On 17 August 2024 join us at the beautiful Stryszów Manor House for another journey in time at the Golden Afternoon!
This year’s picnic, entitled “All Shades of Green” will take you into the world of fashion for green and nature.

Let’s step together into a world of fashion for green and nature!

 GOLDEN AFTERNOON is a unique artistic and educational experience – a beautiful costume picnic in the atmospheric Stryszów Manor House (a branch of the Wawel Royal Castle). This year’s theme is “All shades of green”.

PROGRAMME

13:00 we open the Golden Afternoon
At the same time, the “Palette of fashionable greens” painting workshops hosted by “Las i Niebo” begin, as well as flower arranging workshops with Justyna Stasik – Justyna will be waiting for you at her stand until the end of day
14.00 “All shades of green”, a lecture by dr Maria Molenda with a presentation of dresses and fashion magazines
15.00 opening of the exhibition “All Shades of Green”
15:30 Walk with trees, with Dr. Krzysztof Kapała from the Jagiellonian University Botanical Garden as our guide
16:30 Greens in traditional costume of the town of Żywiec – presentation of costumes with a narrative prepared by Dorota Firlej, keeper of the City Museum in Żywiec
17:00 group photo and photoshoots inspired by the fashion magazines’ plates
18.00 “Romanticism Mysticism”, a concert by Wassim Ibrahim
and also, during the enture day you can sit down to pose for Miss Julia, dance with the Green Fairy (Kings Town Dancers), pose for photographers, meet wonderful wolfhounds from the “Porcelain Beauty” kennel kennel and just relax in good company.

Don’t forget your picnic baskets!
Come and prepare beautiful attires – preferably in shades of green!

See you in Stryszów Manor House!

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Meet our guests:

Photographic workshops , that will focus on portraiture of characters in historical costume, will be hosted by Marzenna Gawriłow (Szymańska) – cultural animator, pedagogue, photographer. A graduate of the Łódz Film School, currently a postgraduate student of photography’s role in therapy and personal development. She has presented her works during individual and group exhibitions in Poland and Europe. She administrates FotoFalenica, a community of photographers from Wawer and the so-called “Otwock Line”( www.facebook.com/falenickieforumfotograficzne/ )

Flower arranging workshop, an introduction to the world of flora with the everlasting beauty of dried flowers – the participants will be able to create exceptional flowerboxes and small oshibanas, which will be a relaxing way to practice precision, tenderness and concentration – will be hosted by Justyna Stasik ; lover of nature, florist, who surrounds herself with plants everyday, creating floral compositions and hosting workshops in the Kawa Kwiaty i Warsztaty flower shop in Nowa Huta; she has developed her skills in several flower studios in Kraków and at a course organized by the Lesser Poland Centre for Florist Education.

“Palette of Fashionable Greens” – painting workshops with historical costume background; Las i Niebo will invite you to workshops during which you will be able to paint a portrait of your attire or create a design of your dream historical dress

Walk with trees , an opportunity to be immersed in greenery, get closer to nature and better understand it, will be hosted by Dr inż. Krzysztof Kapała from the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University – a graduate of the Agricultural Academy in Krakow, botanist, gardener and educator; for almost 15 years associated with the Botanical Garden, where he directed the works of the Dendrology department, he was responsible for preparing and editing the Index Seminum (a catalog of seeds intended for exchange with other botanical gardens). He is interested in the history of botany; he has gathered a rich collection of works in the field, containing both books and collective studies, as well as prints, published from the 18th to the 20th century – a total of about 6000 items. He also cooperates with the Botanical Garden Museum, contributing to the enrichment of its collections; he significantly contributed to saving hundreds of works sent for utilization from the liquidated joint library of the Institute of Botany of the Jagiellonian University and the PAS Institute of Botany. Member of the Polish Botanical Society and, since July 2022, the chairman of the History of Botany Section

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Lecture on the history of the color green in fashion , accompanied by a presentation of the recreated dresses and old fashion magazines will be given by Dr Maria Molenda – historian, artist, costume designer, graduate of the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Orleans. In 2004 she has created the Nomina Rosae Foundation and its Atelier, both of which are still active today under her direction. She has designed recreated historical garments and costumes for museums, cultural institutions, theater, film productions and others. She is the author of the book “Splendide vestitus” devoted to the clothes of kings from the Jagiellonian dynasty, as well as other scientific and popular science publications and the co-author of the book “Kontusz. From the history of Polish national dress”, published in 2023 by the PIW Publishing House. The lecture and presentation will be carried out as part of the project “Ladies in Green” – a presentation of fashion from the 19th century with the financial support of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship

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During the Golden Afternoon the garden of the Stryszów Manor will also host: Julia Janur, , graduate student of industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow; she participated in design fairs and exhibitions both in Poland and abroad; In her spare time she devotes herself to her passion for painting; Alicja and Janek , or Kings Town Dancers – a duo of professional dancers who combine dance
and theater to introduce their viewers to the dances of bygone eras. Portraying colourful characters, they invite viewers to their dance world full of stories and harmony. The duo’s repertoire includes character (traditional) dances of various countries, period dances (Renaissance, Baroque, nineteenth-century, dances of the 1920s. ), Polish national dances and old Polish dances; Asysta Żywiecka – a group presenting
traditional costumes from the town of Żywiec, which was created as a natural continuation of local fashion tradition, since 2016 operating as an association aiming to cultivate local history and intangible heritage; and also Russian wolfhounds from the Porcelanowa Piękność (Porcelain Beauty) kennel from Nowy Sącz (www.instagram.com/porcelanowapieknosc/).

The evening concert entitled “Romanticism Mysticism” will be performed by Wassim Ibrahim – an artist born in Damascus, Syria, in 1978. In 1998, he graduated from the university for the first time with the title of civil engineer and over the next seven years took part in numerous construction projects in Syria. Then, in 2005, he began studying harmony and counterpoint under the supervision of prof. Bella Tagezieva at the High Institute of Music (Department of Theory and Composition) in Damascus. He completed the course in 2010. He came to Poland in 2013 and here, in 2015, he obtained a master’s degree in composition studies at the Academy of Music in Krakow, under the supervision of prof. Józef Rychlik. In 2019, he obtained a PhD degree in musical composition at the Academy of Music in Krakow (specializing as composer), cooperating with prof. Wojciech Widłak. From 2010 to 2013, he began a professional academic career as a teacher at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus, Syria, where he lectured on music history and gave classed on harmony and hearing training. He was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Music in Krakow and the Jagiellonian University as well as the American Universities – Viterbo and Wisconsin University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.

See you at the Golden Afternoon! Come and join us!