Poetic Ride

Poetic Ride is a series of meetings organised by the Polish Theatre in Wrocław, focusing on the word and its interpretation. The poems, read by professional actors of the Polish Theater in Wrocław and invited guests, are accompanied by live music. Texts representing different styles, conventions, cultures and eras are presented. They can thus attract a diverse audience, both those who have long been interested in the lyric and its characteristic condensation of thoughts and meanings, as well as young people who seek in the poetic word the expression of their rebellion and search for identity.

The meetings in Wrocław maintain the convention of meetings developed in the Krakow Poetry Salon, conducted since 2002 by Anna Dymnia. Teresa Sawicka and Jolanta Zalewska, actresses of the Polish Theatre in Wrocław, decided to instill this idea on the Oder River.

Time with poetry is an opportunity to pause for a moment in the reality that overwhelms us at its pace. And although nowadays we seem tired of the flood of words that constantly attack us with their message from all sides, we still need and look for formulas that allow us to escape from the cliché, to help us define ourselves.

Since 2026, the project has been implemented in cooperation with the Wrocław House of Literature.

Upcoming meetings:

31.10.2026We unite, we do not divide: The voices of Belarus

28.11.2026scene — live studio

Archival meetings:

19.09.2026Bartosz Porczyk, Rifts of Dreams

24.05.2026Motor bought Dushan. Dariusz Basiński's non-life works (replay)

7.06.2025WSpomijanki, Xiegi of Life

5.04.2025Motor bought Dushan. Works by Dariusz Basiński

22.03.2025Bolesław Leśnian, Possibility of another phenomenon (replay)

8.02.2025Bolesław Leśnian, Possibility of another phenomenon

16.11.2024Forget about death to death

2.06.2024Jan Twardowski, I am because you are

Biographies:

ANNA DYMNA — a graduate of the Kraków PWST, and currently a teacher of this university. Initiator and creator of the Krakow Poetry Salon. Actress of the National Old Theatre in Krakow. He has more than two hundred roles in theater, film and television. He considers the episodic character of Zosi in A. Mickiewicz's Dziadach directed by K. Swinarski (1973) to be a breakthrough role in the first period of his work in the theatre. Her most important acting creations include Kora in the November Night by S. Wyspiański (directed by A. Wajda), Anna in A. Czechow's Cherry Orchard (directed by J. Jarocki), Nina Zarieczna in Ten Portraits with a Claw in the Background by A. Czechow (directed by J. Grzegorzewski), Podstolina in Revenge of A. Fredra (director: A. A. Wajda). She has recently starred in plays Orestej Ajschylos and Trilogy by H. Sienkiewicz (directed by J. Klat) and The King Dies, or Ceremonies by E. Ionesco (directed by P. Cieplak). She is the winner of almost all acting awards, including Golden Screen, Golden Lions, Golden Duck and Golden Mask. She is also the author of the TV show Let's Meet and the President of the Foundation “Despite Everything”. For her work she received the highest honors, including the Order of Smile, the Medal of Saint Brother Albert and Optimus Humanum.

Initiators and guardians of the Wrocław Poetic Ride:

TERESA SAWICKA — theater and film actress; graduate of the Faculty of Acting PWST in Krakow. She began her acting career at the National Theater in Warsaw, then she was in the artistic ensemble of the Contemporary Theater in Wrocław, and at the beginning of 1985 she moved to the Polish Theater in Wrocław, where she plays to this day. She was the founder and artistic director of K2 Theatre in Wrocław. Winner of many awards, among others she received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polish Rebirth, Silver Medal “Merited to Culture Gloria Artis”, Medal “Merited to Wrocław”.

JOLANTA ZALEWSKA — theater and film actress; graduate of the Faculty of Acting PWST in Wrocław, and currently a professor at AST in Wrocław. In the ensemble of the Polish Theater in Wrocław since 1987. Among his most valuable creative meetings he has worked with, among others, Jerzy Jarocki, Jerzy Grzegorzewski, Tadeusz Mince, Rudolf Ziola, Agnieszka Glińska, Remigiusz Brzyk, Jan Szurmiej. Of particular importance to her was the role of the President in the Rainbow Tribune 2012 directed by Monika Strzępka. For years he has taught students working with the poem how to go beyond its schematic interpretations.