The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Debate
Poland and Vietnam in Dialogue: A Discussion on Solidarity and Cooperation
An event accompanying The City of Women exhibition
LOCATION
Auditorium
LANGUAGE
Polish
ADMISSION
Free thanks to the cooperation with Audi Polska
photo by Robert Głowacki
During an event accompanying the exhibition We Were There: International Women’s Year 1975, the curator will speak with historian Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and researcher and artist Dang Thuy Duong about how the history of relations between the People’s Republic of Poland and Vietnam resonates in the present day. Our focus will be on women, art, and memory as spaces where past alliances can be reinterpreted and reclaimed. We will examine the role women played in these relationships and how the experiences of solidarity and cooperation from the 1970s resonate today in Warsaw—a city where the Vietnamese community and culture play an extremely important role.
The starting point for the meeting is the correspondence presented in the exhibition We Were There. International Women’s Year 1975: in one of the letters, the Vietnamese delegation addresses Polish participants preparing to travel to the World Women’s Congress in Mexico, asking for support for the voice of Vietnamese women on the international stage. This story, set against the backdrop of relations between the so-called Second and Third Worlds, will lead us to a discussion of the political, social, cultural, and symbolic ties connecting Poland and Vietnam. We will examine both the historical cooperation between the two countries and contemporary spaces where the two cultures meet—from restaurants and beauty salons, through tourism, social media trends, and business relations, to literature, film, music, and art.