Lidia Sokol-Wereszczyńska – “Painting” and theatrical costumes (from the theatres of Wałbrzych and Jelenia Góra), opening – 30 March 1996.
Note: during the opening, we are hosting a delegation from Aachen – Germany
-“Yugoslavia as We Remember It and as We Do Not Know It”
1/ 19 April 1996 at 6:00 p.m. at Klub Pegaz: Poets of Sarajevo (an author’s meeting with Dawid Warszawski, editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, writer and war correspondent); 2/ 20 April 1996 at 4:00 p.m. – opening of an exhibition and a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the settlement in our area of re-emigrants from Bosnia.
Klub Promocji Młodych “Pegaz”
Edyta Wójcik (a fourth-year student at the Institute of Art in Zielona Góra) – painting – 14 April 1996 – 30 April 1996.
...says Rev. Prof. J. Tischner and adds: “Poles could already have a great deal, if only they wanted to want...”
A fascinating discussion is taking place in the pages of Tygodnik Powszechny (no. 5/96) on the subject of “The Limits of Tolerance”. The text is substantial, and the excellent speakers’ incisive statements require careful, focused reading. I extract from the text only what refers to familiar events and meets with ambiguous public opinions. Rev. Prof. J. Tischner says, among other things: “... I wonder what some Polish Catholics would say about the words of St. Augustine – love and do what you want. Would Augustine not scandalize them just as much as Owsiak? Let us remember that Owsiak’s slogan came after a time when the message was ‘do what you don’t want to do’. That was communism. Augustine said – ‘Love and do what you want’, but damn it! ‘You want! Want!’
And at this point I recall a thought taken from Ryszard Kapuściński’s Lapidarium II (an extraordinary work!): “It is important that you retain the ability to experience, that there be things capable of astonishing you, of causing a shock. It is important that you not be touched by the terrible disease of indifference.”
There is evidence that we are capable of responding to the call to do good – one example is the widely known campaign of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.