SPEAKERS
Barbara Fatyga, UW prof., Ph.D.:
UW prof., Ph.D., culture expert and sociologist of youth, a creator and since 1991 a head of The Youth Research Centre in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University.
She defended her Ph.D. thesis Theoretical conceptions of lifestyle in the Polish sociological research, written under the supervision of Edmund Wnuk Lipiński, Ph.D., in 1989 in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in Polish Academy of Sciences. She received her postdoctoral degree in 1999 in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University on the basis of a book Dzicy z naszej ulicy. Antropologia kultury młodzieżowej. (Primitive tribes from our streets. Anthropology of youth culture.) Since 1993 she is a head of the first in Poland speciality in full-time and extramural studies in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University – Anthropology of the present times. She is involved in animation of local activities. So far she has been a supervisor of 100 MA theses and 3 Ph.D. theses. She is an author of about 200 works published in Polish, English, French, German and Russian. Main fields of interests: sociology and anthropology of youth, methodology of qualitative research, issues of lifestyle, theory of contemporary culture.
More information: www.antropologia.isns.uw.edu.pl
Barnas Hus – representative of the Department of Culture and Art of the city of Bergen in Norway, which directs its activities to children. The main task of the Department is to take care of the increase of the number of children and teenagers who take part in cultural and artistic life. Barnas Hus is responsible for the coordination of activities between cultural and educational sectors (schools, nursery schools). He also conducts the regular activities, among others, exhibition, concert and theatrical ones.
Agnieszka Tarasiuk – “I experiment with myself, I put myself to the test. I am chaperon in day-care room, I am Konopielka and Siłaczka (figures from Polish literature who believed they can change the world). I use myself as a tool. I don’t think I can bring considerable changes. I am intrigued by questions.”
Contemporary artist and community worker. She works for Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Kulturalnej WIDOK (the Association of Cultural Education VIEW). She gave “a second life” to an old cottage in village Sokole (district Michałowo). The former House of Culture serves now as a cinema, a showroom and a place for integration meetings. Currently she is a head of the House of Creative Work in Wigry.
Leszek Karczewski, Ph.D. – literature theoretician, theater critic, journalist, curator of social and artistic campaign “ms3 Re:akcja”, 2.04.-24.05. 2009, Art Museum in Łódz. Born on 27th May 1978 in Częstochowa.
2003 – 2007 – doctoral studies at the Department of Languages of University of Łódź. The topic of the Ph.D. thesis: Subject in drama. To pragmatic theory of the subjectivity of dramatic text – the supervisor Jarosław Płuciennik, Ph.D.
1998 - 2003 – studies at the Department of Languages of University of Łódź, culture studies, specialty: theater. Accelerated learning from theory of literature – tutor Danuta Szajnert, Ph.D. MA thesis: Rhetoric of drama. Introduction to pragmatic theory of dramatic text. Morphology of discourse – the supervisor Grzegorz Gazda, professor Ph.D.
1997 – 1998 – studies at the Acting Department of Łódź Film School
1993 – 1997 – the 4th Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Comprehensive School in Częstochowa.
He has many publications to his name. He conducts activities concerning theatre and museology.
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka – Cultural projects and artistic events manager, curator at WRO Art. CENTER in Wrocław, television producer, translator. Graduate in German studies at the University of Wrocław, in 1992-1993 lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Literature and Culture at the Institute of German Studies, University of Wrocław.
In 2002-2003 she also cooperated with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw as a programme author and coordinator of the Polish Year in Austria. She was responsible for the creation and carrying out of the Polish and German Year (2005-2006) PR strategy; coordinated the 1st edition of the International Festival for Creative Television, Prix Visionica (2006 - 2007).
Martyna Woropińska - a plenipotentiary for the "Dom kultury+" (Community Centre+) programme of the National Culture Centre in Warsaw.
David Sypniewski – M.A. in Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and Communication Interculturelle at INALCO in Paris, a co-founder and a member of the board of Culture Practitioners Association. Cultural manager, theatrical instructor, photographer, webmaster for many projects of the Remus Theatre Association, Group of Education and Social Action, Info Praga, "United Way" Foundation, 60+ Association and other.
Descriptions of projects available at: www.praktycy.org
Lena Rogowska – graduate in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Theatre Studies at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Cultural Manager. Manager of KONCENTRAT Artistic Group since 2007.
Descriptions of projects available at: www.praktycy.org
Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski – He completed studies in Lublin at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (visual arts education), then Faculty of Painting at the School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Founder of Artists Colony. He has been working for five years now at Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art as a part of educational team, organising various artistic classes, during which artists invite children, young people and adults to create, experience and learn about culture and art (among others: The Land of Creativity, Art Lessons).
Lena Majewska - the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk graduate, has a state diploma in Qualifying Course for a Contemporary Dance Instructor (diploma with distinction). She has completed pedagogic courses that provide her with knowledge necessary for the conducting of classes with children, young people and adults.
She is a dancer, choreographer, actress, director, movement and body awareness teacher. Apart from education in the field of dance (contemporary, jazz, Irish, classical, street dance) she also has experience as a vocalist.
She is an author of dance projects where she stresses the need to increase body awareness, body orientation in space, expressing emotions through body and deepening of creative potential of participants.
