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Capella Cracoviensis and Alessandro Moccia, photo by Tibor-Florestan Pluto
Great May Picnic with Capella Cracoviensis

Lyrical serenades from the turn of the century? Mozart and Haydn? Or perhaps concertos by the Red Priest? Capella Cracoviensis is holding a Great May Picnic.

Musical Thursdays

Musical evenings at the Dworek Białoprądnicki Cultural Centre.


Photo by Jacek Wrzesiński Agencja MAI
The Book of the Forest

The Book of the Forest is a fairy tale presented in the form of musical theatre and focused on the theme of a quest for ecological values that provide human life with harmony and sense.

Dark Shadows – special screening at ARS

Special screening of the ghoulish Dark Shadows by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp (of course!) in the leading role.


Master course and concert by Mark Kroll

Mark Kroll has been acclaimed as one of the world's leading harpsichordists and fortepianists, as well as a sought-after teacher and lecturer of the difficult art of playing harpsichord. 

Chopin Concerts at the Bonerowski and Pod Baranami Palaces

Concerts dedicated to the oeuvre of Fryderyk Chopin – iconic Polish composer, the genius of the piano.

Photo by Artur Żyrkowski
Concerts in St Adalbert's Church

Programme of the concerts is composed of best known classical pieces as well as the most popular film melodies.

Lambs in Nappies

Once a week, Pod Baranami Cinema shows an attractive, ambitious film for parents and kids.

7th Felix Mendelssohn’s Music Days

As a child prodigy, he was compared to young Mozart. If it wasn’t for him, we might have never heard Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. But what did he do to make his own name famous? After all his works include far more than the wedding march...

www.newculture.pl
Cracow Concerts in Beautiful Churches

Thanks to the masterful drawing of the bow, baroque sounds and architecture, the concerts of the Orchestra of teh City of Cracow brings a new and complete atmosphere.

Klezmer Music Concerts in Rubinstein Hotel

Klezmer bands present music based on culture of the Jews who used to live in south-eastern and central Europe. Their repertoire includes instrumental pieces of reformed Jews as well as vocal works of the orthodox Jews sung in Yiddish.

Bergman in Podgórze District

Review of films by Ingmar Bergman at Kika Cinema


Pod Baranami Jazz Club

Jazz concerts at the legendary Piwnica Pod Baranami Club.

www.ludowy.pl
Pyza travelling overseas

Colorful singing musical is a lesson of geography (from the East to the West Coast of America ), history and patriotism.

Druzbacka, fot. arch. organizatora
30th Druzbacka Competition of Musicians, Instrumentalists, Folk Singers and Wedding Groomsmen

The Regional Cultural Centre in Podegrodzie will hold auditions on 17 and 18 May, and the finale concert on 20 May. Participants will be assessed on their musical ability, as well as the instrumental arrangement and outfits.

Ecoweek 2012 – Kraków

In Krakow, for the first time in Poland, ECOWEEK brings together the best among ecologically minded-architects, designers, landscape architects, young professionals, and graduate students, in a week of creative thinking 'out of the box', cooperation, dialogue, intercultural exchange, networking, hard work and lots of fun!

About Love Among the Others

Festival of films about sexual minorities organised by Goethe-Institut and Kino Pod Baranami

Photo courtesy of the theatre
I'll Sell the House in Which I Can Live No More

A theatrical séance inspired by the life and works of Czech writer Bohumil Hrabala performance without any words where the actors’ bodies, their movements and gestures and the music are the most important elements.

www.scenastu.com.pl
O! Vey! Or Stories Spiced with Cinnamon

Musical by Grupa Rafała Kmity – fascinating journey into the world of Jewish culture.

With the Moon as a Backdrop – 9th Kraków Museum Night

Free admission to all exhibitions; the chance to look in corners usually hidden from prying eyes, and a heap of attractions prepared especially for the occasion – it’s time for the annual lunar art exhibition which launches a general mobilisation: Museum Night.

