strong>Host: </strong>Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

20:00 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Poetry Evening

Poetry Evening “Republica Poetica”

Meeting

Metaforma Cafe

<p><strong>Poetry Evening “Republica Poetica”</strong></p><p><strong>Participants:</strong> Luis Vicente de Aguinaga (Mexico), Rocío Cerón (Mexico), Cristián Gómez Olivares (Chile), Erika <em>Martínez</em> (Spain), Elena Medel (Spain), Vicente Luis Mora (Spain), poet and translator Gerardo Beltrán (Mexico) and Polish guests of the Festival and Krakow poets</p><p><strong>Host: </strong>Marta Eloy Cichocka<br /><strong>Musical accompaniment:</strong> Marcin Oleś<br /><strong>Recitation:</strong> Dominika Bednarczyk, Bogdan Brzyski</p><p>A bilingual poetry marathon with the participation of poets from Spain, Chile, Mexico and Poland, accompanied by the music of Marcin Oleś, one of the best Polish jazz bassists. The event under the auspices of Santander Universidades.</p>

21:30 Saturday, 16.05.2015

Concert: Białoszewski for the Ear, pt. II

Performed by: Patryk Zakrocki, Mikrokolektyw

Concert

Klub Re

<p><strong>Concert: Białoszewski for the Ear, pt. </strong><strong>II<br /></strong><strong>Performed by: </strong>Patryk Zakrocki, Mikrokolektyw</p><p>The second part of the musical project with the participation of artists from the Polish alternative music scene, who use archival recordings of Miron Białoszewski from the 1960s and combined them with the modern sounds of electronica, post-rock and jazz.</p><p><br />Tickets on sale in select Info Kraków information points and at the Re Club on the day of the concert.</p><p>Ticket prices: 15 PLN. Pass for all the Festival concerts: 30 PLN.</p>

10:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

Poetry Picnic

May without poetry is unthinkable.

Meeting

Ogród Domu Józefa Mehoffera

<p><strong>Poetry Picnic</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Wojciech Bonowicz, Julia Fiedorczuk, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Klara Nowakowska, Marta Podgórnik, Krzysztof Siwczyk, Michał Sobol, Dariusz Sośnicki, Dariusz Suska<br /><strong>Host</strong>: Paulina Małochleb</p><p>May without poetry is unthinkable. The poets invite everyone to a picnic, during which they will read poems, both serious and frivolous, among the lilacs, mock oranges and the lilies of the valley under the famous oak in the garden of the Józef Mehoffer House. You are welcome to bring picnic baskets. In the event of inclement weather the meeting will move inside to the Meho café, part of the Józef Mehoffer House.</p>

11:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

Meeting with Antony Miłosz

Host: Jerzy Illg

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p>Meeting with Antony Miłosz</p><p>Host: Jerzy Illg</p>

12:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

The Lithuanian Contexts of Czesław Miłosz

Participants: Viktorija Daujotytė, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>The Lithuanian Contexts of Czesław Miłosz<br /></strong><strong>Participants: </strong>Viktorija Daujotytė, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas<br /><strong>Host</strong>: Aleksander Fiut</p><p>Almost all of Miłosz’s works, his experiences and thoughts, his poetry and essays, are saturated with Lithuanian landscape, history and culture: from <em>The Valley of Issa, </em>to volumes of poetry, and all of the collections of essays, beginning with <em>The Captive Mind</em>. Is it autobiographical authenticity or ethnographic colouring? Most certainly, it is a spiritual homeland and the myth of Lithuania as the “nursery of old-fashioned virtues”.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

13:30 Sunday, 17.05.2015

Screening: Kornel Filipowicz, a documentary

Intruduction: Bronisław Maj, Teresa Walas

Film screening

Kino Pod Baranami

<p><strong>Screening: <em>Kornel Filipowicz</em>, a documentary</strong> (directed by Paweł Woldan)<br /><strong>Intruduction: </strong>Bronisław Maj, Teresa Walas</p><p>Jan Błoński, Ewa Lipska, Jan Józef Szczepański, Wisława Szymborska, and Jerzy Turowicz talk about Filipowicz – a poet, as well as their friend. The discussion and screening will commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the death of this writer, novelist, scriptwriter and poet.</p><p> </p><p>Free tickets can be obtained at Kino Pod Baranami cinema,<br />more at www.miloszfestival.pl</p>

14:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Kornelijus Platelis

Host: Marcin Hamkało

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Kornelijus Platelis<br /></strong><strong>Host</strong>: Marcin Hamkało</p><p>A meeting with the poet of many cultural contexts and classic intellectual serenity. His poetry, created from the details of everyday life, uses ancient meters to describe the dirtiest jobs and not-so-inspired states of being.</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

15:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

Premiere: „Miłosz in Krakow“

by Agnieszka Kosińska

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>Premiere: <em>Miłosz w Krakowie</em> (<em>Miłosz in Krakow</em>) by Agnieszka Kosińska</strong></p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Jerzy Illg, Ireneusz Kania, Agnieszka Kosińska<br /><strong>Host</strong>: Joanna Zach</p><p>A discussion about the years Czesław Miłosz spent in Krakow and the contexts of his life here, inspired by the book written by Miłosz’s long-term assistant and custodian of his home in Krakow, Agnieszka Kosińska.</p>

16:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet: Yuri Andrukhovych

Host: Edward Pasewicz

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet:</strong><strong> Yuri Andrukhovych<br /></strong><strong>Host</strong>: Edward Pasewicz</p><p>Writer, poet, translator, songwriter, ambassador for a free Ukraine, Yuri Andrukhovych, who is comfortable in all these roles, will participate in the Miłosz Festival not only as a frontman for the Karbido band, but primarily as a poet.</p>

18:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

IV Poetry Meeting

Participants: Robert Hass, Klara Nowakowska, Dariusz Sośnicki, Dariusz Suska

Meeting

Pałac pod Baranami

<p><strong>IV Poetry Meeting<br /></strong><strong>Participants: </strong>Robert Hass, Klara Nowakowska, Dariusz Sośnicki, Dariusz Suska<br /><strong>Host</strong>: Zofia Król</p><p>consecutive interpreting</p>

20:00 Sunday, 17.05.2015

Concert

Jurij Andruchowycz/Karbido

Concert

Klub RE

<p><strong>Concert: </strong><strong>Jurij Andruchowycz/Karbido</strong></p><p>The compositions of a distinctly avant-punk-jazz character draw an intriguing map of a journey full of anxieties, tensions, various notions and stereotypes, a map that confronts expectations with reality, a map of pure delight and disappointment. During this concert you will hear a voice from Ukraine: <em>Kiev is speaking. Kiev has been passed through many hands and it is hard to imagine these hands without fear.</em></p><p>Ticketed entry: tickets on sale in select Info Kraków information points and at the Re Club on the day of the concert.</p><p>Ticket prices: 20 PLN. Pass for all the Festival concerts: 30 PLN.</p>

13:00 Monday, 18.05.2015

Literature on a fork

Participation: Wojciech Nowicki

Meeting

Konfederacka 4

<p><strong>Literature on a fork</strong></p><p><strong>Participation:</strong> Wojciech Nowicki</p><p>A chef and a writer meet in the kitchen. The first creates dishes, while the second accompanies him with a story. The combination of culinary and literary art shows that these two complement each other. Literature gives cooking substantive content, and chefs bring their understanding of the senses to literature. Together, they create an excuse for a conversation, an exchange of ideas and an exceptional way to spend time.</p>

19:00 Monday, 18.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet

Edward Pasewicz

Meeting

Pasaż (Pasaż Bielaka, Rynek Główny /ul. Stolarska 5)

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Edward Pasewicz</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Wojciech Bonowicz</p><p>A meeting with Edward Pasewicz devoted to his latest book <em>Och, Mitochondria </em>[<em>Oh, Mitochondria</em>]<em>.</em></p><p>Edward Pasewicz (1971) is a poet, novelist, playwright and composer. Winner of the 2004 Young Art Medal, and the 2010 Special Prize of the Minister of Culture. Repeatedly nominated for the main national literary awards. Founder of Scena _21QCK, where he has worked on literature, music and theatrical endeavours since 2010. Chairman of the Board of the Queer Centre of Culture Association (QCK). Member of the editorial board of the spoken monthly <em>Piękny Pies</em> (<em>A</em> <em>Beautiful Dog</em>).</p>

19:00 Tuesday, 19.05.2015

A Conversation with a Poet

Tom Healy

Meeting

Metaforma Cafe

<p><strong>A Conversation with a Poet: Tom Healy</strong></p><p><strong>Host</strong>: Magda Heydel</p><p>The poet can also be a social activist. This most certainly can be said about Tom Healy from the United States. The former advisor to President Bill Clinton on the fight against HIV/AIDS. Actively involved in assisting in Manhattan after the World Trade Center attacks. He was a chairman of the Fulbright Scholarship board. Received many honours for his poetry; in 2009, he was a finalist of the Los Angeles Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award.</p><p>Event prepared in cooperation with the Consulate General of the United States in Krakow.</p>