In a Nutshell

9.00–12.00

11.00–5.00

Bird Radio | Zuzanna Kowalczyk and Natalia Prüfer, Pismo/Buch, czyli książka | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

Ashes (2020, photography) | by Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went ART BY THE BOOK

11.00–8.00

Reading Hour

Book Fair | Sopot Friends Square 11.00–12.00

2.00 Anna Goc | Głusza | host: Iwona Krawczuk | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot

3.00 Filip Springer | Mein Gott, jak pięknie | host: Michał Nogaś | Goyki Park NOGAŚ IN THE PARK

3.30

Jovana Reisinger | Spitzenreiterinnen, translated by Zofia Sucharska | host: Natalia Prüfer | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

4.00

4.30

Bernadetta Darska | Berlinowanie. Zapiski z doświadczania miasta | host: Marcin Wilk | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot

Małgorzata Żarów | Zaklinanie węży w gorące wieczory | host: Zuzanna Kowalczyk | Smak Słowa bookshop

5.00 Nina Wähä | Babetta, tranlated by Justyna Kwiatkowska | host: Aleksander Hudzik | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

5.30

6.00

6.30

Colonial Neighbours presentation / SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | Goyki Park

SOPOT BY THE BOOK 2024

ART BY THE BOOK

Krzysztof Varga | Nagrobek z lastryko | host: Łukasz Wojtusik | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot RETURNS

Neighbouring Meanings | Katarzyna Kotyńska, Martyna Lemańczyk, Małgorzata Łukasiewicz | host: Dagny Kurdwanowska | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

DISCUSSIONS / IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

7.00 Gaja Grzegorzewska | Selkis | host: Weronika Morawiec | Smak Słowa bookshop ABOUT SF/FANTASY

8.00 Exhile directed by Visar Morina | speaker: Ewa Fiuk | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

FILM BY THE BOOK

8.30 Quiz by the Book | host: Małgorzata Muraszko | Klubokawiarnia 3siostry from 1.08 sign language interpreting simultaneous interpreting sign-ups

9.0012.00

11.00–

5.00

11.00–

8.00

11.00–12.00

2.00

3.00

Bird Radio: Michał Nogaś, Gazeta Wyborcza/Radio Nowy Świat

Ashes (2020, photography) | by Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went

Book Fair | Sopot Friends Square

Reading Hour

Szymon Opryszek | Woda. Historia pewnego porwania | host: Paulina Małochleb | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot

Magdalena Parys | Biała Rika | host: Michał Nogaś | Goyki Park NOGAŚ IN THE PARK

3.30 Erica Fischer | Aimée & Jaguar, translated by Katarzyna Weintraub | host: Aleksandra Zbroja | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

4.00

How do you read the Bible today? | Kalina Wojciechowska | host: Katarzyna Sroczyńska | BOTO Theatre

4.00 Piotr Korczyński | Piętnaście sekund. Żołnierze polscy na froncie wschodnim | host: Dorota Karaś | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot

4.30

5.00

Dawid Iwaniec | Ogień wyszedł z lasu | host: Tymur Liash | Smak Słowa bookshop

Antje Rávik Strubel | In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens, translated by Agata Teperek | host: Magdalena Kicińska | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

5.30

6.00

6.30

8.00

Zyta Rudzka | Ten się śmieje, kto ma zęby | host: Przemysław Rydzewski | Goyki Park

Dyba & Adam Lach | How to Rejuvenate an Eagle | host: Aleksander Hudzik | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Savior in Sopot

Reclaiming breath and sight. Racism and antisemitism in Poland and Germany | Michał Bilewicz, Agnieszka Jabłońska, Andreas Zick | host: Monika Płatek | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

Berlin Alexanderplatz directed by Burhan Qurbani | speaker: Ewa Fiuk | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

WORKSHOPS BY THE BOOK / ART BY THE BOOK

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

4.00–

6.00

A tale of toxic archives and its multilimbed bodies | hosts: Hubert Gromny, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Meghna Singh (SAVVY Contemporary) | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

AIR GOYKI 3

RETURNS

DISCUSSIONS / IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

FILM BY THE BOOK from 20.07 workshops in English

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

9.0012.00

11.00–5.00

11.008.00

11.0012.00

11.005.00

2.00

3.005.00

3.00

3.30

Bird Radio: Łukasz Wojtusik, RMF Classic, Wojtusik’s Alphabet

Ashes (2020, photography) | by Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went

Book Fair | Sopot Friends Square

Reading Hour

Translators on duty | Polish Literary Translators Association | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

Mikołaj Grynberg | Jezus umarł w Polsce | host: Marta Perchuć-Burzyńska | Scena Kameralna at Wybrzeże Theatre

Polish Joke (2007) – a video-performance by Krystyna Piotrowska | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

OF SUMMER

Ishbel Szatrawska | Toń | host: Michał Nogaś | Goyki Park NOGAŚ IN THE PARK

Zsuzsa Bánk | Sterben im Sommer, translated by Elżbieta Kalinowska | host: Marcin Wilk | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

4.00 Reading personal and historical memory in the work of W.G. Sebald | Małgorzata Łukasiewicz, Katarzyna Kończal | host: Juliusz Kurkiewicz | Scena Kameralna at Wybrzeże Theatre

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

4.30 Natalia Szostak | Zguba | host: Małgorzata Muraszko | Smak Słowa bookshop DEBUTS

5.00 Premiere of a radio play Głosy szumiącego potoku inspired by the history of Friedrich Wilhelm Jüncke villa directed by Piotr Skotnicki and meeting with the director | host: Joanna Cichocka-Gula | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

5.00 Arne Jysch | Babylon Berlin, translated by Anna Kierejewska | host: Łukasz Wojtusik | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

