This special edition of the festival, motivated us to start also new activities. Podcasts were one of many challenges this year. Successful ones!
We started our podcast series with presenting lectures that were part of Prolog but in course of the Prolog, we also created original productions. One of them was a series of 7 podcasts that based on radio programs recorded by Janusz Makuch for the Radio Kraków in 1990’s. We also invited our friends to creat playlists and essays that would be a contemporary comment to those radio programs, making the archival broadcasts very much up to date.
Beside that, we also presented podcasts by Jan Emil Młynarski (PL), Matti Friedman (IL), Rabbi Boaz Pash (IL), Maria Sławek (PL) as well as podcasts prepared by our volunteers together with seniors: interviews with a hairdresser from Kazimierz Jadwiga Lewicka (PL) and a tailor from Kazimierz – Cecylia Job (PL).
In 1990s Radio Kraków invited Janusz Makuch to create a series of radio programs discussing and presenting Jewish music. We decided to bring them to contemporary audiences during Prolog. Since they presented music created prior to 1990s, we wanted to add an updated commentary to them. So we asked our friend to create playlists and essays describing what happened in Jewish music after the radio programs were aired. Comments by Yossi Notkowitz, Deborah Strauss, Frank London, Jeremiah Lockwood, Saar Gamzo, Robert Gądek, Janusz Makuch contributed to this unique project and created a broad panorama of contemporary Jewish music.
Ogień, któremu poświęcamy Prolog 30. FKŻ, emanuje wieloznacznością. Nas interesuje przede wszystkim tajemniczy aspekt ognia, który płonie, ale się nie spala – jest bowiem metaforą samego Festiwalu. Or Haganuz: Światło Ukryte, którym emanuje nasz Festiwal.