Justyna is a founder of the Polish Arts Festival (2007). She is arts manager and facilitator as well as a theatre maker and performer. Native of Poland. Justyna made Limerick her home in 2005. She works closely with the Polish Embassy in Dublin and local authorities and PAF stakeholders. She is a very active advocate of multilingualism in arts, especially theatre and promotion of indigenous arts and languages. Justyna received an award for the work on PAF from the Polish Government, Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation TERAZ POLSKA under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland. Justyna received numerous artistic stipends and funding for her work, especially community projects that she runs as part of the PAF. She is a former Chairperson of the Irish Polish Cultural & Business Association, a Board Member of The Hunt Museum, and an ordinary member of Forum Polonia. Justyna’s positive energy & her passion for arts brings people together and makes them believe “Yes, You CAN”.