26.11.2008 - 28.11.2008

3rd Baltic Meetings of Illustrators

Another time we encourage you to take part in a meeting with the most interesting book illustrations. This time the main subject of the Baltic Meeting of Illustrators will be well known from the Scandinavian mythology Trolls, gnomes and hobgoblins. Together with our guests we shall take a closer look on their presence in literature, visual arts and music. They wiil also be a leitmotiv of presentation and discussions. Nevertheless, we won’t confine our interests only to the Scandinavian reflections, but also encourage our guests to talk about the Polish hobgoblins and dwarfs well known from Maria Konopnicka’s fairy tales – recently published short stories for children gave them a new life.

Under the veil of talking about trolls and hobgoblins we would also like to discusse the role of a fairy tale and its characters in the life of a child. Does the heroes of folk fairy tales and mythologies help to tame the world or maybe contrary – they make it even more starnge and dangerous? And maybe the mythological creatures live inside us? Can we imagine and present them?

We have invited writers and illustrators from Sweden and Norway who will tell us more about the world of trolls, the tradition of this motif in the Scandinavian arts and about its meaning for the contemporary people. Among the invited guests are: Svein Hyhus – Norwegian writer and illustrator, Ulf Stark – Swedish writer and the illustrators of his books: Anna Hoglund and Kristina Digman. From Norway will also come Ingerlise Kongsgaard, a well known painter of trolls. An introduction to the world of trolls will make Janina Orlov.

About the history and the present life of the Polish dwarfs we shall talk with Grzegorz Leszczyński and Joanna Olech and about the recently published books about hobgoblins will tell s a writer Melania Kapelusz and illustrators Ewa Poklewska-Koziełło and Jerzy Głuszek.

We have also prepared a workshop for young illustrators – they will be lead by our guests from Norway

A special multimedia concert per Gynt Troll Remix will finalise this year’s edition of the Baltic Meeting of Illustrators.

P R O G R A M M E

time: 26 Novembar
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35

Conference The Norwegian literature for children

The conference takes place as an innauguration of a project Promotion of the Norwegian literature for children in Poland organised by the Foundation for Socially Responsible Initiatives, BSCC and the Norwegian partners.

  • Does dad cry? > difficult issues in the Norwegian childred literature

  • Hilde Ringen Kommedal > meeting with a writer

  • Kristin Ørjasæter (Institute for Children Books) > history of the Norwegian literature for children

  • From folk legens to picture books > exhibition

 

time: 26 Novembar
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35

Workshops

  • 5.00pm > Svein Nyhus > Designing and drawing of trolls and other creatures

 

time: 27 Novembar
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35

Meeting I - presentations

  • 10.00am-2.00pm

    • Svein Nyhus (Norway) > Troll in each of us

    • Ingerlise Kongsgaard (Norway) > Norwegian trolls, the bog and the small ones

    • Joanna Olech > League of Polish dwarfs – a genealogy of dwarfs in the Polish literature

  • 3.00pm-5.00pm

    • Grzegorz Leszczyński > End of beauty? Triumph of halucination? >

    • Agnieszka Stulgińska > About the music illustration – trolls in Edvard Grieg’s music

    • Jerzy Samp >Stolemy – Polish dwarfs of the Kashubian region

 

time: 28 Novembar
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35

Meeting II - presentations

  • 10.00am-3.00pm

    • Janina Orlov (Sweden) > Troll – therapist

    • Ulf Stark, Anna Höglund, Kristina Digman (Sweden) > About trolls and their influence on artists – former and at present

    • Melania Kapelusz, Ewa Poklewska-Koziełło, Jerzy Głuszek, Creatures in caps > debate about dwarfs

Workshops

  • 5.00pm - Ingerlise Kongsgaard > Monsters that we still don’t know

 

time: 26 November – 21 December

Exhibition of books presented by the Institute of Children Books in Oslo

During the exhibition you can see the illustrations of Ingerlise Kongsgaard, Svein Nyhus (Norway); Anna Höglund, Kristina Digman (Sweden);Natalia Salijenko, Daria Gierasimowa, Olga Ionajtis (Russia);  Ewa Poklewska-Koziełło, Jerzy Głuszek (Poland). Apart of illustration there will also be exhibited dolls and set designes of  Paweł Pawlak.

time: 27 Novembar, 6.00pm
venue: St. John’s Centre, Świętojańska Str. 50, Gdańsk

concert per Gynt Troll Remix

Krzysztof Topolski (electronics), Robert Sochacki (visualizations) and a brass quintet Heveliuss Brass will present their own artistic project inspired by the piece of Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt.

time: 29 listopada
venue: Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35

  • 15.15pm > Author’s meeting with Sveinem Nyhusem > author and illustrator  of a book Dad! and Helena Garczyńska – his Polish translator

The meeting with Svein Nyhus takes place under the patronage of the Norwegian Embassy in Poland.