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Krzyżowa - reconciliation in practice || Jolanta Steciuk

[The article 'Krzyżowa - reconciliation in practice' was originally published in the MOCAK Forum magazine - a publishing project carried out by MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow. The text comes from issue 1/2020, which was focused on the challenges of education. We would like to thank the author and the publisher for the opportunity to publish the whole article in Polish. Below we present selected excerpts from the article translated into English. At the end of the page there is also a PDF file with the article in Polish].

Imagine a place where a dream has come true. In a former state farm, surrounded by dilapidated farm buildings and a palace with a hole in the roof, the leaders of two countries burdened with the trauma of war met. In a joint effort, Poles and Germans, supported by friends from other countries, created in this place - in the Lower Silesian village in Krzyżowa - an international meeting house.

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Online meeting | The condition of public life in Poland -1st of June, 18:00

Are we a society open to dialogue? How does political polarisation affect our lives? What practical steps could we take to strengthen our sense of community?

The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe
together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland

would like to invite you to an online meeting with

Wawrzyniec Smoczyński

under the title: "The condition of public life in Poland".

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🐝🐝🐝 20 May - World Bee Day. On guarding biodiversity

More than ¾ of the world's plant species are pollinated by bees, among other things. The scale of production of crops dependent on pollinators is constantly increasing, thus making our lives extremely connected to these insects. Unfortunately, due to environmental degradation, their numbers are declining.

There are approximately 20 000 species of bees in the world. As many as 222 of the approximately 470 bee species living in Poland are threatened with extinction. Our consumer attitude may change their fate. Let us support local producers and create diverse habitats for life by sowing honey-giving plants.

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||1990 / Year One|| Educational workshop and film project

Last November, we invited students and teachers from the 13th Secondary School in Wrocław to a workshop where they learned about the methodology of collecting oral testimonies and working with time witnesses. Afterwards, we invited the students, under the supervision of their teachers, to prepare films on one of the selected topics:

•  Between PRL and III RP. How Wrocław changed in the early 1990s.
• A family story - the beginnings of democracy in Poland.

Despite the constraints of the epidemic situation and the remote school work, it went great!
More than 200 students, working in teams, prepared interesting films in which they showed not only their creativity and knowledge of history, but also their sense of humour.

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