After 10 years of struggling with endometriosis, which robbed Maria Janczewska of her body, femininity and life, and winning the fight against it, the artist – nominated in last year’s plebiscite “The Bold 2023”, the heroine of the famous article by Wysokie Obcasy – came to the conclusion that thanks to physical work with her body and voice, she underwent a kind of self-therapy. Now she will share these experiences with a wide audience. The workshop will be co-hosted by Francesca Russo Ermolli – an outstanding Italian singer, singing teacher and certified yoga teacher, who teaches how to build voice by building body awareness.

Maria Janczewska is a singer (mezzo-soprano) and actress, and a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Theater Academy in Warsaw. With her extraordinary courage, after years of hidden suffering, she made her story of fighting endometriosis public. Her post quickly spread on social media and caused other women who had been suffering for years and had not received the help they needed to reach out to her. Janczewska spoke about women’s pain, which many people, including those in the medical world, downplay in comparison to other ailments. The actress spent years searching for a diagnosis, which turned out to be an expensive, humiliating and hopeless process. In an interview with Wysokie Obcasy, she also described the struggle for artistic dreams in the shadow of illness and the challenges faced by young people with chronic illnesses. She talked not only about endometriosis, which statistically affects one in ten women, but also about pelvic venous insufficiency. A common but rarely diagnosed problem in the field of women’s health. Through her actions, Maria Janczewska encourages Polish women to fight for their health and rights. Francesca Russo Ermolli is a mezzo-soprano from Naples. She performed, under the patronage of the Italian government, at the prestigious Theater Mesrutiyet. The recording of her last solo recital, “A Solo Recital: the Hidden Compwriters”, was very well received by the audience and critics. Ermolli was invited to Brussels by the President of the European Parliament Martin Schultz, where she performed a recital in five languages ​​on the occasion of the inauguration of an exhibition of Italian works of art during the celebrations of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Europe. She is a recognized singing teacher in the community. She has developed her own method combining work on the voice with the use of the potential of one’s own body.