Republic of Krecia Góra: Meeting with Lidia Rozmus

We cordially invite you to a meeting with Lidia Rozmus about her writing book entitled Republika Kreciej Góra (Austeria Publishing House)

The Republic of Krecia Góra is a place invented and named by the artist Lidia Rozmus. Geographically, it is located in the village of Vernon Hills, in Lake County, Illinois, USA. It is a hill, the slopes of which descend into the waters of the Big Bear Lake and the Double Moon Bay. The area is not too big, not too small, you can say — just once. Population: birds, mammals (1 homo sapiens), reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects...

At the same time, the Republic of Crete is an imaginary place that also exists only in the imagination. The whole idea is to somehow stimulate the imagination of adults and children, because everyone can have their own “republic”, if only to stop from time to time, breathe and maybe even smile at themselves.

The meeting will be hosted by Zofia Hartman.

For whom: no age limitsAdmission: free

photo courtesy L. Rozmus/Z. Hartman

Lidia Rozmus is a Polish-born painter and graphic artist who has been fascinated by Japanese art and aesthetics for years. She graduated in Art History from the Jagiellonian University. In 1980, she emigrated to the United States, where she continued her art education at the American Academy of Art (1983—1985) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1988—1990). She creates in the technique of sumi-e and oil painting, as well as designing art books in which she combines painting and haiku poetry. Her publications, including haiku, haibun and haiga, have been repeatedly awarded the Merit Book Award for outstanding graphic design. Rozmus serves as the art editor of the American magazine Modern Haiku. Her works have been presented at exhibitions in Japan, the United States, Australia and Poland. Since 2021 he lives and works in Krakow.

Zofia Hartman — graduated five years of cultural studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 2020, she also completed several years of classical music education, culminating in her studies at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow at the Instrumental Faculty (direction: oboe). He specializes in the study of the character of Chiune Sugihara and the history associated with him. In 2024, her book The Sugihara List was published, for which she was honored with the Eastern Review Award in 2025. Since 2019 she has been working at the City of Literature Foundation, where every year she is involved in the organization of many literary projects. She coordinates, among others, the Krakow Bookstores for Medal program, conducts literary meetings in the Austeria Bookstore, organizes concerts and music workshops. Zofia Hartman also collaborates with the Art Forum Foundation and with the Warsaw Oto Foundation, where she works on the WarszEmuzik and Droga Dō festival.Co-organizers: