2014

January:

  • Commemorative meeting devoted to Wisława Szymborska at the Astoria Writers Retreat House in Zakopane (collaboration with the Foundation for Writers Retreat Houses)
  • Meeting with the poetry of Wisława Szymborska at the Studio Theatre in Warsaw
  • Opening of an exhibition of Szymborska’s cut-out collages at the Polish Institute in Sophia


February:

Opening of an exhibition of Wisława Szymborska’s collages at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), publication of the exhibition catalogue


April:

·         Opening of an exhibition of Szymborska’s collages at the Polish Institute in Budapest

May:

  • Announcement of nominations for the Wisława Szymborska Award
  • Grant of financial support from the Foundation’s Allowance Fund

June:

  • Opening of an exhibition of Szymborska’s collages in Gavoi, Sardinia
  • Announcement of the Adam Włodek Prize competition

July:

  • Opening of an exhibition of Szymborska’s collages at the Günter Grass Gallery in Gdansk
  • Opening of an exhibition of Szymborska’s collages at Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Signs of the Time’ in Torun
  • Announcement of the DWUKROPEK competition for the best study on Polish poetry (collaboration with the Jagiellonian University’s International Polish Studies Association)

September:


Launch of the project ‘liryka extra/ausgezeichnet lyrik’, intended as a presentation of contemporary Polish and German poetry (collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and the Literatur Werkstatt Berlin)

October:

  • Meeting with nominees for the 2014 Wisława Szymborska Award, part of the Krakow Night of Poetry
    First publication of “Czarna piosenka” (“Black Song”), Wisława Szymborska’s early book of poems, by Znak publishers
  • Wisława Szymborska Award Presentation Gala
  • Meeting with Julia Hartwig, winner of the 2014 W. Szymborska Award, during the 18th International Book Fair in Krakow

November:

  • Opening of an exhibition of Wisława Szymborska’s collages at the Provincial and Municipal Public Library in Zielona Góra
  • Adjudication of the ‘Type Szymborska’ competition, to design a typeface called ‘Szymborska’

December:

  • Exhibition of Wisława Szymborska’s collages in Lodz, part of the 8th Pulse of Literature Festival
  • Exhibition of Wisława Szymborska’s collages at the Palace in Rybna near Tarnowskie Góry
  • Formal grant of financial aid from the Aid Fund