TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

Also this year you have a chance to visit Krakow museums at night, althought it might be impossible to see the Lady with an Ermine

Event start at 7pm when the line of 20 antique cars from Municipal Engineering Museum  will arrive to the MOCAK Museum (they start from the Market Square).

To get in you have to buy a coin for 1 pln or a ticket printed especially for this day. It’s for free for some places you suppose to reserve free ticket earlier  (f.e. to see Lady with an Ermine, for  Wawel Castle the number of people will be limited, also Schindler’s Factory,  Underground of the Market Squere, Salt Mine and Collegium Maius Museum), queue might be long, but it worth trying.

Three special lines od buses (N1, N2, N3) can deliver you to some further places, you only need to have with you musuem coin!

List of Museums participating:

Cricoteka
Muzeum Akademii Sztuk Pięknych
Muzeum Archeologiczne
Muzeum Archidiecezjalne Kardynała Karola Wojtyły
Muzeum Armii Krajowej
Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Seweryna Udzieli
Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum
Muzeum Geologiczne AGH
Muzeum Geologiczne UJ
Muzeum Geologiczne PAN
Muzeum Historii Fotografii im. Walerego Rzewuskiego
Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa
Muzeum Inżynierii Miejskiej
Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie
Muzeum Paleobotaniczne UJ
Muzeum PRL-u
Muzeum Starego Teatru
Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej “Manggha”
Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie MOCAK
Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius
Muzeum Zoologiczne UJ
Ogród Botaniczny UJ
Ogród Doświadczeń
Zamek Królewski na Wawelu

Galeries:

Atelier Iwony Siwek-Front
Bunkier Sztuki
Galeria AS
Galeria Strefa A
Galeria Szara Kamienica
Galeria Zderzak
Immamura Art Gallery
Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury
Onamato
Space Gallery

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)

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

Who doesn’t like stories about resistance. If so check the exhibition in International Cultural Centre. For full description click here, location of the place you can find here (Rynek Główny 25).

Open:  Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 7.00 p.m.

Tickets : Regular – 8 PLN
Discounted – 5 PLN
Family – 10 PLN

Exhibition  Happening Against Communism by the Orange Alternative open till 2 of October  2011

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.”

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

Another edition of the event which have started in Berlin in 2003, for last few years in every bigger city all around Europe you have a chance to visit all sort of Museums by night.

This link will take you to the full list of Museums which you can visit between 6pm and 1 am, you don’t have to buy any ticket, not even a coin as a last year. Don’t be surprise if you see a long queue in front of the most famous ones (Wawel Castle, National Museum, Sukiennice Under and Top;).

On our “top” list are:

Botanical Garden (end of Kopernika street)

Raid (7pm – midnight,  Aleje Mickiewicza, close to Plac Inwalidów)

Etnographical Museum (Plac Wolnica)

Museum of Pharmacy (Floriańska street)

Japanise Centre (other side of the river – Konopnickiej street)

Cricotecka (Kanonicza 5, Sienna 7/5)

This year not only Museums opens their door for you late at night, but also Galeries:

Bunkier Sztuki
Atelier Iwony Siwek-Front
Galeria Zderzak
Galeria Sztuki Attis
Galeria Strefa A

Wirtualne Muzeum Erotyzmu gościnnie w Zbiorniku Kultury

Enjoy the night exploring!

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!

One frozen day captured by Zenit on Hala Targowa – source of all goodness, things you need, you might need and you absolutely don’t need but because of the good flow you buy them. The other place worth to visit is Plac Nowy – more specialized in clothes.

Beware while you hunting! Don’t get too many useless objects!

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

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

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

Have already started with a Saturday concert in Kino Kijów – “The Dark Side” from Hitchcock’s “Psycho” conducted by icelander Daniel Bjarnason. Never before Unsound Festival had so many video and film artists. Main theme of this year edition is “HORROR- pleasure of fear and unease”.

Check their full program here.

In Kino pod Baranami this week will be played  “Weather Forecast”  (Prognoza Pogody) directed by Antoni Crazue.

“The setting is an old home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening many of residents huddle in a living room, penetrated by the October cold, to listen to the news.The announcement is giving the number of expected deaths due too the coming harsh winter. First music score of acclaimed Polish film composer, Zbigniew Preisner”.

Starts: 5:30pm

Tickets: 13pln

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

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.