RENDEZ-VOUS WITH DENMARK - Danish Days in Lodz (April 22 - May 16, 2004)
The Danish Cultural Institute in cooperation with The Royal Danish Consulate in Lodz and a number of local partners has arranged a wide presentation of Danish culture entitled Rendez-vous With Denmark. The arrangements will take place in splendid cultural institutions of the city of Lodz through April and May.
Exhibitions, concerts, film presentations, literary meetings and theatre performances are included in the programme.
One of the most important events will be the symphonic concert by the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra with the young but already known in Poland Danish violinist Christine Michaela Pryn, a great promotor of Polish contemporary music in Denmark, who has been invited to take part in this year's Warsaw Autumn. The orchestra will be conducted by a Latvian conductor from Denmark, Gints Glinka.
One of the crucial elements of the project will be painting and graphic exhibitions Poles Among the Danes presenting works by artists born in Poland and living in Denmark, often together with works made by their Danish colleagues.
Exhibition of sculptures by a Polish artist from Denmark, Teodor Bok, as well as exhibition of posters by the worldwide known Danish artist Finn Nygaard, whose work has taken its origin in the Polish Poster School, will be important components of the project.
Many artists originating from the city of Lodz will be personally participating in the project, as e.g. violinist Wladyslaw Marchwinski, a graduate from Lodz Academy of Music and now concertmaster in the Zealand Symphonic Orchestra as well as working in Denmark film directors Annette-Mari Olsen and Katia Forbert-Petersen, graduates from PWSFTviT Film School in Lodz.
Program folders may be ordered in The Danish Cultural Institute, tel. 022/608 27 04 and in the Royal Danish Consulate in Lodz, tel. 042/ 633 71 41.
Program of the project Rendez-vous with Denmark:
Exhibitions
- Poles Among the Danes - painting and installations, Muzeum Historii Miasta Lodzi
- Poles Among the Danes - graphics, ASP im. Wl.Strzeminskiego
- Teodor Bok - Sculpture, Muzeum Wlokiennictwa
- Finn Nygaard - Poster, Muzeum Historii Miasta Lodzi
- Piotr Topperzer - photography, Muzeum Historii Miasta Lodzi
- The Magic World of Books - Danish Childrens' Literature, Teatr Lalek Arlekin
- Karen Blixen - Life and Work, Klub Nauczyciela
Music
- Concert of classical music by Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, with Danish violinist Christine Michaela Pryn and conductor Gints Glinka, Lodz Philharmonics, 23rd April
- Concerts of Danish music by Wladyslaw Marchwinski (violin) and Yuka Ichikawa (piano), Muzeum Historii Miasta Lodzi - 23rd April, Music School in Pabianice - 24th April. Wladyslaw Marchwinski will also give masterclass with the students of Lodz Academy of Music - 23rd April
- Guitar concert by Carsten Groendahl, Srodmiejskie Forum Kultury, 24th April
Theatre performances
- The Dream by Stig Dalager (first performance), Teatr Jaracza, 8th May
- Travel To The Green Shadow, Teatr Logos, 28th April
- The Little Mairmaid, Teatr Arlekin, 26th-28th April
Literary meetings
- Danish poetry evening with participation of the poet Erik Trigger Olesen and translator of his poetry Lena Preis, Srodmiejskie Forum Kultury, 24th April
Film
- presentations of films by the Danish graduates of PWSFTviT Film School in Lodz and meeting with film directors Katia Forbert-Petersen and Annette Mari Olsen,Cinema Charlie, 22nd April
Other
- Polish-Danish Business Forum, Krajowa Izba Mody, 22nd April
- Fashion Show by Danish and Polish companies: Carli Gry, Vero Moda, Brandtex, Agmar, Olimpia; Krajowa Izba Mody, 22nd April
- Around Andersen - art and drama arrangements, Zespol Szkol Specjalnych Nr 2, 23rd-18th April