The 9th International Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobych
(November 15th–21st, 2020)
PROGRAMME

Prologue: Lviv
November 11th / Wednesday
12:00 – the Dzyga Gallery: Press conference
Lviv, Virmenska Str., 35
14:00 – Alliance Française: “Animals and People”, a collage exhibition by Oleksander Maksymov (Drohobych). Documentation of the International Bruno Schulz Festival in Drohobych (2004–2020)
Lviv, Ohienko Str., 18 A

November 15th / Sunday
11:00 – The opening of the Festival: greetings, speeches
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1
11:45 – Inaugural speeches
 Serhiy ZHADAN: Schulz: Visions and Echoes
 Paweł PRÓCHNIAK: Schulz: Short Circuits
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1
13:00 – A welcoming cocktail in the Theatre
16:00 – Vlodko KAUFMAN (Lviv): Brunoscale. Performance
Courtyard of the city hall, Museum of Scales
17:00 – Oleksander MAKSYMOV (Drohobych): A Sign of the Place. Pixelart
In the open space of the city
17:45 – Nikita KADAN (Kyiv): A Mutilated Myth. Exhibition, part 1. Curator Jessica Zychowicz
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Villa Bianca – the Palace of Arts, Shevchenko Str., 38
19:00 – Nikita KADAN (Kyiv): A Mutilated Myth. Exhibition, part 2. Curator Jessica Zychowicz
Villa Yarosha, Shevchenko Str., 23
20:30 – LINIA MANNERHEIMA (Kharkiv): Serhiy Zhadan, Yevhen Turchynov, and Oleg Kadanov. Concert
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1

November 16th / Monday
EXHIBITION WALK
Moderated by Grzegorz Józefczuk, a curator of the Festival artistic part
11:00 – Bruno Schulz Room Museum. Schulz’s Surprises. An exhibition by Roman HOLUKA (1882–1952)
Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Ivan Franko Str., 24, auditorium 33
12:00 – The art gallery of the art school. An exhibition of watercolour paintings: Anna Liwia Strutyńska, Tatiana Majewska, Ewelina Maliborska, Magdalena Brauze, Michał Jasiewicz, Minh Dam, Artur Gołębiowski, Jarosław Drążek, Bartłomiej Michałowski, Kazimierz Kraczoń, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Artur Przybysz, Dariusz Płecha. – Curators of en plain air/exhibition Drohobych/Lublin: Bartłomiej MICHAŁOWSKI (Lublin) and Dariusz Płecha (Lublin).
The “Colonist. To Be a Human” comics by Yarko FILEVYCH (Lviv)
The “Ne’er-Do-Wells” exhibition by Zoriana BAZYLEVYCH (Lviv)
Ivan Franko Cultural and Educational Centre, Ivan Franko Str., 14
13:15 – Basements of the Gallery. “Passion”, a photo exhibition-performance by Ihor FETSIAK (Drohobych)
Ivan Franko Cultural and Educational Centre, Ivan Franko Str., 14
14:00 – The DiA Gallery. “Roma”, a photo exhibition by Eva RAISKA (Drohobych). Drawings by Anna BYSTROVA (Wroclaw). The door drawings by Daryna CHALBAEVA (Drohobych)
Honcharska Str., 5
16:30 – Youth space. The “On the Canvas of Schulz and Gombrowicz” exhibition by Olena ZHGIR (Lviv), moderated by Olena Fanailova
Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
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17:00 – Youth space. Video performance by both Oleksandra ARTAMONOVA and the „Gentle Women” artistic group (Kaliningrad), moderated by Polina Yustova
Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
19:00 – The MALADYPE Theatre (Budapest): the „August” performance based on Bruno Schulz, directed by Zoltán Balázs. Video show. The “Visegrad Panopticum by Bruno Schulz” project. Introduction by Grzegorz Józefczuk
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10

November 17th / Tuesday
10:00–13:00 – Scientific conference Bruno Schulz: the Ark of Imagination, part 1. Moderators: Wiera Meniok, Zbigniew Benedyktowicz
Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Ivan Franko Str., 24, auditorium 32
 Paweł PRÓCHNIAK (Krakow): Fragments of a Broken Mirror (From the Phenomenology of Dreams)
 Yurko PROKHASKO (Lviv): Bruno Schulz in the Galician Graphic Artists’ Typology of the Interwar Period
 Adam LIPSZYC (Warsaw): Undula, Loneliness and Arabesques in the Crypt
 Andriy LEVKIN (Riga): Bruno Schulz: “Tripo-Geography” and Spatial Planning
 Andriy PAVLYSHYN (Lviv): Runa Reitman, a Creator of the Earthly Republic of Dreams
 Grzegorz JÓZEFCZUK (Lublin): A Horse, a Dog and Market Square in the Prose of Both Stanisław Antoni Mueller and Bruno Schulz
 Lesia KHOMYCH (Drohobych): “Undula”: (Once Again) About the Discoveries in Schulz’s Oeuvre
13:15 – A Discovered Drohobych – Maria SHUMSKA (Lviv): Stories of Villa Yarosha
Villa Yarosha, Shevchenko Str., 23
16:30 – A meeting with Natalia BELCHENKO (Kyiv), moderated by Wiera Meniok
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
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17:30 – A meeting with Jacek PODSIADŁO (Opole), moderated by Paweł Próchniak
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
19:00 – ALEKS & Friends (Drohobych): Concert
Villa Yarosha, Alter Theatre, Shevchenko Str., 23
20:30 – Mateusz NOWAK (Lublin): Monodrama “From Front To Back”, scenario: Stanisław Miedziewski and Mateusz Nowak, director: Stanisław Miedziewski, costumes: Magdalena Franczak
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1

