It gives me great satisfaction to present you with the Adam
Mickiewicz Institute’s latest report. I hope it proves that
our 13th season not only wasn’t an unlucky one, but in fact
abounded in momentous events and substantial successes.
Among the most important of these was the appointment of the
Board of the Institute, whose illustrious members include Professor
Jerzy Buzek (Chairman), Dr Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Professor
Jerzy Hausner, Professor Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, Ambassador Jerzy
Koźmiński and, ex officio, Undersecretary of State Monika Smoleń
(Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) and Undersecretary of
State Beata Stelmach (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
The 2012/2013 season was important not only in terms of the
international successes of Polish culture, to mention Polska Arts in
Edinburgh or the multidimensional Lutosławski 100/100 project,
of which international critics wrote that it successfully brought this
great composer into the repertoires of the world’s best orchestras,
soloists, conductors and concert halls. We have months of many
musical and theatrical thrills behind us, also in Poland. In spring
2013 we welcomed the best Russian productions to Warsaw during
the Da! Da! Da! festival – a review that became an unquestionable
sensation, enthusiastically received by critics and audiences alike. In
other countries, we devoted the season to developing our long-term
programme promoting Polish design and consolidating the Polska
brand in such important places as London, Milan, Paris as well as
Asia where we have been building our position consistently for the
past four years. The I, CULTURE Orchestra has also been gaining
in strength as a brand, concluding its third, “northern” tour with a
concert in Vilnius during the Eastern Partnership summit.
There are new challenges before us
– the most immediate of these is the
multidisciplinary cultural project in Turkey
marking the 600th anniversary of our
diplomatic relations.
Finally, this is where we always thank our partners from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish diplomatic missions, creative
organizations and cultural institutions in Poland and abroad, artists
and cultural organizers, and as of this year also our partners PKN
Orlen and Grupa Lotos S.A. for their kind support in the name of
shared values.
paweł potoroczyn
director of the adammickiewicz institute
