#jan dabrowski

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The Bite Meter™️!!!

Or the TBM™️, for short!!! Measuring menaces risk factors since day one...

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For those curious what Halina's parents looks like. She takes a lot from her mother.

Halina's parents names are Twardosław Jan Dabrowski Katarzyna Dabrowska †

[cyberbenb]

Ukraine’s Kichenok reaches Grand Slam doubles final for first time

Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmyla Kichenok and Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko advanced on Jan. 26 to the Australian Open doubles final, defeating reigning U.S. Open champions Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Rou Source : kyivindependent.com/ukraines-…

[stateofsport211]

AO XD F: Su-Wei Hsieh/Jan Zielinski [3] def. Desirae Krawczyk/Neal Skupski [2] 6-7(5), 6-4, [11-9] Match Stats

📸 Eurosport IL

Krawski initially started solid and deep, but Hsieh/J. Zielinski dug deeper and appeared even more aggressive once they shifted the control of the flow. Despite the tiny difference in shot winners by 3 (31 to 28), the latter had a more positive winner-unforced error rate with 31-23 (7) thanks to their careful point construction, anticipating their returns with balanced power once they got Krawski's balance off under pressure, especially at the net considering Des' initial hesitation, followed by Neal's frequent errors after getting passed. Consequently, Hsieh/J. Zielinski had a 60% break point conversion rate with 5 chances to break compared to Krawski's 4 with a 10% lesser break point conversion percentage.

Service game-wise, Krawski stood out on their first serves with a 73% winning percentage, firing 2 more aces (5 to 3) than Hsieh/J. Zielinski, in hopes to avoid more trouble. In contrast, the third seeds had an exceptional second serve winning rate by 10%, with 56% compared to Krawski's 46%. This happened as a result of the former's cleaner second serves as the match developed, with 2 double faults than Krawski's 3, some of them came in the pressure points. This then signified Hsieh/J. Zielinski's clutch appearance on serve, notably preventing more trouble numerous times in the match to pull an epic comeback from a set and a break down in the middle of the second set.

While successfully denied Des her Career Mixed Doubles Grand Slam, J. Zielinski became the first Polish to win a Mixed Doubles Grand Slam title. Interestingly, this is also Hsieh's maiden Mixed Doubles title, and she (and Elise Mertens) will also contest the Women's Doubles final against the winner of the encounter between fourth seeds Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe and eleventh seeds Lyudmila Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko, whose match is ongoing as this was written. An undoubtedly true queen, whose doubles form became even better since her singles retirement 3 weeks ago.

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Australian Open 2023 (Day 5)

Men’s singles third round [6] Félix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) def. [28] Francisco Cerúndolo (ARG) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4

[10] Hubert Hurkacz (POL) def. [20] Denis Shapovalov (CAN) 7-6(3), 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3

Women’s doubles first round [3] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Giuliana Olmos (MEX) def. Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Shelby Rogers (USA) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2

Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Jil Teichmann (SUI) def. Rebecca Marino (CAN) / Madison Brengle (USA) 6-2, 6-2

[7] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) def. [PR] Leylah Annie Fernandez (CAN) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3

Mixed doubles first round [8] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Max Purcell (AUS) def. Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN) / Jan Zieliński (POL) 6-2, 7-5

(Picture : © Associated Press)

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

I came across this interesting collection of bookplates titled Temat Polski w Ekslibrisach Ewgenija Tichanowicza while I was verifying catalog records of new acquisitions. The title means “The Polish Theme in Bookplates by Ewgenija Tichanowicza.” It’s a collection of bookplates by Ewgenija Tichanowicza (1911-2005) from 1973-1975. All of the bookplates are etchings and each was printed and signed by Tichanowicza—unfortunately this did not come through in the scans of the bookplates because they were signed lightly in pencil. The photograph below shows the signature below the bookplate as well as the texture of the paper the bookplates are printed on. 

Each bookplate features a portrait of a famous Polish figure and the name of who the bookplate belongs to. The portfolio was compiled by Grzegorz Matuszak and published in an edition of 100 numbered copies. It originally included 8 pages of text, which we are unfortunately missing. Our copy was a donation from UWM Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature Michael Mikos. 

I was only able to find information on Tichanowicza on an art auction website that says he was a Belarusian painter and graphic artist and that he was “Born in the village Dzhusaly Kzyl-Orda region (Kazakhstan). Graduated from Vitebsk art College (1932...). Participant of art exhibitions since 1932 member of the Belarusian Union of artists since 1933, the Works are expressive of figurative language and life concreteness of images” (this is a website-generated translation of the original text).

