FESTIVAL ZBLIŻENIA GDAŃSK

Event program

Zbliżenia Kultur Foundation is another organization that took part in the MultiMemo project, implementing a rich program of the 11th edition of the Zbliżenia Jewish Culture Festival.
The festival program, in addition to proposals introducing and promoting Jewish culture, tradition and art, included events focusing on Polish-Jewish-German relations, the position of women in the modern world and the relations and interpenetration of Jewish, Polish and German cultures.
As part of the project, the Zoom Culture Foundation conducted, among others: the following events:

1. Radio play “The Devil Has Dwelled in Europe”.
2. A concert of original poetry “Kinot” by Jarosław Lipszyc dedicated to contemporary Jewish poetry.
3. Concert by Mari K. “Di szajchesen – connections”.
4. Lecture “Around the Great Synagogue” – meeting with the author of the book under the same title, Jacek Bielak.
5. Anti-discrimination workshops dedicated to children from Gdańsk Children’s Homes.
6. Workshops for students of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and children from Gdańsk Children’s Homes in the New Synagogue in Gdańsk.
7.Celebrations on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht – commemoration of the pogrom of the Jewish community committed by German Nazis in November 1938.