Author - Nikodem Karolak

Nikodem Karolak is the Director of InlanDimensions International Arts Festival, Chairman of Bridges Foundation, a film/theatre producer, an artist manager, a literary translator/interpreter, a former laureate of prestigious PhD scholarship of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology at Waseda University in Tokyo, and a laureate of Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation for the best PhD researchers in 2018. In 2016-2018 he curated  Avant Art Festival in Wroclaw and supervised various international festivals as a translator and interpreter, such as The Theatre Olympics (2016), Malta Festival Poznań, Konfrontacje Theatre Festival, Five Flavours Film Festival. In 2019, he translated Chijin no ai (Naomi) by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō from Japanese into Polish, curated the New Horizons International Film Festival.

In October 2019, he launched InlanDimensions International Arts Festival with support from three strategic partners in Poland – The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and The Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, opening up a new connection between Japan and Poland. In November & December 2019, he co-organized a Terayama Shūji film retrospective and stage performances of Nuhikun - Directions to Servants at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in collaboration with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. In 2020 co-produced Aoba Ichiko European tour. Currently producer of InlanDimensions International Arts Network and initiator of cultural projects linking Japan with Poland and The West.