Stanisław Vincenz made the Ukrainian Hutsul region popular among the European intellectual elite, – Kniazhytskyi
This was said on Monday, December 3, by the chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy Mykola Kniazhytskyi during the opening of the “Dialogue about fate and soul” exhibition in Ivano-Frankivsk, dedicated to the Polish philosopher Stanisław Vincenz.
“Vincenz called Hutsulshchyna the Slavic Atlantis – an unknown and unseen, but extremely deep world that preserved the best features of European humanism.”
– said the people’s deputy.
According to the chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, the memory of such people who promoted peace between all peoples, defended the freedom of both Poland and Ukraine and sought ways of understanding between these peoples is especially important at the present time.
“Vincenz is truly a unique figure. Not only because he was able to look at the Hutsul region from the outside, enter it, understand and convey his impressions to us. He is a person who is needed today, and in Ukrainian-Polish relations, because we must look for those figures who unite us, open our eyes to understanding and each other’s vulnerability.”
– said in turn the rector of Vasyl Stefanyk Prykarpattia National University Ihor Tsependa.
Consul of the Republic of Poland in Lviv Tomasz Koval emphasized that Vincenz adhered to the ideas of tolerance, coexistence and cooperation of people of different nations, cultures and faiths.
We will remind you that the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)” was presented in Poland in 2014. It is dedicated to the outstanding writer, philosopher of Polish origin, the Righteous Among the Nations, the author of the book “On the High Uplands” – the only epic about the Hutsul region.
The exposition is a biographical story about Stanisław Vincenz against the background of the landscapes of the Carpathians and the Hutsul region. “Dialogue about fate and soul” was created on the basis of documents and photographs from the family archives of Vincenz families and museums and libraries of Poland, Switzerland, France and Great Britain.
For the first time, the Ukrainian version of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)” was shown in the Verkhovna Rada on November 6 this year.
After the presentation in the Ukrainian parliament, the exhibition travels across Ukraine from Kyiv to the village of Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. It will be exhibited on a permanent basis in Kryvorivna, the capital of Hutsul Oblast.
The initiator of the demonstration of the exposition in Ukraine is the Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Kniazhytskyi.
On the Ukrainian side, the event was organized by the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”, on the Polish side – by the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw.
The exhibition will be on display in Ivano-Frankivsk for two weeks from December 4 with the support of the regional state administration and the local history museum.
An exhibition on Polish philosopher Stanisław Vincenz, author of “On the High Uplands,” a Ukrainian epic about the Hutsuls, will open in Ivano-Frankivsk
Today, December 3, the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local History will open the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)”, which is dedicated to Stanisław Vincenz – an outstanding writer, philosopher of Polish origin, Righteous One of the World, author of the book “On the High Uplands”. The exposition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher.
The author of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” is literary critic, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Sciences Jan Andrzej Khoroshy.
The exposition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher, born in the Hutsul region – the author of the work “On the High Uplands”, which is called “Iliad and Odyssey of the Hutsuls” – Stanisław Vincenz. The most important stages of the writer’s biography are highlighted and the atmosphere of the Ukrainian Carpathians, to which he dedicated his works, is conveyed.
The exhibition was presented in Poland in 2014. The exposition is a biographical story about Stanisław Vincenz against the background of the landscapes of the Hutsul region. The exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” was created on the basis of documents and photographs from the family archives of the families of Vincenz and the Italian photographer Lidio Cipriani, the funds of the Ossolinski National Library, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, the Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Switzerland), the Association “Literary Institute of Culture in Le Meny-le-Roi” (France) and Polish library in London.
For the first time, the Ukrainian version of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)” was demonstrated in the Verkhovna Rada on November 6.
The initiator of the exhibition, Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Jan Peklo, Vice-Marshals of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Head of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland Beata Mazurek, as well as other members of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland, as well as a literary critic, teacher of the Institute were present at the grand opening. of Polish Philology at the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Science Jan Andrzej Khoroshy.
After the presentation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the exhibition travels across Ukraine from Kyiv to the village of Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna District, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, as “On the High Uplands” is devoted to the Hutsul region. It will be exhibited on a permanent basis in Kryvorivnia.
