House of Cultures: Listening room — workshop

We return with the Dom Kultur cycle after the holidays. This time we want to create a common listening platform based on the stories, materials and effects of the workshops of the previous part of the initiative, enriching them with new materials that will be created at the workshops. The “Listening Room” will be an interdisciplinary creative workshop combining the practice of sound mindfulness, recording skills and field-recording works with the creation of mini-stories that will be interpreted actorily.

We continue to lean on the theme of “home” as a refuge from modern crises. Once again, we want to artistically process the experience of home warmth and habitation through different forms of art. During the workshop we want, on the one hand, to perceive, record and arrange sound events that we associate with the house or are an expression of our experience of living; on the other hand, to create together a series of mini-stories, poetic sentences that will serve us for acting fun consisting in the exploration of oneself, voice, body and emotions - these will be recorded and They will be part of the final show. We will be inspired by shared experiences, childhood memories and dreams of home.

The final will be the official listening of the concert in the Forge in November, combined with a laser presentation on the patio and a summary of the whole year of activities of the Dom Kultur initiative.

Participation in workshops does not require special skills, only openness to experimentation. We provide sound recording equipment.

Registrations via web form

Free admission

Event dedicated to adults.

Number of places for workshops: 10

The event will be held entirely in Polish.

The workshop lasts 4 hours.

The event takes place within the Cultural Resilience Laboratory in Nowa Huta. PACESETTERS Project - Horizon Europe Programme

Lecturers:

Przemysław Niemczewski - field record holder, sound artist, documentalist. Sound operator. Researcher of the audiosphere of cities, in particular noise pollution. From his field recordings he creates compositions and collages, which can be listened to on bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com. Edits podcasts of the Nowohuckie Social Archive. He conducts sound walks.

Arletta Szewczyk - teacher of theater and circus, actress, director, speech therapist, project coordinator. She collaborated on the research project of the Małopolska Cultural Institute “Animation/Education. Opportunities and limitations of education and cultural animation in Poland”. She also worked on a volunteer project at the Federation of Associations of People with Disabilities FAAM in Spain, teaching classes with seniors and people with disabilities. She was the manager of the Wersalik Club in the Cultural Center Kraków - Nowa Huta. Finalist of the Halina Machulska Award in 2024. KPO scholarship holder for culture. He conducts theatrical projects in correctional institutions, welfare homes, special schools, cultural institutions. The originator of the first backyard performances in Krakow.

About the initiative Dom Kultur is an interdisciplinary artistic and social project responding to the contemporary need to build cultural resilience to global and local crises. The aim of the project is an artistic reflection on the theme of the house and the symbolism of the living space. The eponymous “House” is conceived in the project as a kind of “shelter” from the danger of the modern world and the experiences of social, war, climatic and cultural crises. “House of Cultures” signifies the diversity of its history, customs and rituals. In the first part, the project included a series of workshops with artists aimed at local communities, people experiencing refugees and people from abroad settled in Poland. The result was an art exhibition consisting of objects inspired by home spaces enhanced by a sound space containing personal stories of the participants of the project.

Plan of meetings of the first part of the initiative:

Part 1. House Talks | storytelligowy workshop - held on March 21, 2026

Part 2. Building a Safe Place | Visual Workshop — Held on April 18, 2026

Part 3. Sounds of habitation| sound workshop held on May 9, 2026

Finale. Dom Kultur installation show - held June 27, 2026

The activity takes place within the Cultural Resilience Laboratory in Nowa Huta — part of the international research project PACESETTERS (2024—2027). What do you need to know before meeting? 1/ We will be accompanied by researchers from the Jagiellonian University. Their presence allows us to better understand the real impact of artistic activities on community building and to see how art helps us cope with crises2/ The research serves only the scientific purposes of the project. Participation in them is voluntary and all insights are collected with respect for the privacy and comfort of all those present.