Białystok Cultural Centre has the pleasure of inviting you to the
34th Contemporary Art Days
May 20th-26th, 2019
Bearing in mind the trends developing in recent years in the world, including Poland: the dissolution of values and the collapse of the so-called human decency, man’s dominance over nature, ignorance and lack of respect for animals, limitation of freedom and liberties, while increasing unrest and triumph of populism – we present the latest, 34th edition of Contemporary Art Days. An edition whose common denominators include anxiety, ferment, discord and resistance. During a week filled with theatre, music, visual arts, performance, cinema, literature and thoughts exchange, we will present events and artists who comment on what many people prefer to remain silent about, confront themselves with what many are running away from. Those who avoid simple answers, start debates, expose stupidity, unnerve others, see more. Those who refer to anxieties, filtering them through their own sensitivity – regardless of whether we think about a ferment of values, macro-distress or intimate anxiety.
„How can we live, dammit, with the knowledge that such things are going on?” – such a question will be asked by the creators present at the CAD.
Schedule:
- 20/05 Monday
- 18:30 Maurycy Gomulicki: Tats
exhibition opening and a talk with the artist
curator: Agnieszka Szewczyk
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry
- 18:30 Maurycy Gomulicki: Tats
- 21/05 Tuesday
- 17:30 ASIA LIVE! Singapore: Ezzam Rahman, Natasha Wei, Justin Lee, Nicole Phua (120’)
performance art, curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry - 20:00 Coproduction: Nowy Teatr in Warsaw and Copernicus Science Centre: Henrietta Lacks (60’) dir. Anna Smolar
performance and Q&A with the artists
A. Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art – Faculty of Puppetry, 14 Sienkiewicza Street, tickets: 30 PLN
- 17:30 ASIA LIVE! Singapore: Ezzam Rahman, Natasha Wei, Justin Lee, Nicole Phua (120’)
- 22/05 Wednesday
- 14:00–17:00 A Week of Radical Abundance (180’)
vegetarian/vegan cooking classes
host: Adelina Cimochowicz, curator: Tomasz Pawłowski
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry (registration required) - 17:30 ASIA LIVE! Singapore: Ezzam Rahman, Natasha Wei, Justin Lee, Nicole Phua (120’)
performance art, curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry - 20:00 Teatr Animacji in Poznań: ZA-Polska (80’)
dir. Agata Biziuk
performance
A. Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art – Faculty of Puppetry, 14 Sienkiewicza Street, tickets: 30 PLN
- 14:00–17:00 A Week of Radical Abundance (180’)
- 23/05 Thursday
- 14:00–17:00 A Week of Radical Abundance (180’)
vegetarian/vegan cooking classes
host: Adelina Cimochowicz, curator: Tomasz Pawłowski
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry (registration required) - 18:00 An Elephant Sitting Still (230’) dir. Hu Bo
film, special screening of the laureate of the Audience Award of the 18th New Horizons IFF
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, tickets: 20 PLN
- 14:00–17:00 A Week of Radical Abundance (180’)
- 24/05 Friday
- 16:00 A Week of Radical Abundance: Dominion (120’)
film and discussion featuring Jaś Kapela and Jarosław Urbański
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry - 18:00 Nowy Teatr in Warsaw: One Gesture (55’) dir. Wojciech Ziemilski
performance and Q&A with the artists
Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic, 1 Odeska Street, tickets: 30 PLN - 20:30 SIKSA
performance art / concert + film SIKSA. Stabat Mater Dolorosa + Q&A with the artists
host: Anna Łazar
Fama club, 5 Legionowa Street, tickets: 20 PLN
- 16:00 A Week of Radical Abundance: Dominion (120’)
- 25/05 Saturday
- 16:00 Baj Theatre: The Well behaved Girl (100’), dir. Maria Żynel
performance for children
Białystok Puppet Theatre, 1 Kalinowskiego Street
tickets: 10 PLN/children, 15 PLN/adults - 17:00 A Week of Radical Abundance Finale – The Feast
co-organizer: Arsenał Gallery in Białystok
Arsenał elektrownia Gallery, 13 Elektryczna Street, entrance on Świętojańska Street, free entry - 18:30 rozdILovI: Serhiy Zhadan (UA), Ola Mykhajluk (UA), Alexy Vorsoba (BY), Tomasz Sikora (PL), Sergey Pilavec (UA), ART POLE (UA) (60’)
poetic-music-visual project
Białystok Puppet Theatre, 1 Kalinowskiego Street, tickets: 30 PLN - 20:30 Polo (UK) + Sonar (PL)
concert
Fama club, 5 Legionowa Street, tickets: 35 PLN
- 16:00 Baj Theatre: The Well behaved Girl (100’), dir. Maria Żynel
- 26/05 Sunday
- 12:00 Freedom and censorship in the times of post-truth
panel discussion featuring:
Edwin Bendyk, Alex Freiheit, rev. Wojciech Lemański, Anda Rottenberg, Tomasz Sikora, Joanna Wichowska, Serhiy Zhadan
moderator: Anna Łazar
Fama club, 5 Legionowa Street, free entry - 15:30 Komuna//Warszawa: No More War (60’) dir. Weronika Szczawińska
performance and Q&A with the artists
A. Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art – Faculty of Puppetry, 14 Sienkiewicza Street, tickets: 30 PLN - 18:00 H. Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Kraków: Hunger (60’) dir. Aneta Groszyńska
performance
Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street, tickets: 30 PLN - 20:00 H. Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Kraków: En Enemy of the People (130’) dir. Jan Klata
performance
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Białystok, 20 Świerkowa Street, tickets: 45 PLN
- 12:00 Freedom and censorship in the times of post-truth
Contemporary Art Days
Organized since 1985, the festival is one of the leading events of the Białystok Cultural Centre and the oldest and largest event of this type in the region. It is based on the theatre, but it is also enriched by other, numerous genres: visual arts, music, film and meetings with artists. The festival is aimed at people who value bold and innovative artistic projects, ready to meet with creators with a clear vision, discussing with the surrounding reality with the use of form, words, sounds and infinite imagination. For over three decades, the festival has hosted many artists from Poland and abroad.
Organizer: Białystok Cultural Centre
The festival is held under the honorary patronage of the Białystok City Mayor
The festival is financed by the City of Białystok
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