Getting a little hungry for a Warsaw breakfast, washed down with a small vodka. Working with cultural animators in Gozdowo and Wroclaw. So what’s the ongoing Polish connection? Check out ‘We are not Polish’ – newly posted in Stories section -  which will give you some background history.

For those of you interested in community arts and creative consultation processes, you’ll find an essay – Reflections on creative practice – Artists working in the context of community consultation - which was one part of a substantial report produced for Nirex as part of an ongoing discussion about stakeholder involvement in decision-making. Go to cultural animation site to download the pdf. The site itself is an ongoing dialogue and documentation of that particular project.

While I am writing in a rural corner of England, the Seven Wonders of Warsaw project has begun in style – with Studnio O leading workshops in Saska Kepa with storytelling, performances and exquisite food.

The menu for the next Warsaw Breakfast event on Sunday June 17th: stories of Glass Houses and Warsaw picnics, with participation from:young artists and animators from Sempolowska high school, Studnia O, anthropologist Mariusz Czubaj, music from Kasia Szurman (Czarne Motyle) and people from Zoliborz and Bielany. You can download a pdf document which gives background to the whole project - wonders1.pdf. Polish version is available on the cultural animation site.

People are cheering up (a little) over there, with the controversial Lustration laws overturned and deemed unconstitutional by the Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal.  More info at - beatroot.blogspot.com

Another Wonder of the West Midlands added: the Katyn Memorial.