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The audience of the 30th International Festival of Pleasant and Unpleasant Arts, casting their votes (online and traditionally – by filling out plebiscite cards), awarded: The title of the Best Performance to the: “MOTHERS. A SONG FOR THE TIME OF WAR” based on the concept, libretto and directed by Marta Górnicka (co-production of the Women’s […]
They are survivors. They are refugees from war and persecution, witnesses to violence and destruction. They use the power of their voices to name what cannot be put into words. Their singing becomes an accusation, a plea and a warning to us and to all people in Europe. After a celebrated and shattering performance at […]
The Polish director Marta Górnicka presents a choral piece with 21 refugee women – a healing ritual inspired by the ones dedicated to women in the seventh century BC. “Our performance is about women and war. About defense mechanisms and responsibility. About our reaction to a war in Europe. About the rituals of wartime violence against […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]
A performance of 21 Ukrainian, Polish, Belarusian mothers and their children. The wartime rituals of violence against women are unchanging. War asks Europe the ultimate questions: about responsibility in the face of danger, and about our defense mechanisms. Out of the testimonies of mothers and children—Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles: those who have fled war; those […]