UKRAINE - POLAND - EUROPE

A project of the Centre for Theatre Practices of two editions so far (2002, 2001), realised under the auspices the Ministry of Culture.
The idea of the project is a result of the years' long contacts and cooperation with the Ukrainian artists.


Genesis

In 1991 Włodzimierz Staniewski assisted
by Tomasz Rodowicz and Mariusz Gołaj organised the first artistic Expedition
to Ukraine. The company traveled across
the Carpathians, the Huculia region,
the Verhovyna and Bystreca areas.
In 1993 roku international Expedition 'Hidden Territories' reached Bulgarian, Moldavian
and Gypsy enclaves - on Lake Kitay,
in Bessarabia and the Odessa region, northern Polesie, the Rovne and Sarn regions, immediate victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the Carpathian villages
of Krasnoilja, Zełene, Bystrec, Kryworównia.
The participants of the Expedition were: actors, musicians, trainees, observers
from several countries, including Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden
and the USA.
Each completed stage of the Expedition
was culminated by Gathering at the Lesio Kurbas Theatre in Lvov. At the Lvov Dominican Theatre were presented performances of 'Carmina Burana', 'The Life of Protopop Avvakum'. The most spectacular Gathering took place in Verhovyna, former Żabie village (the Huculia Region).
It was attended by sixty participants
of the Expedition and a number of traditional folk groups and soloists, among them
the famous charismatic violinist Mogur.
Expeditions led to organizing symposia
and workshops, their guests being Ukrainian artists.

Singers from Poltava

(e.g. a group of traditional singers from Poltava performing at Artistic Gathering in Gardzienice in 1994)
The Centre for Theatre Practices invited leading Ukrainian theatre groups to Poland on a number of occasions.

The first edition

took place in December 2000 in the Centre for Theatre Practices premises in Lublin.

Exhibition of Jerzy Nowosielski's icons:
"A PAINTING CAN BE THE WORLD OR A PART OF THE WORLD".
Curated by Monika Kubat

Jerzy Nowosielski's Icon

"UKRAINSKI PISENNI STAROZYTNOSTI" (The Old Ukrainian Songs) performed by
HOŁOS Theatre Company from Tcherniovce in Ukraine

"KOŁODEC" (The Well) performed
NATALIA POŁOWYNK GROUP from the Kurbas Theatre in Lvov

CONCERT OF "HALICKI ZABAWY" GROUP from Ivano-Frankovsk Region in Huculia.

CONCERT OF RICERCARE GROUP from Lvov.
Ukrainian Baroque music.

The Second Edition

29.11- 2.12 2001.

EXHIBITION "THE 16TH - 19TH C UKRAINIAN ICONS (EPARCHY OF CHEŁM AND PRZEMYSL)" and LECTURES
in cooperation with the Lańcut Museum

Curated by Monika Kubat

Ukrainian Icon

UKRAINE IN FILM- YURI ILLYENKO

Włodzimierz Staniewski and Yuri Illienko

- A FILM RETROSPECTIVE including "The White Bird with a Black Sign". 'Kupala's Night", "A Well for the Thirsty"
- MEETING WITH ILLYENKO
- A WORKING SESSION FOR STUDENTS
"Tri-unity: image, gestur, dramaturgy",

"H2OOO" PERFORMANCE
[KiNetik theatre] - THE DANCE THEATRE FROM KIEV.

TARASA PROCHAŚKO' BOOK "ANNA'S OTHER DAYS" INTRODUCED
Published by Czarne


MARYANA SADOWSKA's CONCERT
with the singers from Poltava and Polesie.

" DREWO" GROUP FROM THE VILLAGE OF KRIATCHKIWKA (POLTAVA REGION)

SINGERS FROM POLESIE (VILLAGES OF SWARYCEWICI, ZELEN, LISOWE)

SINGERS FROM POLESIE

ALEXIS KOCHAN, RICHARD MOODY AND JULIANA KYTASTY - CONCERT (Ukraine - Canada )

"IMPRESSIONS"
- Magda Kamola'a photographs

Project coordinated by:
Marcin J. Mrowca


The third edition
December 6th-21st, 2003.

SATURDAY, Dec 6th:

12.00 p.m. ACK Chatka Żaka, Lublin, Radziszewskiego Str.;
Film: "The shadows of the forgotten ancestors", dir. S. Paradżanow, 1964

5.00 p.m. Exhibition Spaces of BWA, Lublin, Grodzka 5a;
Official opening of the project.
Opening of the exhibition
"The Hucul Icon on Glass"
5.30 p.m. Exhibition Spaces of BWA,
Lublin, Grodzka 5a;
Show of the Kozak' martial arts "Bojowyj Hopak"

SUNDAY, Dec. 7th:

12.00 p.m. ACK Chatka Żaka,
Lublin, ul. Radziszewskiego;
Films: "Propała Hramota", dir. B. Iwczenko, 1972
" Babilon XX", dir. I. Mykołajczuk, 1979

4.00 p.m. Lublin, Grodzkiej 5a;
lectures: "The Folk Art of Galitia"
- Myrosław Otkowycz
/Director of the Centre of Monuments Conservation in Lvow/
"The Hucul Icon on Glass"- Wasyl Otkowycz
/Director of the Cultural
Chapter of Lvow City/

7.15 p.m. (after the Holy Mess at 6.00 p.m.)
Dominican Church,
Lublin, Stare Miasto, Złota Str.;
"Irmosy" - concert of the unknown ukrainian liturgic music,
L. Kurbasa Theatre, /Lvow/

TUESDAY, Dec. 9th:

9.00 p.m. Dominican Church,
Lublin, Stare Miasto, Złota Str.;
Performance: T. S. Eliott "The death in the Cathedral" dir. Attyla Widnianski,
Ukrainian-Hungarian Theatre from Berehowo / Zakarpacie Region, Ukraine /

The Project Coordinator:
Marcin Mrowca.