TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

Three short movies and 61 photographs  by Rene Magritte are presented at the moment ( until 10th of June ) in International Cultural Centre (Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury). “Author of words and things” invite you to a trip to his unrealisticly created world. Student of Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels worked  in various fields – painter, photographer, film maker supported by bunch of friends including André Breton and Georgette Berger – his wife who was always the biggest inspiration for him.  Depicted as icon of surrealism came through impressionism, futurism, cubism in his artistic inspirations/path.

Open all week excluding Monday  10 a.m. –6 p.m.
Tickets:
Regular – 8 PLN
Discounted – 5 PLN

Each Sunday a guided exhibition tour included in the ticket price:
in Polish at 12 p.m.
in English at 4 p.m.

Map showing where the place exactly is on the Main Market .

Highly recommended to visit and remember  “everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see” (Rene Magritte)

Turner and the Elements  in an exhibition presented in National Museum until 8th of January 2011. First time in Poland we can see works of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of the greatest English Romantics, precursor of impressionisim and symbolism.

For those lazy which don’t want to poke out their noses you can play the game based on fragments of canvas.

National Museum

Main Building

al. 3 Maja 1, 30-062 Kraków

Openned:

• Tuesday – Saturday 10.00 – 18.00

• Sunday 10.00 – 16.00 (free entrance)

• Monday – closed

Tickets:

• 10 zł – regular
• 5 zł – students

From introduction: “This year’s theme of the festiwal is borrowed from the prophetic and best-selling 1970 book by Alvin Toffler, which described the disorienting effects of accelerated technological and social change. Confronted with an unprecedented sense of iformation overload, many artists reach bockward, side-ways and forward to re-imagine the future from the vantage point of the past , filtered through the present via outmoded technologies or disjointed contexts”

During one week (8.10- 16.10) you have a chance attend concerts, workshops, installations and movies. Let’s experience and try to ask ourselves about the future.

Full program you can find here and other useful info as locations and tickets.

“When space transformed for the first time, it was night.
On that night mountains began to breathe. (…)”

A short nocturnal story by Lena Hensel in images and texts

an opening of the drawings’ exhibition and an art-book presentation

October 6th 2011, 6.00 p.m.
House of Albums, 17 Zwierzyniecka St., Kraków, Poland

come and join us! during the opening Lena Hensel will recite her texts!

NOCTURNE by Lena Hensel is an art-book published in a limited edition of 50 exemplars for Polish and German language version (translation: Artur Kożuch)

exhibition organizer: House of Albums
curator of the Speciality of the House project: Karolina Harazim

NOCTURNE exhibition by Lena Hensel will be presented at House of Albums until December 2011

Lena Hensel (1980, Berlin). Graduated from Akademie der bildenden Künste in Nürnberg (Department of Sculture), then the Fine Arts Academy in Kraków (also the Department of Sculture). Since 2007 Lena Hensel is intensely artistically active in Kraków and Berlin, she ogranised the Fe.kontakt International Sculpture Symposium (Schindler’s Factory, Kraków). She took part in collective exhibitions in Germany and Poland (i.e. in Poznań, Zielona Góra, Tarnów, Hamburg, Essen). In 2009 the first solo exhibition by Lena Hensel, ‘materia in somnis’, was presented at Kolory gallery in Kraków. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholar in 2010.
Lena Hensel creates in an author’s techniques. She combines materials, the delicate with the coarse, the soft with the hard. Objects and drawings created by the artist construct relations and as such – installations- going much further than the classical frames of sculpture or graphics.

“Speciality of the House”* – composition of the most carefully chosen ingredients – Spécialité de la Maison. “Speciality of the House” is a cycle of contemporary art presentations in the House of Albums interiors.

House of Albums

ul. Zwierzyniecka 17

FORTIFIED is a new cycle of concerts organized by Krakow music collective Loose Wire. it presents the newest independent alternative and experimental rock bands. During every edition new bands will be presented, from Krakow, Europe and around the world.

Loose Wire Presents:

Father Issues (PL) – folk music
Peter J. Birch (PL) – songwriter and singer
New Century Classics (US/IT/UK/PL) – international post-rock group
Teddy Jr. (NL/UK/PL) – amazing folk/grunge/balkan mix
Eluktrick (US/PL) – eclectic, energetic, electric

F O R T I F I E D
V o l u m e 1

October 7, 2011
Forty Kleparz (check on the map how to get there)
ul. Kamienna 2-4, Kraków
Start: 20:00
FREE Entrance!!!!

