- What: Café
- Where: Level 1
- When: throughout the festival
As every year, we invite you to the thresholds of the most delicious festival venue in the Copernicus Science Centre! Make yourself comfortable in a space full of flavours, smells and sensations, where the culinary experience goes far beyond the plate.
Menu Café
We prepare an original, tailor-made menu based on seasonal, Polish and local products. The café will host #AtTheCommonTable workshops and meetings with artists, while yoga sessions will take place on the terrace. We will prepare a selection of the best coffees and a spiritual digestion especially for you. While enjoying an aromatic hot beverage, you can read interesting publications from our reading room.
This year’s Festival Café is hosted by CzyKawka and Żona Krawca, so prepare for the choicest and nicest service in town.
Café patrons: Hayb, Wydawnictwo Marginesy, Moonholi, Slow Living Poland.
Stop within yourself – vinyasa yoga practice
- What: Café
- Where: balcony, Level 1
- When: 4 December, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Number of seats: 20
Participation in the meeting is free of charge, subject to registration via the form on our website (the form will be launched at a later date – information about the start of registration on the Facebook profile of the Copernicus Science Centre).
In a fast-paced world, amidst a gigantic number of stimuli and messages, it is increasingly difficult to stay focused and attentive. Breath work, conscious and mindful movement can make everyday life easier in today’s reality.
The second day of the festival will begin with a kind of lesson in ‘parking’ yourself. You are invited to a dynamic class that engages the whole body, strengthening it and increasing its flexibility. We will focus on smooth, conscious breathing to help deepen the range of movement. All this will happen on the balcony of the Festival Café, surrounded by an autumn landscape, overlooking the Vistula.
The classes are designed for everyone – including people who have had no previous exposure to yoga. Mats for workshop participants are provided by Moonholi.
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, @slowlivingpoland – yoga, meditation and living body teacher. She is fascinated by the body – its wisdom, changeability, delicacy and strength. For her, practising yoga and being in conscious movement is not only work with physicality, but also a path to a calmer mind, presence and a deeper understanding of oneself.
Patrons of the event: Slow Living Poland, Moonholi
#AtTheCommonTable
Gold bonding – Modern kintsugi workshop
- What: Café, common table
- Where: Level 1
- When: 4 October, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
- Number of seats: 20
Participation in the meeting is free of charge, subject to registration via the form on our website (the form will be launched at a later date – information about the start of registration on the Facebook profile of the Copernicus Science Centre).
The theme of this year’s Przemiany Festival encourages the search for practical ways to develop mindfulness and compassion. One of these might be the practice of the modern version of kintsugi, the traditional Japanese technique for repairing ceramics. In kintsugi, the cracks are not hidden – they are highlighted in gold. The object thus does not return to its ‘before’ state, but becomes something new. It is a metaphor for empathy and change: instead of rejecting what is fragile, we learn to reconnect and give it value.
The traditional version of kintsugi uses lacquer and gold to create time-consuming, unique objects. Modern kintsugi uses simpler, contemporary materials. This allows each workshop participant to go through the entire process in a short period of time: from the fragment through joining to aesthetic finishing. It is a practice that teaches patience, but also openness to chance, collaboration and experimentation.
Ania Gubernat, @anilamis – artist, illustrator and educator, graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. For the past few years, she has been developing her own brand, Anilamis, under which she creates hand-painted wall plates. Her designs combine the Western traditions of porcelain decoration with the Japanese techniques of kintsugi and yobitsugi, giving new life to objects and building a new story out of different pieces of porcelain. She lives and works in the Suwałki Region.
#AtTheCommonTable
Taste carefully: from whole fruit to bar
- What: Café, common table
- Where: Level 1
- When: 5 October, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
- Number of seats: 20
Participation in the meeting is free of charge, subject to registration via the form on our website (the form will be launched at a later date – information about the start of registration on the Facebook profile of the Copernicus Science Centre).
The workshop focuses on mindful eating, which is a form of empathy with oneself and the world. When we pay attention to what we eat, we make better food choices more easily and feel better.
You will experience food in a whole new way – by working with your senses, observing taste, texture, smell and rate of consumption. You will look for differences between natural, home-prepared and commercial products, observing how different degrees of processing affect taste, eating speed and the feeling of satiety. You will talk about ultra-processed foods and the dangers of a diet rich in such products. Preparing natural snacks yourself will allow you to see how mindful eating can be a form of empathising with each other, while encouraging you to eat together and experience togetherness.
Marta Kostka, @kostka_o_jedzeniu – nutritionist, neurodietitian and food technologist. By passion, she is a tireless and inquisitive researcher into the nutrition of young children. Educator and food thinker, co-author of the book Rozgryzione. Jak nauczyć dziecko dobrze jeść? (Cracked. How to Teach Your Child to Eat Well?), a comprehensive guide for parents and carers to the world of child nutrition. Advocate of a non-stigmatising approach to the body and food.
