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Collaboration with Simon Gronowski: Life without music is impossible

A creative indisciplinary and intergenerational project on the topic of memory, transmission and peace, to oppose the rise of the extreme right with jazz and classical music concerts, other forms of musical expression, exhibition, conferences, screening of 2 documentaries with still living participants of the Second World War and school sessions. The platform was conceived as a continuation of the inter-generational encounter between Simon Gronowski, doctor of law and jazz music lover (92), who jumped from the train at the persuasion of his mother to save himself from Auschwitz, unlike the rest of his family, and Kosta Jakić(27), a pianist of Yugoslav origin from Belgium who studies the role of music in extreme conditions (in prisons, camps, etc.). Ivan Put, a Belgian videographer and photographer, made a film in cooperation with the platform for aesthetic education of all PhDs In One Night, Laboratory of Radical Peace and Orangeries de Bierbais entitled "Life without music is impossible" according to a quote by Simon Gronowski, who is a lifelong memory of a sister , young pianist who died in Auschwitz, and in memory of her he continued to love and study jazz music as a piano amateur. Film englobe series of concerts that have already been held in the Dossin camp and Breendonk in Belgium by Simon (jazz) and Kosta ( classical music) and conversations between 2 pianists, amateur and professional one. The projection of an intergenerational film is planned for 2025 as a place of conversation with all interested participants on the topic of the transmission of memories and the role of music in our lives (music has been excluded from primary education for about 20 years from school programs in Europe).

Collaboration with Simon Gronowski: Life without music is impossible