The works featured here were all created while the USSR was in power in Eastern Europe, and that influence can be seen in the last bookplate above, which features Nicolaus Copernicus (who was Polish) alongside Yuri Gagarin (who was Russian), the first man in space. This bookplate was apparently made to honor the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’s birth and was made for Tadeusza Kurpaskiego whose location is listed as Minsk on the bookplate, which is where it seems Tichanowicza primarily lived. Several other bookplates feature left-wing or socialist political figures. 

I was able to find a Polish website about Polish bookplates which can be translated into English (and nearly any other language) for those interested in learning more about the history of Polish bookplates in particular. I was also able to find an article about the history of Polish bookplates, one on the Ballard Collection of Russian Bookplates held at Yale, a collection of 20th Century Russian bookplates at the Library of Congress, and a digital collection of bookplates from around the world.

The bookplates featured here are as follows:

1. Ex libris Maxsymiliana Celedy featuring a portrait of Tadeusz Kosciuszko 2. Ex libris Henryka Pilca featuring a portrait of Jaroslaw Dabrowski 3. Ex libris Jerzego Szymczaka featuring a portrait of Ludwik Warynski 4. From old Polish Literature by Grzegorza Matuszaka featuring a portrait of Jan Kochanowski 5. Ex libris Bozenny Szczesniak featuring a portrait of Adam Mickiewicz 6. Ex libris Marii Borowskiej featuring a portrait of Boleslaw Prus 7. Ex libris Bogdana Kopciowskiego featuring a portrait of Helena Modrzejewska 8. Ex libris Tadeusza Kurpaskiego featuring portraits of Mikolaj Kopernik and i Jurij Gagarin

- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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me: what a cutie someone: yeah, that parrot is adorable! me: yeah, i meant something else...

[historyman101]

It's good that asks are allowed, thank you! Can I ask you what Polish figures will be playing a key role in the events of your book? You were already kind enough to make entire posts in regards to the French marshalls, but I am also curious about Poles. And I hope that prince Adam Czartoryski will make an appearance in your work as well :)

I don’t have an exhaustive list yet, but yes, there are Poles who will have a role in the novel series.

Besides Poniatowski himself, probably the most important Pole will be Jan Henryk Dabrowski, the creator and commander of the Polish Legions. His military career leading the Legions as well as his strained relationship with Poniatowski will be a prominent subplot in the story. He’s an interesting character in his own right and his story is a little tragic, given how he served Napoleon longer and yet was sidelined by a younger and more influential nobleman in Poniatowski. I’ll likely delve more into his history in a separate post.

Apart from Dabrowski, I’ve also planned to include Michal Sokolnicki, given his role under Poniatowski’s command in the 1809 campaign as well as Jozef Zajaczek, who also served in the Polish Legions under Dabrowski. Zajaczek also had a difficult relationship with Poniatowski, likely because of the massive age difference between the two and Poniatowski’s relative lack of practical military experience.

Outside of military commanders, another Pole of importance is Napoleon’s mistress, Marie Walewska. In fact I’ll spoil a little that their relationship will feature quite a bit in the first book. Based on what I’ve read she and Poniatowski were at least friends so I imagine she confided in him a lot about pursuing the affair or not. I know evidence points to her engaging in it of her own volition, but it’s hard to imagine Poniatowski not knowing about it, let alone nudging her in that direction. Again, I’ll likely go into more detail about her in a separate post.

[freshfrompoland]

THE FIRST EDITION OF PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOKS FEST IS OVER!

IT COULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT OUR PARTNERS, GUESTS, ARTISTS, VOLUNTEERS AND GUESTS. THANK YOU ALL!

by Fresh From Poland & Paper Beats Rock, funded by International Visegrad Fund

24.05 – 14.06.2019, Kraków

Paperlust Photobook Fest is a new biennial on the map of photographic events in Europe, stemmed from love to paper. Fest focuses on regional collaboration and aims to present the local self-publishing scene to the wider audience. The motivation behind the festival is to allow discovery while encouraging artistic exchange and explore the power of self-publishing as an offline medium, co-existing in the era of the Internet. PAPERLUST programme is formed of exhibitions, talks, book signings, panel discussion, workshop, photobook fair, reading room (chill zone and library) and dummy review. We invite small publishers, makers and established artists to present their practices, ranging from self-made publications and zines to book objects, albums, and photobooks published by the established institutions. As a reoccurring event, the festival aspires to become a photobook hub in  Central and East Europe.

