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No. 9 路 Feb 2011
KujawskoPomorskie Newsletter
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Our delegation at the Vth Cohesion Forum in Brussels The representatives of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region were present at the Vth Cohesion Forum in Brussels this year. The Marshal Piotr Calbecki, Michał Korolko and Maciej Krużewski participated in this important event on the 31st of January and the 1st of February. The interest in the event was overwhelming as it was the last opportunity for Member States and regions to make their voices heard before the Commission presents its legislative proposals on the future cohesion policy, due out by summer 2011. The programme included high-level speakers such as the President of European Commission José Manuel Barroso, the Prime Ministers of Hungary (Viktor
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Orban), of Poland (Donald Tusk) and of Lithuania (Andrius Kubilius), and the OECD Secretary General Ángel Gurría. The hosts of the forum was the Commissioners Johannes Hahn and Lászlo Andor. The event looked in particular at the role of cohesion policy in delivering the Europe 2020 Strategy — which sets out the sustainable economic development blueprint for the EU for the next decade. Four thematic panels during the event, each chaired by an EU Commissioner, focused on key components of the strategy: smart growth, green growth, inclusive growth, and the territorial dimension of Europe 2020. .
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The Marshal Piotr Całbecki meets with the Commissioner Kallas On the 31st of January 2011 the Marshal Piotr Całbecki participated in the meeting with the Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas in the European Commission in Brussels. The meeting was related to the creation of the BalticAdriatic Corridor, one of the most important goals of the local government of Kujawsko-Pomorskie.
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Together with other six regions the local government of Kujawsko-Pomorskie signed, on the 23rd of June 2010, the intention letter to support the creation of the corridor. The local government is aware that the creation of this transport
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route has the potential to bring visible economic and infrastructural changes to our region. The Marshal Całbecki has made transport issues one of the priorities of his politics. He is a great supporter of independent initiatives, that are to ensure the improvement of the external and internal communication of our region such as the development of the regional airport in Bydgoszcz and renovation of the regional railways. Moreover he recognized the special role of the express roads S-5 and S-10 that are in the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor. Aware of the fact that they will not only improve the connections of the Bydgoszcz-Toruń agglomeration with the Polish seaports but they will enable the functioning of the Bydgoszcz-Toruń Multimodal Platform, the Marshal Całbecki made a clear and strong statement to the Commissioner Kallas.
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Lighting Up
the Elements
We already know the concept of the third edition of Skyway International Light Festival that will be held in Toruń on August 9–13th. The Gothic Old Town will be controlled by five elements: earth, fire, air, water and space ether. Fascinating light installations will be prepared by international and local artists who will take viewers on a remarkable journey at the intersection of science and art. Vth Cohesion Forum
The most representative buildings of urban architecture: Old Town Hall, Collegium Maximum, Moat of the Teutonic Castle, Centre of Contemporary Art will be in the hands of artists who use light as a plastic material of art. On the festival’s website (www.skyway.art.pl) proposed locations for
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light installations are presented along with the application form for the artists who want to participate in this year’s festival. The artists can submit their projects by March 31th.
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Skyway International Light Festival is an unique spectacle of light which attracts thousands of spectators every year. “Skyway just like other light festivals held in Venice, Vienna and Lyon presents art in a modern way. The festival combines light art with the astronomical tradition of Toruń” — explains Agnieszka Marecka, coordinator of the festival. “Skyway is a non-profit event, and the idea of art in public spaces, of art involving the audience is close to us.” This year’s edition refers to the classical concept of the four elements: earth, water, fire and air. The coexistence of the four elements as the basis of the material world and its phenomena was described by Empedocles. Aristotle systematized this concept and added the fifth element — ether — symbolizing the quintessence, the divine substance, to them. The Greek conception of the elements strongly influenced European tradition and culture.
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“Skyway’s 2011 artistic program once again celebrates human imagination in a world which is becoming more and more infinite, but also more and more proximate to our reasoning, by means of contemporary science, namely astronomy, astrophysics and astrobiology” — says Mário Caeiro, artistic director of Skyway. “Since the stars are closer, in reaching for them again we want to understand also our own fundamental ‘elements’ — forces and interactions ruling inside us.” The organizer of Skyway International Light Festival is Municipal Institution of Culture Toruń 2016.
