VII The Open Regionalism Forum will be held on 6-8 July in Historical Museum in Ełk. The event is invited by the director of MHE Dr. Rafał Żytyniec and the mayor of Ełk Tomasz Andrukiewicz, who he took them under the Honorary Patronage.

How Says Polish historian, political scientist, social activist and cultural scholar Robert Traba "Diversity is the quintessence Democracy. It does not hierarchize values, people, events. It is allowed To meet them, to get to know them, to compete, to conduct a dialogue in the name of seeking best practices."

VII The Open Regionalism Forum aims at dialogue with people of different kinds professions, interests, cultures. Participants will try together answer the question "Does Poland/Europe need today? the dialogical nature of cultures?"

Program Events:

6 July 2023 (Thursday)

15.00 Opening of the Forum

Raphael Żytyniec, Director of the Historical Museum in Ełk

Tomasz Andrukiewicz, Mayor of Ełk

Above Politics: Connecting the Power of Civil Society

David Gregosz

15.30-17.00 hours About the difference. Do we need an unwanted legacy?

Violetta Szostak in conversation with Robert Troba

5:15 p.m. The exhibition "Jan Bułhak. Landscapes. Warmia, Masuria and Suwałki region 1946-49"

Prologue: Mariola Balińska in conversation with Maciej Szymanowicz, Robert Tyska and Iwona Liżewska

Vernissage exhibitions of photographs by Jan Bułhak

Epilogue i.e. post-exhibition discussions

7 July 2023 (Friday)

10.00-16.00 hours Stare Juchy – a microcosm of diversity. Reading the landscape

(Valid additional registration: e-mail: m.murzyn@mhe-elk.pl, tel. 87 732 02 84; the number of places is very limited)

Running: Jakub Knyżewski

•Peter Szatkowski on Stare Juchach formerly

• Margaret Budyta-Budzyńska: A look at the Starojska community

•Exhibition "Father Karol Fox – a priest of difficult times" (commentary: Rafal Żytyniec)

16.30-17.30 hours Summary. In the landscape, time reads. Can we liberate from the myth of the Recovered Territories?

Anonymous Rokita, Marcin Zaremba

Moderation: Jakub Knyżewski

6:00 p.m. "Forefathers' Eve and Dybbuks" – Jarosław Kurski's author's evening

Moderation: Michal Olszewski

8 July 2023 (Saturday)

10.00-11.30 hours Russians and... Russians. Diversity or collective responsibility?

Peter Mitzner, Marek Radziwon

Moderation: Zoriana Varenia

11.45-12.45 hours Poetry of Natalia Bilotserkivets (in Ukrainian original and Polish translation) and conversation with the author

13.15-14.45 hours Does bilaterality have to be symmetrical? The case of Poland – Germany – Ukraine

Mykola Ryabchuk, Basil Kerski, Adam Krzemiński

Moderation: Jacek Lepiarz

3:00 pm Summary. Does Poland/Europe need dialogue today? Cultures?

Talk: Dominika Kozłowska, Robert Traba and Jacek Poniedziałek

More information on https://muzeum.elk.pl/aktualnosci/vii-forum-otwartego-regionalizmu/5556/