First edition – PAPERLUST Photobook Fest 2019. Art and self-publishing as a tool for social change is focused on the Visegrad region and has been created in close collaboration with the festival’s partners from Slovakia, Czech, and Hungary. It intends to gather local institutions, publishers, non-profit organizations and makers together to increase the visibility and exposure of the artists using photobooks to tell their stories, as well as strengthen, connect and empower the local art scene.

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PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOK FEST OPENING & PHOTOBOOK. ASSET EXHIBTION OPENING GALERIA I!, KRAKÓW, 24.05.2019

PHOTOBOOK. ASSET  EXHIBTION GALERIA I!, KRAKÓW, 24.05.2019

Exhibition Asset focuses on the economic and prestige aspects of art publications. An artistic book has become a tool for the emancipation of artist-maker. Having printed publication allows in an almost automatic way to get into the field of the world of art, or rather the history of art. It is often made with the purpose of creating a unique object, that might become a cultural asset.

Except for the context criterion, we do not have any other criteria for evaluation, what is a work of art and what is not. In any case, however, we need legitimacy – perhaps as time passes, distribution of power and who has the legitimacy to evaluate and give the status to a work of art will change. However, traditional, institutional bodies are still holding a strong position. Even though artists, as well as publishers,  say that books are overproduced, that there is no environment, not enough audiences or market, publishing an art book still seems to be amongst the best ways to build up one’s position in the art world.

The exhibition presents the selection of books made with a purpose to become an asset, a self-standing piece of art, to bring an income or to became a valuable, collectable object.

Artists: Petr Fabo, Ivars Gravlejs, Agata Grzybowska, Blanka Győri and Máté Labu, Hubert Humka, Dominika Jackuliakova, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Martin Kochan, Wawrzek Kolbusz, Peter Kollanyi, Martin Kollar, Wojtek Mazan, Peter Puklus, Łukasz Rusznica, Michał Siarek, Jakub Stanek, Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek & Łukasz Gniadek, Beatrix Szörényi, Milan Tittel, Tereza Zelenkova

PHOTOBOOK. STORYTELLING  EXHIBTION

ZNACZY SIĘ, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19

The show is a part of the series that focuses on various aspects of the photobook. A carefully designed exhibition presents the most interesting samples of the photobooks from the Visegrad region, that have been made out of the need to convey, usually a personal, story. Most of the presented works are either self-published or published in small editions, including hand-made or low-cost printed zine publications.

A book, as depicted in the show, becomes the means for communicating one’s personal experience, a cultural experience and the same time becomes an instrument protecting such experience from oblivion. The leitmotiv of a narration underlines the role of the recipient as an active participant/interpreter of the work of art.

Low-cost self-publishing is here a starting point for a polemic about the nature of the medium. The dissemination using the most economic and least demanding means gives it the power of an independent statement. The questions asked by the authors are an attempt to reflect on the phenomena of this type of publications on the Central European market, their role, ways of production and presentation, as well as expectations of the recipient.

Artists: Tabori Andras, Ewa Behrens, Eva Benkova, Stanislav Briza, Radek Brousil, Jan Brykczynski, Magda Buczek, Kateřina Držková, Peter Fabo, Viola Fátyol, Lucia Gamanová, Aurélia Garová, Agnieszka Gotowała, Anna Hornik , Tomoya Imamura, Zuzana Ivašková, Tereza Kabůrková, Ines Karčáková, Joanna Margarethe Kischka, Deana Kolencikova, Jan Kolský, Viktor Kopasz, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Andrea Kurjakova, Katarzyna Ewa Legendź, Tomasz Liboska, Michał Loba, Alicja Łabądź, Maciej Moskwa, Boris Németh, Anna Orłowska, Krzysiek Orłowski, Ivana Paleckova, Igor Pisuk, Marcin Płonka, Piotr Pytel, Krzysztof Racoń, Kaja Rejczel Rata, Anka Sielska, Jakub Stanek, Juraj Starovecký, Dorota Stolarska, Eva Szombat, Budha Tamás, Jiri Thyn, Balázs Varju Tóth, Ondrej Urban, Imrich Veber, Dorotteya Veykony, Ján Viazanička, Lukasz Wierzbowski, Karolina Wojtas, Adrian Wykrota, Ficsór Zsolt, Kasia Zolich, KWAS (Karolina Wojtas, Agnieszka Sejud)

PHOTOBOOK. PROCESS EXHIBTION

NOŚNA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19

In this exhibition, we treat objects of art as a consequence and as an event. We explore the medium of a book as a work in progress submerged in group work, culture, and its own particularities. The exhibition investigates photobooks as a constantly evolving medium in relation to its potentiality. It includes drafts, dummies, sketches, and excerpts from different stages of the work that cannot be completed.