UW prof., Ph.D., culture expert and sociologist of youth, a creator and since 1991 a head of The Youth Research Centre in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University.
She defended her Ph.D. thesis Theoretical conceptions of lifestyle in the Polish sociological research, written under the supervision of Edmund Wnuk Lipiński, Ph.D., in 1989 in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in Polish Academy of Sciences. She received her postdoctoral degree in 1999 in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University on the basis of a book Dzicy z naszej ulicy. Antropologia kultury młodzieżowej. (Primitive tribes from our streets. Anthropology of youth culture.) Since 1993 she is a head of the first in Poland speciality in full-time and extramural studies in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University – Anthropology of the present times. She is involved in animation of local activities. So far she has been a supervisor of 100 MA theses and 3 Ph.D. theses. She is an author of about 200 works published in Polish, English, French, German and Russian. Main fields of interests: sociology and anthropology of youth, methodology of qualitative research, issues of lifestyle, theory of contemporary culture.
More information: www.antropologia.isns.uw.edu.pl
Barnas Hus – representative of the Department of Culture and Art of the city of Bergen in Norway, which directs its activities to children. The main task of the Department is to take care of the increase of the number of children and teenagers who take part in cultural and artistic life. Barnas Hus is responsible for the coordination of activities between cultural and educational sectors (schools, nursery schools). He also conducts the regular activities, among others, exhibition, concert and theatrical ones.
Agnieszka Tarasiuk – “I experiment with myself, I put myself to the test. I am chaperon in day-care room, I am Konopielka and Siłaczka (figures from Polish literature who believed they can change the world). I use myself as a tool. I don’t think I can bring considerable changes. I am intrigued by questions.”
Contemporary artist and community worker. She works for Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Kulturalnej WIDOK (the Association of Cultural Education VIEW). She gave “a second life” to an old cottage in village Sokole (district Michałowo). The former House of Culture serves now as a cinema, a showroom and a place for integration meetings. Currently she is a head of the House of Creative Work in Wigry.
Leszek Karczewski, Ph.D. – literature theoretician, theater critic, journalist, curator of social and artistic campaign “ms3 Re:akcja”, 2.04.-24.05. 2009, Art Museum in Łódz. Born on 27th May 1978 in Częstochowa.
2003 – 2007 – doctoral studies at the Department of Languages of University of Łódź. The topic of the Ph.D. thesis: Subject in drama. To pragmatic theory of the subjectivity of dramatic text – the supervisor Jarosław Płuciennik, Ph.D.
1998 - 2003 – studies at the Department of Languages of University of Łódź, culture studies, specialty: theater. Accelerated learning from theory of literature – tutor Danuta Szajnert, Ph.D. MA thesis: Rhetoric of drama. Introduction to pragmatic theory of dramatic text. Morphology of discourse – the supervisor Grzegorz Gazda, professor Ph.D.
1997 – 1998 – studies at the Acting Department of Łódź Film School
1993 – 1997 – the 4th Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Comprehensive School in Częstochowa.
He has many publications to his name. He conducts activities concerning theatre and museology.
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka – Cultural projects and artistic events manager, curator at WRO Art. CENTER in Wrocław, television producer, translator. Graduate in German studies at the University of Wrocław, in 1992-1993 lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Literature and Culture at the Institute of German Studies, University of Wrocław.
In 2002-2003 she also cooperated with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw as a programme author and coordinator of the Polish Year in Austria. She was responsible for the creation and carrying out of the Polish and German Year (2005-2006) PR strategy; coordinated the 1st edition of the International Festival for Creative Television, Prix Visionica (2006 - 2007).
Martyna Woropińska - a plenipotentiary for the "Dom kultury+" (Community Centre+) programme of the National Culture Centre in Warsaw.
David Sypniewski – M.A. in Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and Communication Interculturelle at INALCO in Paris, a co-founder and a member of the board of Culture Practitioners Association. Cultural manager, theatrical instructor, photographer, webmaster for many projects of the Remus Theatre Association, Group of Education and Social Action, Info Praga, "United Way" Foundation, 60+ Association and other.
Descriptions of projects available at: www.praktycy.org
Lena Rogowska – graduate in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Theatre Studies at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Cultural Manager. Manager of KONCENTRAT Artistic Group since 2007.
Descriptions of projects available at: www.praktycy.org
Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski – He completed studies in Lublin at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (visual arts education), then Faculty of Painting at the School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Founder of Artists Colony. He has been working for five years now at Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art as a part of educational team, organising various artistic classes, during which artists invite children, young people and adults to create, experience and learn about culture and art (among others: The Land of Creativity, Art Lessons).
Lena Majewska - the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk graduate, has a state diploma in Qualifying Course for a Contemporary Dance Instructor (diploma with distinction). She has completed pedagogic courses that provide her with knowledge necessary for the conducting of classes with children, young people and adults.
She is a dancer, choreographer, actress, director, movement and body awareness teacher. Apart from education in the field of dance (contemporary, jazz, Irish, classical, street dance) she also has experience as a vocalist.
She is an author of dance projects where she stresses the need to increase body awareness, body orientation in space, expressing emotions through body and deepening of creative potential of participants.