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The photo showed Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek during their presentation on the documentation of the artistic initiatives. The presentation took place in the Student Center for Artistic Communities Dziekanka as a part of the exhibition and theoretical session Dokumentacja i autodokumentacja w sztuce (Documentation and Self-Documentation in Art), March 5-6, 1979. The photographer Tomasz Sikorski was also the organizer of the event as a co-director of the P.O. Box 17 Gallery. The participants of the event, besides Kulik and Kwiek, were Peter van Beveren, Andrzej Jórczak, Tomasz Konart, Jerzy Olek, Jerzy Onuch, Andrzej Partum, Andrzej Paruzel, Józef Robakowski, and Tomasz Sikorski.

The photography took by Tomasz Sikorski presented the space of the exhibition Forma i dźwięk (Form and Sound). The exhibition was displayed at the Mospan Gallery from March 20 to 25, 1978. On the photo, one could see, among others, Dorota Mroczko and Paweł Kwiek. The exposition gathered works made by the students from the sculpture workshop carried on by the professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw. The pieces presented at the exhibition were made by Krzysztof Bednarski, Hanna Roszkiewicz, Marek Sarełło, Tomasz Sikorski, Roman Woźniak and Jacek Malicki, musician, writer, philosopher who actually was not Jarnuszkiewicz’s student. The question of relations between spatial form and sound may sound strange in the context of the sculpture workshop. That was the avant-garde musician and composer Andrzej Bieżan who induced students to take up such a topic. The effects of the cooperation between Bieżan and students of sculpture were showed at the Mospan Gallery.

Skilling’s Golden Wedding anniversary, was at the Old Town Hall in April 1987. The journey Gordon Skilling made to Prague in April 1987, marked the celebration of Skilling's 75^th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Sally. The wedding ceremony was arranged by his dissident friends in the Old Town Hall, which was also the same ceremonial hall where they were married in 1937 (their wedding in October 1937 took place during G. Skilling’s first time in Czechoslovakia, where he studied the History of Central Europe as a student of London University). The anniversary celebration was a delicate irony in which the guests were fond of - a tribute to the "enemy of the state" because the Communists had released a number of dissidents which they had not known about. The next day in the Prague Evening, the news appeared, with a somewhat funny title, "Wedding Overseas". Jiřina Šiklová gained a great credit for this, because she paid the newspaper editors with the make-up from Tuzex at that time.

Gordon Skilling himself remembers this after years in an interview with Lidove Noviny in June 1993: "It was an interesting ceremony because perhaps all Czech dissidents - Havel, Pithart, Dienstbier and others - were present. It was strange that, in this honest ceremony, the chairman of the National Committee for Prague 1 spoke about what I did for Czech history. But he did not know that I also wrote a book about the Prague Spring, a book on Charter 77 and other things. He did not know it, and so he was very glad. Absurd situation. But the dissidents liked it. They were smiling internally. And then we had a gala dinner at the Municipal House. I like to recall the event."