Caucasian Bazaar Talk with SLAVS and TATARS Art Our work is transnational. We act like mediators or even post-national-mediators. We don’t belong to a single nation – we are intellectually and affectionately as Russian, as we are Polish, Iranian or American
Warsaw is a Rascal BY Paweł Soszyński Media Warszawa Powiśle, a bar in the eponymous Powiśle district, has a very distinct, dark charm about it: a combination of urine, chaos, mess and noise. It’s like a distillation of Warsaw shaken in an explosion-prone alembic. Maybe that’s why it’s so popular with foreigners and the city folk – they want to see the process in action
Culture Circulatory System Talk with Mirek Filiciak, Alek Tarkowski Media The greatest risk involved in the whole debate is absolute polarisation and utter simplification, while forgetting that freedom entails responsibility. It would be a shame to waste the opportunities offered to culture by the internet, but if that does end up happening, it won’t be the fault of just one side.
Fewer Quickies Talk with Łukasz Orbitowski Literature Who says you can’t sit down on the couch, put your feet up on an ottoman, open up a bottle of wine and sip it along to some music while reading a book? We should not be applying to literature the ways of experiencing culture that we’ve learned from the internet and music videos
Culture in Action! BY Max Cegielski Film See the film reportage from 184 days of Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency 2011
Wikianarchy Ruben Maes Media The following debate on freedom in culture took place during the European Culture Congress in September 2011 in Wrocław
EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Ousourcing to Amateurs Talk with David Barrie Talks ‘What is missing is coalitions of activist organisations. The persons who want to protect heritage have to form a group, so they can fight. We’ve had experiences where those fights were translated into genuine action’
Short Stop in Lithuania BY John Biweekly Intro Will Poland take example of its neighbour and one day reach this beautiful state of no-billboards-on-top-of-other-billboards?
It’s All About the Congress BY John Biweekly Intro This week we are focused mainly on the European Culture Congress. Exceptional event, the climax of the Cultural National Programme of the Polish Presidency in the European Union Council
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:O as in Zero BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media While existing institutions of culture or the media that transmit it may disappear, culture itself is here to stay
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Chłodna25 BY Agnieszka Le Nart Music ‘This is our mission – to create conditions for the progress of culture, art and all kinds of free thought.’ – Grzegorz Lewandowski, Chłodna 25
