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Sunday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 pm at Club Europa,
98-104 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Ave. Greenpoint, Brooklyn,
NY 11222. More info:
646-322-4051.
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Singer and poet, composer and
guitar player, "Solidarity" bard. Since 1980 he
has performed at the legendary "Piwnica pod Baranami
Cabaret",
where his recital "Uncertain Time" has received
numerous awards. In collaboration with others his recitals
include "Evil
Hours" (1982), "My Litany" (1983) and "They
are telling me that over there, in Moscow..." (1985).
He has sung numbers from the "Piwnica pod Baranami" programs
on tour in the United States, Great Britain, France, Austria,
Sweden, Norway and Holland. His recitals have been seen in
Paris, Vienna, Russia and the Middle East. Recently he has
been showing the recital "Europe, Look at Me", including
songs written after 1989 and ironic stories about "the
things we all know about.”
His songs and poems have been published in three volumes: "Two
Important Words" (1989), "My Litany" (2001) and "Leszek
Wójtowicz - Poetry" (part of the cycle "Bards'
Library", 2001). He authored a poetic commentary to the
photo album of Professor Zbigniew Łagocki and Maria Pyrlik "House
on the Dams - on Janina Garycka, Potr Skrzynecki, Piwnica pod
Baranami" (2003). For four years he was editor or co-editor
of "Piwnica pod Baranami Journal", a bi-weekly independent
unit in the "Dziennik Polski" daily newspaper.
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Leszek Wojtowicz
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In the 1980s and 90s his work was featured in
numerous radio and television programs including "It's four o'clock in
the morning" (1981), "Everything May Happen" (1989), "Conversation
with Somebody” (1992) and "Return of the Bards" (1992).
One of the TV programs "The Hour of Sincerity" was
devoted exclusively to his work.
His most popular songs include "My Litany", "Prayer
for Peace", "On My Wife's Glamorous Eyes", "Just
Like Grass", "Still, Everything May Happen", "Vodka
is God Here", and five ballads about unforgettable people
connected with Piwnica pod Baranami (Janina Garycka, Piotr Skrzynecki
and Wiesław Dymny): "For Janina", "Liar", "Mercury
Sea", "Question at Dawn", "Quotations' Night".
His songs about contemporary reality include "Paradox Tower" and "Hymn
of the Lost".
On the 3 rd of May, 2006, the President of the Republic of Poland
granted Leszek Wójtowicz the Officer Cross of the Order
of the Revival of Poland for his exemplary contributions
to the democratic transformation in Poland. |
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Grzegorz Król has always been fascinated by the natural
surroundings of Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, where he was born in
1957 – by the woods of the Roztocze and the nearby meadows
and fields. Growing up next to the picturesque Wieprz River,
he observed its slow degradation during his childhood. This
river and its trees, together with the forests of the Szczebrzeszyn
neighborhood, serve him as the barometer of the slow but thorough
degradation of the environment. He decided to protest against
it, to protest with his paintings. He has been doing this for
16 years now.
Król is a "self made man". His main tutor
is nature itself. He has introduced a new style of panting
that combines an individual technique with deep emotions and
symbolism, all of which adds to the uniqueness of Król's
paintings. They seem to be three dimensional.Some people say
that his art is full of genius. Contemporary modernists are
more likely to consider Król's painting somewhat traditional.
However, everyone who stops in front of his paintings wants
to have them at home in the most prominent place. Why is it
so, you might wonder? |
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