Konkurs literacki dla dzieci i młodzieży
inspirowani wystawą fenomenalnych zdjęć Bolesława Augustisa z wielką przyjemnością ogłaszamy pierwszy w Global Village konkurs dla pisarskich talentów. Konkurs współorganizują Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Kulturalnej Widok, Galeria im. Sleńdzińskich – Legionowa 2 i Gazeta Wyborcza.
Dla kogo jest ten konkurs?
Konkurs adresowany jest do dzieci i modzieży białostockich szkół, które lubią wymyślać historie i ciekawie je zapisywać. Przedmiotem konkursu jest krótka opowieść napisana w dowolnie wybranej formie literackiej, inspirowana zdjęciami przedwojennego fotografa białostockiego Bolesława Augustisa prezentowanymi na wystawie Augustis w Galerii im. Sleńdzińskich – Legionowa 2.
Czy mogę wziąć udział w konkursie?
Do konkursu zapraszamy
- uczniów klas 4-6 szkół podstawowych
- gimnazjalistów
- uczniów szkół średnich
Zachęcamy również nauczycieli, szczególnie języka polskiego i historii, do rozpowszechniania informacji o wystawie i konkursie wśród swoich uczniów.
Jaką formę powinna mieć praca konkursowa?
Swoją opowieść możesz napisać w formie opowiadania, listu, opisu, artykułu, reportażu, eseju lub w innej formie literackiej pozwalającej na przedstawienie oryginalnej, fikcyjnej historii inspirowanej zdjęciami Augustisa w krótkim tekście literackim. Cenione będzie kreatywne podejście do fotografii. Opowieść nie musi być ściśle związana z rzeczywistym czasem powstania wybranego zdjęcia.
Jak długi powinien być tekst?
Obowiązuje limit słów w tekscie dla 3 grup uczestniów:
- dla uczniów klas 4-6 szkół podstawowych – do 300 słów
- dla gimnazjalistów – do 500 słów
- dla uczniów szkół średnich – do 700 słów
Czy praca powinna być napisana po angielsku?
Nie. Przedmiotem konkursu są prace pisane w języku polskim.
Jak wyedytować pracę?
Zatytułowana i podpisana praca powinna być napisana czarnym długopisem, czytelnie, na liniowanym papierze formatu A4 z wyraźnymi marginesami, lub wydrukowana 12-punktową czcionką z podwójną interlinią.
Gdzie przesłać pracę?
Pracę konkursową należy złożyć osobiście w siedzibie szkoły językowej Global Village przy ulicy Nowy Świat 17, od 30 sierpnia do 30 września 2010 wraz z dołączoną Wizytówką Uczestnika.
Gdzie mogę otrzymać Wizytówkę Uczestnika?
Dokument z zasadami konkursu i Wizytówką Uczestnika możesz pobrać ze strony, którą właśnie czytasz. Kliknij tutaj
Czy warto pisać?
Zawsze warto. Nagrodzeni zostaną autorzy 3 najciekawszych prac w każdej grupie wiekowej. Nagrodami w konkursie są roczne i semestralne kursy angielskiego w szkole językowej Global Village, roczne stypendium Stowarzyszenia Edukacji Kulturalnej Widok oraz kolekcje wydawnictw Gazety Wyborczej. Ponadto nagrodzone prace zostaną opublikowane w internecie. O podziale nagród zdecyduje jury.
Kiedy będą ogłoszone wyniki konkursu?
Pracę należy złożyć pomiędzy 30 sierpnia a 30 września 2010. Rozwiązanie konkursu i przyznanie nagród nastąpi do 15 października 2010. Lista laureatów zostanie opublikowana na stronie internetowej szkoły językowej Global Village.
Gdzie mogę obejrzeć fotografie Bolesława Augustisa?
Zdjęcia Augustisa obejrzeć można:
- na wystawie Augustis – do 15 września 2010, Legionowa 2
- w albumie Augustis dostępnym w Galerii im. Sleńdzińskich – Legionowa 2, Galerii Arsenał, Ksiegarni Akcent oraz szkole językowej Global Village
Ponadto wybrane zdjęcia Bolesława Augustisa możesz obejrzeć na następujących stronach internetowych:
Zasady konkursu i Wizytówka Uczestnika
The A and Ω haiku*
profound silence soars —
thirty charged voices starkly
break into church hymn
(albs_t)
*XVIII International Festival of Orthodox Church Music is taking place at Białystok Philharmonic. It ends Sunday.
Arvo Part, Kanon Pokajanen, Ode III (mp3, 2.7MB)
Monday evening lecture presentation
Professor Mark F. Tattenbaum (a Fulbright Program Senior Scholar) is soon closing a series of his lectures on American drama of the 20th century, given at Bialystok’s Theatre Academy. Courtesy of Prof. Tattenbaum and the Academy, Global Village students and teachers will hear him on Monday, 12 November, at 8.15 pm, presenting selected works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and the likes. Admission free.
