Warsaw
Observatory
of Culture

At the Warsaw Observatory of Culture we aim to explore the processes of contemporary culture and share our findings with the wider community. We believe that connecting art and artists with scholarship affords us a better understanding of the world and the tools to engage with and contribute to the future.

Otwarcie warszawskiej sceny tańca w Pawilonie nad Wisłą. Z Joanną Leśnierowską rozmawia Julia Hoczyk

“Jak to możliwe, że stolica czterdziestomilionowego, środkowoeuropejskiego kraju nie ma jeszcze miejsca poświęconego jednej z najbardziej dynamicznie rozwijających się sztuk scenicznych?” – pyta Joanna Leśnierowska w rozmowie z Julią Hoczyk.

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List of Shortcomings: an interdisciplinary theatre project

Together we want to take part in a debate on culture as a working environment, the precariat as the dominant form of (un)employment in culture and the conditions, hierarchies, and inconsistencies between the level of the declared values and their realisation.

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On friendship and Warsaw. Interview with Oksana Kolisnyk

What are the interests of young refugees in Warsaw? How can we reach them? These are some of the questions that we at the Warsaw Observatory of Culture have been asking for some time, and then Oksana Kolisnyk, a student of Social Arts at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, approached us with a request to organise workshops in our WOKLab.

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Future Culture. Needs, Ideas and Solutions

Presenting the solutions developed by experts for the cultural sector during a time of transition. On 26 September, a debate on the organisation of the financing and functioning of culture in Poland took place at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw.

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