Published 06.04.2022

We present the program of The Book Island event – International Training Seminar for librarians and educators.

Please note that due to the situation involving the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the program might be changed.


April 21, 2022, Thursday

8.00 – Registration of participants

VIEWING HALL / SALA WIDOWISKOWA (1st floor)

  • 8.30 –  greeting guests
  • 9.00 – Martin Widmark – special guest (online)
  • 9.30 – Renata Banasińska | Enchanted stories | workshop
  • 10.15 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview
  • 10.30 – Renata Hlivkowa | You never know with dragons… | workshop
  • 11.15 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview
  • 11.30 – Małgorzata Swędrowska | Books are so exciting! Discovering secrets and surprises  hidden in tales and illustrations | workshop
  • 12.15 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview

12.30 – coffee break

VIEWING HALL / SALA WIDOWISKOWA (1st floor)

  • 13.00 – Małgorzata Karpicka and Mateusz Ryczek |Robots, sounds and feelings | workshop
  • 13.45 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview
  • 14.00 –  Paweł Piwowarczyk |Footballers versus Writers, i.e. getting a kick out of reading
  • 14.45 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview

15.00 – lunch break

VIEWING HALL / SALA WIDOWISKOWA (1st floor)

  • 16.00 – Maria Deskur | Reading promotion as a fight against social exclusion | presentation
  • 16.30 – Karina Mucha | Psychology of Reading – from the naïve to the passionate reader. How to develop reading competences in the Information Age? | presentation
  • 17.00 – Gabriela Dul | How to increase the number of young readers in libraries basing on the campaign “Small Book – Great Man”? | presentation

EXERCISE HALL / LABORATORIUM RUCHU (3rd floor)

  • 16.00 – Paweł Piwowarczyk | Premier league reads – from the stadium to the library. How culture becomes part of sport and sport becomes part of culture? | presentation
  • 16.30 – Aldona Mikucka | Between the library and the museum. How to benefit from a variety of learning experiences? | presentation
  • 17.00  – Ewa Kramarczyk | The great potential of gamebooks | presentation

17.30 – coffee break
17.45 – joint travel to a cultural event

ART HALL / LABORATORIUM SZTUKI (3rd floor)

8.00 – 15.00 – Curious Alice – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Virtual Reality (VR)


April 22, 2022, Friday

VIEWING HALL / SALA WIDOWISKOWA (1st floor)

  • 9.00 – Aneta Dominiak-Gnojnicka | Spring day in the world | workshop
  • 9.45 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview
  • 10.00 – Jolanta Ziemba |Mr. McKee’s colorful world | workshop
  • 10.45 – Grażyna Walczewska-Klimczak | analysis | workshop overview

EXERCISE HALL / LABORATORIUM RUCHU (3rd floor)

  • 9.00 – Aleksandra Szymańska | Rhythmic word games | workshop
  • 10.00 – Katarzyna Jezierska | Let’s create a book – reading, learning and creating | workshop

11.00 – coffee break

VIEWING HALL / SALA WIDOWISKOWA (1st floor)

  • 11.30 – Agnieszka Karp-Szymańska | Becoming a reader – the results of research on the new audience | presentation
  • 12.30 – Trond Onarheim | presentation (online)
  • 13.00 – Camilla Ruhs | presentation (online)
  • 13.30 – Isy Mead | Bringing Wonderland to Wroclaw: Oxford’s Stories | presentation
  • 14.00 – Larysa Luhova and Olena Kremnova | Lviv – the book island. Ways of reading promotion among people from Generation Alpha | presentation   

EXERCISE HALL / LABORATORIUM RUCHU (3rd floor)

  • 12.30 – Urszula Szyc |A nature guide inspired by the book “The Book of Trees” by Piotr Socha & Wojciech Grajkowski | workshop
  • 13.30 – Natalia Kościńska |Gamification of literature | presentation
  • 14.00 – “Kotołaki atakują” (“Attack of the werecats”) | A mobile game for seminar participants, available in ActionTrack application

VIEWING HALL (SALA WIDOWISKOWA)

  • 14.30 – Seminar Conclusions

15.00 – 16.00 – lunch break

ART HALL / LABORATORIUM SZTUKI (3rd floor)

8.00 – 15.00 – Curious Alice – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Virtual Reality (VR)

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