Olga Tokarczuk visited with Jurek Owsiak to donate the first official replica of her Nobel Prize Medal to our charity. The beautifully crafted official gold-plated replica of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be auctioned off in aid of the medical objective of the Grand Finale fundraiser.
The Medal, which is identical to the solid-gold medal awarded to the novelist at a ceremony in Stockholm, has already attracted plenty of attention.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 was awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."
Tokarczuk's striking, imaginative and meticulously researched prose received numerous accolades in Poland and abroad. The writer won a Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights in 2018. Agnieszka Holland's Spoor, a film based on Tokarczuk's book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2017.
Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize Medal in Stockholm on December 10th. Each Nobel Prize Laureate is permitted to request up to three official replicas of the medal, which are all crafted by the same masters working for the Nobel Foundation. The replicas can be donated to universities, museums and other organisations by the Laureates.
The medal donated by Olga Tokarczuk will be auctioned off in aid of the medical objective of the Grand Finale fundraiser 2020 - to help finance the purchase of medical equipment for children's surgery and treatment.
Charitable auctions are a popular method of supporting the objective of the charity - everyone can list of bid for unique, unforgettable and precious lots.
The Valentine’s Day mood got us all. Looking at our Orchestra's red heart today, we think particularly warmly about all our volunteers and supporters! Thanks to you, we have been "playing" for the past 30 years
Five days before the 32nd Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, we visited the 'Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka' (Children's Memorial Health Institute) to ceremoniously inaugurate the first Ophthalmic Simulation Laboratory in Europe dedicated exclusively to the field of peadiatric ophthalmology.
Nowadays, there are many ways to support GOCC, and most of it does not even require leaving home! So if the winter aura is not encouraging you to leave your home, here are some tips on how you can still support the 32nd GOCC Grand Finale.
