The Stage Opened Me Talk with Jean-Louis Costes Art Recently I was performing in a club with solid security and it didn’t prevent people from throwing bottles in my face. Fortunately I move a lot so I’m not an easy target
The Civil Society, Innovationand Music BY Richard Berkeley Music What is needed is a National Performing Arts Educational Centre for Schools: an inspiring flag-ship example, an education power house for the whole country
WHO’S WHO AND WHY:Joanna Rajkowska BY Agnieszka Le Nart Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, and new phenomena. Time for Joanna Rajkowska
Interrupted Conversations BY Jo Harper Media ‘We need new libraries, not new churches,’ says Beata Chmiel, a figurehead for Poland’s phenomenally fast growing social movement that is Citizens of Culture
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Love Europe World of Zygmunt Bauman BY John Biweekly Film The film ‘Love Europe World of Zygmunt Bauman’ was released 12 May on DVD, coinciding with the publication of Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘Culture in a Liquid Modern World’
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Love Europe World of Zygmunt Bauman BY John Biweekly Film The film ‘Love Europe World of Zygmunt Bauman’ was released 12 May on DVD. It was available on Biweekly.pl in its entirety for four days (12–15 May 2011)
People Dealt this Fate to People Talk with Irena Grudzińska-Gross, Jan Tomasz Gross Literature The entire history of Poland now needs to be rewritten as a multi-ethnic history – Jan Tomasz Gross, author of ‘Golden Harvest’
On the Concept of Culture BY Zygmunt Bauman Literature Some notes on the historical peregrinations of the concept of ‘Culture’ from Zygmunt Bauman’s book ‘Culture in Modern Liquid Times’
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Julita Wójcik BY Agnieszka Le Nart Art Her primary focus is the tension created by the amalgam of divergent roles set upon women in contemporary society and the negative connotations of provincialism
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:Ł as in Connectivity BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media In these mediated times, it is hard to determine what the word ‘society’ means. Some writers, among them John Urry, claim that the social sciences will simply have to do without the term. A much simpler alternative would be to follow the network of ties and connections
White Boy From an Artistic Family Talk with Jan Komasa Film We live in a society where the number of suicides is rising in direct proportion to the number of psychologists