November 18th / Wednesday
10:00–13:00 – Scientific conference Bruno Schulz: the Ark of Imagination, part 2. Moderators: Zoriana Rybchynska, Paweł Próchniak
Department of History of the Drohobych University, assembly hall, Ivan Franko Str., 36
 Jacek KURCZEWSKI (Warsaw): Metaphysics and Metasociology of the City
 Dariusz WOJAKOWSKI (Krakow): Senses Enchanted in a Word – How Schulz Helps in Methodological Thinking
 Katarzyna KUCZYŃSKA-KOSCHANY (Poznan): Crabwalk – Schulz, Szela
 Zbigniew BENEDYKTOWICZ (Warsaw): The Schulz Planet – Inspirations, Challenges
 Aleksandra NARÓG (Krakow): About Illness in Schulz’s Prose
 Zoriana RYBCHYNSKA (Lviv): About the Life of Things in the World of Bruno Schulz
 Wiera MENIOK (Drohobych): Secession Onirism in Bruno Schulz’s Literary Dilogy and Arthur Schnitzler’s “Dream Story”
13:15 – A Discovered Drohobych – Leonid TYMOSHENKO (Drohobych): Stories of Gartenberg’s Villa
Department of History of the Drohobych University, assembly hall, Ivan Franko Str., 36
16:00 – A meeting with Benjamin BALINT (Jerusalem): Around the Book “Kafka’s Last Trial” and Schulzian Themes, moderated by Yurko Prokhasko
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A small stage: Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1
18:00 – the National Academic YOUNG THEATRE (Kyiv): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” performance based on Shakespeare, directed by Andriy Bilous
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1
19:30 – Yuriy ANDRUKHOVYCH’S jubilee soiree, moderated by Oleksander Boichenko, with the participation of the Yuri Drohobych Theatre of Music and Drama
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Theatre Square, 1

November 19th / Thursday
The Second Autumn
11:00 – An ecumenical meeting at the place of Bruno Schulz’s death
12:00 – Book Burning During the Holocaust: “Blooms of Darkness” by Aharon Appelfeld and “I Blame Auschwitz” by Mykolay Grynberg. A meeting with both Oksana PENDERETSKA and Oleksander BOICHENKO (Chernivtsi)
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
13:30 – Around the translation of Olga Tokarchuk’s “The Books of Jacob”. A meeting with Ostap SLYVYNSKYY (Lviv)
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
16:30 – “Visegrad Panopticum by Bruno Schulz”: Workshop. Studio project
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
17:30 – A Discovered Drohobych – Ihor CHAVA (Drohobych): Stories of Saltworks
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
18:00 – “Breath”, a performance by Oleksander MAKSYMOV (Drohobych)
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
19:00 – This town and land became a self-sufficient microcosm…: A TORCHLIGHT WALK through the locations of Bruno Schulz’s life and oeuvre
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November 20th / Friday
12:00 – A meeting with Taras PROKHASKO (Ivano-Frankivsk)
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
13:00 – A meeting with Yuriy VYNNYCHUK (Lviv)
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Shevchenko Str., 27
16:30 – A meeting with Roman MALYNOVSKYY (Ivano-Frankivsk). About the “MONO” project
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
17:30 – A Discovered Lublin – A film show: “A Magic City” by Natasza Kurczuk-Ziółkowska. On the 15th anniversary of Władysław Panas’ death
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
19:00 – About the prospects of the Drohobych project. A meeting with Olena FANAILOVA (Radio Svoboda, Moscow), Oleksandra ARTAMONOVA (Goethe-Institute, Kaliningrad), and Andriy LEVKIN (Goethe-Institute, Riga). Moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn (Lviv), with the participation of Ksenia Chykunova (Lviv)
Youth space, Yaroslav Osmomysl Str., 10
21:00 – A poetic slam in the DiA Gallery, leader: Romana HONCHARUK (Drohobych)
Honcharska Str., 5

November 21st / Saturday
10:00 – A LOCAL HISTORY TRIP for the SchulzFest participants:
 Bronytsia Forest, guide Yosyf KARPIN
 Nahuyevychi, Ivan Franko’s farmstead, guide Bohdan LAZORAK
 Closing of the 9th SchulzFest among friends
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ATTENTION
The organisers reserve the right to change the program
We follow the rules related to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and we take care of our health, our friends’ health as well as the health of strangers
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Organisers:
Ukraine Ihor Meniok Information and Academic Research Centre for Polish Studies at Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University / “Bruno Schulz Museum and Festival” Charitable Foundation in Drohobych Poland
Bruno Schulz Festival Society in Lublin
Co-organisers:
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
International Visegrad Fund General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Lviv
Pedagogical University of Cracow named after the Commission of National Education Union of Theatrical Authors and Composers / “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” Centre
Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University
Lviv Yuri Drohobych Regional Academic Theatre of Music and Drama, Drohobych Drohobych Museum of Local Studies
Partners:
President of the City of Lublin
Mayor of the City of Drohobych
Art Gallery of the Art School, Drohobych
Viacheslav Chornovil City Library, Drohobych
Tourist Information Centre, Drohobych
DiA Gallery, Drohobych
Alter NGO, Drohobych Youth Space NGO, Drohobych Alliance Française, Lviv
Dzyga Gallery, Lviv
Jewish Community of Drohobych
Honorary Auspices:
Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv
President of the City of Lublin
Mayor of the City of Drohobych
Mass Media Auspices:
Kurier Galicyjski Newspaper, Lviv
maydan.drohobych.net online newspaper, Drohobych
Twoje Radio FM Radio Station, Drohobych
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland