TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

Maps from the previous post are part of the alternative guide without limits

Bunch of friends decided to use their skills and create an alternative guide of our beautiful city to show you Krakow with their eyes.

Little cute book with good pictures, nice drawings, of course good recommendations and full of space for your own notes is available to get in our Hostel for 35pln.

Ask at the reception, so they will let you touch it;)

Those alternative maps are  part of alternative project Krakow without limits.

Instead of getting wet in Krakow city you can hide in one of the Krakow’s cinemas or even make a cinema tour and live somebody else life for few hours…

Kino pod Baranami, how to get to the cinema?

11:45 and 19:50  – Au voleur

12:00 and 15:00  – Beginners

15:00 – The Fighter, 6pln

16:00 – The Reader, 6pln

17:00 – Des hommes et des dieux

18:10 – The American

20:00 – Grindhouse: Death Proof

21:00 – The Deer Hunter

22:00 – The Hurt Locker

Tickets on Monday – 10,90 pln

Krakowskie centrum kinowe ARS, how to get to the cinema?

11:45 – The Next Three Days

12:30 and 21:00 – The Tree of Life

14:00 and 20:45 – Incendies

14:10, 16:30, 18:50 and 21:10 – Bridesmaids

14:30 and 21:15 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

17:00 and 19:00 – Rien a declarer

Tickets on Monday – 12 pln

For those who are interested in food and nutrition surroundings check Galeria Pauza on Floriańska 18/5 (second floor) today at 7pm

“FOODJECTS is an exhibition presenting new patterns in kitchen utensils created by Spanish industrial designers and chefs. The purpose of their creation was to emphasise the texture, flavours, differences and aromas in new Spanish cuisine – one of the most creative and surprising in the world. Nearly 100 objects are a proof that consumption can also provide us with intelectuall and sensual experiences and an original exhibition installation created by Martín Azúy is an excellent creativity.”

Each Sunday morning is your chance to check out two of Kraków’s best flea markets, just a few minutes’ walk from the hostel. Visit the stalls around Plac Nowy for clothes, mostly, and go to Hala Targowa for an unclassifyable assortment of objects ranging from baffling crap to actual antiques. Spread out on tables, or on old sheets or blankets on the pavement you might be able to find:

• stacks of old magazines, postcards, and assorted forgotten documents
• vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, DVDs — all of mysterious origin, all old, all well-used
• cute little cups, plates and dishes a grandma would love
• communist and pre-communist memorabilia
• furniture
• religious portraiture
• German porn, slightly used
• cameras, from famed plastic Russian Lomos (cheap and plentiful!) to Zenit (you can hammer in a nail with them they are so solid) to older and more exotic ones
• a set of used false teeth or assorted dental tools
• a bag of rabbits

Good places to bargain, and an a place where you can see things (and people) you will not find anywhere else. If you are looking for one specific thing, you may not find it. But if you are just looking for nothing in particular you will not be disappointed. During the week these places sell fruit and veretables and some other things (underwear, meat, spices, flowers, frozen pierogi, kitchen items, etc.) but the flea markets are only on Sunday morning.

Highly talented Edwin Moes from Holland will perform in Cafe Szafe 14 of July, starts from 7 pm (probably 7:30- 8pm).

Good folk/pop/country mix, nice place, good atmosphere, no tickets and cold beer. What else do you need Thursday evening? (Maybe dinner at Travellers before;)

Cafe Szafe

ul. Felicjanek 10

Teddy Jr  myspace page

Summer in Krakow can be really busy, Jewish Festival is getting till the end and Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranami has started on the 3r ( Basement under rams). It’s the biggest polish jazz festival and one of the biggest in Europe. During one month around 50 concerts will happened and some 200 polish and foreign artist will perform for 30 thousand listeners. You can be one of them feeding your senses with jazzzzzz…………….

This year it the 16 edition of the festival, from 3 till 21 of July you have a change to listen jazz every day. Polish bands, international stars.

