Join us for an afternoon with Magda Polkowska and the ancient art of storytelling. Admission is free for both adults and children. The meeting is the finale of the exhibition “In Connection”.
A story-teller, Magda Polkowska, is from Gdańsk, Poland, and was educated in anthropology and ecology in New Jersey and California. She has been telling stories since ‘(not so) long time ago.’ She draws inspiration from the silence of herself and the peoples among whom she has lived (on the reservations of the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, in Mexico, in Kazakhstan and the steppes of the Tuvin Republic in South Siberia). She hosted a radio play on Polish Radio New York, 910 AM, ‘Tales of the Songs of the Peoples of the Earth.’ As part of the project, she also founded the Sacred Theater Collective, a theatre that staged fairy tales for adults as well as children. Since 2012, Tales of the Peoples of the Earth has been touring Poland.
Tales of the Peoples of the Earth are ancient traditional tales from many lands of the world and those that are coming now… it is a mosaic of voice, words, songs, silences and the sound of traditional instruments from distant lands. They contain the patterns of beauty from which dreams are woven. The tale carries learning, wisdom and depth; it revolves around the same unchanging ancient eternal Truth passed down through the generations so that man remembers who he is.
Encountering the Fairy Tales for many can become an Encounter with the Great Mystery, an encounter with something that longs to fly free. It is a space that needs to be respected and looked after from all of us. The fuller it is, the greater the gift Fairy tales can give us.
Tales are the Guardians of the Thread. It is the Silence of the Ocean of Happiness. They are spoken by Beings from the Depths of the Big Dream. They bring Good News. OUR MEMORY RETURNS – THE MEMORY OF WHO WE ARE! And it is like Fire. Turns into Wings. This is the time of Our Return!
The tales of the Peoples of the Earth with the Horse Nation are from the dreaming of this Earth. The fairy tales include the words Horses Shout All Over the Earth. They gallop, striking with their hooves. The Whole Earth Trembles. This is the Horse Nation shouting – the horse family I currently live with is exactly like the Horses from the Fairy Tale: it heralds great change. These horses asked for a renewal of the Friendship between the Horse Nation and us Humans, showing that this is part of our own freedom, part of reclaiming the dignity of our humanity.
05.10.2025, 4 pm
20 Gdańska St.
