An afternoon with Wisława Szymborska

Ostatki 2011

WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA

The Polish-American Club of the Triangle, NC

http://www.polamrtp.com/

&

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies

http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavdept/

Department of Music

http://music.unc.edu/

Presents

An Afternoon with

WIS ŁAWA SZYMBORSKA

The 1996 Nobel Laureate in Literature

  March 26, 2011   Saturday

2:00 – 4:00 pm

UNC-Chapel Hill campus
Kenan Rehearsal Hall, 1st floor

Kenan Music Building
South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill,  NC 27599

 (between Cameron Avenue and East Franklin Street)

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PROGRAM

 general welcome

Dr. Richard Kotek, President of the Polish-American Club of the Triangle, NC

a lecture on Szymborska

Professor Regina Grol, Fellow, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies

recitation of Szymborska’s poetry

           students of Polish at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke (in both Polish and English)

 a musical interlude, Michael Asmara’s composition based on Szymborska poem “Homecoming”

students of Marzanna Poplawska’s gamelan class, UNC-Chapel Hill Music Department

Intermission/Refreshments

a documentary film on Szymborska titled

“Life Is Bearable at Times”

 (with cameo appearances of Woody Allen, Umberto Ecco and Vaclav Havel.)