Poland, Łódź the 5th June,2013
Dear Sirs,
Re: the 16th International Every Fine Arts Festival of Disabled People at Łódź , November 2013
We would like to express our thanks for your participation in our Festival 2012.You are warmly welcome to participate in this year Festival too.
Thanks to you the importance of our mutual Festival has been increased. We take great pleasure in informing you about the 16th International Every Fine Arts Festival.
At the beginning we would like to introduce ourselves as The Residential Social Care Home from Poland – town Łódź. Our Home so called DPS No 5 "PODGORNA" was founded in 1971.This is one of the state care homes existing in our town. The above home is the residence of handicapped ,mentally disabled people/about 180 ones/of different age/medium age no more than fifty years/.The aim of our Residential Care Home is to provide a package of services to our residents. We are active in various kinds of help to them as 24-hour care ,medical field, rehabilitation, education, charity and as well as teaching them the everyday activities. The day care programs also include the art therapy. The residents like painting, dancing. Some of them write the poems and are interested in making the sculpture. The people working in DPS No5"PODGÓRNA" implement all the methods of social work which they learn during their studies. There is also a volunteer program. We also cooperate with public libraries. Moreover please be informed that since 1998 DPS No5"PODGORNA" is the main organizer of the INTERNATIONAL EVERY FINE ARTS FESTIVAL of DISABLED PEOPLE.
Every year in November during our Festival we present the artistic achievements of:
-our residents
-disabled people from the day homes of social therapy
-disabled adults
-children learning in special schools
-associations for people in need of special care
-organizations
We are currently working on preparing the 16th INTERNATIONAL EVERY FINE ARTS FESTIVAL of DISABLED PEOPLE in frame of which we will organize the 10th International Art and Handicraft Exhibition of art works /paintings, drawings and others / made by handicapped, physically and mentally disabled persons from abroad.
The Exhibition motto is:
COMMON EUROPE AND NOT ONLY - FRIENDS.
The 16th Festival will take place at Łódź starting from the 5th November till 20th November,2013
If you wish to contribute to our Festival please submit to our address or –via e-mail:
-photos of artworks who’ s authors are people with disabilities/quantity 1-3 pieces/.If possible please give the name and the age of the author.
-photos showing your activity
The received art works will not be returned and they will be at our disposal-they will be left in our Home or will be passed to other care homes or to libraries, schools etc.
Your art works will be treated as free of payment and " All rights reserved and reproduction not allowed". Moreover we take that you allow us to publicly share images of works of art and also of their authors. All the materials for our Festival should reach us till end of September,2013.
If you are interested in our Festival please contact us via e-mail the address of which as below:
teresatex@wp.pl or newsmtg@wp.pl
We would also appreciate any help you can give us in finding contact the organizations, schools and care homes from your town/country that would be interested in contribution to the International Art and Handicraft Exhibition in frame of the 16th Festival.
Please be so kind to visit page of previous International Every Fine Arts Festival –link:
https://sites.google.com/site/xiiieveryfineartsfestival/
We wish you every success in your activity.
Yours sincerely,
Urszula Wasik Teresa Grzelczak
Director of DPS No 5”PODGÓRNA” Volunteer/teresatex@wp.pl
or newsmtg@wp.pl