Cultural activities
Recently the development of cultural activities has been taking place in Tomaszow Mazowiecki. The Arkady Gallery and Town Culture Center became real centers of this kind of activities. Numerous cultural events, art and photography exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts are help there. The meeting of Tomaszow businessman in Kajka Restaurant, where they can listen to good music, talk about the arts and see works of art became popular. Commitment of people from private firms, united in Business Club TM, establishments and cultural institutions brought about organisation of "Now tell me how you'd feel coming... in Tomaszow" Festival. The spectacle became a regular event in cultural calendar of the town and the whole region. The work of the Town Club, which rallies artistic circles is worth mentioning as well. Numerous young, skilful people, who take part in the life of the town, attend theatrical and artistic meetings there. They organise happenings, theatre performances, exhibitions of paintings etc.
State School of Music
State School of Music of the 1st and 2nd level was set up, as a school of the 1st level, in 1965. It was established on the request of Tomaszow society that was interested in musical education of children and the youth. A Ognisko Muzyczne, that had been already existed for five years, was a germ of the school. Ms Maria Zakrzewska was the main initiator of the establishment of the school of the 1st level and she was its first headmistress for 19 years. Social demand was increasing and the teaching staff was complying with high requirements. In 1981 the school of the 2nd level was set up. At the beginning it took a role of a branch of State School od Music in Piotrkow Trybunalski. After a new building, erected thanks to efforts of the second headmaster Mr Jan Makowski, had been given for school use, the 2nd level school gained autonomy and on the strength of the decision of Piotrkow Province authorities it has been an independent institution since 1989.
Pedagogical staff of the school consists of 46 well-qualified teachers. Nearly 30% of pedagogues are graduates in the 1st or 2nd level (Some of them are still students of Music Academy or at musicology departments of universities). The school can be proud of its numerous outstanding graduates who work as musicians or they are connected with the world of art. Amoug them are: Ms Grazyna Ciopinska - the soloist in the Great Theatre in Warsaw; Ms Malgorzata Stepnicka-Rosinska finished the 1st level school in cello class and now she is an inspector in Artistic Education Center in Lodz Province; Ms Joanna Trzepiecinska, who finished the 1st level school is a famous Polish actress now; Mr Cezary Pazura - attended a clarinet class and now he is a famous and esteemed actor. A lot of graduates work as musicians, performers in numerous orchestras in our country or they work as teachers outside Tomaszow. It is not possible to mention all of them.
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