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Film screening and discussion || Educational project "Festival of UnSettled Ideas" - Wrocław, 12.10.2021

On 12 October, the Lower Silesian Film Centre in Wrocław hosted a special screening of the film 'Invaders Despite Their Will. Poland's involvement in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia". The event was attended by 50 people - students and teachers from the XIII High School in Wroclaw. The young people also took part in a debate in which Katarzyna Kaczorowska and Aureliusz Marek Pędziwol talked about whether the past is an obstacle in forming neighbourly relations.

The event was organised by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and the Paweł Włodkowic Institute as part of the project "Festival of unSettled Ideas" which is being carried out in Poland, Germany and Romania within the “Europe for Citizens. Strand 1 European Remembrance” programme and is co-financed by the European Commission.

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Educational project || Closer to contemporary history of the region

The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe together with the centre 'Memory and Future' are carrying out a project for historical education 'Closer to modern history of the region' for secondary schools in the districts of Świdnica and Wrocław.

During the project, students will participate in workshops on the history of Lower Silesia after 1945, during which the main focus will be on presenting the first post-war years, the history of the first Polish settlers and the action of "polonisation" of space and stories about the past of the Western Territories. After the workshops, the students will visit the Centre of History "Zajezdnia", where they will be able to see the permanent exhibition "Wrocław 1945-2016", telling the story of the post-war life of the city and its inhabitants.

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Permaculture vegetable garden - workshops on 24-25 September 2021

On 24-25 September 2021, the third part of the garden permaculture workshops for multipliers took place. During the classes, the participants learned a number of ways to manage the garden in an ecological way - they learned how to deal with unwanted plants, pests and how to create favorable conditions for our natural garden allies. The workshops also provided knowledge on the construction of various types of flower beds: buried, raised, self-fertilizing "keyhole" beds and permaculture embankments, which were made by the participants in the number of two.

The workshop was the last part of the series of classes conducted by the team that prepared the architectural design of the garden, consisting of representatives of the Plastformers Foundation and the Architecture and Town Planning Office TECLA from Wrocław. The meeting was intergenerational and was an excellent opportunity to share garden experiences. Among the participants were, inter alia, Third Age volunteers of Krzyżowa who successfully motivated their younger colleagues to work actively during the workshops.

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||PODCAST| Dr Łukasz Kamiński: Between Commemoration and the Conflict of Memory

We invite you to listen to a conversation with Dr. Łukasz Kamiński, historian from the University of Wrocław, former president of the Institute of National Remembrance, on the subject of memory, disputes about the past and historical policy.

The conversation, prepared in form of a podcast, is a part of a project "Laboratory of Dialogue" conducted by the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe together with Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland.

Podcasts of the Krzyżowa Foundation can also be listened to on the most popular podcast platforms:: anchor.fm, Spotify, Google Podcast and Breaker.

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