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Improvised Projects Four evenings of February will resound improvised music at the students’ club “Od Nowa” in Toruń. The extended edition of Od Nowa Jazz Festival will start on February 23. Beyond extending festival with two days, the idea of the event remains the same. This is the meeting of different generations representing the various trends of music improvisation. As always, the stars will play on stage. Vth Cohesion Forum
During this year’s festival we will hear new musical projects. Such is the case with the first festival guest — Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet. Experienced with punk and jazz music, Pink Freud’s founder with his quintet recorded the album „Smells Like Tape Spirit,” which will be released
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shortly before the festival. This particular composition will have be presented on the third day of the festival by a trio. At the piano a great experimenter, Leszek Możdżer, will sit. Along him Tymon Tymański will play, moving in different spheres of music. Artists collaborated with each other in the “Love” formation while the band drummer comes from the “Yass Ensable” group. The combination of these personalities will come out as something interesting and original. Not only the instruments During the festival one will be able to listen to jazz with vocals twice. The first night on stage will belong to Krystyna Stańko and her sextet. Her concert will be a tribute to Peter Gabriel, so we will hear the author’s songs in jazz arrangements. “Mikromusic” formation will create a special microclimate in the club. The band combines jazz with trip hop and funky. Musical productions During the Jazz Od Nowa Festival one cannot miss the guests from abroad. Some of them will perform with Polish musicians. That is the case with konikiewicz@transgroove
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performance. An important event of the festival will be certainly a presentation of the “Komeda” project composed of Polish, Brazilian and American musicians. Music of the great composer will be arranged by a great saxophonist Adam Pierończyk who invited Greg Osby to cooperation. From Europe to the world For the first time jazz musicians from our southern border will come to the festival. Slovak AMC trio will perform with Ulf Wakenius, a Swedish guitarist living in USA. The musician has already achieved worldwide fame. He collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson and Pat Metheny. AMC Trio is a recognized formation in Europe. The band’s music includes elements of jazz, Slovak pop and folk. On the last day of the festival, apart from the “Komeda” project, we will have an opportunity to listen to the quartet founded by acclaimed Swiss jazzman Samuel Blaser — trombonist, composer, and arranger. We will hear compositions full of softness and charm. (mak), “Ikar”
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Is it friendship or love? The latest premiere of the Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toruń evokes the most famous Polish songs, full of romance and melancholy. This unique concert entitled “Is it friendship or love?” consists of songs with lyrics written by the poets Marek Czuryło, Konstanty Iildefons Gałczyński, Marek Grechuta, Adam Mickiewicz, Tadeusz Nowak, Andrzej Nowicki, Julian Tuwim, Liliana Wiśniowska and Stanisław Wyspiański. Vth Cohesion Forum
The unforgettable interpretations of Marek Grechuta, the famous bard of Cracow, are rediscovered by successive generations of listeners. During the concert new interpretations of songs known from the repertoire of Marek Grechuta will be performed — those very popular from the
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times of splendor of Anawa band and those from the period of solo career of the artist. All songs have been prepared in excellent arrangements of Tomasz Łuca. The theme of the concert is love and accompanying feelings, moments of elation, doubts, dilemmas and confidence, enthusiasm and failures.
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“This evening at the theatre will be a kind of elusive psychoanalysis, in which we ask what is the delicate fabric called happiness” — explains Jacek Bończyk, stage director, known to Toruń’s audience thanks to the musical performance “Citizen” with the songs of Grzegorz Ciechowski and music fairy tale “Puss in Boots.”
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The Gentle Country
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A postcard from Kociewie — the gentle country We invite you to Kociewie! We invite you to visit, get to know and experience the Gentle Country. Our little homeland is one of the ethnocultural regions of the Polish Pomerania. Around 340,000 Kociewian people live happily and are awaiting you at the twisted ribbons of our rivers: Wierzyca, Wda (also called Black Water) and Wisła, surrounding Kociewie in the East. Vth Cohesion Forum
We are looking out for you from the marinas and virgin coasts of our numerous, idyllic lakes. We are looking out for you expectantly from the hills, which spread over our region. We are waiting for you amongst the vast pine woods, thickets and beech forests.
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Apart from us you will be greeted by the fauna and flora untouched by the 21st century as well as the gentle, friendly climate any time of the year. The land at the Wisła River, open for you currently only on your screens, but open for you with all its people, for you to really and fully experience it, possesses traditions of many centuries, whose witnesses are the numerous architectural monuments, but also the folk creative output, the local dialect and local cuisine. An example can be the inviting glow of fire lit in the night on the towers of medieval castles, luring you to Kociewie, the ballrooms of numerous palaces, small and big manor houses lit by candelabrums, and those hungry for culinary impressions let themselves be led by the smells of our local delicacies. A good journey is heralded by extraordinary places of cult, reflection and meditation, cared for according to the tradition of the Kociewie. This is a land of unique landscapes, historical heritage, original folk culture, inhabited by cheerful
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people. This is a hospitable land — you will find peace and tranquility, and the moments spend here will stay in your minds for a long time. You will remember the walks, trips, strolls, rides, canoeing trip and trails. Kociewie consists of numerous footpaths, biketrails, waterways and horseriding trails to spend your time actively. Choose from what you already know and love and what you dream of trying, but never had the opportunity to do it, because no one ever invited you on into a canoe or on the back of a horse. Kociewie, “the Gentle Country”, invites you!
Municipal Institution of Culture Toruń 2016 ul. Pod Krzywą Wieżą 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland phone: +48 56 621 0 333 fax: +48 56 651 02 37 e-mail: info@torun2016.eu www.torun2016.eu Information Office of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region Avenue de Tervuren 84, 1040 Brussels, Belgium phone: +32 2 734 12 17 fax: +32 2 734 29 96 e-mail: brussels@kujawsko-pomorskie.pl www.mojregion.eu