5.30 Jakub Gałęziowski | Niedopowiedziane historie. Polskie dzieci urodzone z powodu wojny | host: Wiesław Władyka | BOTO Theatre

6.00 Włodzimierz Nowak | Obwód głowy | host: Paulina Małochleb | Scena Kameralna at Wybrzeże Theatre

6.30 Objects as time machines | Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Dariusz Brzostek, Stefan Chwin | host: Beata Maciejewska | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

7.00 Single-painting exhibition: Käthe Kollwitz | host: Anna Świtajska | Smak Słowa bookshop

8.00 Purple Sea directed by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed | speaker: Ewa Fiuk | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

LITERARY GAME

THEATRE BY THE BOOK

10.00–5.00

10.00–3.30

ABOUT COMICS / IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

HISTORICAL AWARD BY POLITYKA WEEKLY

RETURNS

DISCUSSIONS / IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

ADDITIONAL EVENT

FILM BY THE BOOK

Brothers Grimm’s Sopot | starting point: Goyki Park from 1.08

WORKSHOPS BY THE BOOK

My Life is Like a Novel | host: Aleksandra Zbroja | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator from 17.07, fee

9.00–12.00

11.00–5.00

11.00–6.00

11.00–12.00

Bird Radio: Weronika Wawrzkowicz, Radio Nowy Świat/ Rozmawiam, bo lubię

Ashes (2020, photography) | by Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went ART BY THE BOOK

Book Fair | Sopot Friends Square

Reading Hour

11.00 A walk with Tomasz Słomczyński, author of Sopoty | starting point: Athletes Memorial in front of Athletics Stadium in Sopot

2.00 Barbara Piórkowska | Kraboszki | host: Marta Perchuć-Burzyńska | BOTO Theatre

2.30

Harald Jähner | Höhenrausch. Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen, translated by Monika Kilis | host: Agata Passent | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

3.005.00

3.00

3.00

3.30

4.00

4.30

5.00

IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

Polish Joke (2007) – a video-performance by Krystyna Piotrowska | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator ADDITIONAL EVENT

Edward Pasewicz | Pulverkopf | host: Michał Nogaś | Goyki Park

Reading of Terror by Ferdinand von Schirach (translated by Anna Kierejewska) directed by Adam Nalepa and a discussion | host: Joanna Cichocka-Gula | Scena Kameralna at Wybrzeże Theatre

Radio play Głosy szumiącego potoku inspired by the history of Friedrich Wilhelm Jüncke villa directed by Piotr Skotnicki | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

Katarzyna Michalczak | Synu, jesteś kotem | host: Dorota Karaś | BOTO Theatre

NOGAŚ IN THE PARK

THEATRE BY THE BOOK

5.30

6.00

8.00

THEATRE BY THE BOOK

Aleksandra Tarnowska | Wniebogłos | host: Przemysław Rydzewski | Smak Słowa bookshop DEBUTS

Neighbour or enemy? Poles and Germans through each other’s eyes | Robert Traba, Kornelia Ćwiklak, Susann Worschech | host: Anna Dudzińska | National Gallery of Art in Sopot

Screening of Close directed by Lukas Dhont, 2023 LUX European Audience Film Award | Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

Agnieszka Dauksza, Zuzanna Hertzberg, Joanna Ostrowska | A question of character. Women fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto | host: Magdalena Kicińska | Scena Kameralna at Wybrzeże Theatre

Western directed by Valeska Grisebach | speaker: Ewa Fiuk | Goyki 3 Art Inkubato

DISCUSSIONS / IT’S NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE

ADDITIONAL EVENT

FILM BY THE BOOK

11.00 Golden Bird, or Why We Don’t Have to Be the Smartest | Family reading of the Grimm fairy tale The Golden Bird combined with a workshop | hosted by: Marta Jankowska (Kreatywna Pedagogika) | Park na Goyki

11.00

The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage, or the Value of Betting on Your Talents | Family reading of the Grimm fairy tale The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage combined with a workshop | hosted by: Marta Jankowska (Kreatywna Pedagogika) | Park na Goyki

1.00 Workshops with Miniteka: A Journey with a Duck with a Wonky Leg and a Blind Chicken | hosted by: Joanna Kujawska-Frejlich, Agata Walińska | Park na Goyki 18 AUGUST FRIDAY

1.00 Workshops with Miniteka: Bear in the City | hosted by: Joanna Kujawska-Frejlich, Agata Walińska | Park na Goyki

11.00

The Louse and the Flea, or How Emotions Are Worth Keeping Under Control. The Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Louse and the Flea will be read by Magdalena Bednarek, an actress from the Miniatura Theatre. The reading will be followed by workshops inspired by the fairy tale’s message.

19 AUGUST SATURDAY

How to help children regulate their emotions – workshop for adults | hosted by: Joanna Trzaska (psychologist, psychotherapist)

Emotions are nothing dangerous – workshop for children | hosted by: Marta Jankowska (Kreatywna Pedagogika) | Park na Goyki

1.00 Workshops with Miniteka: Can a Witch be Good? | hosted by: Joanna Kujawska-Frejlich, Agata Walińska | Park na Goyki

11.00 The Three Spinners, or Why We Lie

The Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Three Spinners will be read by Magdalena Bednarek, an actress from the Miniatura Theatre. The reading will be followed by workshops inspired by the fairy tale’s message.

20 AUGUST SUNDAY

Why children lie and what we can do about it – workshops for adults | hosted by: Joanna Trzaska (psychologist, psychotherapist) Lying, no legs and being yourself – workshops for children | hosted by: Marta Jankowska (Kreatywna Pedagogika) | Park na Goyki

1.00 Meeting with Ulrich Hub | hosted by: Agnieszka Kochanowska | Park na Goyki