The main idea of the “Race To Maidan” is to celebrate the heroism of Ukrainians and to thank for reminding Poland and Europe about the importance of European values. We want to express our solidarity with Ukraine and announce loudly that “inter arma musae NON silent”, i.e. art, including the art of racing, cannot stay silent even when Ukraine is in war for its statehood. Our race is a pacifist initiative and a protest against Russian aggression.
The concept was initiated by the director of the First program of the National Radio Company of Poland Kamil Dąbrowa and the founder of the “Poland Runs” action Piotr Pacewicz.
The final point of the relay race that starts in Warsaw will be the Ukrainian House in Kyiv (Khreshchatyk st., 2) on November 21 at 12:00. The final of the race will occur on the first anniversary of the Euromaidan and the tenth anniversary of the Orange Revolution.
Participants of the race include: Kamil Dąbrowa (director of the First program of the National Radio Company of Poland); Piotr Kraśko (anchorman of the news program of the First channel of the Polish State Television TVP 1); Beata Sadowska (radio and TV journalist); Konrad Piasecki (RMF FM radio and TVN 24 TV channel); Piotr Zmelonek (“Polityka” weekly); Przemysław Iwańczyk (Polsat TV channel and Radio TOK FM); Robert Kowalski (radio journalist); Magda Soltys (Sport.pl/”Poland Runs”); Magda Żakowska (reporter of “Dużу Format”); Piotr Pacewicz and Beata Szulęcka (Fundusz Mediów), Wojtek Staszewski (“Newsweek” weekly, one of the founders of the “Poland Runs” action), and Tomek Smokowski (Sport Canal+); Wlodek Nowak (reporter, writer, editor-in-chief of “Dużу Format”, a reporting addition to “Gazeta Wyborczа”); Marta Ciastoch (journalist of “Newsweek”) and Marzena Czuba from the TVN TV channel.
Other runners include: Jacek Kozłowski, governor of Masovian voivodeship; Robert Korzeniowski, sport popularizer and multiple Olympic champion; Martin M. Simecka, well-known Czech and Slovak author and journalist; Mirosław Bieniecki, founder of the Institute of Migration Studies and organizer of the “Butcher’s Race”; Piotr Skrzypczak and Anna Dąbrowska, Homo Faber Society; Marta Przybyl, graphic artist; Aleksandra Kłosińska, “Other Space” foundation; Witek Misztela, AMS firm (moves in a wheelchair, participated in the “Poland Runs” relay race); Olga Hugo Bader, Roma theater, and Rafal Lipski, blogger, anti-racist and anti-war activist. Other people who joined the relay race are the founders of the portal for runners “Wild for the Run” Sandra Gruszczyńska and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira (also TVP Info); Piotrek “Wild” Krawczyk, therapist and participant of the “Poland Runs” relay races; Michał Witkowski, press officer of PZU. Two remaining participants of the relay race will be the winners of the open contest which was held among the readers of “Gazetа Wyborczа”.
FINISH ON NOVEMBER 21, 2014. We will all run together the last few kilometers before the finish. We hope Kyivans will join us too. Then our race will be a manifestation of memory and a pacifist parade with our joint participation.
Kyiv
18 November – 21 November
The final point of the relay race that starts in Warsaw will be the Ukrainian House in Kyiv (Khreshchatyk st., 2) on November 21 at 12:00
