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Visual documentation of the last meeting of miners in the Makoszowy coal mine in the Silesia region in Poland, which is closing after 120 years of operation. The celebrators sway from right to left, and the band plays songs that have accompanied them over the last decades of their work. The meeting of activists, politicians and the media is an attempt by the authors to think about how we can remember the culture that has been built locally around coal mining. What are we losing and what is worth remembering? How do the miners themselves want to be remembered? What important things would they like to keep in the story about their everyday life for their grandchildren?

Special Thanks: Mateusz Piotrowski, Laudato Si‘ Movement Poland Magdalena Bartecka, The Polish Green Network

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