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no entries found (June 27th-July 5th)19th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN KRAKOW 2009-04-22 20:29:14 19th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow will be held between June 27th and July 5th 2009. The Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow is one of the most important and largest events of its kind in the world. The First Festival took place in 1988 and its program focused on a scholarly conference on the enco ... [More] (July 5th-July 31st) 14th SUMMER JAZZ FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:30:22 For the first time, the Summer Jazz Festival took place in 1996 as part of the 40th-birthday celebrations of the Piwnica pod Baranami. At the time, its creator, Witold Wnuk – inspired by Piotr Skrzynecki – presented an entire month’s series of daily concerts at the Piwnica. Ever ... [More] (July 9th-12th) 22nd INTERNATIONAL STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:31:42 This is the second oldest street festival in Central Europe (after the one in Jelenia Góra). The open-air presentations of this year’s Kraków review will be focused on the theme of the child and childhood. Presenting themselves on the city’s squares and streets will be ensem ... [More] (July 18th) JAZZ NIGHT 2009-04-22 20:33:08 This year’s Jazz Night, associated with the Summer Jazz Festival taking place at that time, will focus on the figure of Cracovian Władysław ‘Adzik’ Sendecki. One of the best jazz pianists in the world, in the 1970s he was, together with Jarek ¦mietana, the founder o ... [More] (July 24th-26th) ROZSTAJE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:34:11 Rozstaje Festival presents the diverse traditional music of the region and at the same time common features of the folk culture of the Carpathians. The performers act as the representatives of their ancestors who made up the many peoples and ethnic groups—including the Poles, Slovaks, Hungarian ... [More] (August 1st-2nd) INTERNATIONAL GALA OF PYROTECHNICAL ARTS 2009-04-22 20:35:40 The main attraction of the gala will be the competition presentation of four powerful, ten-minute shows staged by ensembles from Italy, Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic. An extravaganza of colors, the heat searing the air, and on top of this the international rivalry representing a peculiar o ... [More] (August 1st-9th) 10th CRACOVIA DANZA COURT DANCE FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:36:47 10th anniversary edition. The festival events include dance demonstrations, parades, masquerade balls and performances in the Arcade Courtyard of Wawel Castle, shows, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, court dance workshops (with French, Italian, English, Polish and Indian dances) led by specialists fr ... [More] (August 15th-31st) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MUSIC IN OLD CRACOW 2009-04-22 20:37:54 The festival concerts take place over a period of 17 days, each day in a different historical interior: at churches and museums, in the courtyards of the Salt Mine in Wieliczka, at the Royal Castle at Wawel, and at the Philharmonic Hall – dependent on the character of the music being performed. ... [More] (August 21st-30th) FAIR OF FOLK ART 2009-04-22 20:40:11 The Folk Art Fair, organised uninterruptedly for the last 30 years on Krakow's Main Square, proves the vitality of folk handicraft and the need to cultivate it. Not only can visitors buy handicrafts, but also learn about various techniques, such as pottery, sculpture, embroidery or lace-making and ev ... [More] (August 21st-22nd) COKE LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:39:18 Previous editions have shown that the Coke Live Festival is a true feast for popular music lovers. In the coming months, Alterart (which also organizes Open’er in Gdansk) will be heating up the atmosphere, revealing the names of successive stars. One thing is certain – performing on the p ... [More] (September 13th-20th) SACRUM PROFANUM FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:40:59 The main idea of the event is to present the two trends in the 20th century music: the sacred (sacrum) and the lay (profanum). Each Festival edition presents the works of composers from certain geographical areas, for instance Vienna-Austria, Russia, France. An important aspect is the presentation of ... [More] (June 20th) WIANKI 2009-LENNY KRAVITZ 2009-04-22 20:25:41 The shortest night of the year will probably be remembered for a long time by the participants of this year’s “Wianki”, a traditional Polish midsummer night festival. At sundown, the sky over the Vistula River will be illuminated by a very bright star – Lenny Kravitz. ... [More] June (13th-27th) ART BOOM FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:24:15 Art Boom Festival in Krakow aims to focus once a year the audience's attention on Polish art scene and to create the opportunity of confrontation with the world art. In the specified time which is supposed to be June - it will flash on the visual arts and present the series of separate artistic event ... [More] (May 15th-16th) KRAKOW MUSEUM NIGHT 2009-04-22 20:19:06 Joining in this sixth edition now of the Museum Night will be 20 Kraków cultural institutions. The night time visitation is, above all, discovery of facilities not accessible on an everyday basis, as well as fraternization with art in atypical scenery. For a symbolic 1 zloty, one can take part ... [More] (May,17th-24th) KRAKOW MEETINGS WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC 2009-04-22 19:47:04 It is a cycle of meetings (since 1996) with the Orthodox Church music performed by choirs from Poland and abroad, held in Krakow churches. The Krakow audience will have a chance to listen to music featuring different styles and trends of the Orthodox Church, performed by professional, parish and ... [More] (May, 21st-23rd) 2nd FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009-04-22 20:17:40 The 2nd International Film Music Festival in Kraków, organized by Krakow Festival Office together with the RMF Classic radio, is dedicated in its entirety to music created for a picture, and to the mutual relationships between the two fields of art. The personalities in the film music world a ... [More] (May 30th) International Race Walking Meeting 2009-04-22 20:20:29 International athletic meeting organised by Robert Korzeniowski featuring the greatest stars of the race-walking world and a rich programme of accompanying events. ... [More]