Tickets are available  and every day before the concerts, if you want to buy them in advance go to:

Punkt Informacji Miejskiej - ul. Św. Jana 2 oraz Plac Wszystkich Świętych 2

Filmotechnika – Rynek Główny 9, Pasaż Bielaka

Finger – ul. Warszawska 18

Here you can find program of the whole Festival

Tickets for very day concerts regular 40pln and 2opln students

Today Chick Corea is playing in Hala Wisły (tickets from 250pln to 150pln). Unfortunately can’t assure you will still get the ticket right before(ask at the reception to book it for you).

Each Thursday if we have enough people who are interested we serve a free dinner at our hostel on Sarego street. If you’re staying at the hostel or the private rooms, we encourage you to join.

If you are interested in coming, please let us know before 12.00 noon on Thursday, since we won’t cook unless we know for sure that at least 3 or 4 people are interested.

Dinners are always made with fresh ingredients from Kraków markets and are vegetarian. Dinner is served around 20.00.

POLtwór it’s a creative way of recycling. During few days you could have learn how to give a new life to the thing we usually call trash, all the objects which are remains of our use – paper, metal, plastic, glass, fabric – can be re-use.

Today’s finale brings:

2 pm – POLtwór’s flea market

5 pm – SWAP party – great chance to change our wardrobe

7:30 – PECHA KUCHA NIGHT – open arterecycling workshops

later at night – concert of Stomp Orkiestra and Kinky Beats

no commission

Be our spy and find Travellersinn mates!

Here you go the link to an audio guide through Krakow’s Getto (in English) that was published some time ago by restless people form podgorze.pl.
Alongside the guide a useful map of old Podgórze can be downloaded.

This cheerful scene presents Krakovians cooling themselves off in the Wisła beneath Wawel Hill during hot summer of 1963. It is surprising view for all knowing Wisła today. Taking the  plunge  into the river in these days, would certainly require some dose of insanity. Without exaggeration it is quite  stinking, quite dangerous and quite  dead sewage.

The building you can see above was a charming ancestor of today’s temple of consumption Galeria Krakowska. Not long time ago (till 2004) Bar Smok (milk bar “Dragon”) was the first to welcome all tourists heading to the old town from train station. Many farewelled Bar Smok with mixed feelings of relief and regret, it wasn’t looking good, it didn’t feed well but it was part of peoples lives.

PS. the Neon has survived, it is safely stored somewhere in the cellars of the city council and waiting for better days for Dragons

The installation of Mirosław Bałka-a huge concrete tunnel with AUSHWITZWIELICZKA sign curved on its upper wall was moved yesterday from Plac Niepodległości in Podgórze to Zabłocie, just next to Schindler’s Museum (that is also meant to expose contemporary art ). Instead of deliberating on how to interpret this particular piece of art, we just say here, that its direct inspiration was Krakow-based travel agency, which offers” an opportunity, first, to see the Death camps in Auschwitz and Birkenau and afterwards to visit beautiful salt mines in Wieliczka, within eight hours only”

The recent news say that the famous Szkieltor (Skeleton), not finished so far building from 1975, after many years of abandon,  will be soon transformed into inhabitable space (office space). Located near Rondo Mogilskie and Cracow University of Economics, a kilometer away form the The Main Square, 91 m high construction, supposed to be the first  and smallest out of many skyscrapers, that were planed in this area. The plans were rapidly dropped at the begin of 80ties, simply because of crisis. And here it is- a visible example of entropy, that soon will be bustling with energy of business people.

The lady in red is named Dzidzianna Solska and happens to be a famous fortune teller.As you can see, she is cards reading specialist, probably very competent, since  she has been practising her craft for over three decades now. Look for her at Sukiennice (the long building on the Main Square), little, wobbling table, cards and coffee..

This is the Main Square (of Cracow of course) and surroundings seen from pigeon’s back. More on www.krakow.travel or check other languages of this site.

An introduction to Podgórze that probably you are not familiar with, but fear not, your favorite Drukarnia is still there..

This is an old poster of exhibition that took place on Plac Centralny in Nowa Huta some time ago.Well, perhaps it’s  an good invitation to our walk to NH, just ask at the hostel..

Back to old times- Józefa St in Kazimierz, picture from 1982. more