Three composers BY John Biweekly Music Music collection containing almost all the works by Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is now online
What Next? BY John Biweekly Intro I’d expect even more creativity, as lack of funds works to its benefit. How about time? Isn’t that a great side effect to unemployment?
Go Ahead, Save it for Later BY John Biweekly Intro Winter is coming. Curl up on the couch with some hot tea and issue #31 of Biweekly
Let’s Move it Around BY John Biweekly Intro Next November, how about we celebrate, rather than demonstrate?
CULTURE 2.0 – Level 2.0 BY John Biweekly Art Accompanying to the Culture 2.0 Conference is the Enter Level 2.0 exhibition. What’s coming this year? There’s a selection for you
CULTURE 2.0 – Media-Aware BY John Biweekly Media Today, one can hardly imagine an educational process ignoring the possibilities that arise from new media
UNSOUND Sounds Good BY John Biweekly Intro St Catherine’s church was full. The audience sat with their backs facing the altar. Blasphemy?
International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition BY John Biweekly Music Listen to recordings from Stage 1 Auditions
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?
EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Alien Europe John Biweekly Media Debate with the participation of Azra Akšamija, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Scheffer, Tigran Mansurian
EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS: Wikianarchy John Biweekly Media Debate with the participation of Joost Smiers, Rickard ‘Rick’ Falkvinge, Raquel Xalabarder, Ryszard Markiewicz, Oliver Herrgesell
Exchange BY John Biweekly Intro Public money as a tool to empower creative skills of the populace without showing the way the skills should be employed? Is it ‘against’ art?
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
EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS Live John Biweekly Media For all those who are unable to take part in the Europan Culture Congress debates in Wrocław there are online broadcasts on culturecongress.eu
Almost Gone BY John Biweekly Intro Maybe the summer is almost gone, but the true cultural blossom is still to come. Captain Europe, the superhero, is here to give you the foretaste
Summer Break BY John Biweekly Intro With this issue of Biweekly we’re taking a summer break, and will meet again on 19 August
Big Inauguration – Children’s Stage BY John Biweekly Music The Inauguration of Polish Presidency in the EU was an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011. See the artists of the children’s stage
Big Inauguration – World Music Stage BY John Biweekly Music The Inauguration of Polish Presidency in the EU was an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011. See the artists of the world music stage
Big Inauguration – Experimental Stage BY John Biweekly Music The Inauguration of Polish Presidency in the EU was an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011. See the artists of the experimental stage
Premiere Performance of Symphony No 3 Online! BY John Biweekly Music A premiere performance of Symphony No 3 by Paweł Mykietyn, composed for the Inauguration of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council took place on 1 July in Warsaw Philharmonic at 20.00. It was broadcasted online on Biweekly.pl
Big Inauguration – Main Stage BY John Biweekly Music The Inauguration of Polish Presidency in the EU was an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011. See the artists of the main stage
Opening of the Czesław Miłosz International Dialogue Centre – Online Broadcast on 30 June BY John Biweekly Literature On the eve of the Polish EU Presidency Krasnogruda will host the grand opening of the Czesław Miłosz International Dialogue Centre. On this occasion enthusiasts of the Nobel Prize Winner’s art will arrive from all over the world. One of the guests will be Zygmunt Bauman who will participate in the Agora of Philosophers
And Then There Were None BY John Biweekly Intro Biweekly invites you to Teatr Dramatyczny to see Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ directed by Aleksandra Konieczna
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS: The Wall BY John Biweekly Intro You can recycle the internet too. Just give it a thought
Big Inauguration BY John Biweekly Intro The Cultural Programme of Polish Presidency in the EU Inauguration is planned as an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011
Big Inauguration BY John Biweekly Music The Cultural Programme of the Inauguration is planned as an all‑day musical performance on 1 July, 2011
New Tradition BY John Biweekly Intro Bieńkowski managed to revive traditions slowly taken over by modern living. I listened to wedding compositions, while mourning over something inevitably passing away
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)
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Culture in a Liquid Modern World BY John Biweekly Literature The latest book by Professor Zygmunt Bauman was released 12 May. The book premiered at the Warsaw Book Fair
Nature! BY John Biweekly Intro This is the time, when the nature vs. culture dilemma is easy to puzzle out
To All The Translators BY John Biweekly Intro ‘The kitchen window was open onto the black night, saturated with dreams and complications.’
