We invite inhabitants of the Wygoda housing estate to the Military Park this Tuesday (15 August). We have prepared exceptional activities to celebrate the Polish Armed Forces Day. Free entry!
Agenda
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Military Park, 3 Węglowa Street
10.00-18.00 – Individual tours around the heavy military equipment exhibition
12.00-18.00 – Entertainment for families with children, among others: the educational stall, art puzzles, XXL jigsaw puzzle. The partner of the activity is the Activity Centre “It’s great here” (Centrum Aktywności “Fajnie Tu”). Feel free to take blankets and picnic baskets and spend some time in the fresh air in the park green areas.
14.00 – A guided tour around the heavy military equipment exhibition
15.00 – Start of the historical walk around the Wygoda housing estate with guide Andrzej Kłopotowski. Participants meet at the Park entrance.
Andrzej Kłopotowski (the author of the project “Osiedlownik”): “The walk will begin in the Military Park of the Army Museum, among the post-military warehouses in Węglowa Street. We will go through Brazylka, visit the Evangelical-Augsburg graveyard, check how the remains of former vegetable farms of the Piekarski and Grunert families look like, and also see the old railway houses, preserved until today. Wygoda is also the old railway station “Białystok Poleski” – or “Białystok Fabryczny” (“Factory Białystok”) – with its tragic history. Obviously, the tour won’t lack stories about the tsarist barracks of the 64th Kazanian Infantry Regiment, where – after regaining independence by Białystok – the 42nd Infantry Regiment was based. Traditionally, we have some surprises. There is a monument at the… scrapheap.
16.00 – A guided tour around the heavy military equipment exhibition
20.00 – Open-air cinema – film “Orlęta. Grodno`39”. Historical introduction will be conducted by dr Łukasz Radulski.
Polish feature movie directed by Krzysztof Łukaszewicz. It features the fight of soldiers and civil inhabitants of Grodno defending their city during the Soviet invasion on Poland in September 1939. The film premiere took place on 9 September 2022.
The activities in the Military Park are realised within the project “Remembrance Education”, which is co-financed from the EEA Financial Mechanism funds and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage funds, as well as from the City of Białystok’s budget.