Brzechwałki Festival | Historie Domowe

As part of the Brzechwałki Festival, a three-part series of workshops is planned, during which we will transform your home stories and childhood memories into works of art.

12.09.2026, 11:30-13:00 We create fairy tales

The first meeting, which will help to return to family memories and give them a magical character, will be led by Ola Barczyk. Your stories will turn into individual fairy tales, which we will eventually record in the form of an atmospheric radio show.

26.09.2026, 10:00-11:30 We create zines

The second meeting will take place under the supervision of an experienced visual artist and scenographer of the Grotesque Theatre, Łukasz Bieńek. Families will create their own zines - small, handmade books that will illustrate your family fairy tales.

The workshops are aimed at parents, guardians and caregivers with children from 3 years old. We invite whole families.

Enrollment through the Master Parents' Club form

Admission: 2 zł | adult

The workshop will last 1.5 hours, with a break

How to prepare: for classes on September 12, please bring a comfortable outfit, for classes on September 19, please take some pictures from the family archive, the photos will be copied and printed so that you can use them in your zines (booklets).

Let us know in the registration email if we can prepare anything to ensure you are fully comfortable and safe during the event.

BIO OF THE HOSTS

Aleksandra Barczyk - theatrologist, theatre and circus instructor, storyteller and co-founder of the All Present Foundation, connected daily with the Old Town Youth Culture Centre in Krakow. She is an award-winning playwright and scholarship holder (including the Halina Machulska Award, KPO and City of Krakow scholarships), who also runs the educational and narrative channel Dobre eście.

Łukasz Bieniek - artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, scenographer of the Groteska Theater in Krakow, deals with drawing, painting, digital manipulation. The artist presented his works at numerous solo exhibitions, including in Krakow galleries, museums and cultural institutions in the Bieszczady Mountains and Nuremberg.

The Brzechwałki Festival is an annual educational and theatrical program aimed primarily at preschool children, their teachers, teachers and families. It combines presentations of stage work of the youngest with workshops and educational activities showing how to use theater in working with children. The festival is a reactivation of a well-known artistic review organized between 1997 and 2020 in cooperation with Teatr Groteska and the Małopolskie Centre for Teacher Improvement in Kraków. The new edition preserves the idea of presenting small stage forms created by children and family theaters, while developing the program with workshops on theater pedagogy for people working in preschool and early childhood education. The festival develops the program offer for the inhabitants of Krakow through activities in the field of cultural education and reading, as well as creates a space for meetings and relationships between children, teachers, families and the local community. Events within the framework of the festival promote the building of lasting bonds around the theatre as a community and educational tool.

Title partner: Kraków Nowa Huta Future S.A.