Wokół książek „Śpiewacy eksportowi” i „Plim Plam Plum”

We invite you to an author event and launch of two books con­nect­ed to con­tem­po­rary music.

Śpiewa­cy eksportowi by Anna S. Dębows­ka, pub­lished by Ago­ra, is a pub­li­ca­tion that had its pre­miere in Novem­ber of last year. Ania Kierkosz’s book Plim Plam Plum, cre­at­ed with­in the frame­work of a year-long artis­tic grant from the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw, will have its offi­cial pre­miere this com­ing Sun­day. Admis­sion to the event is free. In con­nec­tion with the event it will be pos­si­ble to receive a free copy of the book Plim Plam Plum.

Plim Plam Plum. Songs, poems and games sup­port­ing cre­ative devel­op­ment and sen­so­ry inte­gra­tion is a book offer­ing inno­v­a­tive, sim­ple and proven meth­ods for engag­ing a young child in the cre­ative process. The essence of the book is the stim­u­la­tion of the child’s activ­i­ty and audi­to­ry per­cep­tion as well as mind­ful­ness, using the tools of con­tem­po­rary art and music and pur­pose­ful­ly planned and direct­ed move­ment. The author Anna Kierkosz does this through an inno­v­a­tive, orig­i­nal method and address­es the whole to chil­dren aged 4–8 work­ing under the super­vi­sion of par­ents or teach­ers. This rich­ly illus­trat­ed book offers proven ways to infect a child with a pas­sion for con­tem­po­rary music and art. It devel­ops cre­ativ­i­ty, abstract think­ing, imag­i­na­tion and sen­so­ry inte­gra­tion. It con­tains sim­ple descrip­tions of orig­i­nal, inno­v­a­tive tasks that devel­op the abil­i­ty to focus and lis­ten. The book is an inno­v­a­tive form refer­ring to the world of sound and musi­cal forms, to which spe­cif­ic QR codes pro­vide access. The cre­ator of all the works ref­er­enced by the book and the tasks it con­tains is Agniesz­ka Wid­larz — an edu­ca­tor of rhyth­mics and piano impro­vi­sa­tion, author of songs for chil­dren, and doc­tor of musi­cal arts. The illus­tra­tor is Julia Juzyk — a visu­al artist spe­cial­iz­ing in paint­ings, draw­ings, col­lages, illus­tra­tions and graph­ics. The book was cre­at­ed with­in the frame­work of an artis­tic grant from the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw in the field of cul­tur­al dissemination.

Piotr Becza­ła, Alek­san­dra Kurzak and Jakub Józef Orlińs­ki are names that draw crowds around the world. Their spec­tac­u­lar suc­cess­es show that the world of opera can fire the mass imag­i­na­tion. Anna S. Dębows­ka search­es for the roots of artis­tic phe­nom­e­na, trac­ing the biogra­phies of Pol­ish singers who have stormed onto the stages of the world’s great­est venues and into pop culture.

In her book Śpiewa­cy eksportowi. Sukces pol­s­kich artys­tek i artys­tów oper­owych, Anna S. Dębows­ka traces the lives of 9 Pol­ish singers, going back to the moment when music entered their lives, doc­u­ment­ing the hard work to which they owe their suc­cess, and reveal­ing to read­ers a lit­tle of the pri­vate lives of her subjects.

She writes about singers who entered pro­fes­sion­al life after 1989. Her sub­jects are artists whose devel­op­ment she has been fol­low­ing for years. Each of the nine por­traits in this book is a sto­ry about a per­son endowed with tal­ent, deter­mi­na­tion, indus­tri­ous­ness, love of music and a hunger for the stage. It is also a sto­ry about bat­tling adver­si­ty and the shrewd cal­cu­la­tion that favors a career. Also about the fact that all these qual­i­ties would not have borne such abun­dant fruit were it not for that mea­sure of luck indis­pens­able in an artist’s pro­fes­sion. Who knows how Piotr Becza­ła’s for­tunes would have turned out if his wife had run out of petrol on the road to Vien­na — says the author.

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