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Locomotive poem by Polish-Jewish writer Julian Tuwim was for the first time illustrated with pinhole photography. Join us at one of our events and get a free copy of the book! The event is designed for children age 3-7. Participants have an opportunity to make their own trains, learn and sing a Locomotive song , read the story using a gigantic book and make the various sounds to imitate the sounds of a train. Every child receives a free copy of the book.

Locomotive family event at Topolski Century, 150-152 Hungerford Arches, SE1 8XU London, January 16th 12-1 & 1-2 pm

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The pinhole photography exhibition at the Menier Gallery in London on 10-15th January 2011. Artists Marta Kotlarska, Anna Udowicka and Curator Olga Glazik from Polish group Click Academy (Akademia Pstryk) who have collaborated with a group of Polish young people living in London in order to prepare illustrations for Julian Tuwim's Locomotive poem.

Locomotive pinhole exhibition by Click Academy

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The latest solution which intends to build bridges between young people of different backgrounds. Project The Locomotive by Click Academy will involve 33 young people working together using an unusual technique called pinhole photography to produce a bilingual, professionally-printed picture book of Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim's famous "Locomotive" poem for children.

Locomotive project

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Summer 2008: Romani click project in Nowy Sacz settlement.

There is a lot of tension between Polish and Romani communities on the local level and it is hard to find space for communication between those communities almost everywhere in Poland. In Carpatian mountains most Romani people live in small communities and they are very distrustful in first contact. They are usually scared of racism, claiming that they feel it everywhere. hey don't believe in themselves. There is a need of untypical actions addressed to Romani community to give them a chance to come into being in mainstream social life.


Marta Kotlarska, an artist based in London and Malgorzata Mirga, an artist living and working in Romani settlement in Czarna Gora (polish Carpatian mountains) worked together this summer with young residents of one of the poorest, most closed and traditional Romani settlements in Poland - Zawisza Czarny - Nowy Sacz settlement in Malopolska region. The project, dedicated to 24 children and teenagers from Romani background, was financially supported by Batory foundation. It was conceived to empower their sense of values and give them possibility to spend leisure time in a positive way. They prepared self constructed photo cameras from paper boxes (so-called cameras obscura) and took photo illustrations of three fairytales written by Jan Mirga - Romani poet and storyteller from Czarna Góra. The final part of the workshop consisted of a street happening which touched upon an important issue concerning the problem of the attempts how to get out of the traditionally closed Romani world without losing Romani identity. In Stary Sącz 's old market - place where a lot of Romani people beg, young Romani invited passers-by to common photography. Nowy Sacz's Romani Click was the second edition of the project. Artists plan to take actions in next Romani settlements in Poland. The artists say: "the attendance were two times higher than expected. Young Romani were very enthusiastic about the project. It shows clearly that learning through playing perfectly suits educational needs of young Romani people, who are quite often outside of official education." The project was finnancially supported by Stefan Batory Foundation.

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