TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

If you go a bit outside of the city you can find interesting spots, like for example Garaż on Kasztelańska st.

Artistic project based in real garage by graphic couple Nina & Piotrek. Place works pretty well from last year, every month exhibition, concert or just a meeting for friends from friends.

Tonight in Garaż – Pwee3000 showing his works for the very first time and concert of Świniary who describe their music as hahard rock and hard cock. Short description says Pwee3000 was raised by travelling, skateboarding and snowboarding. Go and check by yourself how he absorb the world and spit it out in his drawings.

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

Every year edition brings to the day light stories from across the world captured by photographers and comments present issues.

World Press Photo was founded in 1955 and an independent non-profit organization  based in Amsterdam to support and increase standards in photojournalism and documentary photography among the photographers from whole the world.

“We believe in the power of visual journalism to inspire and shape us”.

Exhibition can be seen in Bunkier Sztuki (Bunker of Art) till 28th of October from 10am till 8pm.

Tickets:

Regular: 12pln

Students:  6pln

If you don’t have a chance to go check this website where you can see winning photos and hear the stories hidden behind them.

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
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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.

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

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!

Good news for brain enthusiasts! Jagiellonian University is hosting WEEK OF THE BRAIN 2011 from 14-20 March! Line up for events and bring your brain (which leading scientists claim is about the consistency of butter!) to the following lectures:

• How is the brain? (with Professor Krzysztof Turleiski)
• Where is free will, or How brains decide. (with Prof. Spirit Wlodzislaw)
• O bad brain – Neural system for detecting, monitoring and correction of erroneous behavior. (with Prof. Dr. Marek Tadeusz)

Consider yourself invited by THE COPERNICUS SOCIETY. You’ll need to learn Polish first, but since everyone knows we only use a small percentage of our brains (about 3.2%) it should not be that hard.

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As every week Ptasiek invites you to free jam sesion.

Kazimierz, Dajwór 3

Starts 9pm

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

On 28th of November you can visit most of Krakow’s Museums for Free. National Museum and all his branches are waiting to be visited as well as Salt Mine, Old Synagogue and Museum of Nowa Huta.

Whole day of exploring! (from 10am to4pm)

Here is link to whole programme.

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.

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

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.