Tomasz „Lipi” Lipski – a poet, musician, actor, DJ, culture organizer. The Secretary of the Pomeranian Association for Integration of Culture and Art Jeden Świat (One World) in Sopot, where he ran Thursday Poetry Meetings. He has co-organized, together with Larry Okey Ugwu, the festival Muzyka Przeciwko Nietolerancji i Przemocy (Music Against Non-Tolerance and Violence) in Sopot. A member of the ethno group Ikenga Drummers and co-founder of LipZezRew theatre. A prize-winner at national poetry competitions and member of Junior Club at the Association of Polish Writers (ZLP_ in Gdańsk. To date, he has published two volumes of verse – Fotografie mej pamięci (1995) and Pierwsze słowo (1998). In 2005 he was granted a cultural scholarship from the Marshal of Pomerania Province what allowed him to publish another volume Opowieści z Buszu. In 2009 he published an anthology of poems from Thursday Poetry Meetings entitled Odgłosy (also as part of the Marshal of Pomerania Province’ scholarship). |