The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Workshops for adults
This Fascinating Ordinariness (Ages 7–12)
Creative Family Workshops
03.09.2026 17:00
Who is it for?
For adults and teens 16+
Duration
180 minutes
Venue
Meet at the designated spot by the main staircase (across from the Auditorium).
Tickets
Regular: 40 zł
Reduced: 30 zł
Language
Polish
A detail from Leonora Carrington's painting "Noah's Ark"
on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
What are we going to do?
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were extraordinary French artists and, in their private lives, life partners. In the 1930s, they settled on the small island of Jersey in the English Channel. When the war broke out and the Nazis occupied the area, the artists did not give up. They began their own secret fight! They turned to surrealist poetry, art, and underground leaflets to bravely resist fascism.
During our class, we’ll take a closer look at the lives of these two fascinating artists and together create the strangest texts to describe the landscape of their lives on the island. Perhaps bizarre heroines who live there will take shape in our minds: ghosts, dolls, animals with red tongues, and plants with roots made of words and dreams.
The goal of the session will be to fully open ourselves up to strangeness, chance, disharmony, and all kinds of spontaneous verbal collages. No writing experience is required whatsoever!
During the sessions, we’ll search for unconventional starting points for writing. Photographs of the island itself and the La Rocquaise house, where Claude and Marcel lived, will help us in this. We’ll also draw inspiration from reproductions of selected visual works presented in the exhibition “You Are at the Heart of Change: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism.”
Our collaborative writing will be guided by selected excerpts from Claude’s texts, photographs the artists took together, and an extraordinary art book by Dobromiła Dobro titled “OHNE ENDE.” Its main narrative thread is the artistic, clandestine, and romantic lives of the protagonists on the island of Jersey.
Important Tips
A workshop ticket grants admission to the exhibition up to 2 hours before the event.
Biography of the Presenter
Dobromiła Dobro – experiments with text and archival materials, creates installations and videos, and develops a practice in performance and dance improvisation. She is a graduate of art history at the Faculty of Art Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2024, she published two books of experimental prose: “KOSY” (a collection of short stories and photographs) and the simulation “JUICE” (a visual drama). For the publication of the simulation “JUICE,” she received (together with Agnieszka Strzeżek) the grand prize in the PTWK “Most Beautiful Polish Books of 2024” Competition in the fiction category (2025).
In 2025, she published “OHNE ENDE”—an experimental prose work based on site-specific field research and archival materials on Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. This book was nominated in the PTWK Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025 Competition in the fiction category (2026). She co-creates the community-based Radio Kapitał as an activist and radio host.
