Krakow Festival Office
Cafe Miłosz
Cafe Miłosz
As part of the Year of Miłosz, dozens of Krakow-based cafes and clubs received napkins and sweets with the Miłosz365 logo, as well as elegant cards with Thoughts to let (Myśli do odstąpienia) by Czesław Miłosz and souvenir postcards from the screening of Jenny Holzer: For Krakow, projected on the walls of Wawel Castle during the recent Art Boom Festival.
We would like to encourage you to visit the cafes participating in the campaign, help yourself to the sweets, but also engage in a dialogue with the short texts published in 1997 by ZNAK in the second part of the Roadside Dog. Playing with the reader, Miłosz meant to invite other potential authors to become creative. The title itself - Thoughts to let - is an idea whereby the poet generously presents his thoughts to other authors. When justifying his decision, he says: "I will not be able to use them myself," and adds: "There is one upside to being on the wrong side of eighty - the spectacle of the world, terrifying as it is, also appears highly comical, so that excessive seriousness is no longer befitting. (...) At the same time, it becomes more important as a spectacle, only because it was going on when we were not here and will continue after we are gone. It is a good deed to increase people's interest in this theatrum mundi, but it is wrong to say that it will all crumble into nothingness as soon as we are dead" (Why do I let my subjects to others). Miłosz's short utterances in prose often take on the form of baffling statements letting one delve into the poet's work and engage in dialogue with the texts or the way of thinking proposed by Miłosz. Subjects to let are also a continuation of the Chronicles, and the poet himself described them as "novels condensed into several or so lines." In this way, the reader can become a writer and meet over a coffee with the poet and his words in a creative way.
Join us on this literary journey and send us your thoughts following Miłosz's own to: Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, ul. Olszańska 7, 31-513 Krakow, quoting "Cafe Miłosz" on the envelope. The authors of the most interesting thoughts will receive great prizes.
The presence of poetry in cafes in future is to become a long-term action, gradually enriched with pieces by other Krakow-based writers and poets printed in Polish and English. The idea is related to Krakow's application for the title of the UNESCO City of Literature and is meant to popularise reading and the presence of poetry in everyday life. Participating cafes include: Cafe Cheder, Cafe Massolit, Cafe Szafe, Cafe Rękawka, Cafe Frania, Cafe Dym, Cafe Camelot, Cafe Jagiellonka, Gazeta Cafe, Famiga, Zazie Bistro, the Tourist Services Centre Cafe, Herbaciarnia Czarka, Iluminati, Bohema and Musso Sushi - places that are especially literature and book-friendly, where you can indulge yourself in a book and a cup of fragrant coffee.
The Cafe Miłosz campaign makes part of the Miłosz Liberated project - Krakow's celebrations of the Year of Czesław Miłosz with the support of the Book Institute. It is organised by the Krakow Festival Office in cooperation with Krakow's cafes and clubs across the city.
The photo report was possible thanks to the courtesy of Cafe Cheder (Józefa 36) and Massolit (Felicjanek 4). Visit the photo gallery.
The project has been co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. For more about the Year of Miłosz events visit: www.milosz365.pl
Photography: Paweł Ulatowski
Cafe Miłosz
Cafe Miłosz
As part of the Year of Miłosz, dozens of Krakow-based cafes and clubs received napkins and sweets with the Miłosz365 logo, as well as elegant cards with Thoughts to let (Myśli do odstąpienia) by Czesław Miłosz and souvenir postcards from the screening of Jenny Holzer: For Krakow, projected on the walls of Wawel Castle during the recent Art Boom Festival.
We would like to encourage you to visit the cafes participating in the campaign, help yourself to the sweets, but also engage in a dialogue with the short texts published in 1997 by ZNAK in the second part of the Roadside Dog. Playing with the reader, Miłosz meant to invite other potential authors to become creative. The title itself - Thoughts to let - is an idea whereby the poet generously presents his thoughts to other authors. When justifying his decision, he says: "I will not be able to use them myself," and adds: "There is one upside to being on the wrong side of eighty - the spectacle of the world, terrifying as it is, also appears highly comical, so that excessive seriousness is no longer befitting. (...) At the same time, it becomes more important as a spectacle, only because it was going on when we were not here and will continue after we are gone. It is a good deed to increase people's interest in this theatrum mundi, but it is wrong to say that it will all crumble into nothingness as soon as we are dead" (Why do I let my subjects to others). Miłosz's short utterances in prose often take on the form of baffling statements letting one delve into the poet's work and engage in dialogue with the texts or the way of thinking proposed by Miłosz. Subjects to let are also a continuation of the Chronicles, and the poet himself described them as "novels condensed into several or so lines." In this way, the reader can become a writer and meet over a coffee with the poet and his words in a creative way.
Join us on this literary journey and send us your thoughts following Miłosz's own to: Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, ul. Olszańska 7, 31-513 Krakow, quoting "Cafe Miłosz" on the envelope. The authors of the most interesting thoughts will receive great prizes.
The presence of poetry in cafes in future is to become a long-term action, gradually enriched with pieces by other Krakow-based writers and poets printed in Polish and English. The idea is related to Krakow's application for the title of the UNESCO City of Literature and is meant to popularise reading and the presence of poetry in everyday life. Participating cafes include: Cafe Cheder, Cafe Massolit, Cafe Szafe, Cafe Rękawka, Cafe Frania, Cafe Dym, Cafe Camelot, Cafe Jagiellonka, Gazeta Cafe, Famiga, Zazie Bistro, the Tourist Services Centre Cafe, Herbaciarnia Czarka, Iluminati, Bohema and Musso Sushi - places that are especially literature and book-friendly, where you can indulge yourself in a book and a cup of fragrant coffee.
The Cafe Miłosz campaign makes part of the Miłosz Liberated project - Krakow's celebrations of the Year of Czesław Miłosz with the support of the Book Institute. It is organised by the Krakow Festival Office in cooperation with Krakow's cafes and clubs across the city.
The photo report was possible thanks to the courtesy of Cafe Cheder (Józefa 36) and Massolit (Felicjanek 4). Visit the photo gallery.
The project has been co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. For more about the Year of Miłosz events visit: www.milosz365.pl
Photography: Paweł Ulatowski