The Polish Culture Days program will take place in Armenia from December 7th-9th, which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw that took place in 1920. The head of the International Department of the Golden Apricot film festival, Varvara Hovhannisyan, said that the Golden Apricot film festival took place in Armenia, and the movie attempted to bring about some change to our stressful daily lives during a press conference. According to her, the logical end to the cultural year will be the Polish Culture Days program, which was organized by the Polish Róbmy swoje dla kultury Foundation and the Armenian Golden Apricot international film festival in cooperation with the Polish Embassy of Armenia. The program was also financed by the Culture Support fund of Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Varvara Hovhannisyan presented the program, which will be lead by Agnieszka Labents. The Polish Culture Days in Armenia program and the Warsaw Battles photo exhibitions, as well as the book presentation of Jozef Pilsudski by Wlodzimierz Suleja, and the 18 Battles in World History documentary produced by the Polish History Museum will be displayed in the Dalan exhibition hall.
Head of International Department of ‘Golden Apricot’ international festival Varvara Hovhannisyan and project manager Agnieszka Labents give a press conference dedicated to the ‘Polish Cultural Days in Yerevan’ at Grand Hotel Yerevan
In addition, Dariusz Gajewski’s The Legions and Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s The Messenger films will be displayed, and a Polish classical concert will be held at the National Center of Chamber Music, in which the Armenia string quartet and soloists will also participate. They will perform compositions by Wieniawski, Lipinski, Kazanecki, Debsky, and Kilar.
“The program is short, but it will be very interesting,” Varvara Hovhannisyan said.
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The project manager of the Polish Culture Days, Agnieszka Labents, said that she is happy to be in Armenia again and she is sad that she does not know Armenian. She added that she was last in Armenia in 2018 within the framework of Polish Independence Day celebrations, where a Polish music concert was organized at the Aram Khachatryan Concert Hall. She also presented the unique films that will be displayed within the framework of the Polish Culture Days program.
Agnieszka Labents said that she deeply respects Armenians. “Armenians have an important role to play in our history and in modern Poland. I live in Gdansk where two Armenian organizations operate. I have cooperated with them many times.”
Gohar Hakobyan
