2024/11/11 – UK – Huddersfield, Town Hall2024/10/27 – USA – Yonkers NY, St Casimir Catholic Church2024/10/26 – USA – Yonkers NY, St Casimir Catholic Church2023/10/20 – UKRAINE – Lviv, Lviv Organ Hall2023/10/19 – UKRAINE – Lviv, Lviv Organ Hall2024/09/20 – ITALY – Rome, Pantheon2024/08/08 – FINLAND – Lahti, Sibelius Hall – Lahti Organ Festival2024/07/14 – LATVIA – Liepāja, Holy Trinity Cathedral2024/06/28 – ITALY – Bologna, Basilica di S. Antonio da Padova2024/06/12 – ESTONIA – Rapla, Maarja-Magdaleena Kirik2024/06/11 – ESTONIA – Tallinn, Kaarli Kirik2024/06/11 – POLAND – Wilków, kościół św. Mikołaja2024/05/31 – UK – London, St Margaret Lothbury2024/05/13 – UK – Boston, Centenary Methodist Church2024/05/11 – UK – Ellerker, St Anne Church2024/05/10 – UK – Warwick, St Marry2024/05/04 – ITALY –

Szostak Michał (ed.) (2024). Non-Artistic Kitsch. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72237-0 About the book The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism. Two perspectives are underlined: 1) the consciousness of the presence and role of kitsch experience within the philosophy of living and 2) the management of kitsch experience within the philosophy of living (kitsch as a means for achieving goals). Due to the diverse topics covered by particular chapters, no unified methodology is applied in the whole volume. However, due

Szostak, M. (2024) ‘Phenomenological Perspectives in Dialectical Leadership: Influence of Aesthetic Experiences on Managing Organisational Complexity and Paradoxes’, Discourses on Culture, 22(1), pp. 41–76. doi: 10.2478/doc-2024-0009. Abstract: Through a critical literature review, the study analyses the influence of leaders’ sensory and emotional experiences on shaping their capacity to navigate contradictions and tensions inherent in complex organisational environments. By engaging with concepts of embodied perception, multisensory engagement, and aesthetic judgment, the article highlights how these factors contribute to leaders’ decision-making processes and their ability to foster creative resolutions in paradoxical situations, offering a phenomenological perspective that emphasises the importance of leaders’ subjective experiences in managing organisational complexity. The article answers the following research questions: 1) How do subjective aesthetic experiences (including

The guests of the „Motywy” program were: Olga Drenda – journalist, cultural anthropologist, author of the books: „Wyroby. Pomysłowość okolic nas” and „Duchologia”, Wiganna Papina – stylist, make-up artist and costume designer and dr hab. Michał Szostak – author of the book „Non-Artistic Kitsch”. Link to the recording – here.

Seven months after finishing the whole procedure of a Habilitated Doctorate (a permanent Associate Professorship) in Management (Social Sciences), I received the diploma. Still, it is a great joy and pleasure to keep a tangible artefact in own hands!

Polish organist Michał Szostak will make his first visit to Huddersfield Town Hall on Monday, November 11th, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. A famed improviser, his programme will intersperse three improvisations in varied styles among works by Buxtehude, Bach and Beethoven, including a transcription from Beethoven’s famed Symphony No. 5. Buxtehude – Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C Szostak – Improvisation: Italian concertoJ. S. Bach – Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 Fantasia in G (Pièce d’Orgue), BWV 572 Szostak – Improvisation: Symphonic variationsBeethoven – Allegro con brio (Symphony No. 5) Szostak – Improvisation: Organ Suite About the event – here.

On the 26th and 27th of October 2024, I had the opportunity to perform three recitals at St Casimir Catholic Church in Yonkers, NY, USA. It was an inauguration of the organ that was renovated in the previous months.

I had the pleasure of performing recitals during the 14th International Lviv Organ Festival, hosted by the Lviv Organ Hall in Lviv, Ukraine. Two recitals occurred on Saturday and Sunday, the 19th and 20th of October 2024, at 19:00. Program (click on numbers 4, 7, or 11 to hear the recording)

On Friday, 20th September 2024, at 17.30, I had the privilege to perform a recital during the „IV International Organ Festival” at the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres (Pantheon) in Rome, Italy. Organ by Tamburini (1926/2013), 15/2M+P Program:

Szostak Michał (2024). Baltic Organ Crowns. The Organ, No 409, August-October (Summer) 2024, 27-43. Introduction Between April and July 2024, I had the opportunity to perform recitals on the largest and the most prominent organs of three East Baltic countries: the Republic of Lithuania (25,200 sq mi, 2.8 million inhabitants, Roman Catholics mostly), the Republic of Latvia (24,938 sq mi, 1,9 million inhabitants, Lutherans mostly), and the Republic of Estonia (17,504 sq mi, 1,3 million inhabitants, religionless mostly). These relatively small but closely cooperating and dynamically developing countries have many similarities (e.g., Hansa League history, communist history, regained independence in 1991, EU and NATO membership since 2004) and differences (e.g., separate languages, varied cultures, diverse dominating religions). The reach economic