Białystok from another perspective
Białystok is a city often perceived as a dull, provincial place, where nothing really happens. Few concerts, few bookshops, very few music stores, empik opens only when almost all the people in the city are at work… I must say that was my view as well until a very short time ago – when I took my decision to leave the car for emergencies and start commuting by bus or on foot. That proved to be crucial to my realising once again why I loved Białystok before I moved to Warsaw to study, why the city makes people feel so comfortable, why you should visit the Wedel café and why Białystok’s empik is not that bad after all… That was also when I understood that the way we see our city is almost entirely a consequence of our own choices: of lifestyles, daily routines, paths we walk on etc. Mainly so. (justyna_t)
Affogato al café
If the misery of recent weather puts you on the brink of a coma, a simple remedy is within reach:
- On another wet afternoon, when you seem to be mentally and physically at your lowest ebb, head straight for the Wedel place next to Akcent bookshop.
- You don’t want to have any of those fancy desserts laced with chocolate.
- Pick a knowledgeably looking member of staff to speak to (the tall girl with glasses is really professional) and explain in plain Polish what you need.
- Ask her to place a scoop of vanilla ice-cream into a coffee cup, then pour two cups of strongest, freshly made espresso coffee over the ice, and serve it immediately. If not sooner.
- Sip your coffee slowly and spoon the melting ice-cream. From your seat by the window watch the building/excavation site in Rynek, waiting for the caffeine to enter your system.
- When you feel power run back into your limbs, leave the table and go singing in the rain.
Straight from printing press
In October 2005 a group of philosophers, sociologists, historians and geographers from across Europe gathered at the conference in Białowieża to discuss the frontier identity in the New Europe, as seen from the countries they represented. Last December, when professor M. Kowalska (the faculty of sociology at University of Białystok) came and offered Global Village the job to co-edit the proceedings of the conference in English and French, we took the promising challenge. Six months on and the book has just been published.
These are not the kind of texts you’d run your eyes over if you shy away from history or current affairs. But if you don’t, you qualify as a dedicated reader.
An excerpt from Marek Siemek’s article:
?…the collapse of communist systems in Central and Eastern Europe was insufficient to fill, or at least substantially diminish, the gap between the West and East of the continent. This gap was created by a tough and merciless difference between the pre-modern and modern forms of socialization rather than by an ideological and military confrontation between “the totalitarian Communism” and “the democratic capitalism”. The gap can be gradually closed only on the way to social modernization, whose essence is building of an enlightened civil society organizing its life and actions in a rational manner within the framework of modern institution of the state of law.
This means that the essence of modernization is, for European countries known today as “post-communist”, constituted by the demolition of the East which exists in us. It is in this sort of East that the all-embracing immaturity of these countries and their incapacity in the face of the twentieth century’s challenges is today concentrated and symbolically expressed. This East, understood as the quintessence of parochial provincialism, intolerance and aggressive hostility towards aliens, nationalism hidden behind the “patriotic” or “God and fatherland” demagogy, ideological obstinacy and blindness; in short: all the through-and-through irrational non-transparency of social and intellectual life, is rooted much deeper in people’s mentality that one could have expected. It is this factor that constitutes the greatest obstacle on the road to modernization?
The end of school year …
… is a hectic time, but somehow we are all able to make this last bit of extra effort and have some fun. This year it’s a school show by a bunch of Global Village students and teachers, for themselves, parents and friends. It’s all about summer (a countdown to holiday), water (The Enormous Crocodile, dramatised), and love (Romeo and Juliet, simplified).
They are staging the show at Teatr Szkolny, Akademia Teatralna, Sienkiewicza 14, on Thursday, 14 June, at 5 PM. Anybody can come and see, entrance is free, but arrive early to avoid disappointment, the space is limited.
How about this little gem from Roald Dahl’s story:
A bit further on, The Enormous Crocodile met Muggle-Wump, the Monkey. Muggle-Wump was sitting in a tree, eating nuts.
“Hello, Crocky,” said Muggle-Wump. “What are you up to now?”
“I have secret plans and clever tricks,” said the Crocodile.
“Would you like some nuts?” asked Muggle-Wump.
“I have better things to eat than nuts,” sniffed the Crocodile.
“I didn?t think there was anything better than nuts,” said Muggle-Wump.
“Ah-ha,” said the Enormous Crocodile,
“The sort of things that I’m going to eat have fingers, toe-nails, arms and legs and feet!”
Muggle-Wump went pale and began to shake all over. “You aren’t really going to gobble up a little child, are you?” he said.
“Of course I am,” said the Crocodile. “Clothes and all. They taste better with the clothes on.”
