The final event of this year’s SZCZECIN SPRING OF POETRY will take place on Monday, 1st July 2024 at 5 p.m. at the Lentz Villa as part of the cycle entitled ‘WE LOVE BOOKS’. The project, implemented by the ZLP Polish Writers’ Union, Szczecin branch, aims to promote book reading as well as the writings of Szczecin-based and other Polish authors, to revive literary tradition with the help of modern media, to encourage contact with poetry and visits to places where such contact is possible.
The preferred form of artistic event in this project is mutual interaction and interpenetration of arts, including in outdoor spaces, and the use of attractive modern media for poetry presentation, translating verse into the language of music, painting, impression-type films, theatre, pantomime, dance, ballet, happening, and performance.
The event programme at the Lentz Villa includes the announcement of the results of the 9th International Józef Bursewicz Poetry Competition for the GOLDEN METAPHOR. The competition’s prize is named after the famous METAFORA group of Szczecin-based artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which included Andrzej Maria Dzierżanowski, Ryszard Grabowski, Janusz Krzymiński, and Edward Balcerzan.
Poems awarded or recognised in any other form play a major role in every poet’s career. They allow little-known poets to make a name for themselves in the country’s literary scene. The competition also promotes the city of Szczecin itself. This year, the jury has assessed 375 poems submitted by 119 Polish and 6 foreign authors (from Austria, Germany, the United States, Sweden, Ukraine, and Great Britain). Many of these works demonstrate high literary standards. This year’s edition also confirms the convenience and popularity of using electronic communication in such contexts.
The prize presentation ceremony will be accompanied by a concert titled ‘I’m Cleaning My World with Music and Poetry (dir. Zenon Lach-Ceraszyński), performed by Krystyna Maksymowicz and Robert Gondek (actors of Szczecin’s Współczesny Theatre), Laura Wójcik (violinist, graduate of Łódź University of Music), and Michał Dąbrowski (accordionist, doctoral student at the Szczecin Academy of Art). The master of ceremonies is Przemysław Walich, an actor from the Współczesny Theatre in Szczecin.
Please join us for this event. Entry is free of charge.
2. Exhibition Finissage. Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors.
On behalf of the Lentz Villa and the Szczecin Club of Collectors – Devotees of Painting and Historical Art, we invite you to the final event of the exhibition Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors, which has been hosted at our villa.
The exhibition presents paintings by German artists, depicting the city in connection with the river Oder and the Port. The works come from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were created by artists associated with this region. The exhibition is thus designed to acquaint the city’s inhabitants and guests alike with the cultural heritage of our cross-border region.
Works presented at the exhibition include Fritz Modrow’s Szczecin Port, Eduard Krause-Wichmann’s View of Stepnica from the Szczecin Lagoon, Julius Paulsen’s The Port in Szczecin, Otto Lang-Wollin’s Summer on the Lagoon, as well as several paintings by Hans Hartig. The works come from the private collections of Polish owners associated with the Szczecin Club of Collectors – Devotees of Painting and Historical Art.
Entry is free of charge.
The project Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors is a cross-border cultural offer co-financed from the funds of the Interreg VI A Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Brandenburg / Poland Cooperation Programme 2021-2027. The project enriches the Polish-German cross-border cultural offer with a number of joint undertakings aiming to increase the attractiveness and accessibility of cultural events in the borderland for both the inhabitants of West Pomerania and tourists. The exhibition Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors is one of the project’s elements.
