We are delighted to invite you to the third edition of the WAWELSKA REDUTA OPEN DAY festival, which this year is entitled 'OKRUCHY WSPOMNIEŃ'. This is a unique event, during which we once again open the gate of the tenement house at WAWELSKA 60, giving access to its hidden garden courtyard - a green enclave, normally inaccessible to visitors. 6 09 Reduta's space will become a meeting place, a common celebration of history and neighbourhood
"OKRUCHY WSPOMNIEŃ" is a story about the intangible heritage of the Colony, about what is invisible yet fundamental : the memory of the first community, the values of cooperativism and the architectural vision of Marian Lalewicz. The identity of a place that has survived not only the test of time but also the dramatic events of the 20th century. The Cooperative Workers' House of the Ministry of Railways earned the name "WAWELSKA REDUTA", being the last point of resistance of the Warsaw Insurgents in Ochota - a tenement defended like a fortress. Today it still serves its original function, being our home, a place that teems with life, embodying the idea of a conscious neighbourhood and urban community.
The festival programme includes a guided historical walk, lectures and talks on the heritage and identity of the Colony, an exhibition, concerts, an evening dance with live music and an outdoor film screening.
The Ochota District of the City of Warsaw is a partner of the event, and the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising has assumed honorary patronage of the Festival.

DORW'2025 PROGRAMME

12.00
13.30
* SPACER
"Between reality and vision
Urban history of Wawelska Street"
start ■ The IOC building ■ Wawelska 52.
The final backyard of Reduta Wawelska
Adrian Sobieszczański
13.30
18.00
* NEIGHBOURHOOD REFRESHMENTS
refreshments will be served
Reduta residents
13.30
14.30
INAUGURATION OF DORW 2025
official opening of the festival
Piotr Krasnodębski - Mayor
Ochota District of the City of Warsaw
14.30
15.15
PRW* LECTURE
* We remember the Wawel Redoubt
DORW module dedicated to the Uprising '44
Marcin Kaczorowski
15.30
16.20
PANEL CRUMBS OF MEMORIES
NEIGHBOURHOOD LECTURE
lecture on the creation of
Archive of the Defenders of Wawel Redoubt
during the '44 Uprising
16.20
16.40
DORW ARCHIVE
opening of an intimate exhibition
dedicated to the residents of the tenement
Magdalena Kruk-Szaluś
16.40
17.00
JANUSZ ODROWĄŻ - MONEY
about Zbigniew Herbert, a memoir
from a seemingly heroic time
read by Agnieszka Dygant
17.00
18.00
LECTURE - CRUMBS OF MEMORIES
discussion of good practice
protection of intangible heritage
Dorota Szewczyk
18.00
19.00
LECTURE
MARIAN LALEWICZ AND ARCHITECTURE
"COOPERATIVE" WILLINGNESS
to bring the architect's work closer to
to the residential colonies of the Ochota district
in the inter-war period
Grzegorz Mika
19.00
19.45
JAZZ CONCERT
Marcel Stachyra Quintet
jazz of the 1950s-1960s and pre-war
melodies in the author's own interpretation
of the young Warsaw squad
20.00
21.30
NICPONIE
CONCERT AND DANCE
old hits and contemporary hits
in a not very traditional tone
traditional Warsaw band
21.30
22.30
MOVIE NIGHT
FILM 'FLOOR ABOVE
polish musical comedy from 1937
with unforgettable creations by Helena
Grossówny and Eugeniusz Bodo

INVITES
Free entrance