Creative Writing Sessions in January and February
To put you in a creative mood at the beginning of the year, Loesje invites you for three creative text writing sessions in Warsaw: two in Yerbaciarnia Terere (last Sundays of January and February) and one in the club Sen Pszczoly, located in Praga district, on Sunday, 19 February.
Loesje's workshops consist of warming-up games based on working with associations and creating short texts (all the necessary materials are provided). They aim to promote freedom of expression, activism, creativity and critical attitude toward reality. The most inspiring and interesting texts are later layouted to create a new series of posters. English or Polish language group could be chosen. And more about Loesje's creative text writing is here.
Yerbaciarnia Terere, 11 Bartoszewicza St (Srodmiescie): 29 January, from 4:00 pm + 26 February, from 4:00 pm, admission free
Sen Pszczoly, 3 Inzynierska St (Praga Polnoc): 19 February, from 4:30 pm, admission free
Occupy the Wall!
On Sturday, December 3, Warsaw welcomed the first Loesje's mural in Poland. The Polish version of the poster "The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be" was (legally) painted on a wall in Warsaw's Praga Polnoc district, on 38 Stalowa St. As the size matters, the mural is about 4,5 meter wide and about 6 meter high.
Pictures by Jarosław Żeliński
Session in November: Creative Text Writing in Wiatraki
Despite lack of sun and not the most motivating weather you could probably imagine, Loesje hopes to see you at another creative text writing session on the last Sunday of November in café Wiatraki (Windmills).
Loesje's workshops consist of warming-up games based on working with associations and creating short texts (all the necessary materials are provided). They aim to promote freedom of expression, activism, creativity and critical attitude toward reality. The most inspiring and interesting texts are later layouted to create a new series of posters. English or Polish language group could be chosen. And more about Loesje's creative text writing is here.
27th November, Sunday, from 4:00 pm, Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St, the backyard in the neighbourhood of the junction of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska St), admission free. Workshops last about 2,5-3 hours.
September Edition: Creative Text Writing in Wiatraki
To galvanise your creativity, Loesje invites you for a creative text writing session on the last Sunday of September to café Wiatraki (Windmills).
25th September, Sunday, from 4:00 pm, Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St, the backyard in the neighbourhood of the junction of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska St), admission free. Workshops last about 2,5-3 hours.
Summer Creative Text Writing in Wiatraki
After a short holiday break in July, Loesje invites you for another creative text writing session on the last Sunday of August, in a cosy Dutch café Wiatraki (Windmills).
28th August, Sunday, from 4:00 pm, Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St, the backyard in the neighbourhood of the junction of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska St), admission free.
Loesje's Summer Camp 2011
The Summer Camp is going to take place in marvelous Estonia this year, from the 22nd of July until the 2nd of August, in a small village called Keava, which lies about 60 km away from Tallinn. The main program, named Schoold of Freedom, is planned as a series of workshops organised and delivered by the participants themselves. There's also an excursion planned and, of course, impressive sights of Estonian nature to be discovered. The evenings are packed with the variety of the entertaining programs and Summer Camp's legendary parties.
The costs for the whole camp are EUR 160,- per person. Traveling costs have to be paid by everyone themselves. To learn more about the Summer Camp please visit Loesje International website.
Creative Text Writing in June
To keep you up in a creative mood, Loesje invites you for her another text writing workshops which take place on the last Sunday of June, in Café Wiatraki (Windmills).
26th June, Sunday, from 4:00 pm, Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St, the backyard in the neighbourhood of the junction of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska St), admission free.
Loesje + Batory Express = 2 Creative Text Writing Workshops
Two open Loesje's workshops in May and June take place in Cracow (May 21, Sat, from 2:00 pm, in Mały Rynek area) and Warsaw (June 4, Sat, from 2:00 pm, next to Węgierski Instytut Kultury/ Hungarian Cultural Institute, 10 Moniuszki St) as a part of Batory Express project. Workshop groups work in Polish and English. Besides, to sum up the workshops, an open-air gallery presenting the posters with the most inspiring texts created at both sessions is going to be opened in Warsaw on June 5.
Loesje's workshops consist of warming-up games, based on working with associations, and creating short texts. The most interesting and inspiring texts are later chosen to make a new series of black-white posters. Workshops in Cracow and Warsaw are organised as open creative sessions what makes them open for anybody and any topic for the discussion could be offered. However, among the topics of these two sessions appear subjects that Batory Express project is related to, e.g. Polish-Hungarian relations, contemporary Europe, intercultural dialogue.
Workshops are divided into two groups – one of them works in Polish and the other in English. They last about 2,5-3 hours. Language fluency is not necessary to participate in the sessions. One workshop group is maximum 15 people. All necessary materials are provided, admission free.
BATORY EXPRESS is a Polish-Hungarian cultural project and a travelling gallery arranged in a cult mini-bus Nyska which visits five Hungarian (Budapest, Pécs, Sheged, Debrecen, Miskolc) and nine Polish cities (Tarnow, Nowy Sacz, Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz, Poznan, Wroclaw, Cracow) collecting and presenting photographies and narrations related to the fraternal countries on the way. The name of the project refers to the Cracovia Express foundation, thanks to which Hungarian Centre in Cracow was created, but also to a well-known train Batory which operated for a long time as a multi-functioning link between Poland and Hungary and is remembered now as one of the most popular forms of travelling from one country to the other especially in the 60's and 70's. Batory Express project aims to open the space for intercultural exchange and create a platform for making a re-discovery by the two countries once named “nephews”.
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ATTN! In the case of poor weather conditions both workshops are planned in the headquarters of Hungarian Cultural Centre/Institute: in Cracow on 15 Bracka St (Hungarian Centre), in Warsaw on 10 Moniuszki St (Hungarian Cultural Institute).
Session of Creative Writing in May
Loesje is happy because of the great spring this year and her another creative text writing workshops which take place on the last Sunday of May, in Café Wiatraki (Windmills).
Workshops consist of warming-up games based on working with associations and creating short texts (all the necessary materials are provided). They aim to promote freedom of expression, activism, creativity and critical attitude toward reality. The most inspiring and interesting texts are later layouted to create a new series of posters. We write in English or Polish language group. And you could find more about Loesje's creative text writing here.
29th May, Sunday, from 4:00 pm, Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St, the backyard in the neighbourhood of the junction of Nowy Świat and Świętokrzyska St), admission free.
Creative Writing and Discussion in April
April is the month of two sessions of creativity in Wiatraki Cafe! First rendez-vous with Loesje in April is a creative text writing workshop, at the very beginning of the month - on first Sunday, April 3. The session starts at 4 pm and lasts about 2-3 hours. Another chance to meet Loesje in Wiatraki in April is a discussion which takes place on Sunday, April 17, also at 4 pm. This session involves only discussing and layouting the texts that were created at open creative text writing workshops in Wiatraki Cafe since the beginning of the year.
On April 3, we write in English or Polish language group (to be chosen) and you can learn more about Loesje's creative writing here. During the discussion on April 17, we work mainly in Polish as most of the texts at sessions in Wiatraki Cafe have been created in Polish so far. However, welcome to join us if you know Polish at least a little.
Café Wiatraki (8 Kubusia Puchatka St), admission free.