Referring directly to the activities related to the book in a political context, here also the core idea is an artistic prosumer activity, or more precisely its aspect pertaining to work with an art object, that is done by a particular group/ collective. The work created in this way is a result of the vision and ideas of all those involved in the creation process. We want to open a dialogue on the role of a photo editor in photographic publications. We want to define the route which the author- photo editor relation is going through and tension it generates through the choice of photographs, arrangement, strategy – a cycle of events related to the photographic book.

Process exhibition emphasizes a special presence and interactive lecture by Viktor Kopasz and his lifelong process of creating Diaries.

Kopasz’s works become a starting point to think about a book in terms of a multidimensional process. The process can be considered from the perspective of an artist, as a work that can be presented synchronously – from idea to implementation – or asynchronously, as a kind of spiral, which concentrically returns to the centre, and can be looked at from different positions. By disrupting the order of the beginning and the end, the book appears as a final product of the process, enters into a new cycle – that varies depending on the adapted presentation and distribution strategy.

It is a more specific kind of self-publishing, in the context of the previous examples, as it functions as a work of art on the border of the avant-garde, ready-made and niche, crafted publications. Kopasz consciously plays with the medium, its content, and formal potential.

Artists: Jakub Bors, Kuba Dabrowski, Tomoya Imamura, Viktor Kopasz, Tomasz Laczny, Konstancja Nowina Konopka Książki twórców indywidualnych: Anna Ádám, Milan Adamčak, Hynek Alt, Aleksandra Vajd, Ján Ballax, Jakub Chromiński, Krystian Daszkowski, Peter Fabo (Petr Black FaBox), Lukas Hofmann, Nat Marcus, Alek Janicki, Karolina Jonderko, Ines Karčáková, Barbora Klímová, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Markéta Magidová, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Lucia Nimcova, Lucia Papčová, Monika Pascoe Mikyskova, Tomas Pospech, Peter Puklus, Maciek Przemyk (Maciek P Myk), Catarina Simão, Anna Małgorzata Stankiewicz, Marta Szymanowska, Paweł Szypulski, Martina Šárovcová aka Kosmo Nauty – stories, Jan Sipocz, Bartłomiej Talaga, Konrad Trzeszczkowski, Imrich Veber, Karolina Zajaczkowska Książki grup twórczych: Časopis X o súčasnej kresbe, Hurrikan Press, If I saw that in a gallery I would say, this is art, Paper Beats Rock workshop dummies

VIKTOR KOPASZ. PROCESS. PROLONGED IDENTITY. OPEN STUDIO

APTEKA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 25.05 – 27.05.19

Our ambition is to involve the artist in the process of creating. Therefore, for a limited time, we want to change the gallery’s window into an artist’s studio. Artist, being present, will allow the viewers to look at a photographic book as part of a broader phenomenon. The artist is working for 3 days in the window of the gallery. The temporary display changes every day. It might be a radical move or a subtle shift of meaning that we can follow alongside the process.

The presentation of the works and performative character of the exhibition by Viktor Kopasz allows placing the contemporary phenomenon of the book boom in a historical context while creating an experience of the process itself in real time.

TOMASZ ŁĄCZNY. PROCESS. C​18F​E​7N​18. OPEN STUDIO

APTEKA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 01.05 – 02.06.19

A live book-making process. The artist creates a hand-made photography artbook using traditional photography techniques with elements of improvisation (taking advantages of technical errors of wet plate photography). It’s the final step of the personal project “It All Is. And Nothing”. The audience has an opportunity to experience work in progress in the experimental stage of the process.

