We would like to invite everyone to the Satyr albo Dziki Mąż (Satyr or the Wild Man) performance, based on Jan Kochanowski’s satirical and political narrative poem dating back to 1564, on Sunday, 12 October at 6:00 p.m. at Villa Decius.The play premiered on 16 September 2013 in the Renaissance interiors of the residence of Queen Cornaro in Italy during an academic conference organised by Accademia dei Rampanti in Padua.
In late September, a new book by this year’s Visegrad Literary Residencies project scholarship holder ‒ Michał Zygmunt ‒ was published under the imprint of Krytyka Polityczna.It is an anti-crime novel set in the future, in which the author convincingly pictures a vision of the world that is the result of today’s eruption of aggression in the field of politics and public debate.It is well worth a read!
“New Europe 100” is a list of a hundred leaders of innovation in East-Central Europe.They are a hundred opinion leaders of New Europe in the field of politics, business, culture, science, and shaping public opinion.NE100 are people and the institutions behind them, who are the future of this part of the world.The list was created thanks to the cooperation of Res Publica Nowa and Visegrad Insight with the Visegrad Fund, Google, the Financial Times, and tens of institutions from East-Central Europe.It constitutes a part of a campaign supporting and promoting innovation in the region.The Villa Decius Association is the project’s partner.
W październiku stypendystka Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, pani Różańska, odbyła kolejną już podróż w ramach projektu badania sieci ICORN. Tym razem wizyta studyjna miała miejsce w PEN Català, które zarządza stypendiami ICORN zarówno w samej Barcelonie, jak i w mniejszym mieście Gironie.
The meeting of the of the Panel of Judges of the Polish Prize of Sérgio Vieira de Mell took place on 11 September 2014 announcing the winners of this year’s, 11th edition of the event. The Panel of Judges included the representatives of the President of Poland, Ambassador of the Republic of Brazil, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in Poland, UN High Commissioner on Refugees, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Institute of National Remembrance, Poland’s Spokesman for the Civil Rights, Consulates and Foundations.
The Institute of Law and Society INPRIS from Warsaw and the Villa Decius Association would like to invite representatives of non-governmental organizations from the entire country to take part in free workshops, whose objective is increase of competences and skills regarding the use of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union within the scope of activities of non-governmental organizations.
On October 20, the Joseph Conrad International Festival of Literature will start in Kraków. Similarly to last year, the Villa Decius Association will be a partner of this unique literary event. We would like to invite you to creative writing workshops for senior citizens, SAGA. They will take place on October 22 in Arteteka of the Regional Public Library in Kraków. Participation in workshops is free of charge. Interested persons are kindly asked to send an e-mail application to the following address: dyrcz@villa.org.pl. The number of places is limited.
We encourage primary school students and teachers of grades four to six from the Małopolska Region to take part in the Decius’ Ducats programme.Decius’ Ducats is a programme popularising knowledge of economy, history, and numismatics.The topics of the classes include selected issues connected with the history of money from antiquity to the present, its value and role, monetary policy, and numismatics.
