Seasons
Seasons is a public programme during which together with the public and invited guests we shall think about various life strategies in the time of a climate crisis. The seasons in the title refer not only to the seasons of the year, in accordance with which we could in theory live a harmonious life, but also give us food for thought about what is taking place right here and right now.
The seasons of the year used to refer us to specific stages of the nature’s cycle, settle us in the actual present time. Today, in the time of crisis, they become unclear, ambiguous and start to lose their – one would expect permanent – features, like snow in winter, mud and rain in early spring in Central Europe.
What can we do with this experience of being a witness to the vanishing of natural cycles and seasons the human body is also subject to? How to observe them carefully to be able to accept the situation? What can give us inspiration to look for ways to adjust to the changes? Where do we get the feeling of empowerment from in this experience? Is mourning appropriate?
Rambling and watching the nature in different seasons, exercising and learning about the permaculture, walking, creating, talking, getting inspiration from the practices of various artists, we shall ask questions together. Maybe sometimes we shall be able to find responses to some of them. Come and joins us in our exercises on the reality of seasonal transformation.
In BWA Wrocław, we get inspiration from the cyclicity and transformation of natural seasons. Our clock measuring the flow of time will be the Wrocław Sewage Farms – formerly a sewage plant and today an area of nature-culture.
If you need a Polish Sign Language interpreter, write to us at least 4 days ahead of the event at the following address: m.weber@bwa.wroc.pl. If you need assistance in getting to the gallery, write to us or phone us at: sic@bwa.wroc.pl, +48 71 784 39 00. If you need an English-Polish or Ukrainian-Polish interpreter, write to us at least 4 days ahead of the event at the following address: sekretariat@bwa.wroc.pl
→ Meeting schedule:
- 20-21.04.2024, SIC! BWA Wrocław
Gardening for Difficult Times. Composting and Permaculture for Starters. Conducted by: Marek Styczyński - 19.05.2024, 11 a.m., Las Rędziński (Rędziny Forest)
Ramble– Spring. Flitches – Ecotones
Conducted by: Małgorzata Piszczek and Marian Piszczek - 6-7.07.2024, Wrocławskie Pole Irygacyjne (Wrocław Sewage Farms)
Walking Together. Artistic Open-Air Meeting
Conducted by: Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek - 24.08.2024, 12 p.m., SIC! BWA Wrocław
Family workshop on making paper from plants
Conducted by: Maja Dokudowicz - 31.08.2024, Wrocławskie Pola Irygacyjne (Wrocław Sewage Farms)
Ramble – Summer. Fruit
Conducted by: Marian Piszczek - 7.09.2024, BWA Wrocław Główny (Main Railway Station)
Breathing Workshop
Conducted by: Katarzyna Kamińska - 21.09.2024, time: 4-7 p.m., Wrocławskie Pola Irygacyjne (Wrocław Sewage Farms)
Ramble – Autumn. New Ecosystems - 3.10.2024, time: 6 p.m., SIC! BWA Wrocław
24/7, Story at the Dawn, Daylight, Dust and Night
Music: Hubert Kostkiewicz, Text: Joanna Synowiec - 24.10.2024, 5 p.m., BWA Wrocław Główny (Main Railway Station)
In the Search for the Sources of the Myth of Earthly Community and Survival Strategies in Contemporary Art
Lecture: Joanna Sokołowska
Detailed and up-to-date information on events from the ‘Seasons’ cycle
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The Seasons cycle is one of the parts of the Progress and Seasons public programme pursued by BWA Wrocław. The cycle curator is Joanna Synowiec. The curator of the Progress cycle is Iwona Kałuża.
The event is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
