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January 22nd (Tuesday)

10.00 a.m. – Working session of the Children on Borderland/Kinder im Grenzland, rezalized by 'Borderland' together with the Bund Deutscher Nord Schleswiger in Denmark and Germany. Participants among others Ute Willimzig-Spiekermann and Markus Herschbach. Borderland House

12.00 p.m. – Working session of a new edition of the Memory of Ancient Time concerning work with a multicultural group of children within the period of next few years. Participants include Belorussians, Ukrainians, Oldbelievers from Poland, Poles and Lithuanians from Lithuania and Belarus
and others. Borderland House

5.00 p.m. – The meeting of the Cultural Heritage Council of Sejny and Sejny Region, working at the Borderland House and including the inhabitants of the region. Borderland House

8.00 p.m. – Istvan Kovacs reading evening, selection of his poetry will be published in Meridian series of Borderland Publishing House. Borderland House

January 23rd (Wednesday)

8.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Wigry Monastery

10.00 a.m. – Working session of the Open Regions of Central-Eastern Europe. Discussion will focus on the autumn 2002 event dedicated to Transylvania. Borderland House

11.00 a.m. – Film show presenting work about 'Borderland' (House, Nest, Temple, We, Gypsies, Tabor, Sejna that Divides and other films). Borderland House

1.00 p.m. – Opening of the Borderland House. With participation of Sławomir Zgrzywa – Marshal of Podlasie Province and former Suwałki voivodes: Franciszek Wasik, Cezary Cieślukowski. Address by Krzysztof Czyżewski.

2.00 pm. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

3.30 p.m. – Film show presenting The Listened Fates – Belarus, the film shot by youth from Class of Cultural Heritage and supervised by Małgorzata Sporek-Czyżewska and Wojciech Szroeder.Borderland House

4.00 p.m. – Presentation of the exhibition Selling the memories by Wiesław Szumiński. 'Papuciarnia' Gallery

4.15 p.m. – Discussion session on Borderland House Activities in the Context of Regional and International Co-operation. Among the participants: Andrzej Celiński (Minister of Culture) and Natalja Burbiene (IĘSecretary of Lithuanian Embassy), Tania Chomiak-Salvi (Cultural Attaché of U.S. Embassy), Irene Comaroschi (Ambassador of Romania), Helena Jacoszowa (Director of Insitute of Slovakian Culture), Jan Stanisław Kap (Mayor of Sejny), Istvan Kovacs (Consul of Hungarian Republic), Marian Luto (Starost of Sejnian Administrative District), Erwin Starnitzky (Cultural Councillor of German Embassy), Józef Szlegier (President of Sejnian Town Council), Maciej Szymanowski (Director of Polish Insitute in Budapest), Sławomir Zgrzywa (Marshal of Podlasie Province). White Synagogue

6.00 p.m. – Performance titled Sejnian Chronicles by children theatre from Sejny, directed by Bożena Szroeder. White Synagogue

7.15 p.m. – Dinner. Wigry Monastery

January 24th (Thursday)

8.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Wigry Monastery

10.00 a.m. – Working session titled The Future of Cultural, Educational and Social Initiatives and the Perspectives of their Financing. Among the speakers: Irena Grudzinska-Gross (Ford Foundation); Tamas Scsaurszki, Shannon Lawder (The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation); Anna Jakubik, Jacek Wojnarowski (Trust for Civil Society in CEE); Anna Rozicka, Elzbieta Grygiel, Piotr Halbersztadt, (Stefan Batory Foundation). 'Papuciarnia' Gallery

1.00 p.m – Meeting with Szewach Weiss, Ambassador of Israel in Poland, author of a book Earth and Clouds. Talk with Szewach Weiss by Joanna Szwedowska, prepared to be published by Borderland Publishing House. White Synagogue

2.30 pm. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

4.00 p.m. – Literature workshop by Pawel Huelle for youth from Class of Cultural Heritage, titled What Should Contemporary Literature Be Like. Borderland House

4.00 p.m. – Working session Perspectives of the Development of Publishers Co-operation in Central and Eastern Europe. Among the participants: publishers, translators, editors, and critics from Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia and other countries.'Papuciarnia' Gallery

7.00 p.m. – Dinner. Lithuanian House

8.30 p.m. – Concert of the Astor Piazzolla music by the Kaunas String Quartet ‘Collegium’. White Synagogue

January 25th (Friday)

8.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Wigry Monastery

10.00 a.m.-1.30 p.m. – Centraleuropean Cultural Forum – part I. White Synagogue

2.00 pm. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

3.30 p.m.-5.30 p.m. – Centraleuropean Cultural Forum – part II. White Synagogue

6.00 p.m. – Thought Hour with Czesław Miłosz. White Synagogue
5.45 p.m. – Presentation of recording made especially for the Sejny meeting and poetry reading by the author.
5.45 p.m. – Presentation of film I had a dream about the return, dir. Andrzej Miłosz, 2000.
5.45 p.m. – Promotion of the new issue of 'Krasnogruda' dedicated to Miłosz.

