Kunowski, Dariusz International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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graduated in set design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1992 with the Zenobiusz Strzelecki Award for  the best diploma in set design.

He has worked as a set designer since 1991, including at the Rozm aitości Theatre in Warsaw, as well as for other theatres and  television. He has cooperated with directors including Adam  Hanuszkiewicz, Krzysztof Zaleski, Barbara Sass-Zdort, and Jacek  Bunsch. Since 1989, he has also created his own productions,  including Pojazd at the Academia Theatre; Łagodna, based on  Fyodor Dostoevsky (directing award at the Łódź Theatre Meetings and an award for Best Lower Silesian Actor at the One-Actor  Theatre Festival in Wrocław); Discus at the Ujazdowski Castle  Centre for Contemporary Art; Kaleva, based on the Finnish epic  Kalevala (presented at the Mały Theatre in Warsaw); David, based  on biblical motifs; and Gilgamesh, inspired by the Sumerian epic. Since 1997, he has cooperated with the Association for Culture  and Education, cocreating theatre productions involving children  at numerous Warsaw theatres, including Lalka (DziadyO bohaterach i bestiach) and Na Woli (Alice in Wonderland).

In 2005, under the auspices of the Pracownie Twórcze Lubelska 30/32 Association, he founded his own theatre, Scena Lubelska 30/32, where between 2007 and 2015 he staged Czarna  Mańka Królowa PrzedmieściaWiech na 102Pan Tagruelski,  Historyja o chwalebnym Zmartwychwstaniu PańskimOberki do  końca świataTango MuerteAleksander Marzec, and Ferajna  pana Dropsa. In 2014, he established the Scena Lubelska 30/32  Foundation, of which he is President. The Foundation has organised community events including Święto Skaryszewskiej – ulica otwartaSkaryszewska – z okazji 100-lecia Grochowa, and Wietnam  – Ba Lan 2; educational projects including Podróże do wczoraj  i do dziś and Mały Warszawiak; as well as theatre productions  including Róża ze SkaryszewskiejWiech po żydowskuPędrek  wyrzutekKról i morze, and Rany Julek!.

He has also created thematic and interactive exhibitions, including Deklaracja Praw Człowieka for Amnesty International and  Janusz Korczak at the Institute of Jewish Culture in Warsaw. He  is coauthor of the design and script for the Warsaw Uprising  Museum and the Museum of Sports and Tourism in Warsaw.

His distinctions include a Munk Studio Film Scholarship,  an award for David at the Festival of Ritual Theatres in Warsaw, Gold Cross of Merit for his work on the Warsaw Uprising  Museum, the Kamień Kamionka award for distinguished community work in Warsaw’s Praga Południe district (2017), and  the Warsaw Cultural Education Award (2019).