An auction and a photo exhibition by Enigma Theatre and Aware.ie will take place this Friday 1st August in InSpire Galerie to donate to Aware.ie, who support people experiencing depression and mental health problems in Ireland. Photographs captured through the lenses of three gifted photographers at Enigma’s play will be presented and put up for auction. Polish National Tourist Office representative will also invite to Poland and present tourist materials.
Last month, Enigma Theatre staged an avant-garde play ”The Madman and The Nun” by Witkacy in Smock Alley Theatre, one of the most innovative theatres in Dublin. It received great reviews (RTE ARENA) and sold out all the shows. The production can be seen as relevant today due to the recession’s bleak impact on society, the rising numbers of people suffering from mental health issues and depressions, the nations’ growing insecurity
and questioning of authority figures within society. For this reason, Enigma Theatre is organising the photo exhibition of ”The Madman & the Nun” combined with an auction.
It will also be an opportunity to meet play’s directors: Karolina Szemerda and Serina Griffin, producers Paweł Czarnowski and Artur Banaszkiewicz. The latter will conduct the auction.
Marek Niedźwiecki – Poland’s top music journalist, whose radio programmes were a point of contact with the Western world for millions of Poles in the 1980s, otherwise deprived of entertainment and knowledge of pop culture on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
The first two meetings held in Trinity College Dublin, will be moderated by Dr Jacqueline Hayden, a former RTÉ journalist and a distinguished academic whose main field of expertise is Poland’s political transformation. Dr. Hayden has conducted hundreds of interviews on the topic in Poland since the early 1980s, for which she was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Poland.
The meetings held in the EU House will be moderated by Zbyszek Zaliński, an RTÉ journalist and RTÉ Radio 1 presenter of Polish origin. Polish Tourist Organisation will distribute information materials inviting to Poland. Brochures on various cities and regions will be provided.
Tue, 09.09.2014, 6:30pm, EU House, 18 Dawson St.,D2
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, former Polish Prime Minister of the left, will share his impressions and memories over the events of late 1980s and early 1990s in Poland, of which he was a central figure.
The meeting will be moderated by Dr Jacqueline Hayden (TCD), a former RTÉ journalist and a distinguished academic whose main field of expertise is Poland’s political transformation.
Polish Tourist Organisation will distribute information materials inviting to Poland. Brochures on various cities and regions will be provided. The talk is free and open to the public and it will be conducted in English.
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz – leading Polish politician of the left, senator and lawyer.In democratic Poland, he was a member and a leading politician of the left-wing Democratic Left Alliance. He was elected the Prime Minister of Poland in 1996 – 1997, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the years 2001–2005 and the speaker of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament) in 2005.
In his capacity as Foreign Minister, he signed the Accession Treaty that paved way to Polish membership in the European Union. In 2007 Cimoszewicz won Senate seat as an independent candidate, which he holds until now.
Tue, 20.05.2014, 6:30pm
The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Janusz Onyszkiewicz will share his memories and impressions from the struggle against the Communist regime in the 1980s, the Round Table Talks in which he took part, first free Polish elections and the first years of Polish democracy.
Janusz Onyszkiewicz was a leading “Solidarity” figure, a spokesperson for the “Solidarity” movement under Communism who, after 1989, served as Minister of Defence and as a leading Polish MEP.
The meeting will be moderated by Dr Jacqueline Hayden, a former RTÉ journalist and a distinguished academic whose main field of expertise is Poland’s political transformation. Dr. Hayden has conducted hundreds of interviews on the topic in Poland since the early 1980s, for which she was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Poland.
Polish Tourist Organisation will distribute information materials inviting to Poland. Brochures on various cities and regions will be provided. The talk is free and open to the public and will be conducted in English.
Tue, 13.05.2014, 6:30pm, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
