• Culture offensive marks Warsaw Rising anniversary
  • 30.07.2010

Several culture events are being lined up for the 66th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1944 Warsaw Rising, including a new music CD with a pink alien on the cover, a photo exhibition and even a satirical puppet show.

 

Friday evening in Freedom Park in the  Warsaw Rising Museum, a concert promoting the release of the wawa2010.pl album will take place. The album, with a pink alien on the cover, is a musical record of the history of Warsaw from the interwar period to the present. It contains some of the best known and most loved songs about Warsaw written in the past hundred years (see video below).

 

On Saturday, an exhibition of thirty, so far unpublished, photos from the Warsaw Rising begins at the Warsaw University of Technology. The photos taken by anonymous photographers, show how enthusiastic and hopeful Varsovians were at the beginning of the Warsaw Rising on 1 August 1944 and how much the city was destroyed at the end of the battle.

 

Also on Saturday, a tenement house in the Warsaw Powisle will host a satirical puppet show depicting everyday life of Varsovians during the Warsaw Rising. The spectacle will be a reminder of a puppet theatre held at a barricade, despite war raging around it.

 

On 1 August, Varsovians will gather at Pilsudski Square to watch parts of the musical Forbidden Songs, a story of musicians with WW II and the Warsaw Rising in the background. The film shows how important patriotic songs were for Poles under the Nazi occupation and during the fights. After the film Varsovians will sing forbidden rising songs together. 

 

At midnight a spectacle I’ll Tell You a Story will be staged at the Warsaw Rising Museum. The play, directed by Pawel Lysak, is based on fairy tales by Zofia Lorentz and accounts of the Warsaw Rising by children who witnessed it. The spectacle will show the 1944 Warsaw Rising from a child’s point of view.

 

From 1 August onwards, visitors of the Warsaw Rising Museum will have an opportunity to watch City of Ruins - the first in history 3D view of the destruction of the Polish capital after 1944’s Warsaw Rising. (mg/pg)

 

 Source: PAP, 1944.pl

 

Exert from waw2010.pl album



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