7.00 – Dinner. Lithuanian House

8.00 p.m. – Café Europa – literary cafe including poetry, discussion and music by Lithuanian Jazz Band. White Synagogue

January 26th (Saturday)

8.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Wigry Monastery

10.00 a.m.-1.30 p.m. – Centraleuropean Cultural Forum – part III . White Synagogue

2.00 pm. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

3.30 p.m.-5.00 p.m. – Centraleuropean Cultural Forum – part IV. White Synagogue

5.30 p.m. – Dinner. Lithuanian House

7.00 p.m. – String of Gathered Pearl Beads. Concert of the Sejny Theatre Klezmer Band. White Synagogue

8.00 p.m. – Café Europa – continuation (traditional Balkan music by 'Sarakina'). Borderland House

January 27th (Sunday)

8.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Wigry Monastery

10.00 a.m. – The meeting of the 'Borderland' Foundation Council. Borderland House

12.00 a.m. – Thought Hour with Andrzej Strumiłło. White Synagogue

1.00 p.m. – Varnishing-day of Andrzej Strumiłło's exhibitions: CITY – W.T.C. – DETAIL and Meditations – Synagogue 1988. White Synagogue

2.00 p.m. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

6.00 p.m. – Dinner. Lithuanian House

7.00 p.m. – Working session of the program Glass Bead Game. Among the participants our partners from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, Yugoslavia. Borderland House

January 28th (Monday)

9.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Lithuanian House

10.00 a.m. – Continuation of the working session of the Glass Bead Game Borderland House

2.30 p.m. – Lunch. Lithuanian House

8.00 p.m. – Working session of Borderland School program

January 29th (Tuesday)

9.00 a.m. – Breakfast. Lithuanian House

11.00 a.m. – Borderland School trip to Kaunas

In The Centraleuropean Forum of Culture and Café Europe will participate among others:

Ihar Babkau (Minsk), Adam Bartosz (Tarnow), Bogumila Berdychowska (Warsaw), Jan Bernad (Lublin), Torunn Borge (Oslo), Krystyna Bratkowska (Warsaw), Danuta Cirlic-Straszynska (Warsaw), Dorota Cirlic (Warsaw), Bogdan Dudko (Bialystok), Akos Engelmayer (Warsaw), Aleksander Fiut (Cracow), Konstanty Gebert (Warsaw), Grzegorz Godlewski (Warsaw), Irena Grudzinska-Gross (New York), Elzbieta Grygiel (Warsaw), Paweł Huelle (Gdansk), Dorota Horodyska (Warsaw), Jerzy Illg (Cracow), Marius Ivaskievicius (Vilnius), Aleksander Jackowski (Warsaw), Drago Jancar (Lublana), Aleksander Kaczorowski (Warsaw), Jan Kaminski (Bialystok), Maciej Klimczak (Warsaw), Leszek Kolankiewicz (Warsaw), Lidia Kolucka (Warsaw), Tatiana Konopkina (Grodno), Istvan Kovacs (Budapest-Cracow), Antoni Kroh (Nowy Sacz), Alina Kuzborska (Olsztyn), Iwona Lizewska (Olsztyn), Zbigniew Machej (Prague), Alina Magnuska (Warsaw), Aleksandra Markiewicz (Warsaw), Andrzej Mencwel (Warsaw), Andrzej Milosz (Warsaw), Bohdan Osadczuk (Berlin), Lidia Ostalowska (Warsaw), Jakub Patocka (Prague), Ana Pejcinova (Skopje-Prague), Magda Petrynska (Warsaw), Joanna Pomorska (Warsaw), Mileta Prodanovic (Belgrade), Mykola Riabczuk (Kiev), Stefan Starczewski (Warsaw), Wiktor Szałkiewicz (Grodno), Iza Szarek (Warsaw), Ferenc Szütő (Cluj), Joanna Szwedowska (Warsaw), Vytautas Toleikis (Vilnius), Robert Traba (Warsaw), Irena Veisaite (Vilnius), Taras Wozniak (Lviv), Marek Zaleski (Warsaw), Nino Zalica (Sarajewo-Amsterdam).