A bit late because it’s the last day of the Festival but you still have a chance to get the ticekts and enjoy:

Steve Reich

Aphex Twin

Adrian Utley (Portishead)

Will Gregory (Goldfrapp)

Leszek Mozdżer

Envee

Pianohooligan

Full programme and more info you can find here

Tickets:

ZONE 1 (flat, standing):
99 PLN – regular ticket
66 PLN – discount ticket

ZONE 2 (grandstand, numbered seats):
149 PLN – regular ticket
99 PLN – discount ticket

Where? Nowa Huta, Hala ocynkowni Arcelor Mittal

Starts 9pm.

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

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.”

If you don’t know what to do with yourself on Tuesday afternoon you can just hang around  Krakus  Mound to explore polish prechristian, slavic culture and history. Various outdoor acivities from 10 am till late evening organized by Museum of History of the City of Krakow and  many others.

Podgórze rulez!

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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Sound like a name, but it’s a band performing on Józefa (in Eszeweria) on Thursday evening. French, polish and canadian mixture of temperaments playing as they describe “retro -circus-folk”.

Intensive, introspective music, fast and energetic.

Eszeweria

Józefa St 9

From my source: no admission

Starts: 8pm

Sunday is a last day of Unsound Festival. Closing party this year in Pauza – six hours of various music from making everybody happy Last.fm Dj team mixing indie, post-punk, disco, electro or fusion funky (The Phantom) through heavy – hitting sounds represented by Norwegian producer Melkeveinen.

21:00 Last.fm DJ team

22:30 Zeppy Zep 

22:30 The Phantom

00:00 Beatbully

00:00 Melkeveien

01:30 Jackmaster

01:30 Deadboy

Pink Freud is one of the most original voices in modern jazz and not only. Energetic, spontanius, improvized music.

On Wednsday (13th of October)  they will performe in Rozrywki Trzy new opened club on Mikołajska street, this place suppose to be a new Beautiful Dog (Piekny Pies).

Skład:
Wojtek Mazolewski – bass
Adam Baron – trąbka
Tomek Duda – saxofon
Jerzy Rogiewicz – perkusja

Tickets: 25pln

Starts: 8pm

Rozrywki Trzy

Mikołajska 3

Urbatronika is a series of events dedicated to balkan and tropical sounds put in eclectic urban environment of modern dance music.

Tonight in Fabryka Club Balkatronika - dj’s and producers collective  form Berlin, they play heavy electro rhythms dip in balkan beat and  boundless gypsy energy.

Samples of what they play:

www.myspace.com/balkantronikaproductions
www.soundcloud.com/balkantronika

support: Funklore DeeJay (krk)  www.myspace.com/funkloreregional
wizuale: EleKTro mOOn Vision (krk) www.myspace.com/elektro_moon

Klub Fabryka

Zabłocie 23

Starts: 10 pm

Tickets: 5pl

Last day of September has seen the grand, slightly bombastic opening of Kładka Bernatka, a bike and foot-bridge over Wisła, linking Kazimierz and Podgórze. Generally, Bernatka has acceptance of public, however here and there you can hear voices of scepticism;  it’s not looking right, it’s not in a right place etc. The most distinct opinion belongs to anarchist though, for them Bernatka is a menace, a wide pipe that will be spitting out to Podgórze, drunken crowds from Kazimierz, the another step to death in a sweet grip of global tourism.
Well from our side, we are going to heavy use Bernatka on weekly hostel tours from Krakow to Podgórze, in a day light. Hope it doesn’t count as killing.

Bloomsbury Set is british, controversial group of writers, artists and philosophers from beginning of 20th century.

For the first time in Poland we have a chance to see masterpieces of british bohemia of the circle of Virginia Woolf. On the exhibition will be presented best paintings, woodcuts and lithographs of such artist as Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Wolf), Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington. Books from the Victoria University in Toronto related to the Bloomsbury Group will be also on show as well as ceramics, furniture and crafts.

Open: till 9th of January 2011, Tuesday – Sunday 10am-6pm, every Sunday guided exhibition, included in a ticket price at noon.

Tickets: regular 8pln, reduced 5pln.

International Culture Centre

Rynek Główny 25

Every day one try, 365 days and 365 trees, 25th of September Cecylia Malik – cracovian artist – will conquer the last tree – an oak

Inspiration comes from the book of Italo Calvino – The Baron in the Trees

You can be a witness of this performance – place: Dąb Wolności , Planty near Collegium Novum UJ, 7 pm

Exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki dedicated to the youngest lovers of contemporary art. Title comes from “Alice in Wonderland” of Lewis Carroll and encourage to explore the unknown.

All works were made especially for the exhibition and suppose to include children into the world of art.

Not only children are invited – everybody can make a journey to the rabbit’s burrow and remember how it was to be a child.

Bunkier Sztuki

Plac Szczepanski 3a

Tuesday–Sunday: 11.00 a.m.–6.00 p.m

Tickets:

Normal 6 zl
Reduced 3 zl