The exhibition about Stanisław Vincenz will be the first “brick” in the creation of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz – a cultural institution of the 21st century, which will open its doors to the first visitors in Kryvorivna in 2020.
The initiator of the exposition in Ukraine is the Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi.
On the Ukrainian side, the event was organized by the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”. From Polish – by the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw.
The Stanisław Vincenz Center is planned for construction in the Carpathians
In the Ukrainian Carpathians, an ultra-modern Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz has been designed and is planned for construction. It will be built in the village of Kryvorivnia, Ivano-Frankivsk region.
The development of project documentation became possible thanks to the project’s victory in the Contest of initiatives of local Carpathian communities. The project submitted by the Verkhovyna District Council was recognized as the winner by the Association of Local Self-Governing Bodies “Euroregion Carpathians – Ukraine” and received funding for its implementation.
The project documentation was developed by Antonina Kaplya and Denys Zadniprovskyi, young architects from the Tseh group.
The main goal is to build a modern building in a minimalist style, which will be natural for the surrounding environment.
“We chose a wooden facade for the entrance to the building, which echoes the architecture of the Carpathians. Before starting work on the project, we studied local architecture, traveled around the village of Kryvorivnia. We wanted to make the building both modern and in such a way that it would not stand out from the local architecture.”
– says Antonina Kaplya, the author of the architectural project of the Stanisław Vincenz Center.
Local specialists are planned to be involved in the work, and the center itself will be built from local materials: wood and corrugated metal roofs.
According to the designers, the center should be interesting not only to schoolchildren, cultural figures and journalists. It should become a tourist attraction that will be visited by Ukrainian and foreign tourists. For this, the latest technologies will be used.
The center should open for visitors in 2020.
The project is implemented within the framework of the Program to support the initiatives of local Carpathian communities, which is implemented by the Association “Euroregion Carpathians – Ukraine” and is financed with the funds of the regional budgets of the Lviv, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi regions, the company DTEK, PJSC “Oscar Morshinsky Zavod Mineral Water”.
Opening of the exhibition Dialogue on Fate and Soul: Stanisław Vincenz
The Verkhovna Rada opened an exhibition about the Polish philosopher who wrote the world-famous epic about the Hutsul region. On Tuesday, November 6, the chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi opened the Ukrainian version of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)”.
“It is very important for us to open together with representatives of the Polish Seimas an exhibition about the Polish philosopher who wrote the world-famous epic about the Hutsul region.”
– he emphasized.
The exhibition is dedicated to Stanisław Vincenz – a philosopher of Polish origin, a righteous man of the world, the author of the book “On the High Uplands” – the only Ukrainian epic about the Hutsuls.
“In this work, for the first time, all the legends, myths and retellings of the history of Hutsul region are collected. No one has described the Hutsul region like Vincenz. And when he fled through the mountains from the Soviet occupation in 1940, the only thing he took with him was a manuscript about the life of the Hutsuls, which he continued to write even in exile. And we are very pleased to open this exhibition today together with representatives of the Polish Seimas, members of the group on inter-parliamentary relations with the Republic of Poland.”
– said the head of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality.
In turn, the author of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” – literary critic, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Sciences Jan Andrzej Khoroshy – said that it was presented in Poland for the first time in 2014. The exposition is a biographical story about Stanisław Vincenz against the background of the landscapes of the Hutsul region. The exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” was created on the basis of documents and photographs from the family archives of the families of Vincenz and the Italian photographer Lidio Cipriani, the funds of the Ossolinski National Library, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, the Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Switzerland), the Association “Literary Institute of Culture in Le Meny-le-Roi” (France) and Polish library in London.
“Vincenz was in love with the Hutsul region and considered the people living here to be people doomed to freedom. Regardless of their nationality, he called everyone brothers.
– said Jan Andrzej Khoroshyi.
After the presentation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the exhibition will travel across Ukraine from Kyiv to the village of Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna District, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the Hutsul capital of Ukraine. “On the High Uplands” is devoted to the Hutsul region. It will be exhibited on a permanent basis in Kryvorivnia.
