International Migrants’ Day in Nowy Wspaniały Świat i Sen Pszczoły Club.

Nowy Wspaniały Świat:

12.00-13.30

We begin with a morning of storytelling for children on the theme of neighbors. With our minds full of fairytale impressions, we’ll invite all the participants to a collective mosaic project, which will depict positive neighborly relations between people of different cultural and religious backgrounds. Artists and musicians from the group “Aka-Chukwu” will guide us through the morning storytelling and mosaic project. We’ll also present a newly published bilingual book of Ukrainian and Polish fairytales: “The World of Fairytales” (“Świat bajki”).

14.00-15.30

An Antidiscrimination Workshop: We’ll discuss how Polish law defines racial, ethnic or religious discrimination. We’ll also talk about how to fight against racism, what to do if you are personally touched by discrimination or a witness to such an event.

16.00-16.30

Film screenings in the series “Migrant Narratives”. Films in the series were produced with the help of young Polish film-makers. The films create a forum for expression of foreigners living in Poland who speak about such issues as raising children in a multicultural household, the problem of discrimination, learning Polish as a foreign language and being multi-lingual.

16.30-18.30

Panel discussion: “Neighbors – What future for a multicultural Poland?”. The panel will focus on topics related to social diversity in Poland, which raise a controversy. Invited panelists include:

  • Tomasz Lipski: poet, musician and co-organizer of the Polish festival „Music Against Intolerance and Violence”, which takes place annually in Sopot and will mark its 10th anniversary in 2011;

  • Aleksandra Winiarska: researcher at the University of Warsaw, she will present the results of her study “Neighbors or Intruders” about the neighborly relations between Polish citizens and foreigners in Warsaw;

  • Representative of the Muslim Community in Warsaw will discuss the presence of the Muslim community in Warsaw and comment on the plans to build a new mosque in Warsaw;

  • Moderator: Aleksandra Krzyżaniak-Gumowska, journalist in the “Duży Format” publication of the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

18.30-19.00

The group Rozśpiewania Warszawskie will share their interpretation of traditional Ukrainian songs.

After a full day of events, we invite you for an evening of concerts in the Club Sen Pszczoły (ul. Inżynierska 3 in Warsaw):

19.00-20.00, film screenings from the series „Migrant Narratives”

A screening of short documentary films in the second unveiling of the series “Migrant Narratives”. The films were created with the help of young film-makers and function as a forum for expression of foreigners living in Warsaw who speak about such issues as raising children in a multicultural household, the problem of discrimination, learning Polish as a foreign language and being multi-lingual.

20.00-21.00, Concert by Büfi Puki Banda

The members Büfi Puki Banda have been performing traditional music for years, thanks to the knowledge and skills they gained from village masters. They perform music in everyday life. One wintry evening almost in Belarus, two years of collaborative projects turned into a joint initiative called the Büfi Puki Banda.

With a dancer’s step, Büfi Puki Banda move across the periphery of European traditional music and theatre., They cross boundaries between different music styles; with the perfection of a skilled craftsman and with an alchemist’s passion, they unite, separate, mix, transform the normal into the super-real, the known into the unknown.

21.00-22.00, Concert by Yoga Terror

Yoga Terror is a Warsaw-band with international roots, which play energetic, funk/rock/metal with the hope of promoting openness and cultural diversity, tolerance for difference and positive thinking about life. The group was created by the Vietnamese-Polish guitarist Michał Truong and the percussionist Przemek “Kuczeg” Kuczyński. Krzysiek Truong (guitar), Daniel Posiadło (bass) and Peruvian vocalist Luis Escobar complete the group.

22.00…, DJ Lipi (reggae, raga and roots music)

Tomasz Lipski, better known as DJ Ras Lipi Man is one of the most interesting and original rastaman DJ’s in Poland. For him, DJ-ing is poetry. Alongside Larry Okey Ugwu, he co-organized the festival “Music Against Intolerance and Violence” in the city of Sopot. He is a poet, actor and cultural activist. He is also a member of the group Ikenga Drummers and a co-founder of the Theatre “LipZezRew”.