September’s Ha!art Reading Series

On Friday (26^th September) 6 p.m., you are invited to the Ha!art Corporation Bookshop (3a Szczepański Square) to attend the next episode of the Reading Series. The presence of Piotr Macierzyński, laureate of many Polish literary competitions, will add splendour to this September meeting at Ha!art. The poet will read his works in Polish and Scotia Gilroy will present the poems in translation. She will also read excerpts from Ziemowit Szczerek’s Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje (Mordor Will Come and Eat Us: A Confidential History of the Slavs) in English. Jan Bińczycki will put forward a citizens’ draft bill against scribbling. Another guest of the meeting will be Leszek Onak, an Internet publisher and promoter of new literary trends as well as the co-founder of the web portals Niedoczytania.pl and Liternet.pl. He will present to the audience his multimedia cyber-poetic compositions. The September episode of the Reading Series will be moderated by Adam Ladziński. You are heartily invited!

The Polish name of the project, Seria Czytań, is a calque from the English language. Reading series means a form of presenting literature and, at the same time, a way of uniting literary communities. It is high time the “city of literature” tried out this formula of organizing literary life. The initiators of the project are the men and women editors and activists gathered around the Ha!art publishing house, foundation, magazine and web portal.

The Krakow Reading Series consists in regularly organized meetings during which men and women writers, essayists and translators read excerpts from their works. The authors of the project would very much like to create a permanent forum where literature would play the leading role. During the Reading Series meetings, you will be able to listen to those texts on which the writers are still working as well as to the latest works by authors who are already known and by those who are debuting. All works to be read are selected by the curators of the project.

An instrumental mantra will accompany Ryszard Krynicki’s texts and contribute to stirring emotions. On 18^th September, the Poet – with the accompaniment of the Rdzeń2 band – will read those of his poems which are closest to him. Podgórska Jesień Kulturalna (Podgórze Cultural Autumn) is traditionally the biggest one of all events organized by Dom Kultury Podgórze (Podgórze Cultural Centre). This year’s festival commences the celebrations of the 100^th anniversary of attaching Podgórze to Krakow, which took place in July 1915.

Within the frame of the Podgórze Cultural Autumn, an innovative project by Ryszard Krynicki and Piotr Lutyński entitled “Wiersze, do których jestem najbardziej przywiązany…” (“Poems to which I am most attached…”) will take place in the Podgórze Cultural Centre auditorium (13 Sokolska Street) on 18^th September at 6 p.m. This unusual form of presenting literature has been inspired by the enchantment with the exceptional poetry and person of Ryszard Krynicki.
The Rdzeń2 band members are:

Piotr Lutyński – project manager
Rafał Kukiełko – music, bass
Piotr Lutyński – violin, whistling
Grzegorz Kossowski – guitar
Kacper Ivo Matuszewski – drums
Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski – saxophone, flute

The band will feature Joachim Mencel, a talented jazz musician, pianist and composer. Moderation: Marta Półtorak
Entrance is free. You are heartily invited!

More information about the meeting and the Podgórze Cultural Autumn to be found at www.dkpodgorze.krakow.pl

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