20+2 OR A VIEW FROM BORDERLAND: 7 day meeting: 28 April – 04 May 2012
28.04.2012 / Saturday / Opening Agora / Sejny
6.00 p.m. – Opening Agora: Irena Grudzińska-Gross (Chairman of the Borderland Council), Tomas Venclova (poet and the "Borderlander"), Bogdan Zdrojewski (Minister of Culture and National Heritage), Jarosław Dworzański (Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodship), Andrzej Strumiłło (Artist Painter – Friend of Borderland). White Synagogue
7.30 p.m. – Eybike Mame – the première concert of songs from the pre-war Yiddish theatres and cabarets performed by Małgorzata Czyżewska and Klezmer Orchestra. White Synagogue
9.00 p.m. Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
29.04.2012 / Sunday / Krasnogruda Pedagogical Province / Krasnogruda
9.30 a.m. Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
10.30 a.m. Open Workrooms (Małgorzata Czyżewska)
- Manor House – In Search of a Homeland: Czesław Miłosz – Exhibition (Paulina Gorlewska)
- Ateliers (ground floor) – Clay Books – (Wiesław Szumiński)
- Ateliers (upper floor) – Lithuanian Songs (Janczulewicz Sisters, Witold Boćwiński)
- Manor House – a film version of the Issa Valley performance (Weronika Czyżewska)
- Manor House – Library, Miłosz and Venclova collections (Agata Szkopińska)
- Annexe – Sejny Lectorium (Małgorzata Czyżewska)
- Park – Installations: Confidant with Child's Oaths, On Porcelain, The Hammock with Poetry.
1.00 p.m. Lunch / Manor Cellars
2.00 p.m. – Symposion (I): Andrzej Mencwel (Warsaw), Tadeusz Sławek (Katowice), Christopher Baldwin (London), Egidijus Aleksandravičius (Kaunas).
4.00 p.m. – Krasnogruda Route – a meeting on the project and the book
6.00 p.m. – Dinner / Ateliers
7.00 p.m. – The Runes of the Polish-Lithuanian Borderland – a concert featuring ALNA folk band from Puńsk.
8.00 p.m. – An Evening with Master: Rebirth of the Place – Nikos Stavroulakis, initiator of the restoration of the Etz Chaim Synagogue, Chania, Greece and realization of the meeting of cultures programme
30.04.2012 / Monday / Music of the Place / Sejny
9.30 a.m. – Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
1.00 p.m. – Open Workrooms (Wojciech Szroeder, Michał Moniuszko)
- Sejny Jazz Cooperative – a café with live music by Marycha River Brass Band,
- Borderland House Cinema with the film tales of "The Musicians' Raft"
2.30 p.m. – Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
4.00 p.m. – Symposion (II) Sejny Jazz Cooperative: Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine (Paris), Marek Zaleski (Warsaw), Leszek Szaruga (Warsaw), Vytautas Toleikis (Vilnius), Konstanty Gebert (Warsaw), Ian Watson (Newark)
6.30 p.m. – Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
7.30 p.m. – The Music of the Place – a concert featuring: Max Furmański, Małgorzata Czyżewska, Aleksandra Bilińska, Raphael Rogiński, Marcin Masecki, The Music of the Place Orchestra in White Synagogue
9.00 p.m. – An Evening with Master: Max Furmański – rabbi and cantor from Israel, born in Sejny.
01.05.2012 / Tuesday / Line of Return / Krasnogruda – Sejny
9.30 a.m. – Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
1.00 p.m. – Lunch / Manor House Cellars
2.00 p.m. – Open Workrooms (Krzysztof Czyżewski)
- A Walk with Miłosz, Krasnogruda
- Miłosz – Dialogue – Borderland – on the book and practising of the idea
4.00 p.m. – Symposion (III): Grzegorz Godlewski (Warsaw), Małgorzata Dziewulska (Warsaw), Leszek Kolankiewicz (Warsaw), Krzysztof Rutkowski (Paris-Warsaw), Ruth Ellen Gruber (Morruzze), Mileta Prodanović (Belgrade), Mirosław Sawicki (Warszawa).
