In this way, fulfilled will be the old dream of the man who, together with his team, has been building symbolic builds bridges across various borderlines of the world for a quarter of a century...
Broken bridges specialists. They try to cross over to the other side.
Gazeta Wyborcza", Monika Żmijewska, 27 August 2015
Many of them have never met before. And yet they have managed to build something together. Something physical and something intangible, that they and their audience took back home in the hearts. Who knows, perhaps, even further? Perhaps, after all they have experienced and learned in Borderland, they will build bridges not only locally, but also in other difficult places in the world?
Their Masters came from such difficult places to share their stories, and their listeners, for a moment, paid a visit to hell. Borderlands differ, just like stories."
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Jacek Bożek from the Gaja Club about the Village of Bridge Builders
The Invisible Bridge was built by us with other builders from Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Uganda, Israel, Great Britain, Norway, the United States and Belarus.
The Invisible Bridge was built from music, stories, ceramics, songs, textiles and wood participating in workshops theatre, art, music, nature, meetings and conversations.
Jacek Bożek and Beata Tarnawa from Gaja Club led a workshop entitled "Footsteps of Silence" for the builders of the Invisible Bridge under the Nature Studio. On the eighth day (August 21), we met in a circle to invite to the Village those who do not speak with the human voice.
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The Invisible Bridge on the border Full of signs and emotions
Gazeta Wyborcza", Monika Żmijewska, 21 August 2015
The bridge will assume the form of an artistic installation, the bridge will be sung and played, the bridge will also stay here and be used for further action.
- Its building blocks are knowledge and experience we have collected on different borderlands of the world. We are interested in "The Invisible Bridge," the things that during the transition to the other side are associated with hospitality, fear, anticipation, risk, memory and love. We are interested in relationships between human beings, between man and nature, between man and the Other. The builder of the bridge is a craftsman exploring the art of coexistence of different people. Perhaps, it is the most important skill in life, in our multicultural world - observes Krzysztof Czyżewski. - It's for exploring it that we have organized the Village of Bridge Builders, a constellation of studios dedicated to the creation of various elements of bridges.
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THE MYSTERY OF THE BRIDGE TOOK PLACE IN KRASNOGRUDA
Iwona Danilewicz, Niebywałe Suwałki, Dawka kultury, 24 August 2015
The Village of Bridge Builders in Borderland was preceded by many meetings, conversations and evenings dedicated to "The Tales of Coexistence" series. They were particles that created a fragment of a larger whole, a brick, a contribution to erect, to an appropriate level, a bridge between different people, different nations, or even different continents (as in the case of the Masters participating in the VBB). The foundation of the functioning of the Sejny "Borderland" has for over two decades been the art of bridge building basing on multiculturalism, but also on old disagreements or conflicts, as well as on positive relations.
Medea or Bridge
Lidia Ostałowska „Wyborcza.pl”. Duży Format 2 September 2015
Krzysztof Czyżewski (Borderland Foundation). - The bridge is a symbol that has been abused or made look infantile in the contemporary culture. But, it is difficult to find a more suitable symbol to describe our attachment to the whole. We attempt to perceive it anew.
So far, the both sides have been connected in the Borderland drawing on the cultures of small communities of the Sejny region, an area of many nationalities and denominations. Two years ago, our horizons broadened. During the workshops with youth and discussions with the Masters, we have analysed the Myth of Medea, its hidden meanings and successive incarnations. Homer, Hesiod, Euripides, Lars von Trier, Pier Paolo Pasolini ...