Brave New World

One of the best things about living in Warsaw, and not just anywhere in the city, but in my neat, recently refurbished apartment, is that on a Wednesday night you can just cross the street, sit down and listen to Timothy Garton Ash speaking about Europe and the art of bringing down walls.

The conference was organized by Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), which is Poland's largest left-wing circle of intellectuals and activists, an intellectual journal, a publishing house, a multimedia internet service and a socio-cultural center in Warsaw. They have recently moved to a new location, and so we became neighbours. The new headquarters are on Nowy Swiat street, hence the very inspired name - Nowy Wspanialy Swiat (Brave New World). The pub on the ground floor is the perfect place to hang out and have a few drinks after the meetings / workshops / conferences, so I think that after two months in Warsaw I finally found the place where I belong.