Warsaw. On March 2, the 13th edition of the New Epiphany Festival begins
“Why have you forsaken me?” is the slogan of the 13th interdisciplinary Lenten festival New Epiphanies running by the John Paul II Thought Center, a cultural institution of the Capital City of Warsaw Of Warsaw. The festival will start on March 2 and will last until April 10. The program includes: eight theater premieres, concerts, installation, and culinary delights. Tickets available through the website nowyepifanie.pl.
photo: mat. organizer
The main theme of the 13th Festival is Jesus. Historical figure, a certain object of faith. For many a Savior and a Prophet, God incarnate, for other literary heroes, little is known about the original. Who is the son of the Nazareth carpenter today? Who do people make him for?
We turned with this question to the artists we invited to perform in this year’s edition of the Festival. In previous years, we have already looked at Judas, Mary Magdalene, and Mary. We carefully avoided Jesus. Only last year’s – apolyptic – edition about us, by the subtitled oversized figure of Jesus with hope. See in it what we are missing, preferably what we can see, what we do not want. To see yourself in it.
Michał Senk, director of the John Paul II Thought Center
This year we are ripe for one of the next themes in culture – the figure of Jesus. We propose deep and proposed with different perspectives, we send people who have many of us by consulting the website review. For the John Paul II Thought Center, the New Epiphanies is a way to initiate dialogue between artists and religious art. The freshest, however, at the festival, what will move and still, and we recommend it with us.
THEATER
Paweł Dobrowolski, director of the Festival
Once again, we have composed the theater program from premieres, which are the next Laboratory of New Epiphanies. For me, as the director of ten eight-day workshops organized in the summer months in Masuria, he is the heart of the entire Festival. Every year, young people, creatively nearly 50 people who come to the theater, are invited to a dialogue with religion in a cross-confessional area. During the workshop, participants are to develop the concepts of performances and confront them with the entities conducting and connectors in the field of philosophy, theology and psychology. To co-present, we present as part of the Festival, to the premieres that were hatched during the Laboratory. All the main topic, ie the figure of Jesus. It is for the personal or the more problematic look at this figure of the son of man, central to our culture. After all, then asolvents and artists and artists in this annual program Epifani. Thanks to this, I am sure that there will be not only new, but most of all young Epiphanies.
March 3, “Feelings picture (s)“, Dir. Krzysztof Popiołek, TR Warszawa, performance
March 4, “Feelings picture (s)“, Dir. Krzysztof Popiołek, TR Warszawa, performance
March 19, “Philoctet ex machina“, Dir. Agata Koszińska, Powszechny Theater, performance
March 20, “Philoctet ex machina“, Dir. Agata Koszińska, Powszechny Theater, performance
March 26, “SM. Masochistic father-son images”, Chor. Tobiasz Sebastian Berg, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, performance
March 27, “SM. Masochistic father-son images”, Chor. Tobiasz Sebastian Berg, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, performance
March 29, “Sightseeing direction“, Dir. Aleksandra Bielewicz, Collegium Nobilium Theater, performance
March 29, “Sightseeing direction“, Dir. Aleksandra Bielewicz, Collegium Nobilium Theater, performance
April 1, “Beloved“, Dir. Michał Zdunik, Rampa Theater, performance
April 2, “Beloved“, Dir. Michał Zdunik, Rampa Theater, performance
April 3, “Beloved“, Dir. Michał Zdunik, Rampa Theater, performance
April 7, “Pasolini. Dreams Before the End“, Dir. Judyta Berłowska, Komuna Warszawa / Szkoła, performance
8th April, “Pasolini. Dreams Before the End“, Dir. Judyta Berłowska, Komuna Warszawa / Szkoła, performance
April 9, “Ascending into oneself“, Dir. Marta Streker, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, performance
April 10, “Ascending into oneself“, Dir. Marta Streker, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, performance
April 10, “Jesus“, Dir. Jan Kanty Zienko, Olga Ciężkowska, Komuna Warszawa / Szkoła, performance
April 10, “Jesus“, Dir. Jan Kanty Zienko, Olga Ciężkowska, Komuna Warszawa / Szkoła, performance
MUSIC
Sonia Wronkowska, Łukasz Kozak, program of the Graindelavoix band
This year Graindelavoix will bring Josquin dés Prés and Jan van Eyck to Warsaw. Josquin the Undead is a piece, but already a cult album with a shocking interpretation of the works of one of the most outstanding Renaissance composers. An album that took the Belgian list by storm during the pandemic. Van Eyck’s diagrams for the brilliant film work of Björn Schmelzer with a work van employee, filled with Eyck, the depth of the message, historiosophic reflection, absurd humor and a kind of humanistic pessimism. Three visionaries, each one of a kind: Dutch, signing his paintings with the motto “As I can”, a hit Flemish composer who was the first to print his works, and finally a contemporary Belgian anthropologist, enfant with the terrible time of early music performers, art history, musicology and cinematography.