7.00 p.m. – The Line of Return – performance by Studio Teatralne, directed by Piotr Borowski. White Synagogue
8.30 p.m. – Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
9.00 p.m. – An Evening with Master: On Active Culture – Ludwig Flaszen, Jerzy Grotowski's collaborator and literary director of the Laboratory Theater.
02.05.2012 / Wednesday / Sejny Chronicles / Sejny
9.30 a.m. – Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
11.00 a.m. – Open Workrooms (Bożena Szroeder)
- Borderland House Cinema: Borderland Fairy Tale Collection. Borderland Songs and Tales.
- Borderland House: making of the animated film Return based on the poem by Czesław Miłosz, directed by Joanna Polak.
2.00 p.m. – Lunch / Skarpa Restaurant
3.00 p.m. – Symposion (IV): Elżbieta Ficowska (Warsaw), Katarzyna and Paweł Winiarski (Teremiski), Dorota Łepkowska (Godki), Alina Wawrzeniuk (Białystok), Grażyna Klimczak (Warszawa), Adam Bartosz (Tarnów), and teachers from Sejny, chaired by Dorota Galusek. Sejny Jazz Cooperative.
6.00 p.m. – Sejny Chronicles – performance directed by Bożena Szroeder in White Synagogue.
7.30 p.m. – Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
8.30 p.m. – An Evening with Master: The Rebirth of the Place – Kunzang Choden, writer and collector of fables and folk tales from Bhutan, restorer of the Ogjen Czoling Monastery in the Himalayas.
03.05.2012 / Thursday / Meridian / Sejny
9.30 a.m. – Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
2.30 p.m. – Lunch / Skarpa Restaurant
4.00 p.m. – Café Meridian (Jolanta Jurkunas, Anita Sznejder), meetings with writers, Sejny Jazz Cooperative.
- Dorota and Łukasz Galusek (Cracow), Borderland. About the Rebirth of Culture.
- Irena Grudzińska-Gross (New York), Honor, Horror and the Classics. Essays.
- Ivan Čolović (Belgrade), Ethno. Tales of World Music on the Internet.
6.00 p.m. – Dinner / Skarpa Restaurant
7.00 p.m. – Café Europa: Chris Keulemans (Amsterdam), Kunzang Choden (Timpu), Alicja Rybałko (Vilnius), Birutė Jonuškaitė (Vilnius), Peter Jukes (London), Christopher Merrill (Iowa), in White Synagogue.
9.00 p.m. – An Evening with Master: Surprise
04.05.2012 / Friday / Day + / Krasnogruda – Sejny
9.30 a.m. – Breakfast / Gospoda na Granicy
1.00 p.m. – Lunch / Manor Cellars
2.00 p.m. – Open Workrooms (Ksenija Konopek)
- Borderland Plus – visions and plans for future work
- Forum of Cooperation – concepts and objectives of partner activities
3.30 p.m. – Bobo's Garden – opening of the exhibition in the Krasnogruda park, presenting graphic, architectonic, installation and multimedia projects dedicated to the space for children and "the children in us."
4.00 p.m. – Symposion (V): Rigels Halili (Tirana), Oiko Petersen (Warsaw), Husein Orucević (Mostar), Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Ann Arbor), Edwin Bendyk (Warsaw), Aleksander Fiut (Cracow).
7.00 p.m. – Dinner
8.00 p.m. – A concert of The Klezmer Orchestra of The Sejny Theatre – Party and Dance till the morning. Krasnogruda Manor House Cellars.
The event will be accompanied by:
- An exhibition of Leon Tarasewicz's work dedicated to Borderland.
- An exhibition presenting the "Bobo's Garden" project – an interactive installation dedicated to the space for children and "the children in us", in the Krasnogruda park.
- A retrospective exhibition of posters from 1990-2012, the Borderland archives.
- "20+2" – an exhibition of photographs documenting Borderland's activities, curator Grzegorz Dąbrowski.
- An exhibition: In Search of a Homeland. Czesław Miłosz’s Testimony and Prophecies in Krasnogruda Manor House.