HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE PALACE RESIDENCY?

Anonymous answers from 2021 Residents:

“A lightning storm of opportunities to expand your artistic boundaries.”

“World-shaking.”

“Invigorating, life-changing, luminous.”

“Different each time and impossible to plan for, but always transformative and cathartic.”

“The last night was one of the best nights of my entire life, and I felt like the best version of myself I have ever been.”

“A playground to let your curiosities and deep creative desires manifest in a supportive and welcoming setting.”

“The Palace will change your life at the event and long after it.”

“A colourful, magical pool of expression, experiences, exchange and entertainment”

“The Palace is a queer space for creatives from a wide array of backgrounds to explore, play, and connect in a weird and charming dilapidated castle in Poland.”

“An intensive crash course on all things magic and colour”

“A micro-cosmos where personal and inter-personal journeys intertwine and expand.”

“An intense, challenging, expanding, beautiful experience”

LAMB K305, Residency 2017 : "The Palace was an amazing opportunity to meet diverse artists with similar interests, these connections have been invaluable to help develop my own work. As a result of those I met, I have since worked with the photographer Sophie Le Roux and artist Danielo Schaffer, on a shoot for my album release. I won't have wait until then to find another wonderful opportunity to collaborate creatively within The Palace community."

FABIAN HOFFER, Residency 2016

"The Palace 2016 was a great experience of true collaboration. Imagine 120 people of different ages, cultural background, many of which don't know each other come together for an intense five-day event cooking together, building, learning, being creative, cleaning, caring for each other. It felt like family at the end."

ANONYMOUS VOICES RESIDENCY 2017 - 2018:

“Motivation and inspiration generator for any type of human”

“The space that helped me to realise it's possible to live life as a creative artist.”

“The place where everything is possible, the place without prejudices and stereotypes, where you can be yourself - and it is OK! Discovers yourself in a different context, where you get full openness and acceptance.”

"I had no idea what to expect at The Palace, from literally the moment I arrived I was swept up into a workshop on site specific theatre, which ended with being led blind-folded through a gaggle of geese!”

JEANETTE MANSSON, In City Residency, Berlin 2018

Just a place with people with big hearts and from start to end a totally fire work inspirational place. Here everybody work together and to bring the good stuff out of people no matter who you are or where you come from… And to do my performance for this group of people was just AMAZING! I am so happy to have met you all and don’t stop doing what you do

JACKY JANES, Palace In City Residency, Berlin 2019 : “There was a great freedom of creating the events in a very natural way.  This ability to act and shape The Palace freely (within the implicit value system) in addition to the members intrinsic passion to invest their time and energy into this project, gave me the sense of a living, self run organism with collective ownership. Each of the workshops I attended amazed me because of the open and welcoming energy. I enjoyed the diverse topics and was inspired by the passion of the hosts for their respective fields. What struck me most was the freedom of the format of each workshop.”

“What was special about this event was the unpretentious and welcoming atmosphere, the humanity of the works dynamics and the sensation of simplicity evoked by the curatorial quality. The atmosphere was really relaxed and uncomplicated, the right environment to work on your expressivity. The workshops leaders where presenting the exercises like they were sharing a wonderful discovery with some friends and this attitude helped to create very nice and equal group dynamics.”

“The main words that come to mind are breadth and versatility. There was no one genre - every artist, writer and performer was welcome.”

Residency 2016: "The Palace is the best event I've ever attended. It had Tony award winners, Shakespearean Professors from Harvard, actors and musicians and poets and artists whose careers are starting to gain serious recognition, and others who had never exposed their creative pursuits to any kind of audience before. This diverse group of artists, separated not only by field but by decades of experience and in completely different leagues of commercial success, created every aspect of the festival together in one another's company: the art, music, theatre and workshops, the colourful signs pointing us around the festival, the stages we performed on and the food we shared. This created a sense of kinship between us like no other I have ever experienced. Rather than feeling intimidated by high quality of the art all around the festival, I felt intimately connected to every part of it.”