Johnny and I spent the morning at Bar Hades helping Janusz, Faith and Jarek prepare for the art exhibition that was organised for the next day. Jarek Kaminski draws and paints the most beautiful compositions; all which centre around the same subject: giraffes. Although we have been told that Jarek has never seen a giraffe in person he seems to be quite fond of them. His first attempt at portraying the beasts began when he drew over another artist’s drawing. ‘How rude!’ you might say but from this small gesture began a whole series of giraffe inspired imagery. We set up the artwork along with our friends and then visited Stasio back at Matki Teresy z Kalcutty.
http://www.hades-lublin.pl/
Johnny hanging Jarek's giraffe paintings
Johnny and Faith admiring their handiwork
Jarek, Faith, Katherine, Janusz and JohnnyMatki Teresy z Kalcutty
After the previous day’s lessons in Polish from our friend ‘Little Stash’ came today’s full-blown Christmas carol extravaganza! March is a strange time to be singing Christmas carols for some, but for us we thought nothing of it. We simply enjoyed the chance to share a special moment with our friends. Next stop was a visit to Jan Kurowski at his home in the city. ‘Johnny’ is such a happy person, so full of wonder and it was great to get a chance to see him again. We all sat and had tea together after a personal tour from him.
http://www.dpsmtk.lublin.pl/
Ohh, Jingle Bells!
Hitting those high notes :D
The afternoon was spent being shown around the Fine Arts and Multimedia Technology departments at ‘Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej’ (UMCS). This is an impressive university and the fact that both creative faculties work alongside each other in this way is wonderful. Many of the students from these faculties are involved in volunteering projects at both the MTK and FMN arts therapy centres.
http://www.art.umcs.lublin.pl/
The ceramics department at UMCS
Some of these look almost alive!One of the students we met was Justyna Kieruzalska; an incredibly talented artist. Justyna is deaf, but hasn’t allowed this to stand in her way. She has been studying Fine Art for the last four years without the help of a note-taker or interpreter. It was wonderful to see that Justyna and our friend Ruari, who is also profoundly deaf, were able to communicate with one another. Ruari uses Irish sign language and Justyna uses Polish, but they were still able to understand one another. It was an amazing sight.
Another Night in Prison
As a follow up to our last trip to Lublin, we took our friends to a nearby theme restaurant: Prison. It was a restaurant we visited during our last stay and one of our most favourite places to eat. It rounded off a most enjoyable day.
http://www.restauracjawiezienie.lublin.pl/
Cuffs with dinner? Yes please!
Well maybe not throughout dinner this time!>>> Kooji does Poland...Again! - Day Five
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