Literary Festival

On December 17-18, pre-DP2 students participated in literary workshops. Classes were devoted to the sense of humor in Gogol’s, Skworecki’s, Barańczak’s, Leśmian’s texts and what great philosophers thought about humor, as well as  to contemporary America in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel entitled The Copperhead Demon and the poetry of Anne Sexton, to the experience of friendship based on the book entitled Trickles by Maria Halber and the phenomenon of joylessness in the works of Paweł Sołtys, as well as Jewish culture and its Yiddish literature. Some guests came to meet students at the school: Piotr Kofta, author of the work entitled Funnel, Kaja Gucio, translator of American prose, and philosopher Ariadna Lewańska. Some students visited the Jewish Historical Institute, where Paweł Bysko took them on a virtual tour of the Northern District, and Agnieszka Żółkiewska took them on a journey through the world of popular Yiddish culture. On the first day of the festival, everyone watched the film entitled  Tomorrow Will Be Ours directed by Paola Cortellesi, and at the end of the festival the writer, literary critic and author of the book entitled Yesterday You Were Angry with Green, Eliza Kącka talked about her passion for the upheavals of the language of communication. The program was prepared and classes were conducted by Polish language teachers: Olga Masiuk, Kasia Szymańska, Kachna Królak, Kasia Długołęcka and Joanna Raczkowska.

(text: Beata Ciacek; zdjęcia: Beata Ciacek)