The exhibition about Vincenz will be the first “brick” in the creation of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz – a cultural institution of the 21st century, which will open its doors to the first visitors in Kryvorivna in 2020.
The event was also attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Jan Peklo, the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, the head of the Polish-Ukrainian group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland Beata Mazurek, as well as other members of the Polish-Ukrainian group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland, who are on an official visit to the Ukrainian Parliament.
On the Ukrainian side, the event was organized by the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” with the assistance of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality. On the Polish side, by the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw. The exposition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher.
The exhibition Dialogue on Fate and Soul: Stanisław Vincenz (1888–1971)
On November 6, 2018, the Ukrainian version of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul. Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971)” will open. The exhibition should reveal to the Ukrainian audience the figure of the outstanding Polish writer and philosopher, born in the Hutsul region – the author of the work “On the High Uplands”, which is called “Iliad and Odyssey of the Hutsuls” – Stanisław Vincenz. The exhibition highlights the most important stages of the writer’s biography and conveys the atmosphere of the Ukrainian Carpathians, to which S. Vincenz dedicated his work.
The author of the exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” is literary critic, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Philology of the University of Wroclaw, Doctor of Sciences Jan Andrzej Khoroshy. The project was made possible thanks to the support of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Culture and Spirituality and the Chairman of the Committee, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Kniazhytskyi. The NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” acted as the organizer from the Ukrainian side.
The official opening of the exhibition by the Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, accompanied by the author, will take place with the participation of the Vice-Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, the Head of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland Mrs. Beata Mazurek, as well as other members of the Polish-Ukrainian Group of the Senate and Sejm of the Republic of Poland, who will be on an official visit to the Ukrainian Parliament.
The exhibition “Dialogue about fate and soul” was created on the basis of documents and photos from the family archives of the families of S. Vincenz and the Italian photographer L. Cipriani, the funds of the Ossolinski National Library, the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, the Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Switzerland), the Association Literary Institute of Culture in Le Meny-le-Roi (France) and Polish library in London. The Polish premiere of the exhibition took place in October 2014 in Wroclaw. After the presentation in the Verkhovna Rada, the exhibition will travel across Ukraine from Kyiv to the village of Kryvorivnia, Verkhovyna District, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, where it will be exhibited on a permanent basis.
The exhibition about S. Vincenz will be the first “brick” in the creation of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue named after Stanisław Vincenz – a cultural institution of the 21st century, which will open its doors to the first visitors in Kryvorivna in 2020.
A meeting of the expert group of the future Stanisław Vincenz Center took place
A meeting of the expert group of the future Stanisław Vincenz Center for Intercultural Dialogue took place in Kyiv.
The center is planned to be created in the village of Kryvorivnia in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Implementation of the project became possible with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. For its competent implementation, the public organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”, which is the initiator of the creation of the Center, invited the best experts to the discussion.
“The best experts on this topic, on the history of Ukraine, Hutsul Oblast, Polish-Ukrainian dialogue have gathered. These are the best specialists who are a joint powerful think tank.”
– says project manager Maria Gurska.
They talked about the roadmap for the launch of the Stanisław Vincenz Center for Intercultural Dialogue. Experts agreed that the future cultural institution should develop the ideas of Stanisław Vincenz and introduce visitors to his heritage. The center should become a place of meeting, work and intellectual recreation for scientists, students and local residents. A unique exhibition space will be created taking into account the trends of modern European museums.
“This is an attempt to create one of the first museums of synthetic cultural projects. Because it will represent not just a museum, as a collection of dead artifacts, but also a living environment.”
– said historian, public figure, scientific consultant of the project Andriy Pavlyshyn.
The center will open its doors to visitors in the period from 2019 to 2020.
The project is implemented with the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
A meeting of screenwriters of the upcoming film “Vincenz” took place in Kyiv
A working meeting of the screenwriters of the future full-length feature film “Vincenz” took place in the capital.
The meeting between Nataliya Vorozhbyt – the author of the script of the film “Cyborgs”, laureate of the “Golden Spindle” 2017, as well as Maxim Kurochkin and the professor of Lublin University, Myroslava Oldakovska-Kufel, lasted more than three hours. They discussed the details of the writer’s biography and the vicissitudes of his life, which will help to enrich and intensify the storylines. Professor Oldakovska-Kufel took scientific supervision over the work of the group of screenwriters and agreed to continue advising the team.