One Year Old BY John Biweekly Intro What better way to inaugurate the second year of Biweekly than with the Film Spring Open, especially with classes led by such professionals as Andrzej Waluk and film screenings featuring the likes of Bogdan Dziworski
Culture in the Oil World BY John Biweekly Intro Why is Werner Herzog’s ‘Lessons of Darkness’ so moving and what does Libya have to do with me?
The Other Way Around BY John Biweekly Intro The cover of Biweekly#14? Should one take it easy? Will the sun, inevitably coming our way, blind our sight to essentials?
13 Ready to Go BY John Biweekly Intro Let us absorb the surrounding, live it, and convert into something different. Change as the numbers in our archive. And congratulations to Wojciech Staroń for winning the Silver Bear at Berlinale for his camera work as an Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Distant Close-up BY John Biweekly Intro Visiting Isreal and / or Palestine could result in a political or social reportage, travel essay, a poem.. We will leave the political aspect on the side. Let street art speak for itself. Or is it wall-street art?
Culture Counts BY John Biweekly Intro The year 2010 is coming to an end. Should we COUNT on culture in the next one?
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk BY John Biweekly Theatre In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, and new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? How they interpret the question and answer it is completely up to them: Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk
CULTURE 2. 0 – Culture Resources BY John Biweekly Intro This year’s conference consists of discussions, lectures, interactive exhibition, and a surprising poetry event. If you didn’t get the chance to pin down the concept of ‘culture 2.0’ just yet, now is the perfect chance to get to know theory as well as practice
Slam Sensing Nation Sensation BY John Biweekly Media Slam Sensing Nation Sensation is the idea of a concert/happening designed on the idea of the ‘Chinese whispers’ game. Marcin Cecko’s poem, published in Biweekly#01, went through an evolution of translations, from one language to another in the pre-established order
CULTURE 2.0 – Slam Sensing Nation Sensation BY John Biweekly Media The happening is designed on the idea of the ‘Chinese whispers’ game. Marcin Cecko’s poem, published in Biweekly#01, went through an evolution of translations, from one language to another in the pre-established order
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Twożywo BY John Biweekly Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to interpret the question and answer it: TWOŻYWO
Access Denied BY John Biweekly Intro Another important happening worth mentioning took place this summer. MediaLab in Chrzelice, in the Southwest of Poland, was a series of workshops organised by Biweekly columnists Mirek Filiciak and Alek Tarkowski, and the Ortus Foundation
Summer Agenda BY John Biweekly Intro I heard and saw and felt a variety of sound and body constellations. Whispers, shouts, wailing, hoarse and childish voices, high and low pitched tones, slow motion sound even. Shivers went down my spine few times during just an hour
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Raphael Rogiński BY John Biweekly Music In this section we ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to interpret the question and answer it
10. ERA NEW HORIZONS:Wojciech Jerzy Has BY John Biweekly Film Film director and screenwriter. Born in 1925 in Krakow; died in the year 2000 in the city of Łódź. Has made himself known as an artist of great individuality, one who avoided political or commercial tones in his art
Money can't buy me love,but love won't pay the bills,or the other way around BY John Biweekly Intro My favorite word? Budget. The source of control, planning and context. Am I the top shelf, or am I the cheap stuff. On the other hand, isn’t that context where the limitations emerge from?
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw BY John Biweekly Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to answer it. Time for The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Recipients of Data BY John Biweekly Intro Although we do read, we’re all but Readers now. We watch, comment, listen, click, send, follow, spy even. So what do we call this ‘position’? E-pedestrians? Web Travelers? Over-reactive Responders?
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Mikołaj Długosz BY John Biweekly Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to interpret the question and answer it. MIKOŁAJ DŁUGOSZ is up next
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Kobas Laksa BY John Biweekly Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to interpret the question and answer it. In this issue we give you KOBAS LAKSA
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Bartek Kulas BY John Biweekly Film In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena: BARTEK KULAS is currently in Cannes promoting his latest animated movie Millhaven. Soon to be seen at the 50th Kraków Film Festival
The Centre of The World BY John Biweekly Intro ‘I think the world is the extent of what we know. People tend to think the world is the planet, but they're two different things.’
WHO'S WHO AND WHY:Maurycy Gomulicki BY John Biweekly Art In this section we introduce Polish artists, places, new phenomena. We always ask the person or the place’s representative the following question: WHY ARE YOU HERE? It’s completely up to them, how are they going to interpret the question and answer it. In this issue we give you MAURYCY GOMULICKI
Biweekly.pl – link with culture BY John Biweekly Intro It’s all because of Dwutygodnik.com – the online Polish periodical about culture. A year after Dwutygodnik’s first issue it was clear that its English version is a necessity. Why? Because we wanted to share