Yaroslav Ksenzhek, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Grodno, met with students of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
The meeting was held at the Center of Polish Language, Literature and Culture with organizational and creative support of the civil and patriotic project of Grodno University "Live History". Together with Yaroslav Ksenzhek, his wife, Elzhbieta Ksenzhek, visited the university.
A cultural and historical, literary retrospective of Grodno region was taken as a basis of the event.
Olga Pankova, head of the civil and patriotic project" Living History ", assistant professor of the Department of Russian philology said: “Songs and a fair imaginative word traditionally existed in our beautiful Grodno region. Where in the rapid Neman discharges its waters, where the Shchara, Ros, Ditva, Kotra, Chernaya Gancha are scattered like blue ribbons and the mysterious Svityaz shines, people enamored of poetry and literature were born and are born there. The cultural heritage of Belarus, the past and the present, the landscape closed to the heart, the images of the native people, dreams and hopes are the basis of their creativity. Poetry is the voice of the earth, the strength and wisdom of generations and memory”.
Yaroslav Ksenzhek, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Grodno, continued the conversation about the book. He donated the encyclopedic and reference literature, required for students of various specialties of the university, to the Center of Polish Language, Literature and Culture.
The head of the Polish diplomatic corps in Grodno said: “I am very grateful to the students for the creative part of this meeting and the historical excursion. I am convinced once again that Grodno region is full of talents and that is an interesting place where history borders on modernity. There are many monuments of architecture and unique sights in Grodno that we unlikely will be able to see in other regions of Belarus. And Grodno residents should protect and keep this heritage”.
The meeting ended with a review of the feature film "Tomorrow we will go to the cinema" directed by Michal Kvetinsky, which tells about three graduates who begin adulthood, feel hopeful and how the sudden initiate World War II will forever destroy all their plans and dreams. Yaroslav Ksenzhek noted that this film raises a number of topical issues and it is an outstanding film of modern filmmakers of Poland.
It is expected that such film viewing sessions will become regular at the philological faculty. In January, it is planned to hold the next meeting, during which students will get acquainted with the Polish cinematograph and discuss films with Consul.
Within the framework of the visit, Yaroslav Ksenzhek also met with Yuri Belykh and Gennady Gachko, Vice-Rectors for Academic Matters, and considered prospective variants of cooperation between higher educational institutions of Poland and the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
