Opening of a photography exhibition at Collegium Humanisticum

The Faculty of Historical Sciences invites you to the opening of an exhibition entitled ‘The 1981 protests of the Nicolaus Copernicus University student community in the photographic materials of Dariusz Czerniakowski, a graduate of archaeology at Nicolaus Copernicus University.’ The exhibition will open on 11 December at 10:00 a.m. in the lobby of Collegium Humanisticum (ul. Bojarskiego 1).

The exhibition presents several photographs documenting the heated days of student protests in the period preceding the imposition of martial law by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic on 13 December 1981. Most of them concern the strike action carried out on 17 February 1981 in the building of the Institute of History and Archival Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The remaining photographs come from a march organised on 8 March 1981 by the Independent Students' Association of Nicolaus Copernicus University to commemorate the anniversary of the events of March 1968, as well as from a Holy Mass celebrated on 3 May 1981 in the Old Town Square in Toruń for Polish farmers.

The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by a ceremony awarding Dariusz Czerniakowski the Medal of the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province, Unitas Durat Palatinatus Cuiaviano-Pomeraniensis.