Project “Antonycz”
Organizer: Association of Friends of Nowica
Co-organizer: Museum of Ideas (Lviv, Ukraine)
Partners: MEMO Foundation, Savchenko Foundation
Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in the “Public Diplomacy 2023” competition.
This publication expresses solely the views of the Association and cannot be equated with the official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
Nowica, a small Lemko village in the Gorlice district, has in the 21st century become a meeting place and forum for dialogue between Polish and Ukrainian artists. Neither the restrictions imposed by the pandemic nor the tragedy of war have interrupted this exchange. We have continued to maintain close contact with Ukrainian creators. During the first months of Ukraine’s fight against the Russian aggressor, we focused on providing immediate aid to refugees and to friends who stayed and fought. Amid daily routines, however, the thought kept returning that this special time calls for recalling what unites Poles and Ukrainians.
This is how the Antonycz Project was born, commemorating the work of one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the 20th century — Bohdan Ihor Antonycz, who was born in Nowica in 1909. Antonycz attended high school in Sanok and studied philology at Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. He died very young, at the height of his creative powers, not yet twenty-eight years old. His entire poetic legacy consists of five volumes of poems published in Lviv in the 1930s.
In implementing the Antonycz Project together with friends from Lviv, based on the poet’s work — both Polish and Ukrainian — we wish to express our gratitude to those who are fighting today and to those who, as volunteers, are engaged in helping Ukraine.
As part of the project, the album “ZELENYY” was recorded by the Lviv band “Pyrig Batig.” The album was presented in Lviv at the Lviv Open Air Museum in the church from the village of Yazlivchyk.
The CD and vinyl record were released as part of the project. The record was released by SHPYTAL RECORDS, Ukraine.
A bilingual (Ukrainian and Polish) poetry volume by Bohdan Ihor Antonycz was designed and published. Presentation: 17.11.2023 at the Museum of Ideas in Lviv.
Electronic version of the Antonycz poetry volume. Design and illustrations: Serhiy Savchenko
Poster for the Pyrig Batig “ZELENYY” concert
Photo report from the concert (photos by A. Zelenyj):
