On May 8, participations of the SAGA creativity workshops took part in a walk along the trail of “Places of Artistic Inspiration with a Cult Status” which was led by Anna Armatys. The literary walk led through the historic park complex of the Specialist Hospital of J. Babiński, MD in Kobierzyn, which provided inspiration for numerous writers in the 20th century.
The Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management (VACuM) is a new international educational initiative based on cooperation of Villa Decius Association with Marcel Hicter Association for Cultural Democracy from Brussels and supporting partners from Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. The project is addressed to young culture managers working in public and private institutions and non-governmental organizations in the Visegrad Group countries and Eastern Partnership.
We would like to cordially invite you to Villa Decius to another Literature Salon, this time featuring Dorota Masłowska, one of the most popular female writers of the young generation. It will take place on Friday, May 16th, at 5 o’clock p.m. The meeting, dedicated to “How I became a witch” (“Jak zostałam wiedźmą”), her latest autobiographical story for adults and children, , will be hosted by Katarzrna Kubisiowska. Admission free.
The Wincenty Witos Complex of Schools in Książ Wielki and the Villa Decius Association would like to invite everybody for the night-time sightseeing of the Mirów Castle. On Saturday (May 31) between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., the visitors will have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the history and the interiors of the Myszkowski Palace, designed in late-Renaissance style. This evening, the walls of the former palace will also resound with music of greatest European composers performed by Helena Ponomarenko (violin), Lidia Chmielewska (viola) and Edyta Piwowarczyk (piano). Admission free.
We invite you to see the programme draft of 13th Visegrad Summer School, which will be held from 29 June to 12 July 2014. In this year we received 367 applications from students, graduate students, young teachers and journalists from 29 countries. We accepted 49 people, who will participate in the project. Please be informed that the program may be changed in the future.
(POL) Miło nam poinformować, iż wystartowała strona internetowa projektu „Res publica reloaded – European public spaces as source of empowerment”, którego polskim partnerem jest Stowarzyszenie Willa Decjusza. Platforma cyfrowa respublicareloaded.eu inicjuje międzynarodową dyskusję na temat wykorzystania strategii sztuki publicznej, szeroko rozumianej jako street art, w konstruowaniu zinstytucjonalizowanych strategii artystycznych i nowych metod edukacji. Strona umożliwia także wymianę dokumentów, dzieł sztuki, zdjęć, materiałów video, itp.
The International Visegrad Fund has approved the Literary Residents for 2014. The Visegrad Literary Residency Program consists of a series of residency stays and literary events addressed to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists, critics as well as literary translators, publicists and journalists from the Visegrad Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).
The thirteenth edition of the Visegrad Summer School has attracted lots of candidates from diverse backgrounds. Total number of submitted applications was 367 from 29 states. We have been greatly impressed by the various interests, educational qualifications and experiences of majority of the perspective applicants. We would like to thank sincerely for interest in the Visegrad Summer School. The list of accepted participants is availible on the website www.visegradsummerschool.org.
