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)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Former forced labour camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most visited museum in Poland. New project of Mikołaj Grynberg using photographs and recorded  interviews with  visitors build the discussion  and explores why  we are still visiting this place, why we are  can not forget place which not allowed us to forget about it.

Mikołaj Grynber is a psychologist, photographing for 20 years. In Galeria Pauza we can see blurred portraits of the people visiting and fuzzy photos of the buildings, space complete sound installation made up from recorded conversations.

Open till 26th of September.

Galeria Pauza 

ul.Floriańska 18/5

Open from Tuesday  till Sunday 3pm till 9pm.