OPEN LIBRARY & CHILL ZONE + KIDS ZONE

MOCAK LIBRARY, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19

If you would like to explore art books in a quiet and peaceful space, Chill Zone is a place to sit down and discover our reading room. It is located in a beautiful and bright MOCAK Library. Presented publications – zines, photobooks, small editions’ publications from Visegrad countries – come from the MOCAK and Paper Beats Rock collections, private collectors, artists and the open call.

We invite kids to spent time in our Kids Zone, space prepared specially for youngest fans of paper.

PHOTOBOOK DUMMY REVIEW

TYTANO, KRAKÓW, 02.06.19

Paperlust Photobook Dummy Review is a project intended for emerging artists working with the medium of photography and art books. Event will allow to connect young talents with professionals, publishers and curators from different countries.

The Tytano space will open for one day for face-to-face discussions over the photobooks in progress. Submissions are open to everyone over 18 years old. Selected artists will be invited to meet four of our international experts. Handmade dummies are in focus, although digital projects and small self-published editions are also taken under consideration. The main aim of the event is to help artists to develop the ideas they are already working on.

On Saturday, 1st June, we invite all of the Participants and Experts of Photobook Dummy Review to join the Portfolio Evening, a special joint event organised by Krakow Photomonth and Paperlust Photobook Fest.

Our Experts: Franek Ammer, Stanislav Briza, Zsolt Ficsor, Zuzana Flaskova, Gábor Arion Kudász, Wiktoria Michałkiewicz, Tereza Rudolf, Olija Triaška Stefanovič

STILL ‘TIS DEVILS MUST PRINT – ARTIST TALKS

MILK, KRAKÓW, 01.06.19

Series of 3 talks focusing on different aspects of the photobook and self-publishing in Visegrad Group countries will take place at Milk Studio. Subjects TBA.

Self-publishing practices in Hungary in the post-digital era/ Beata Istvánkó

The notion of artists’ publishing activities has changed over the past decades, in particular with

the expansion of the art market and the globalization of artistic practices, combined with the advent of the digital era and the introduction of new modes of production and circulation. Print and digital projects employ experimental formats and blur distinctions between art press, curatorial

experiments, and other publishing enterprises. The aim of the presentation is to summarize the history of independent art publishing in Hungary after 2000 through the activity of the Budapest based ISBN books+gallery.

The ISBN is a contemporary art bookstore and a gallery space established in 2017. The name of the gallery was obtained from the 13-digit identification number for publication, the ISBN-number (International Standard Book Number). The most important mission of the ISBN books+gallery is to map, collect, exhibit and distribute the domestic and regional, Hungarian and foreign language, new and second-hand contemporary art publications, exhibition catalogues, zines, art books, photobooks and theoretical publications.

Young scene of photobook makers in Slovakia/ Olja Triaška Stefanović

Five years ago students from the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia showed great interest in making photobooks within their visual researches. Olja Triaška Stefanović, together with her colleague Juraj Blaško from Visual Communication department, realized that it is necessary to open new and interdisciplinary course, that will link two departments and prepare students to make more professional photobooks. They created and started together to teach, PHO BO – Creation of Photobook where the main part of the course is focused on teaching a wide range of technological processes together with visual dramaturgy and storytelling. The author will be focused on the presentation of youngest generations of authors from Slovakia, their production of photobook and how they can improve the self-publishing market in Slovakia. Triaška Stefanović will present their books, zines and introduce to the audience how they work within the PHO BO, what is the course methodology and how they prepare students for professional work after graduation.

I shout „That’s Me!” Stories of Czech fanzines from the ’80s till now // Miloš Hroch & Pavel Turek // presentation of the book

The book ‘I shout “That‘s me!” Stories of Czech fanzines from the 80s till now’, published by PageFive, for the first time takes its readers through uncharted waters of the Czech fanzine scene, that is of unofficial amateur magazines. It brings to light stories of those who fell for computer games or wrote sci-fi stories, who obsessively compiled their own metal music charts, who were driven to street demonstrations by hardcore punk music or who wanted to change the standing of women in society. And about those who then wrote about it freely in their magazines. „This type of publication has the advantage that you can wave it around and shout ‚That’s me!’” – a photographer, a protagonist of the youngest fanzine trend of photozines, explains the essence of fanzines in one of the chapters of the book. And while there is the talk of the decline of printed media, the microcosm of independent printing is constantly expanding.

LET’S TALK ABOUT SELF-PUBLISHING – PANEL DISCUSSION

MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 31.05.19

Panel discussion at MOCAK with invited experts from the Visegrad group countries is orientated toward various aspects of the photobooks and self-publishing. The event has an informative and educational character, but also intends to encourage local collaboration.

