At the junction — BWA art reading room | Agnieszka Antosik — “Forest Therapy. How to Get Health, Energy, and Peace from the Power of Trees

BWA Olsztyn invites you on 12 October at 17:30 to a meeting from the series “At the interface — the reading room of BWA art” with Agnieszka Antosik — author of the book “Forest Therapy. How to draw health, energy and peace from the power of trees.” The meeting will be held at the temporary headquarters of the BWA in Hala Urania — Al. Marsz. J. Piłsudskiego 44 (entrance B1 | conference room).

The forest is a special space, a place that every archetypal hero has to meet. He enters there to undergo the process of changing his own self, to undergo a trial, a transformation and to go from a state of unconsciousness or childhood to maturity.

What can be for you to enter the space of the forest, meeting with wild nature? Is it the need to leave the comfort zone and face our own fears or to find support, to meet with what has been bestowing us from the dawn in every way?

Agnieszka Antosik, author of the books “Drzewnik” and “Forest Therapy”, dendrotherapist and practitioner, will tell about whether today, according to what our ancestors experienced, we can look for a remedy for the ailments that plagued us in the Anthropocene era, or whether the roles have been reversed and we have to support endangered nature in the wild. forest bathing guide known as Whispering with Trees, creator of the podcast “Green Delights” and co-creator of “Forest Revelations”.

Agnieszka Antosik - author of the books “Drzewnik” and “Forest Therapy”, dendrotherapist and practicing forest bath guide known as Whispering with Trees, creator of the podcast “Green Delights” dedicated to literature, which brings us closer to nature and co-creator of “Forest apparitions”, a podcast inspired by “Listowenia” The story of Richard Powers.

The meeting will be led by Justyna Artym — a graduate of Polish philology and philosophy. In the years 2013-2024, she co-created (with Hanna Brakoniecka) and led the Olsztyn Literary Monthly and the group of creative women Półkowniczki, initiatives presenting the work of Olsztyn authors in the public space. She co-organized artistic activities and literary performances in the city. Author of curatorial texts and exhibition reviews, member of the Programme Council of the Stara Kotłownia Exhibition Centre. Popularizer of philosophy, member of the Polish Philosophical Society. Social and cultural animator, she works at the Cultural and Library Centre in Dobre Miasto.

WHEN: October 12 (Monday), 5:30 p.m.

ADMISSION: 2 zł

The meeting does not require registration.

Accompanying event as part of Natalia Kopytko's exhibition “Everyone for their fears”