Chór Kameralny Jauna Muzika, fot. arch. zespołu
Jauna Muzika Chamber Choir

Concert of the Vilnius-based Jauna Muzika Chamber Choir in the frames of the Kraków Museum Night.

Kraków Philharmonic: May

In May, the Kraków Philharmonic will be telling stories – for the young and the not-so-young, real and imagined, with tragic and happy endings...

Cnota nagrodzona, René Magritte, Bruksela, 1934 ? Ch. Herscovici ? SABAM Belgium 2012
Night of Surrealism at ICC

We cordially invite everyone to the ICC Gallery during the 2012 Krakow Museum Night. This year, we encourage you to visit a surrealist world of the subconscious and dreams.

Night with Classics

Didn't manage to go to the movies yeras ago? You did, but you want to see it once again on a big screen?

Dror Kessler, fot. arch. artysty
Dror Kessler at Café Szafé

18 May: The ferociously loud rooster in the neighboring yard, the red alert sirens of falling Qassam rockets, the lack of a car in a small town on the edge of
the country

Flamenco es universal

A cycle of concerts organised on the 20th anniversary of flamenco in Kraków. We will see the best flamenco duet in Poland – Sandra Cisneros and Nadia Mazur, featuring Magda Navarette (vocal), Andrzej Lewocki (guitar) and Izabela Milewicz (cajón).

Live and singing

Elżbieta Wojnarowska Song Club at Tęcza Stage


48 Hour Film Project

Between 18-20 May, Kraków will turn into a gigantic film set. You’ll have to be careful – you could bump into a film crew in each square, street or courtyard. Sounds interesting?

Folk Show at Jama Michalika

Meeting with Polish folklore, traditional and culture: see beautiful folk dances and costumes, listen to traditional Polish songs. During the show you can also try typical Polish dishes.

Małopolska Days of Cultural Heritage 2012

The shortest desription: four days, twelve selected sites, visits free of charge, materials prepared specially for the event. This year's leitmotif is wood: Małopolska presents its finest wooden churches and orthodox churches, villas, manor houses and homesteads.

Music Evening with an R in the Beginning

Swiss national hero, characters from French fairytales, a sound landscape of the Eternal City. Everything by the composers with names beginning with an R :-)


Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret

The legendary Kraków's cabaret – Piwnica pod Baranami – possesses an unusual charm. Beware, it can cast a spell!


Halka

The grandest and most popular Polish opera, the most famous work by Stanisław Moniuszko – these bests could be multiplied to infinity. Yet Halka very nearly never made it to the stage...

Musical Evenings at Wola

Meeting with the music and songs at the Wola Cultural Club.


Argentinian Music: Europeanness of a Faraway Continent

Is Argentina really a land far, far away? The distance will be reduced to its real size by the arts and science session organised by the Music Academy in Kraków.

www.slowacki.krakow.pl
The Promised Land

Musical spectacle based on a novel by Władysław Reymont.


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Lady with an Ermine on view at the Wawel Royal Castle

One of Leonardo’s undisputed masterpieces, the portrait of the beloved mistress of Ludovico Sforza “Il Moro,” duke of Milan, will be on view at the Wawel Royal Castle until the completion of the major renovation now underway at the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.

Hadouken!, photo from organiser's archive
New artists of Burn Selector Festival 2012!

1-2 June 2012: Chase & Status (live), Hadouken!, Niki & The Dove, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Stay+ and Redinho will play in Kraków.


52nd Krakow Film Festival: Dreams Fulfilled

Not only is it spring, warm, the air is fragrant, and life is generally good, but there’s also something to live for: late May will bring us a present fulfilling all our dreams and expectations in the form of a cinematic celebration.

Lucjan Mianowski, Akt na tle morza, 1974, własność prywatna
In the Circle of Pop Art. Lucjan Mianowski (1933-2009)

Through the cycle Graphic Artists from Krakow, the National Museum will recall the art of Lucjan Mianowski who passed away in 2009. From the earliest days of his career, the artist was praised by experts, and he soon gained approval from wide circles of art lovers.


Opera Rara 2012 – we already know the programme of the fourth edition!

