TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

As almost every week we make a free dinner for our guests (actually not only for guests, but as well for hostel friends, friends of guests and friends of friends).

This week spicy soup will warm us up.

Starts at 8 pm, everybody are welcome;)

Sarego 24

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As every week Ptasiek invites you to free jam sesion.

Kazimierz, Dajwór 3

Starts 9pm

Stary Port, as Krakow’s oldest (and only) “sailor bar” is a good place most of the year to hear old sailor songs sung by old sailors. In late February, though (for thirty years now!) there is a sailing song (or Shanty) festival. This year it takes place from 22 to 27 February, with concerts in Stary Port itself and also at as other venues.

The Krakow Buddhist Cultural Festival is on right now (click the image above for a link to a schedule in English).

You can attend seminars such as:

Hurry up, because soon the festival will be over and Kraków will be all out of Buddhism.

See Isaiah “Ikey” Owens from The Mars Volta playing with Free Moral Agents on the 2nd of March at Klub Re in Krakow! You can read Spin’s short review of their record here, or check out a sample of their music here on YouTube or their MySpace page. 

The concert is 35 PLN in advance or 45 PLN at the door.

Doors open at 20.00.

As defined by the Historical Museum, a”szopka krakowska” is a slender, multilevel, often towered, richly decorated construction, made of impermanent materials. Elements of typical Cracow architecture are often present in the nativity scene, and this year you can also see some politicly related elements too.

Worth visiting while you are in Krakow or exploring for your own knowledge at the wikipedia site.

Opening hours:

Sunday-Thursday: 9:00-18:00

Friday: 9:00-19:00

December 24th and 25th and January 1st -  exhibition is closed.

December 26th : 9:00-16:00

December 31th : 9:00-15:00

Tickets:
Regular: 8 PLN
Reduced : 6 PLN
Mondays – tickets only: 3 PLN

Pałac Krzysztofory

Rynek Główny 35

Krakow’s excellent Kino Pod Baranami (the cinema under the rams) has organized a silent film festival taking place from 2-5 December. Check their festival schedule online (in English) to see what films are playing when and where (not all are at Kino Pod Baranami, some are at the Manggha center for example) and most of the films are classics. Many of them will have live bands (some very well-known ones) providing new soundtracks for the movies.

Tonight at the Manggha center at 21.00 you can see this band and hear their stormy, brooding sound. The band is called the Contemporary Noise Quintet — they are polish but well known beyond this country.

Blood Brothers are from Iceland. If this makes you think you know what their music must sound like, then probably you are mostly correct.

Their first record was called “Glacial Landscapes, Religion, Oppression and Alcohol.” I think that is pretty representative. It was produced by Valgeir Sigurösson who has also produced for Björk and Bonnie Prince Billie. This should also give you some idea of what kind of music to expect.

There are six of them. You can watch them tonight (Wednesday, 2 February) at Kraków’s Klub Re starting at 20.00 for a mere measely 35 PLN. That’s nothing, people! The music will warm you up and give you something to cry into your pillow about when you wake up freezing alone in your bed at 2 in the morning.

It’s not warm enough at your place?

You can increase your blood pressure by going to Cuban feast in Kawiarnia Naukowa on Saturday evening.

Cuban movies, photos, music, food, drinks and light!

Starts at 8pm

Free entrance

Kawiarnia Naukowa