Life and Activity
At the age of eight, Owsiak moved with his parents from Gdańsk to Warsaw. Here, he graduated from high school with an economic profile, and later attempted to achieve a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When he was a teenager, he was a member of the society of the hippie subculture in Masovian Voivodeship. His fasciantion of this subculture let to his idea of the "Woodstock Stop", an annual rock concert held in Poland.
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