Tag: COMMUNITY

Let’s relive it! “Stać nas na spokój” – performed by 200 voices at Olivia!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

On 12 September, the Olivia Centre became the scene of a unique event. On Olivia’s patio, the song “Sobě i Wam” by Katarzyna Nosowska and Marcin Macuk was sung, sung by almost 200 people! Eight amateur choirs from Pomerania took part in the project.

 

The piece was performed in a premiere arrangement prepared especially for the Olivia Centre Choir. The combined choirs were led by Wiktoria Pagieła – conductor, founder and artistic director of the Olivia Choir. The performance was graced by professional musicians: Karolina Krzyżanowska (piano), Hubert Baumann (guitar), Krzysztof Hnatiuk (bass) and Tomasz Hoffman (drums).

 

” We wanted to convey through music that instead of constant rush and consumerism, it is worth surrounding yourself with wise people and experiencing holy peace ,” says Marta Moksa, choir member and organizational director of the event. – We believe that singing together with several hundred people can move even those who do not expect it.

 

Artist

Olivii Centre
Choir Chamber
Choir Sopot Continuo
Chamber Choir Fahrenheit Alumni Choir “Non Serio”
Choir of the Oliwa Neighbourhood House “Po Sąsiadach”
Association Lira
Choir SANS Mundus Festival Choir Cantat
Choir at the PARK ON Association

 

Listen for yourself!

 

About the Olivia Centre Choir

The Olivia Centre Choir has been operating for seven years and brings together 40 singing enthusiasts who work in various companies located in Olivia Centre – a prestigious business centre in Gdańsk. The band brings together people from different backgrounds who find time after working hours to develop their talent and enjoy making music together. The choir has performed on numerous stages in the Tri-City, participated in cultural and charity projects, and in 2022 released its debut album “Dobre tony”, containing interpretations of well-known songs from the repertoire of m.in. The Beatles, Eurythmics and Męskie Granie Orkiestra.

 

The choir has won prestigious awards, m.in. the Golden Band in the XVIII National Competition of Christmas Carols and Pastorals and the Bronze Diploma in the VI Baltic Competition of Choirs Pomerania Cantat. The participation of the Olivia Centre Choir in the prestigious Philharmonic under the Stars project, during which they performed Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana together with choirs from Poland and Germany and a symphony orchestra, was a unique artistic event confirming the high level of the ensemble and its presence on the national and international music scene.

The Conductor: Wiktoria Pagieła

Wiktoria Pagieła – conductor and founder of the Olivia Centre Choir – is an outstanding figure of the Polish choral scene. Born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, she comes from a family with rich musical traditions. She is a scholarship holder of the Government of the Republic of Poland and a graduate with distinction of the Faculty of Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. St. Moniuszko and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk. She has many years of experience as a conductor, organizer and leader of vocal and choral workshops, m.in. cyclical meetings in Gdańsk “Saturday Vocal Workshops” and the National Liturgical Music Workshops Music of the Soul in Gdańsk.

 

She is a laureate of many awards, including the Fryderyk 2014 Phonographic Academy Award in the Album of the Year category for the preparation of the University Choir of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She was the president of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Association of Choirs and Orchestras. Wiktoria is known for her ability to combine professionalism with passion, and her artistic and educational work influences the development of choral music in the region. He is actively involved in promoting contemporary popular choral music in the academic and business environment.

10 years of O4 Coworking at Olivia Centre!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Our O4 Coworking celebrates its tenth birthday today and still has the same attractive rhythm: you come in “for a while” and you stay for a very, very long time. Desks and meters? Sure, there are. But it’s the coworking community that makes you really want to be here – harmonious, kind, helpful, “just ours”.

 

Today, I think we can say that ten years have passed like one day. Because everything was happening so fast! And over the past decade, something has emerged that is the hardest to plan in a business plan: a close-knit community. Companies and freelancers, startups and mature teams – they all say the same thing: it’s just good to work here. Because in O4, desks, rooms and meters are just the beginning. The most important thing happens between people.

 

What makes the difference on a daily basis?

