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Krzysztof Czyżewski (born July 6, 1958 in Warsaw) is a Polish author, one of the initiators of the "Borderland" Foundation in Sejny, Poland.〔(Krzysztof Czyżewski on Borderland Foundation's website )〕〔(Krzysztof Czyżewski on Polish Cultural Institute NY website )〕 == Biography == Graduate in Polish literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Initially closely related to the avant-garde theatre movements. He was one of the co-creators of the "Gardzienice" Theatre with which he worked from 1977 up to 1983. In 1983, during the martial law in Poland he establishes the periodical "Czas Kultury" (Time of Culture), which after 1989 came of the "underground" (became legal). In the second half of the eighties he has been giving lectures about the history of culture and aesthetics in the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. At the same time he establishes the "Arka" theatre and initiates the "Meeting Village" project in Czarna Dabrówka in Kaszuby Region in which alternative theatre and culture creators of all Europe and America has been participating. In 1990 he becomes one of the initiators of the "Borderland" Foundation and becomes its President. In 1991 he establishes the (Centre "Borderland of Cultures, Arts, Nations" ) and becomes its director. It is a cultural institution co-founded by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Podlaskie Province Regional Assembly Government. The Centre is located in a small town Sejny, former “shetl”, on the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland. The “Borderland” revitalized the Jewish quarter in a very centre of the town, and has its studios for art and education programs in former Hebrew gymnasium, yeshiva and synagogue. In 2011, June 30, for the centenary of Czesław Milosz's birth and for the beginning of Polish Presidency in European Union, together with his Borderland team he opened an International Center for Dialog in Krasnogruda near Sejny in the reconstructed manor house of once Milosz's family. In the framework of the Foundation and The Centre he realizes among others the following projects: Meeting the Other or on Virtue of Tolerance, The Memory of Ancient Times, Home – Nest – Temple, Central European Cultural Forum, Open Region of Central and Eastern Europe, The Borderland Culture Documentary Centre, The Borderland School, Class of Cultural Heritage, Café Europa, Glass Bead Game, Mobile Academy “New Agora”, Laboratories of Intercultural Dialog, Tales of Coexistence, Medea/Ponte.In 2007 he was invited by University of Michigan to deliver a prestigious “Copernicus Lecture”. He was a lecturer and speaker of the Academy of Fine Arts (Poznań), Warsaw University, Vilnius University, New School University (New York), Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (Cracow), Salzburg Seminar, Center for Humanities at Lviv University, Ilia State University (Tbilisi), Harvard University, Berkeley University, Public Library (New York, Los Angeles, Toronto). From the spring semester of 2015 he is a visiting professor of Rutgers University (Urban Civic Initiative) and University of Bologna.〔(INTRODUCTION TO KRZYSZTOF CZYŻEWSKI BRIAN PORTER-SZŰCS )〕 He coordinates several projects about intercultural dialogue in Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Indonesia, Bhutan and USA. He was an Artistic Director of the Lublin candidancy for European Capital of Culture and was nominated as an Artistic Director of European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016, keeping this position for years 2012–2013. For many years he was a member of the Art and Culture Sub-Board in Open Society Institute in Budapest and a President of European Network of Literary Centers HALMA (Berlin). He is a Chairman of the Jury of the Irena Sendlerowa Prize (Warsaw) and a President of the Board of Eastern Partnership Congress of Culture (Lublin). Member of the Remarque Circle (New York University), Board of the Czeslaw Milosz Birthplace Foundation (Kaunas), The International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education (Wroclaw), The Art and Modernity Foundation (Warsaw). In 2003 he was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship.〔(Krzysztof Czyżewski on Ashoka`s website )〕 In 1993 he becomes the founder and editor-in-chief of the "Krasnogruda" magazine, devoted to Central and Eastern European cultures, art and literature. He is editor of Borderland Publishing House, in charge of the series “Meridian” and “Neighbours”. He lives in Krasnogruda on Polish-Lithuanian border with wife Mołgorzata and two children, Weronika and Stanislaw. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Krzysztof Czyżewski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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