The debate is focusing on the current situation of self-publishing the Eastern and Central Europe, its role and potential. Guests will discuss the phenomenon in the current socio-political context, its recent trends and how the role of self-publishing evolved in the era of the Internet.

The discussion at MOCAK Musem will be moderated by Michał Sita (Pix.House), and the speakers are Olja Triaška Stefanovič (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava), Stanislav Briza (Bflmpsvz publishing) and Beáta Istvánkó (ISBN books+gallery, Budapest).

COLLABORATION NOW! SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP

MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 30.05 – 02.06.19

Workshop …. Collaboration Now! International self-publishing workshop.. . is a unique formula designed for PAPERLUST Photobook Festival. As a participant you will gain basic knowledge about photobook creation from the scratch, including craft, design, editing and its function in the wider perspective of the art market. You will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally recognized artists from V4 region. Prepare for an intense experience where you will work in a group as well as directly with workshop leaders and other participating artists. You will progress by presenting your work, participating in round-table discussions and one-to-one sessions.

As a result every participant  will create a dummy. This workshop will allow us to develop knowledge and consciousness about the medium of photography, photobooks, editing and narration and the use of visual language and self-expression through art. We believe visual is political and we intend to put it into the process. We will encourage emerging artists and amateurs (participants) to create visual stories, develop real skills and preserve the craft of producing a printed body of art, especially photobook.

Workshop leaders:

Katarzyna Ewa Legendź PBR| PL

Katarzyna Zolich PBR|PL

Leader from Hungary – Gábor Arion Kudász

Leader from Slovakia – Jan Sipocz

Leader from Czech Republic – Teresa Zelenkova

COLLABORATION NOW! SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP

MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 30.05 – 02.06.19

Workshop …. Collaboration Now! International self-publishing workshop.. . is a unique formula designed for PAPERLUST Photobook Festival. As a participant you will gain basic knowledge about photobook creation from the scratch, including craft, design, editing and its function in the wider perspective of the art market. You will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally recognized artists from V4 region. Prepare for an intense experience where you will work in a group as well as directly with workshop leaders and other participating artists. You will progress by presenting your work, participating in round-table discussions and one-to-one sessions.

As a result every participant  will create a dummy. This workshop will allow us to develop knowledge and consciousness about the medium of photography, photobooks, editing and narration and the use of visual language and self-expression through art. We believe visual is political and we intend to put it into the process. We will encourage emerging artists and amateurs (participants) to create visual stories, develop real skills and preserve the craft of producing a printed body of art, especially photobook.

Workshop leaders:

Katarzyna Ewa Legendź PBR| PL

Katarzyna Zolich PBR|PL

Leader from Hungary – Gábor Arion Kudász

Leader from Slovakia – Jan Sipocz

Leader from Czech Republic – Teresa Zelenkova

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Organisers: Fresh From Poland Foundation, Paper Beats Rock Foundation

Strategic partners: FOTOGRAF Magazine (CZ), The Studio of Young Artists’ Association / FKSE (HU), ISBN könyv+galéria (HU), Hardness &Blackness (SK)

Programme curators: Katarzyna Legendź, Katarzyna Zolich

Exhibitions curators: Katarzyna Zolich, Katarzyna Legendź, Gosia Fricze, Grażyna Siedlecka, Katarzyna Roniek, Beata Istvánkó, Markéta Kinterová, Slavomíra Ondrušová

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

[good-timebae]

Czy ja nie pisałam, że życie jest dziwne?:')

[classic-caldwell-moment]

Doctor Jan Dabroski,,,

Everyones favourite overworked therapist, the only one in Villedor qualified to deal with everyones shit

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Full Documentary: The Dubai Road Express – 1976

Full Documentary: The Dubai Road Express – 1976 #truck #trucking #scania #norway #dubai #film #documentary #overland

The Dubai Road Express is a 45 minute documentary film from 1976 that shows the very first truck journey between Norway and Dubai on a route called the Dubai Road Express, with skilled driver Jan Dabrowsky at the wheel. Ultimately the Dubai Road Express would be cancelled by transport company Johan Evensen & Sønner after this journey, as it was deemed too dangerous and too difficult, particularly…

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Fierce Historical Ladies post: Vladka Meed

Part 11: Bibliography and Further Reading

Part 1: The Ghetto • Part 2: The Aryans • Part 3: Vladka, on the Wall, with Dynamite • Part 4: Uprising • Part 5: Aftermath • Part 6: The Labor Camps • Part 7: The Red Army • Part 8: Not an Epilogue • Part 9: Meanwhile, in Poland… • Part 10: A Four-Day Visa

Because you know I didn't get all that solely from our girl's memoir. There are rather a lot of books listed here, so for your reference the books are separated into the following categories in the following order: Background(s), Holocaust, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising (1944) and Polish Underground, Gen. World War II, Cold War-Era, and Memory Studies.

