TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

On 28th of November you can visit most of Krakow’s Museums for Free. National Museum and all his branches are waiting to be visited as well as Salt Mine, Old Synagogue and Museum of Nowa Huta.

Whole day of exploring! (from 10am to4pm)

Here is link to whole programme.

Design Attack (check link for the full programme) organized by Forum Foundation is the first such great festival dedicated to design in Krakow. The attempt is to present the newest trends in international design. This edition is focused on the Austrian school and her influences in contemporary industrial design and “material of the future” presented at the Center for Contemporary Art Solvay.

From 6th till 30 of November.

Starting on the 25th of September 2009 Kraków artist Cecilia Malik climbed a tree a day for a year. Her book (called 365 Drzew —  ”365 Trees” in English) came out on February 4th. “This is my diary,” writes Cecelia in the preface, a record of her art project, a “quiet rebellion,” a  small riot.”

You can check out her book in bookstores and then, on February 11 (according to the Kraków Festival Office — find an awkward Google Translation of their site here) she has “a day of surprises” planned for the city.

What this may be, we cannot begin to guess.

Tricky (from Massive Attack, and of course other things) will be in Kraków on Friday, 5 November. The show starts at 20.00 Tickets are 120 PLN the day of the concert because, yes, Tricky is well-known. The concert will be at Fabryka Club in Podgórze, on ul. Zabłocie number 23. He has been here before — at least once, in 2008. It seems that November is Tricky’s preferred time of the year to visit Kraków.

“The Joseph Conrad Festival,” writes the festival’s website , “is not devoted to the creative works of Joseph Conrad!”

No, the organizers instead hope to explore and celebrate the “multi-color artistic mosaic” which “will reflect the riches of world literature.”

Discussions are largely based on the literary world, but include film and music as well.

There are some pretty famous authors (for example Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis) participating in talks and lectures, and lots of the best events are for free and in some of the city’s nicest venues. Check the online schedule and see what interests you.