Talk | Women | Ewa Grochowska (POL) (PJM) | age 18+

In 2021, we presented a series of online lectures prepared for us by Ewa Grochowska. Under the shared theme “Women”, the ten-part series featured stories about, among others, remarkable traditional singers and instrumentalists.

During the festival, we return to this idea, inviting everyone to meet Ewa Grochowska and listen to her stories about two more extraordinary women – Józefa Pidek from Bychawka and Paulina Hołysz from Strupin Duży.

This is how Ewa Grochowska introduces the concept behind the series:

Village women: singers, weavers, embroiderers, cooks, and leaders of traditional rituals. Mothers, homemakers, folk healers, and midwives. Also instrumentalists, church organists, makers of everyday and decorative objects. Women who initiated major social and cultural changes within their communities, and those who cared for both the living and the dead, whether family members or strangers. The life story of each of them has been shaped not only by what women, for centuries, had to accept because of their gender, social status, upbringing, and the detailed rules governing life in traditional communities. I see them through the lens of their extraordinary skills, talents, and inner strength, which enabled them to fulfil one of humanity’s strongest and most unique needs – the need to create.

Details

When: August 23 (Sunday), 14:00-16:00
Where: Workshops of Culture, Grodzka 5a, auditorium, 2nd floor
For: adults

Number of participants limited, admission on a first-come, first-served basis
Admission free

Accessibility

The event will be translated into Polish Sign Language. Interpreters: Jolanta Gromada and Łukasz Grzesiuk