Ignacy Zalewski, composer
“Bardo thodol, or liberation through listening” is a piece about dying without fear. The texts in the poetic composition in Polish by Mateusz Żaboklicki, in accordance with the Buddhist tradition from which it is derived, is a practical instruction helping people of the deceased to relate without fear to bardo – transitional states. All life and all dying, to constantly navigate through different “now” – primarily those produced in the mind. In my composition, with the help of a Buddhist philosophical background, I decided to present myself to the phenomenon.
March 6, “Bardo thodol or liberation through listening”, Ignacy Zalewski, Porczyński Gallery, concert
March 7, “Josquin the Undead”, Graindelavoix, Evangelical Reformed Church, concert
March 8, “A little thunder. Saint Catherine of Siena”, Katarzyna Szwed, Julianna Bloodgood, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, concert
12th March, “Regret, longing, hope”, VRC Choir, Post-Camaldolese Church, concert
Food
Monika Kucia, curator of culinary events
In an additional year of the pandemic, I would decide to continue the show “12 Women” (2020), a theater of stories, stories, combined with songs, movement and culinary elements. This year’s performance focuses on the pattern of masculinity, the essence of the male book, male weight, male strength and weakness in the pattern of femininity and masculinity. Women go towards men, in dancing, in stories, in a personal ritual of transfer, complementing and blocking each other’s reciprocity. Sons, husbands, lovers, fathers, brothers – they are all heroes of women, moments of support, help, companion in development, recovery and help and help. “He who does not dance understands nothing” to the quotes from the apocryphal text attributed to Jesus. The audience – as members of the group – are invited to taste the show after the show.
March 16, “The one who does not dance understands nothing”, Monika Kucia, Lena Piękniewska, National Ethnographic, Artistic and Culinary Museum
VISUAL
Dawid Zalesky, curator – visual arts
In this year’s Christian Epiphany festival, we meet Jesus as a key figure in Christian culture. This is for me as a curator, it will be an opportunity to bring up those who have long nurtured me. Who is Jesus today for us, society, and whether the Church today can again be a space where contemporary art is presented. In this year’s edition, we will commune with the figure of Jesus in the form of a classic sculpture inspired by the work of the master master Michelangelo. In the project, drawing on the iconography embedded in the culture of the Catholic Church, a phrase that refers to a forgotten, less similar depiction – naked. We will pay attention to his corporeality and humanity as it was expressed in the Italian Renaissance. The author of the sculpture emphasizes the lecture on the corporeal healing, without lecture in the gesture of healing, without exposing suffering, but with the lecture on Agape. Jesus by Aleksandra Koper is to be the Jesus of all people: believers and non-believers, men and women, old and young. It is to unite, not to divide, as a man, one of us, with a separate body that suffers humanly in the figure of the crucifixion. Give yourself to us, people, as figures made of flesh, bones and flesh taken out of the space of the sacred, but not creating the profane. In great love and affection Agape & Fileo.
March 28 – April 2, “Agape / Fileo. The woman facing the crucifix“, Aleksandra Koper, Art Gallery Station, installation (panel / opening March 31 17:00, 19:00)
ACCOMPANYING
March 8, “Van Eyck diagrams. The legacy of art history, by Gerard Van Den Acker”, Björn Schmelzer, State Ethnographic Museum, film
March 10, “About the gentry Lenten celebrations“, Pan Tadeusz Museum, online
March 17 “White Marriage”. Obscene or asceticism? Pan Tadeusz Museum, online
March 31, “Personal Jesus. On religion, media and psychology“, Pan Tadeusz Museum, online
TICKETS
Tickets and performances available through the eWejściówki platform, tickets for.
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The organizer of the festival is Centrum Thought of John Paul II, a cultural institution of the Capital City of Of Warsaw.
Partners – Ludowy Theater in Krakow, Polish Theater in Bydgoszcz, Powszechny Theater in Warsaw, Rampa Theater in Targówek, Teatr im. W. Horzyca in Toruń, Teatr im. J. Szaniawski in Wałbrzych, TR Warszawa, Academy of Theater. A. Zelwerowicz, Collegium Nobilium Theater, Kielce Dance Theater, State Ethnographic Museum, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Pan Tadeusz Museum, National Institute of Ossoliński, Formal System Theater, Lower Silesian Federation of NGOs, Centrum na Przedmieście, Evangelical Reformed Parish in Warsaw, Musical Movement, ZAiKS Authors’ Association, Flandria, Komuna Warszawa, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Art Gallery Station, Museum of John Paul II and the Primate Wyszyński, eWejściówki.pl, biletyna.pl.
Media patrons – Polish Radio PR 2, TVP Kultura, Miesięcznik Teatr, E-teatr.pl, Teatralny.pl, Teatrologia.info.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and Birth as part of the Culture Promotion Fund – a state special purpose fund.
The project is co-financed by, among others ul. Warsaw.