Origami Polska 2007 Festival

After 15 years of activity connected with promoting origami art as a form of support to children’s and youth’s development, in 2007 the Polish Origami Center would like to take the challenge of organizing an all-Polish presentation of the paper-folding art, its numerous techniques, trends, teaching methods as well as diverse ways of its implementation.

Enthralled for years by simplicity, elegance and at times meaningful symbolism of many paper models’ shapes, the members of our society want to share their experiences – also with those, who so far haven’t been bitten by the origami bug.

Following their own passion, organizers and instructors of POC would to date introduce this exquisite educational art to schools, kindergartens, hospitals, educational and special care centers, they would arrange field schools, clubs and circles of little origamists as well as origami shows during festivities, workshops and exhibits. They also met up with origami devotees on international meetings and conferences.

The POC’s work for propagating origami in Poland proceeded at two levels. The first one was to arrange various forms of education for adults – teachers, parents, cultural animators, health service employees. These forms are: annual all-Polish Conferences on Origami in Education and Therapy (COET), origami animator courses, workshops, meetings and seminars organized in association with educational training centers. Another level means addressing children and youth by means of workshops, clubs, circles, displays, outdoor activities, field schools and kindergartens, theaters and paper day-care rooms.

Polish Origami Center will treat the year 2007 as a prelude to integration of these two levels and their complete, more visible presentation. This way you will be able to better familiarize yourself with the results of our work. We want to invite all our members but also those who engage in paperfolding on their own, occasionally and had no chance yet to show their abilities to others – to take part in a year-long event. Our wish for 2007 is that both adults and children begin their adventure with origami. We want youth, gradmas, grandpas, moms, dads, teachers and maybe even that nice lady behind the counter at the post office – to fold paper. It is so easy after all to write a letter and fold that rectangle sheet of paper to fit an envelope. The festival’s guests will also be our friends from other countries and regions of the world, well-known origami creators and remarkable instructors and champions of this beautiful art. They will share their experience with us and present their passion of discovering beauty by means of origami.

The festival is going to be a common ground for fun, education and cooperation. We kindly invite you to participate in the great undertaking of the Polish Origami Center. Ladies and gentlemen:

Origami Polska 2007 Festival

1. Origami Festival 2007
1. 1.1. Idea of the festival
2. 1.2. Honorary patronage
3. 1.3. Planning committee
4. 1.4. Touring origami exhibit prepared by POC and the invited guests
5. 1.5. Exhibit’s schedule
6. 1.6. Fringe events arranged by POC members as well as all the interested parties who will declare their participation in the festival (workshops, outdoor activities, contests, etc).
7. 1.7. Sponsors, donors, associations and institutions cooperating with POC
8. 1.8. Financing of the festival. Account – Origami Polska 2007 Festival.
9. 1.9. XVIIIth International Conference Origami in education and therapy.
10. 1.10. Logos and symbols of the festival
2. Samples of Origami Polska 2007 Festival questionnaires
1. 2.1. OPF 2007 participation card
2. 2.2. OPF 2007 collective participation card
3. 2.3. OPF 2007 organizer questionnaire
4. 2.4. OPF 2007 foreign guests questionnaire
5. 2.5. OPF 2007 sponsors and donors questionnaire

1.2. Honorary patronage

THE EMBASSY OF JAPAN IN POLAND

LOCAL PATRONAGE
OPF 2007 events in Kwidzyn:
President of the Pomorskie Province
District governor of Kwidzyn
Mayor of Kwidzyn
Chief Education Officer for the Pomorze Region
International Paper Kwidzyn

‘MASTER OF ORIGAMI’ 1^st LOCAL CONTEST IN BIAŁYSTOK
Honorary patronage:
Provincial governor of Podlasie
President of the Podlaskie Province
Mayor of Białystok
Chief Education Officer of the Podlasie Region
Media patronage:
GAZETA WSPÓŁCZESNA

Dla imprezy Seminarium pedagogiczne – „Rola sztuki origami w realizacji systemu „Edukacja przez ruch” w Pabianicach
Honorary patronage:
Prezydent Miasta Pabianic

Dla imprez FOP 2007 w Warszawie - Ogólnoplskiej Wystawy Origami i XVIII Konferencji Origami w Terapii i Edukacji
Honorary patronage:
Mazowiecki Kurator Oświaty