Wolskie Ostańce Festival: Embroidery Workshops for Families “Embroidered Buildings”

We invite you to an intergenerational embroidery workshop on photos from the collections of the Warsaw Museum and other state archives. With the help of beautiful shiny threads we will decorate black and white photographs. We will complete the contours of already non-existent buildings, knit curtains on empty windows, add flowers, tinsel, colors. Our embroideries will become a story about life, sewn into old images of the surroundings of the Wola Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. We invite everyone to the workshop, including people without any embroidery experience, of all ages. All materials are provided by the organizer.”

The workshop takes place as part of the Wolskie Ostańce Festival. OSTAŃCE 2026 City, memory, people

What is left of a city that is constantly changing? What continues despite demolitions, new investments and obliteration of memory traces? And who are the modern “regulars”? Festival “Wolskie Ostańce” is a multidimensional event dedicated to the relationship between the city, memory and people. For three days, Wola will become a space for meetings, stories, artistic activities and reflections on what is still going on in Warsaw, despite its disappearance. We understand Ostance broadly — as material traces of history written in the space of the city, social and cultural relics, emotional landscapes of memory, gesture of opposition to forgetting, as well as inspiration and form of artistic activities.

The urban axis is centered around the space of Warsaw and its traces — places, buildings, courtyards and fragments of the city that have survived the changes of history and urban planning. The festival asks what remains written in the fabric of the city and how we interpret its layers of memory today.

The social axis focuses on people — residents, community leaders, creators and witnesses of change. “Ostanci” are those who remember, document, tell and give meaning to the places and experiences of the local community.

The artistic axis treats the stanzas as a form — an inspiration for performance, film, music and visual activities. The festival uses art as a tool to evoke memory, build relationships and create new narratives about the city.

Partners of the festival: Wolskie Centrum Kultury | Warsaw Ghetto Museum | Pilecki Institute | Office of the Wola District of Warsaw | Public Library in the Wola District | Wola Museum. Warsaw Museum Branch

Ticket: free tickets - online

Number of seats: 20

Venue: education room

Education partner of the Warsaw Museum — PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.

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