ART AT HIGH NOON! WORKSHOPS FOR SENIORS
Subject: Reportage, or the magnifying glass that brings the world closer
Presented by: Anna Szpręglewska

Curiosity about the world and people is a gift we come into the world with.
It is this curiosity, the constant desire to know and share insights, thoughts, feelings that drives reporters to work.
The basic task of reportage is to depict reality through the reporter, who acts in the reportage as a witness to the events presented, an observer, a reconstructor or a listener. As Melchior Wańkowicz wrote:
“ A reportage is a mosaic of pebbles that we arrange to faithfully reflect reality. These pebbles are the facts of life.”
Egon Kisch, on the other hand, described its authors as follows:
“The reporter must be the eye and the ear, the brain and the heart, examining the facts and only then applying an unlimited immensity of artistry in order, without falsifying the facts, to reveal their inner structure, to give them the right scale, gradation and imagery, which only then elevates a dry report to the status of art.”
How to make a good TV documentary? One that will move the viewer, take the story further, make you think, or perhaps change someone’s life?
We will try to answer these questions at an upcoming meeting with senior citizens.
Anna Szpręglewska, co-operating with Ekspres Reporterów, author of many reportages and television documentaries, will talk about the difficult art of collecting facts and building creative narratives out of them. We will also see the effects of her work broadcast on Polish Television.

13.01.2025, 12:00
Gdańska 20
workshop for seniors