“We sat down in a cozy cafe with a cup of green tea and Ms. Miroslava in a low voice, with trepidation and eyes full of admiration began to tell about someone very close and dear to her – about Stas. The playwrights asked: “What kind of Stas?”. It was about Stanisław Vincenz. Indeed, it was strange to hear about a majestic figure in such a direct, intimate way, but thanks to this conversation, a living earthly figure began to emerge before our eyes, with its flaws and quirks. Vincenz became closer – the way he was not only on the pages of works, but also in the walls of his own house, and in crisis situations, such as imprisonment, death of loved ones or divorce from his first wife. I have no doubt that playwrights will be able to bring this outstanding figure closer to all of us,” said translator and journalist Nataliya Petraniuk, who was present during the meeting.
The tape “Vincenz” will tell about the author of the unique Hutsul epic “On the High Uplands” Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971). The fate of Stanisław Vincenz is extremely cinematic – the grandson of an oil tycoon, a Pole of French origin, a student of Sigmund Freud, he lives at the edge of the world in a Hutsul hut and reads Homer every day. Vincenz writes his own Verkhovyna “Iliad and Odyssey”, and then he himself, like Odysseus, is forced to flee from the Carpathians through the Black Mountain Range to Hungary, escaping from the Soviet authorities, accompanied by a molfar. In the last years of his life in Lausanne, Switzerland, Vincenz saves the Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz from suicide, and also hosts brilliant European intellectuals of the 20th century in his Hutsul house in La Combe.
We will remind you that the idea of creating the script for the film “Vincenz” belongs to the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum”. The project is implemented with the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The film should be released in 2019-2020.
Filming of a Documentary About Olherd Bochkovskyi Begins in Kyiv
Filming of the dramatised scenes of the film about Olherd Bochkovskyi has begun in the capital. The project is implemented by the NGO “Demforum” with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The tape will tell about the life of an outstanding scientist with Ukrainian roots, who opposed Soviet propaganda and defended the Ukrainian people. This is a documentary-biography with elements of journalistic investigation.
“Bochkovsky, he warned about the Russian invasion. Everything he wrote or said on the radio at that time is still relevant. 100 years have passed, and we are back where we were… The goal is to bring back the name of the outstanding Ukrainian Olherd Bochkovskyi, who, unfortunately, has been forgotten,” said the author of the script and director Hryhoriy Rudenko.
The tape will be of a mixed type: there are reconstructions involving professional actors, a presenter, archival materials and interviews with experts.
Actor Artem Vilbik, who plays Olherd Bochkovskyi, said that when he got acquainted with the script, he felt how the present is intertwined with the past.
“Those events are very seriously intertwined with what is happening in Ukraine now. They resonate a lot. And this was probably the impetus for me to agree and work on this role,” said the actor.
Filming will continue until the end of October in various regions of Ukraine and in two cities in the Czech Republic. And the premiere will take place in December, on the Espreso TV channel.
The project is implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Demforum has begun work on a film about Olherd Bochkovskyi
The non-governmental organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” received a grant to create a film about Olherd Bochkovskyi. The film about Bochkovsky is the story of one of the many representatives of Ukrainian elites – known in scientific circles of the world, but “erased” from the memory of their people.
The “Demforum” team has already involved screenwriters, directors, consultants and other specialists in the work on the creation of the film, who will help in the implementation of the project. It will be a 52-minute documentary-biography with elements of investigative journalism. He will introduce Ukrainians to the Ukrainian sociologist, political scientist, ethnologist, pedagogue, publicist and public figure Olherd Bochkovskyi, who is very famous in Europe and the world. The project was made possible thanks to the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The main idea of the film is to show the contribution of Olgrad Ippolit Bochkovsky to the study of the processes of birth and development of modern nations, the analysis of nation-building processes in Europe, Asia, Africa, both Americas and even in Australia, he is a generally recognized specialist. He was an “advocate” of the Ukrainian issue in the world, opposed Soviet propaganda. During the Holodomor of 1932-33, he headed the Committee to Aid the Starving in Ukraine. In Europe, he is considered one of the leading European specialists in the theory of the nation and national relations of the first half of the 20th century. In Ukraine, his figure and scientific achievements are unknown. Now, in the process of establishing national identity and European affiliation, these issues are extremely important for Ukraine.