Background(s)

Poland: The First Thousand Years by Patrice M. Dabrowski

God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies

God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies

The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars (A Midland Book) by Ezra Mendelsohn

A History of Poland (Palgrave Essential Histories Series) by Anita J. Prazmowska

Holocaust

A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) by Yehuda Bauer

The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Cultural Expressions) by Rachel Brenner

Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander

Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland by Jan Grabowski

The Holocaust in History (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry) by Michael R. Marrus

Am I A Murderer?: Testament Of A Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, translated by Frank Fox

Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation Isaiah Trunk

Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) by Adam Czerniakow, edited by Raul Hilberg

Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stars Bear Witness (Nabat Series, Vol. 7) by Bernard Goldstein

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman

On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto by Vladka Meed

Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945 by Gunnar S. Paulsson

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto from the Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum, translated and edited by Jacob Sloan

A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (A Centennial Book) by Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman

Warsaw Uprising (1944) and Polish Underground

The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Wlodzimierz Borodziej

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies

The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Joanna K. M. Hanson

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski

Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising by Alexandra Richie

Gen. World War II

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower

Britain and Poland 1939-1943: The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Anita J. Prazmowska

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Cold War-Era

Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957 (The New Cold War History) by Patryk Babiracki

Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 (Cold War International History Project) by Paweł S Machcewicz

Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore

Memory Studies

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland by Robert Blobaum

Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation by Jan T. Gross

Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland by Jonathan Huener

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe by Richard Ned Lebow and Wulf Kansteiner

Bondage To the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Modern Jewish History) by Michael C. Steinlauf

For further book recommendations and Bibliographies, please see my Further Reading, Jewish History Bibliography, and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Historical Bibliography Pages. I am currently in the process of adding the above works to their respective reading lists...and probably reorganizing the Europe section.

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2020 | A Year in Review

What a year 2020 has been (I know that’s an understatement!) For me, it has been year of great enlightenment. As I look back across the year I share with you all some wonderful moments:

- In January travelled to Bali. The only travel experience for 2020.

- In February 2020, I became founding partner in dynamic new educational enterprise, titled – a School for tomorrow, which is a global educational network supporting students, teachers, and school leaders to thrive in a new world environment.

- In March 2020, we launched a new educational podcast series titled Game Changers, with co-host Associate Professor of Education & Enterprise Dr Philip SA Cummins. The Game Changers podcast is for those who want to change the game of schooling and features prominent Australia and International educators as weekly guests discussing the purpose of schooling and learning for today’s world. Game Changers has developed a huge global following in a short period of time. Across all podcast streaming service platforms, Game Changers recently ticked over 50,000 listens.

- In March, April & May 2020 I co-authored three Continuous Learning Toolkits – Volume I | People & Practice, Volume II | Leading Through Crisis and Volume III | Wellness By Design®. These free publications provided school leaders and teachers, across the globe, with research-driven guidance to best respond to the COVID-19 crisis. These publications also showcased numerous creative innovation models that many schools and teachers implemented as they pivoted towards a new normal of learning from the home campus. Models that had a strong emphasis of fostering character, competency and wellness, at the centre. Each publication has reached a staggering 20,000 download impressions.

- In April I was interviewed for The Educator magazine: Now for the good news: Sector-blind resource-sharing on the rise and Should the ATAR be cancelled for 2020?

- In April I was a guest on Brodie McGee’s excellent EDUCAST: The podcast for teachers discussing wellbeing in the time of remote learning.

- In May we launched a School for tomorrow’s membership platform, a dynamic online learning community, an intentional gathering space for students, teachers and school leaders to connect, share, growth and achieve. The platform hosts asynchronous bespoke courses for members to access, anytime, anywhere, by anyone.