Concert versions of two operas by Antonio Vivaldi: Catone in Utica and Tito Manlio, Giulio Cesare in Egitto by George Frideric Handel and La fede ne’ tradimenti by Attilio Ariosti – these are four titles planned for the year 2012 in the fourth edition of the Opera Rara cycle.

Magnetic Man, fot. arch. organizatora
Magnetic Man, Disclosure, Com Truise announced as first Burn Selector Festival 2012 artists

1-2 June 2012: organisers from Alter Art announced first artists!


Film Games

What would you do if you only had 48 hours left to live? How about making a film? Or perhaps playing football? After that we’d be willing to be buried alive – with Johnny Depp!

5th Film Music Festival

The world premiere of a simultaneous screening of the cinematic hit Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a festive gala to celebrate Wojciech Kilar’s 80th birthday, and during the finale, a special treat for fans of SF and the cult saga Alien. The 5th Film Music Festival (24-26 May) is sure to satisfy both music and cinema lovers.

Małopolska Days of Cultural Heritage 2012

The shortest desription: four days, twelve selected sites, visits free of charge, materials prepared specially for the event. This year's leitmotif is wood: Małopolska presents its finest wooden churches and orthodox churches, villas, manor houses and homesteads.

The Killers, photo from organiser's archive
The Killers and Placebo to headline CLMF 2012!

11-12 August: The Killers and Placebo to headline Coke Live Music Festival 2012!


Bronisław Schönborn, Dziedziniec arkadowy w Domu Dziekańskim na ul. Kanoniczej 21, 1955, kredka, karton, własność MHK
Bronisław Schönborn’s Kraków

Many colourful figures, artists and bohemians wound their way through Kraków during the 20th century, although not all are remembered with statues and many have wrongly faded into obscurity. They will be recalled by the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków as part of the cycle Remembered Artists.


Guerilla Girls’, the Voina Group’s and Ai Weiwei’s designs at ArtBoom Festival in Krakow

The 4th edition of the ArtBoom Visual Arts Festival will begin on the 15th of June in Krakow. This year, the theme of the Festival is Twierdza Kraków / Festung Krakau (The Fortress of Krakow). The 3rd edition of the Fresh Zone competition, accompanying the Festival, has begun on 9 March – young artists will compete for the opportunity to present their work during the ArtBoom Festival.


Apocalyptica (12 May, concert at the Polish Aviation Museum ), photo from the band's archive
The Green Outdoors

Thin Lizzy and UK in Studio, The Ex at Betel, the Bluesroads Blues Music Festival, the Green ZOO Festival, and major outdoor concerts as part of the Juvenalia student festival are the most important popular music events in May.


Photo by Jarosław Piskorz
May 2012 Special: Photography Without Borders

“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Thus, photography develops in tandem with one of the most characteristic of modern activities: tourism.”


Assa Kaupi, The Race is Over, 2011, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm/Ume?
Sport in Art

Three weeks before the start of Euro 2012, MOCAK opens its largest exhibition of the year. Following History in Art, this is the next part of the cycle presenting artistic visions of human pursuits, dedicated to sports motifs in art.

Argentinian Music: Europeanness of a Faraway Continent

Is Argentina really a land far, far away? The distance will be reduced to its real size by the arts and science session organised by the Music Academy in Kraków.

photo: Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz
Poland and Palestine – Two Lands and Two Skies. Cracovian Jews in the Photographs of Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz

Images of Jews who lived in pre-Second World War Kraków, as well as those who left for Palestine at the time, displayed at an exhibition of photographs by Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz at the Galicia Jewish Museum.

Kokieteria, autoportret René Magritte'a, Jardin des Plantes (fotokabina), Paryż 1928 ? Ch. Herscovici ? SABAM Belgium 2012
Fidelity of Images. René Magritte and Photography

René Magritte, one of the greatest artistic magicians, Surrealist and precursor of pop art, used such seemingly realistic motifs to create his artistic dream. His photos and films, not as well known as his other works, go on display at the International Cultural Centre.

 

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