The multi-volume publication “Selected works and documents of Olgerd Ippolit Bochkovski” published in 2018 (Dukh i Litera publishing house) became the basis for the creation of the tape. In addition to completing biographies, journalists will meet with respected experts, visit archives, and go to the places where the hero of the film was born and worked to record testimonies. Filming will take place in the village. Dolynsk (Kherson Region), in Kyiv, Dnipro, and abroad in the Czech Republic (Prague and Podjebrady).
The non-governmental organization “Demforum” invited scientific consultants to cooperate. Journalist, historian, member of the strategic group of advisers under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Myroslav Cheh, doctor of science, professor of UCU Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor of Warsaw University and compiler of the multi-volume publication “Selected works and documents” Ola Hnatiuk, and other members of the editorial board of the series of works “Ukraine. Europe: 1921–1939”: Roman Vysotskyi, Mark von Hagen, Igor Galagidu, Andrea Graziosi, Oleksandr Zaitsev, Serhiy Plokhiy, Viktor Rybchuk, Franko Sysyn, and Yuriy Shapoval.
During the shooting, a lot of archival documents, scientific papers, historical footage, as well as filming from the places of the main events in the hero’s life and unique contemporary testimonies will be used. The film will have both historical and cultural value.
The finale of the project will be the screening of the film on the Espreso TV channel.
The project budget was 1.2 million hryvnias. He provided more than 80% of the funds for its implementation Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state institution established in 2017, on the basis of the relevant Law of Ukraine, with the aim of promoting the development of national culture and art in the state, ensuring favorable conditions for the development of the intellectual and spiritual potential of the individual and society, wide access of citizens to the national cultural heritage, support of cultural diversity and integration of Ukrainian culture into the world cultural space. According to current legislation, the activities of the fund are directed and coordinated by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
NGO “Demforum” started work on writing the script of the feature film “Vincenz”
The non-governmental organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” has started work on writing the script for the full-length feature film “Vincenz”. The project is implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Work has already begun on creating the script for the feature film-biopic “Vincenz”. The film will tell about the author of the unique Hutsul epic “On the High Uplands” Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971). The work tells about local culture, history and customs. It is compared with “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi and Hnat Hotkevich’s works about Opryshki.
The fate of Stanisław Vincenz is extremely cinematic – the grandson of an oil tycoon, a Pole of French origin, a student of Sigmund Freud, he lives on the edge of the world in a Hutsul hut and reads Homer every day. Vincenz writes his own Verkhovyna “Iliad and Odyssey”, and then he himself, like Odysseus, is forced to flee from the Carpathians through the Black Mountain Range to Hungary, escaping from the Soviet authorities, accompanied by a molfar. In the last years of his life in Lausanne, Switzerland, Vincenz saves the Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz from suicide, and also hosts brilliant European intellectuals of the 20th century in his “Hutsul house” in La Combe.
For several years now, the NGO “Demforum” has been paying attention to the legacy of Stanisław Vincenz. Now, thanks to the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, it became possible to screen the story of the ambassador of Hutsul region in a co-production with Poland.
Ukrainian playwright, author of the script of the film “Cyborgs” (2017 “Golden Dziga” laureate) Nataliya Vorozhbyt and screenwriter Maksym Kurochkin are working on the project. In the future, the film “Vincenz” will be shot based on the script, which should become a powerful promotion of the Ukrainian Carpathians as a destination for investment and tourism.
The UAH 390,000 required to implement the project was allocated by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state institution established in 2017, on the basis of the relevant Law of Ukraine, with the aim of promoting the development of national culture and art in the state, ensuring favorable conditions for the development of the intellectual and spiritual potential of the individual and society, wide access of citizens to the national cultural heritage, support of cultural diversity and integration of Ukrainian culture into the world cultural space. According to current legislation, the activities of the fund are directed and coordinated by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