  • conversations in the kitchen, after which projects are created,
  • random meetings from which you leave with contact and a plan for tomorrow,
  • Networking without spin – wise, supportive, strengthening business and mood
  • short relaxation on the grass, deckchair, swing;
  • Celebrating small and large holidays together

 

Fig. Olivia Centre Archives

 

O4 also offers a specific offer, including: offices, desks, hot desks, registry addresses, workshops, meetings, conferences, webinars, opportunities for networking, spending time together, meeting rooms, webinar corner and much more. Because, as the team emphasizes, O4 is much more than just an office. It is, above all, an inspiring community, combining knowledge, passion, serving cooperation, exchange of experience, knowledge and development. One that combines business and purely human potential.

 

O4 has been focusing on personal and business development for years. Competencies, employer branding, business development, mentoring. The numbers speak for themselves: 97% of O4 members appreciate the offer “outside the office and desk”, almost half actively use workshops, sports, recruitment speed-dating and team-building events, and 98% think that the O4 community is friendly and helpful. What’s more, 70% see a connection between being at O4 and their own success – and the same number treat O4 as a business partner.

 

Today, O4 manages 86 offices for almost 700 people and operates in four buildings of the Olivia Centre. In total, there is about 6000 m² of very diverse space – from a prestigious zone overlooking the city to budget, “atmospheric” options on the lower floors, or even a compact 4 m² in shared spaces. In addition, full kitchen facilities, integration spaces and – to be fully used – the entire residential offer of the Olivia Centre!

 

And that’s exactly what Olivia’s ecosystem is of great importance here: events organized here, interesting guests, inspiring meetings and conversations (including those “At the Top” by Olivia Star, cooperation with universities (UG, PG, WSB Merito), recruitment offer, projects carried out together with local entrepreneurs. For many, it is important that O4 is the largest local coworking community – you join and are immediately online Ok. 500 entrepreneurs.

 

 

O4, happy 10th anniversary!
Thank you for your energy, agency and daily “hey” in the corridor. We wish you and all Oczterian residents another decade full of inspiring meetings, bold projects, great recruitment and – simply – happy work in good company.

It is for you that today we will display the O4 logo at the very top of Olivia Star!
Have a good time, have a good time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s go to the city! Lower Town: Szafarnia – Angel Causeway – Long Gardens

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Getting to know the Lower Town!

 

What is Gdańsk like seen away from tourist paths? What stories and secrets escape the authors of publicly available guides? You can find out during alternative city science walks, to which “Local Guides” invite you.

 

The centre of Gdańsk is not only a frequently visited, beaten track of the Royal Route.
It is also its south-eastern part called the Lower Town, cut off a little years ago by the thoroughfare of Podwale Przedmiejskie.
This is the part of the city where most of the old buildings from the nineteenth century are located, as well as the elements of the city’s fortifications that have survived to this day – bastions and a moat, as well as authentic, also nineteenth-century barracks.
It is a place that encapsulates the history of assembling American passenger cars…

 

Route: Szafarnia – Na Stępce – Dziewanowskiego – Angielska Grobla – Seredyńskiego – Długie Ogrody

 

Meeting point: at the corner of ul.
Sheds and Long Gardens (6/14 Długie Ogrody Street), 5:30 p.m.

 

Guide: Izabela Szepska

 

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Local Guides and

 

It is an initiative that brings together the inhabitants of Gdańsk who show around the lesser-known corners of the city with passion, knowledge and commitment. Each walk is carried out according to the original scenario of the guide. During it, you can hear about the surrounding nature and architecture, learn about the history of the district, look into its secret places usually known only to residents. Guides talk about literary inspirations or artistic threads related to a given place, and their narratives are often embellished with personal notes.

 

Walks allow you to get to know the city from a different side. It happens that the stories told by the guide surprise the oldest residents of a given district. Tourists, on the other hand, appreciate the “insider” knowledge of the guides, which reveals the atmosphere of the place to them and allows them to delve deeper into the specificity of the city. More about Local Guides…

 

The organizer of the project is the City Culture Institute – a local government cultural institution that creates events for and with the participation of residents. Its aim is to increase the role of culture in the life of the city and to develop local identity. For more events, please visit www.ikm.gda.pl.

 

 

 

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