Evening storytelling for dreamers: a meeting with Julia Ain-Krupa

Join us for a reading from Julia Ain-Krupa's new O_KAZ story, “The Painted Lady," a meeting with the author, in Cheder's cozy atmosphere.

Free admission

Meeting will be held in English.

Julia Ain-Krupa is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist. She has contributed to Cinema Editor, and is the author of Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile (Praeger, 2010). Her short films have been screened at the IFP festival, the Jung Society in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her most recent film works, Dancing With Brando and Joan of Arc Dreams, were presented in conjunction with Paris fashion week, and in a Teatr Stu production of the opera, Joan of Arc, in Krakow, Poland. In 2013, she completed a Fulbright year in Poland, where she wrote The Upright Heart, published by New Europe Books. She lives in New York City, Krakow, and Tel Aviv.

O_KAZ. Literatura o Kazimierzu, vol. 2
Literary portraits of cities or quarters are not so much documents which tell the story of a place, but rather texts that create the atmosphere. Urban fiction allows to understand better the space in which you live, but also gives you the chance to invent it again and to wander away from well-known stories, get lost and wake up in front of a building you haven’t seen before.
What can the 21st century literature tell you about Kazimierz? How does it treat it? Is this quarter of Kraków pictured as the main character, a lost supporting role or perhaps just the background for events? We have invented O_KAZ, our literary programme, to be able to talk about it.