Centrum Kultury Zamek

Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme is a social and cultural initiative carried out in cooperation with the ZAMEK Cultural Centre in Poznań, which provides the funding. It is dedicated to activities conceived by the residents of Poznań to promote diversity, equality, integration and shared leisure time. Our goal is to support and contribute to local initiatives in the vicinity of the Castle, and to build bonds with our close and more distant neighbours.

The programme is open to all inhabitants of Poznań, whether they have lived here for many years or have come only recently. Individuals, informal groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may all apply. Formal residence in Poznań or Polish citizenship is not needed to take part in the programme.

Supporting those who work towards open and diverse neighbourhood is one of the major objectives in CK ZAMEK’s mission. Neighbourhood practices integrate local community and encourage people to act together for the benefit of their immediate surroundings.

Neighbourhood is both about people and places that are close to each other. We propose two modes of neighbourhood cooperation:

1)  a neighbourhood initiative carried out in the immediate surroundings of CK ZAMEK, in the Stare Miasto district (public spaces, courtyards, shared places);

2)  a neighbourhood initiative carried out at CK ZAMEK’s premises by neighbours from the nearby and farther districts of Poznań.

We will support new ideas for neighbourhood activities, but also ongoing initiatives which may lack the premises/space they need or funds for the necessary materials.

As part of Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme, you can carry out initiatives which engage, activate or integrate residents of Poznań. We encourage you to submit ideas for social and cultural activities that can have a positive impact on our immediate surroundings, our neighbourhood.

Neighbourhood initiatives may take the form of a picnic, meeting, fete, street or courtyard festival, game night, cooking together, slide show, fair, outdoor cinema, exhibition, walk, trip/excursion, garden work, course, workshop and many other usual and unusual ways of spending free time.

A neighbourhood initiative may include many events, but can also be a single activity. It may be involve different fields of art, leisure activities, physical activities, education, cultural animation and all kinds of culture-building undertakings.

If you are unsure if your idea is suitable (or you have any other questions about Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme), write or call Adrianna Sołtysiak at a.soltysiak@ckzamek.pl or tel. no. +48 61 64 65 207.

In order to take part in Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme, you need to fill in a short application form. It is like a sheet of paper with the most important information about your idea written on it. Describe your initiative in plain language that is easy to understand. In the application form, please provide the following:

·     the name of your idea/initiative;

·     a description of your idea/initiative;

·     a description of how neighbours will benefit from the initiative.

APPLICATION FORM:

FORM

PERSONAL DATA CLAUSE:

PERSONAL DATA

REGULATIONS OF ZAMEK'S NEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME:

REGULATIONS

·  Financial support for the initiative - the maximum amount of support for a single initiative is PLN 5,000 gross (total amount of support for all initiatives: PLN 20,000 gross);

·  Substantive support, administrative, legal, logistic and promotional assistance;

·  Possibility of using the spaces and facilities at CK ZAMEK, if they are available and  in accordance with their availability and their use has been agreed with Adrianna Sołtysiak, who represents CK ZAMEK.

- Informational meetings will be held on 24 and 25 June 2024.
- Submitting ideas for Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme: application forms must be completed and sent by 30 June 2024, 11.59 pm.
- The initiatives that will be carried out as part of Zamek’s Neighbourhood Programme will be selected and announced on 2 July 2024.
- Meeting to introduce persons involved in the selected initiatives (all such persons must attend) will be held on 9 July 2024.
- Selected neighbourhood initiatives will be carried out from 15 June to 6 October, 2024.

Zamek's Neighbourhood Programme is implemented as part of the Poznań Cultural Education Programme and financed by the City of Poznań.

The author of the graphics is Yurii Levshyn. It consists of many colors and oval and rectangular tiles, in which cartoonish people and objects are placed. They feature a lady knitting a sweater, a boy in a wheelchair with a book, children releasing soap bubbles, people waving to each other from windows and those holding miniature houses on their hands. Other tiles include a guitar, a chess pawn, a basketball, plates and cutlery or a pin to mark a place on a map. One of the tiles shows the CK ZAMEK building with the word “Hello,” and at the bottom of the entire graphic is written “ZAMEK's Neighborhood Program." The program's name also appears in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian.