POLIN Museum Event - “Made in POLIN - a Journey of Change”

, 16 November 2016
To mark the first anniversary of its Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is offering of wide variety of events.

During 9th-11th October 2015, the anniversary will celebrated under the slogan “Made in POLIN – a Journey of Change”. The program includes exhibitions, concerts, performances, films and workshops, and all this topped off with a feast. In addition, the POLIN award will be presented for the first time. It aimed at acknowledging individuals or institutions who protect the memory of Jewish history and culture in Poland.

The invited guests and artists include:

  • Avi Avital – an renowned Israeli mandolin player. In his music, Avital combines the vitality of folklore with the perfectionism and professionalism of classical music. On the stage of the POLIN Museum, accompanied by the Polish National Radio Chamber Orchestra, he will perform, among others, the composition “Summer”, a part of “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi.

  • Robert Więckiewicz – the actor will narrate a live performance based on “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka;

  • Robert Makłowicz, chef, culinary critic and traveler will invite us to embark upon a tasty journey to the bygone times of old Poland. During the feast, participants will search for traces of various cultures in modern Polish cuisine. They will endeavour to ascertain  which tastes have managed to survive and which have been lost forever?

Fans of cinema will be offered screenings of those films which were selected in the “Five Films Which Have Changed Your Lives” competition. Among them will be “The Alien” directed by Ridley Scott amnd “Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola. “The Untouchables”, a box office hit directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano will also be screened.

Themed tours of the Museum’s Core Exhibition will also be offered. To mark its first anniversary, POLIN Museum has prepared a special route of touring the Core Exhibition embracing all galleries. The leading theme of the tour will be the various forms of Jewish identity (including cultural, linguistic and political), and the changes which they have undergone throughout hundreds of years of  diaspora life.

A detailed program of the event can be obtained at http://www.polin.pl/pl/made-in-polin.