Screening of the movie about history of women in "Solidarity" movement and interview with cinematographer Magda Mosiewicz in the cycle "Poland for beginners".
February, 18, Wednesday, 6.00 PM, Krytyka Polityczna, 16 Foksal Street, Warsaw
They broke Security Service codes, hid leaders of the underground movement, and helped the families of political prisoners. The names of the women who fought in the Solidarność-movement come up occasionally on the anniversary of Solidarity celebrations, but their stories have largely remained untold. The full-length documentary Solidarity According to Women by Marta Dzido and Piotr Śliwowski reminds us about the forgotten female heroes of Solidarność and gives us a new perspective on the last 30 years of Polish history.
After the screening interview with cinematographer and feminist Magda Mosiewicz. Moderation: Agnieszka Wiśniewska.
Magda Mosiewicz, film maker, activist. Studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and cinematography at National Film Schoool in Lodz. Makes documentary films on social movements and architecture as well as video for theatre productions. Curated talks on ecology and city developement for Centre of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski. Curates Citizens’ Propositions programme for annual city planning festival „Warsaw under Construction” by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Founded Green Party of Poland and was the first chairperson and a board member of European Green Party.
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Not from Poland? Interested in society, politics or culture but having a hard time following discussions in Polish?
Krytyka Polityczna invites you to lectures in English that cover issues present in Polish and international debates.
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Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique) is an Eastern European leftwing network of institutions and activists. It was established in 2002 with an Open Letter to the European Public, demanding more open European policy from the Polish elites, later registered as the Stanisław Brzozowski Association, now Krytyka Polityczna consists of the online daily “Dziennik Opinii”, a quarterly magazine, publishing house, cultural centres in Warsaw, Łódź, Gdańsk and Cieszyn, activist clubs in a dozen cities in Poland (and also in Kiev and Berlin), as well as a research centre: the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw. It employs over sixty people and works with a few hundred volunteers. Krytyka Polityczna organises around 1,500 events and actions yearly.
Read more: www.politicalcritique.org, www.krytykapolityczna.pl
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Supported by the City Council of Warsaw and European Cultural Foundation. Wsparcie urząd miasta stołecznego Warszawy i European Cultural Foundation.