- In May 2020 we hosted the first Game Changers Global Gathering live event via the a School for tomorrow YouTube Channel, bringing together panellists from Australia, Africa, Asia and Northern America. The event also had a strong Indigenous voice, with a focus on the theme of what the future student, the future teacher and future school leader may look like, post COVID-19.

- In June this year The Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA) invited me to present creative innovations for middle school learning and assessment frameworks via two separate workshops.

- In July, I was humbled by The Educator magazine who featured me on the 2020 Hot List, as one of Australia’s most innovative thought leaders in education.

- In July, Dr Philip SA Cummins and I presented a keynote address at the So What’s Next? Teaching, Learning and Leading in a New Reality conference in New Zealand facilitated by Westlake Boys High School.

- In July I had the pleasure of appearing on Michelle Cox’s The Wabi Sabi Series podcast talking all things education and why schools are broken. Michelle is a fellow s p a c e cadet.

- In August I was invited to present a provocation keynote at Sir Manasseh Meyer International School, Singapore as part of their staff professional learning day.

- In September 2020 I was excited to be invited by Educational Data Talks (Dr Anna Dabrowski & Dr Timothy O’Leary) to join over 80 educational influencers to present at their inaugural virtual conference titled, Lessons from Lockdown.

- In September the Allora! Italian Australian News publication published an article about my work in education.

- In October I was invited to present an insight into a School for tomorrow at the Catholic Education Melbourne’s Southern Region learning & teaching forum.

- In November I was privileged to participate on a panel with Dr Deborah Netolicky and Jan Own AM as part of McGregor State High School’s excellent Learning Insights Series.

- In November I attended Australia’s Largest Unconference s p a c e series, joining some of the country’s most innovative thinkers to build a more ambitious Australia. In partnership with Mary-Lou O’Brien and Zeina Chalich we delivered a workshop around the future of schooling.

- In November I had the opportunity to deliver a firestarter keynote at LearnLife’s [RE]LEARN 2020 The Learning Innovation Festival titled Learn Well, Toward A Better Normal.

- In November Game Changers became the official podcast partner of LearnLife’s [RE]LEARN 2020 The Learning Innovation Festival.

- In November I was invited to deliver a Communication, Voice & Agency workshop, with two ex-students, at the Futures Collective’s Young Trailblazers program. The founder of Future’s Collective Aqeel Camal is a fellow s p a c e cadet.

- In late November I was invited to be in a conversation with the super amazing youth advocate, Yasmin Poole and Carrie Benedet on Carrie’s terrific Thriving Matters Studio show on Facebook.

- Worked with a number of public, independent and Catholic schools in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, England, Singapore and Canada in re-imagining learning ecosystems for a new world environment.

- Throughout 2020 I also worked with numerous schools across metropolitan Melbourne about re-imagining their values proposition, providing advice and guidance around values marketing and communications, especially during the pandemic.

- I continued to mentor middle and senior leaders from across public, Catholic and Independent schools in Melbourne.

- Managed all the social media accounts of a School for tomorrow and Game Changers , including content curation.

- And wrote 27 blog entries via my Tumblr - Permission Is Triumph.

I look forward to 2021 with much optimism and excitement for what new adventures await - both professionally and personally.

As this unprecedented year comes to an end, I wish everyone much love and light for 2021 and beyond.

Go gently my friends. And always remember, love is a verb.  

Adriano xx

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Australian Open 2023 : Canadians in the singles and doubles main draws

Men’s singles first round [6] Félix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) vs. Vasek Pospisil (CAN)

[20] Denis Shapovalov (CAN) vs. Dušan Lajović (SRB)

Women’s singles first round Bianca Andreescu (CAN) vs. [25] Marie Bouzková (CZE)

Leylah Annie Fernandez (CAN) vs. Alizé Cornet (FRA)

Rebecca Marino (CAN) vs. Zhu Lin (CHN)

[Q] Katherine Sebov (CAN) vs. [4] Caroline Garcia (FRA)

Women’s doubles first round [3] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Giuliana Olmos (MEX) vs. Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) / Shelby Rogers (USA)

Leylah Annie Fernandez (CAN) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) vs. [7] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) / Zhang Shuai (CHN)

Rebecca Marino (CAN) / Madison Brengle (USA) vs. Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Jil Teichmann (SUI)

Mixed doubles first round [8] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Max Purcell (AUS) vs. Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN) / Jan Zieliński (POL)

(Picture : © Martin Sidorják)