Registration open from 5.30 pm. Please come in advance.

18.00 – 18.15 Welcome of Freedom Games 2015 Attendees

• Błażej Lenkowski – President of the Board of Fundacja Industrial,
• Krzysztof Dudek – Director of the National Centre for Culture,
• Vaclav Bacovsky – Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

18.15 – 18.40: “Agora for Lodz” – formal address

• Hanna Zdanowska – President of the City of Lodz

18:40 – 19:10: “Security Policy Challenges in the Region” – formal address

• Michaił Kasjanow – former Prime Minister of Russia

19.10 – 20.40: “Security Policy Challenges in the Region” – panel discussion

• Michaił Kasjanow – former Prime Minister of Russia,
• Janusz Lewandowski – Polish politician and economist, President of the Economic Council, Member of European Parliament,
• Adam Michnik – Editor-in-Chief ofGazeta Wyborcza

Moderator: Leszek Jażdżewski – Editor-in-Chief of Liberté!

20.40 – 21.20 „“Democracy versus China” – meet the author session

• Liao Yiwu – Chinese award-winning author, reporter, poet and human rights defender,

Moderator: Maciej Nowicki

interpretation provided

22.00 Concert: Marcin Masecki

23.00: Networking evening, festival’s club: 6. Dzielnica

Limited number of participants, registration mandatory

16/10/15

• 08:30 – 14:00 Dialogues of Agents of Change

17/10/15

• 09:00 – 14:00 Dialogues of Agents of Change

Simply fill out the form: Sign Up for Dialogues of Agents of Change

Filling out the form does not guarantee participation. If your application is approved, you will be ifnormed about it via email

Prague-based NGO People in Need has launched an exhibition highlighting nine cases of people who have paid a high price for defying the regime’s rosy rhetoric and standing up for democratic values. Among them – human rights defenders, journalists, and political activists. Their stories show that the darker side of Azerbaijan is real.

Exhibition “Doubling Down on Repression: Stories from ’s Political Prisoners” will be presented during Freedom Games 2015 in the EC1 Lodz – City of Culture (Lake of Memory)

Registration mandatory

Photo: Instytut Wolności i Bezpieczeństwa Reporterów

EC1 Lodz Foundation was created in December 2008 in order to promote construction of the New Center of Łódź. The project of the New Center of Łódź assumes that the mostly dead area, of 90ha, located in the area surrounded by Tuwima Sienkiewicza Narutowicza Kopcińskiego streets, around the EC1 thermal power plant and the Łodz Fabryczna railway station, will undergo an operation on an open city. As a result, a completely new infrastructure, connected mostly to culture, public transport and services, will emerge there. The foundation aims to create the ideology which will result in the entire project of construction of the New Centre of Łodz having greater sense than just infrastructural. It is an opportunity to create the identity of Łodz citizens, basing on new spatial and functional assumptions.

We want you!

We welcome people with high proficiency in English,who are  friendly, responsible, creative and well-organised.

Poszukujemy wolontariuszy do pomocy w następujacych obszarach:

• Information desk
• Press office
• Guest coordination
• Logistics
• Reporting and social media

Send your application along with a brief description of who you are and what you do to:

Olga Łabendowicz

Promotion and Guest Relations Coordinator

Volunteer Coordinator

olgalabendowicz@liberte.pl

Moreover, we have the pleasure of announcing that EC1 Lodz – City of Culture will be the co-organiser of the second edition of Freedom Games.

Fot. Robert Zapędowski, Dark Frame

Programme

October 15, 2015

Thursday

18:00-22:00 Freedom Games Opening Night Gala

Limited number of participants, registration mandatory

October 16, 2015

Friday

10:00-16:00 Workshops for Agents of Change

Limited number of participants, invitations only

16:00-21:00 Open Lectures: Battle of Ideas

Registration mandatory

21:00 Jazz Evening

Registration mandatory

October 17, 2015

Saturday

10:00-16:00 Workshops for Agents of Change

Limited number of participants, invitations only

10:00-20:00 Civic Initiatives Fair

Registration mandatory

16:00-21:00 Open Lectures: Battle of Ideas

Registration mandatory

21:00 Jazz Evening

Registration mandatory

We would also like to invite new sponsors as well as potential main and media partners to cooperation!