Remember. Katyń 1940.

“HORYZONTY” Socio-Cultural Animation Center

The winner of educational project contest, part of the “Remember. Katyń 1940” campaign, is the “HORYZONTY” Socio-Cultural Animation Center. Their project, titled “Tarnów Buttons”, was highly original and undertook varied initiatives thematically tied to the Katyń Genocide. These include, among others: theater workshops, film viewings, art contests, a happening, numerous exhibition and talks.

The detailed schedule is as follows:

August 13th — 22nd: Theater workshops in Lutowiska, during which a script for the happening was written.

August 24th: Opening of an art contest inspired by the words of Feliks Konarski: “And all that was left after that Katyń night was memory”. The rules of the contest are available at http://www.horyzonty.org.pl (under the “Tarnowskie Guziki” link). The contest is targeted at Tarnów junior high school and high school students, as well as college students. The contest will be held in parallel with workshops, during which participants will have a chance to consult their projects with artists and take part in lectures and talks devoted to the events that took place in Katyń. The workshops will take place from September 28th to October 5th, and will lead by Anna Śliwińska-Kukla.

September 3rd — September 10th: Art workshops held by Tarnów artist Jacek Kucaba. The goal of the workshop is to create Katyń banners/large-format pictures to be installed on September 14th in downtown Tarnów, in order to provoke residents to thought.

The topic of the workshops will be “Super-memory”, or the element of national consciousness without which a nation dies. In the dark times of communism — times of falsehood and concealment, the word “Katyń” was stricken from public use as well as the encyclopedia. In those days, memory played the key role. TO REMEMBER AGAINST ALL ODDS — that is our duty to those who died.

September 14th

In the early morning, banners will be hung on Wałowa Street, and a photo exhibition will be set up. The exhibition consists of 20 panels presenting the history of soldiers murdered in Katyń, Charków and Miednoje, as well as drawings by Mr. Stanisław Westfalewicz — an artist with roots in the Tarnów region, a former prisoner of Kozielsk who managed to escape death.

10:00 am — 4:30 pm — Theatrical Street Event. Location: Wałowa Street in Tarnów.

5:00 pm — Official exhibition opening on Wałowa Street, short lecture, followed by a walk (with a guide) along the route of places of memory devoted to Katyń (the route will include, among others, the Philipine Church, where the Tarnów Buttons are located.

7:00 pm — Concert of patriotic songs in modern arrangements. The set will include songs by Dawid Hallmann devoted to the memory of the victims of the Katyń Genocide. The performers include: Arkadiusz Boryczka, Piotr Czarnecki, Dawid Hallmann and Mirosław Poświatowski. Location: Wałowa Street.

8:00 pm — Viewing of the film “The Katyń Forest”, directed by Marcel Łoziński and “Thou Shall Not Kill”, directed by Józef Dębski. The event will be preceded by a word of introduction by film theorist Jerzy Świtek. During the viewing, CDs with multimedia presentations and song recordings from Tarnów Buttons project will be distributed. Location: Wałowa Street.

September 17th — October 26th — Opening of the exhibition in Tarnów schools. In each of the following schools, lectures will also be held:

High School nr. 1 (Sept. 17th — Sept. 21st
High School nr. 3 (Sept. 24th — Sept. 9th)
Artur Grottger Art School (Oct. 1st — Oct. 10th)
High School nr. 2 (Oct. 8th — Oct. 12th)
High School nr. 4 and Junior High School nr. 10 (Oct. 15th — Oct. 19th)
School of Business in Tarnów (Oct. 22nd — Oct. 26th)

October 19th — “And all that was left after that Katyń night was memory” — Deadline for submissions.

October 22nd — Announcement of results at the Tarnów Cultural Center, followed by awards ceremony and contest exhibition opening.

October 30th — Closing of contest exhibition and completion of project.