“Oh, you horrid hoggish croc!” cried Muggle-Wump. “You slimy creature! I hope the buttons and buckles all stick in your throat and choke you to death!”
The Crocodile grinned up at Muggle-Wump and said, “I eat monkeys, too.” And quick as a flash, with one bite of his huge jaws, he bit through the tree that Muggle-Wump was sitting in, and down it came. But just in time, Muggle-Wump jumped into the next tree and swung away through the branches.
Leon as a tour guide
Leon Tarasewicz has brought part of his international pack of friends to the region again. They are touring all those semi-hidden places in search of links between the past and present, so abruptly and painfully broken here around mid-twentieth century. Last Saturday evening at Willa Sokrates in Krynki, Polish was the least spoken language when the host and three of his visitors read in turn Janowicz’s ‘Miniatures’ in Belorusian, Italian and English.
The group’s densely packed week culminates with Leon’s new exhibition at Arsenal Gallery on Friday afternoon. This inevitably takes us back to May 1995, when a curator of his previous exhibition asked if we could give them a hand preparing it over a weekend. We hapilly agreed of course, not knowing yet what we were letting ourselves in for. When we entered the gallery’s first-floor rooms, we saw stark white walls randomly covered with splashes of primary colours. Then the artist gave us a supersonic course in the painting technique he adopted for his exhibition, and off we started. That weekend we covered hundreds square metres of walls, floor to ceiling, one room in dabs of sky-blue and daffodil-yellow, some other room in blood-red and grass-green, yet another one in horizintal stripes of all sunset colours. Soon, with our aching arms, we learned about some artists’ toil – Leon certainly is one of them. We also learned about the hallucinogenic effect of painting – vivid colours danced in front of us, even with the eyelids closed, for days on. And that’s how we met Leon.
Arsenal Gallery, 1995
First lessons in road protests
Last month’s tree-sit by environmentalists in the Rospuda Valley showed their determination to fight and win. Come spring, we might expect masses of green-minded supporters from all corners of Europe (see this). But perhaps it’s worth mentioning where today’s protesters took their first lessons.
Throughout the early 90s of the last century post-Thatcher Britain witnessed a flurry of actions aimed at stopping new motorways being build. Earth First! groups, together with many other groups, then became involved in the road protest, as an attempt to reverse the government’s road-building programme. The first road protest happened at Twyford Down where a permanent protest camp was set up. The Donga Tribe arose from this camp.
Between 1993 and 1995, groups like the Donga Tribe built tree houses and tunnels to delay the extension of the M3 through St Catherine’s Hill. Although unsuccessful, the protests eventually led to a re-think of road policy.
Following “Yellow Wednesday”, when hordes of police and security guards invaded the camp to bulldoze the area, the Dongas left Twyford Down for Bramdean Common. They constituted about twenty people in their early twenties. Some of the Tribe maintained an involvement in various subsequent road protests (Solsbury Hill, North Wales, Newbury bypass), but gradually morphed into a semi-nomadic tribe, travelling the South West of England on foot, squatting various hill-forts and putting on seasonal gatherings in an attempt to reawaken a sense of connectedness with the land. The last of the nomadic Dongas were travelling in Cornwall until the end of 1999, after which some of them moved to France to continue their nomadic lifestyle. There were many subsequent road protests including Newbury bypass, the A30, the M11 link road protest in London, where whole streets were “squatted.”
Swampy became well known during the eviction at the A30 camp, although there were many other smaller road protest camps. Some camps did actually result in roads being cancelled, the first such cancellation occurring in London.
Building, or destroying?
An appetite for cake
At times, it’s more than that. It could be a desire, a craving, an urge, a compulsion. In December, when daylight slips unnoticed into evening and we don’t start our working day before 4pm, a good chunk of cake can save your life. At GV, we’ve always taken patisserie seriously – adorned birthdays, namedays and numerous other occasions with cakes, baked our own pastries, exchanged recipes, sampled goodies abroad and brought inspiration back home.
Regretably, a few years ago two such shops closed one after another in the streets neighbouring GV, and other businesses started to mushroom in the area. So far, hairdressers, beauticians and shoe shops have been dominating the converted ground floor flats. It was a bit of a shock to see one day ‘ciastkarnia’ named Kryszeń moving into one of them. All of a sudden, the art of patisserie gained more recognition and erased bleak memories of the 90s.
What makes them absolutely different from other such places in Białystok is this essential combination of two shops: a patisserie and coffee shop. The place is large enough to accommodate five tables, and although the seatings are a bit tacky and coffee (on the watery side) is served in paper cups, they’ve made their first step. Let’s hope that a success will bring more refinement to the place. A success is already in the air since all goodies they sell give away mastery of the craft behind. They surely live up to GV’s high standards. Thumbs up from us, Kryszeń!
White chocolate cake at Kryszeń in Malmeda
