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BORDERLAND FOUNDATION
Borderland Foundation was established in May 1990. It is an independent non-governmental organisation, and does not conduct any political or economic activity. The Foundation's program activity is devoted exclusively to propagating the ethos of the borderland, and to building bridges between the peoples of different religions, ethnicities, nationalities, and cultures. It was founded by a group of culture animators with experience in theatre work, the theatres of "Gardzienice" (Gardzienice village near Lublin)and "Stop" (Słupsk), at the "Dąbrówka" Culture Center in Poznań (Krzysztof Czyżewski, Małgorzata Sporek-Czyżewska) and the Communal Culture Center in Czarna Dąbrówka in the Cassubian region (Wojciech and Bożena Szroeder). They started cooperation already in the second half of 1980s, organising The Village of Meeting. International Workshops of Alternative Culture held yearly in Czarna Dąbrówka. During their many-month journey East in 1990 they found themselves in Sejny. Here is located the Foundation's main office, there are also Foundation offices in Suwałki and Warsaw. In 2003 was established the Society of the Borderland Foundation Friends, registered in the U.S.A, with its office in Alexandria, near Washington. The Foundation's activity is mainly supported by the grants from various institutions and organisations, as well as by private donations. The Foundation closely cooperates with the Center "The Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations." Both institutions are connected through similar goals, as well as, statutorily, through Cooperation Agreement.
Recent Reports: 2008 - 2007
Management Board:
Krzysztof Czyżewski – President
Bożena Szroeder – member of the Management Board
Wojciech Szroeder – member of the Management Board
Małgorzata Sporek-Czyżewska – member of the Management Board
Borderland Foundation Staff
Małgorzata Sporek-Czyżewska (Foundation Director) - e-mail: teatr@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Zbigniew Tylenda (Accountant) - e-mail: zbigniew@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Anita Sznejder (Secretary, Publishing Programme) - e-mail: anita@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Jolanta Jurkunas (Publishing Programme) - e-mail: jolanta@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Ksenija Konopek (Glass Bead Game Programme) - e-mail: ksenija@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Bożena Szroeder (Educational Programs) - e-mail: teatr@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Wojciech Szroeder (Education Programs) - e-mail: centrum@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Krzysztof Czyżewski (New Agora Program, Publishing Programme) e-mail: kris@pogranicze.sejny.pl
Co-operation:
Joanna Kulas (New Agora Program)
Mikołaj Gołubiewski (Summer Borderland Academy Program)
Wiesław Szumiński (artist)
Ewa Przytuła (designer)
Norbert Hoffman (designer)
Zdzisław Dudek (English translator)
Paweł Tylenda (IT service)
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| Reinventing Agora in modern society
New Mission of the Borderland Foundation
The new mission assumes that within the period of next five years the Foundation is going to prepare itself for to transmit its knowledge and experience gained in the multicultaral environment of the Central and Eastern European borderlands into a more universal language and open for cooperation with other parts of the world. More... |
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First issue of "Krasnogruda" appeared in 1993. Most issues are of monographic character, and are devoted to a chosen region of Central and East Europe (Bosnia, Bukowina), or the city (Prague).
17th issue of "Krasnogruda" presents contemporary literature, painting art, religious issues, and most important publications about Central Europe in New Jork More |
| Publishing Program
It has existed since 1993. It is an integral part of the Borderland Foundation that commits itself to promotion of the multicultural regions of Central and East Europe. We publish the cultural magazine "Krasnogruda" and the belles-lettres, publicism, history, and anthropology. In 1999 we started a series Meridian, presenting the works of distiguished authors of Central and East Europe. The series was awarded by the "Literatura na świecie" magazine in 2001. More... | |
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BORDERLAND FORUM
The meetings, now called The Borderland Forum, started after the seminar The Cultures of Little Homelands in East and Central Europe – new froms of action, which took place in Sejny on May 1-3, 1992. The guests from Hungary, Romania, Bulgary, Chechoslovakia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland dealing with the problems of development and cooperation of different East and Central Europe regions took part in it. | |
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At the beginning there was an idea to create literature cafeé. Just this. But not a minor one. Let it be called Café Europe, like it used to be in Czerniowce, Sarajevo, Vienna, or Paris.
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