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

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.

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!!!!

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!

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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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

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

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.

Opening of Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art took place 3rd of September.

After 3 years of renovation and modernisation we have a chance to see again  the biggest permanent exhibition of paintings and sculptures.

Today (5th) Gallery is opened for visitors till 6pm.

Entrance for free

For more details visit website of the museum.

Exhibition in Muzeum Etnograficzne, part of the Jewish Culture Festival presenting pictures of Jerusalem from nineteen century. Collection of Abraham Madeisker shows not only how Jerusalem used to like like but also present the development of photography.

Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow
ul. Krakowska 46

Tickets: regular  7 pln , reduced 4pln

Open: Monday closed

Thu – Sat 10 am – 7pm

Saturady 10am – 3pm

Exibition open till 28th of November

Check Museum website for other exhibtiotions, good place to stay in for some hours during the rainy day…

As every week there is an option to spend Saturday night partying in a tram!

This week Latino Party!

Price 29 pln, welcoming drinks included, it’s allowed the take your own refreshments on the board!

Meeting point tram stop on Plac Dominikanski

Starts 8:45 pm

Ask for details at the reception desk!

Another initiative  of Alter Art music agency

Three music stages: Main Stage, Coke Stage, Burn Stage and bends like:

The Chemical Brothers, MUSE, 30 Second To Mars, Plastic vs. Pono, N.E.R.D, The Big Pink

Here you can check full program of the Festival

In case you will get tired go to Coke Clinic – recreation tent, where you can take some rest or even receive a massage

Tickets: one day   – 115 pln

two days – 200 pln

First concert starts at 4:30 p.m.

Place: Museum of Aviation- Airport (Muzeum Lonictwa – Lotnisko) and link with info how to get there

If you are in the mood for listening JAZZZZ we can recommend to concerts for today, both related to Summer Jazz Festival at Piwnica pod Baranami

One in Harris Piano Jazz Bar :

PGR & SAGIT Silberman – P.G.R. is a recent project of Grzegorz Rogala, insprated with jewish ortodox musik and  polish folk

S. Silberman – sax
G. Rogala – trombone
Ł. Borowiecki – bass
M.Bryndal – drums

Starts at 9:30 pm, Tickets 20 pln

Rynek Główny 28, check the map

or  Studnitzky Trio of  Herzog Records

in Auditorium of Radio Kraków

al. Słowackiego 22

Starts 7pm , Tickets 40pln regular, 20pln reduced

Tomorrow (10th of August)  in the afternoon hours (from 4 p.m) in the hearth of the city Krakow absolutely for free good music will be played:

The Complainer & The Complainers  – electronic

Czesław Śpiewa – great personality of polish music stage

Iowa Super Soccer – mix of indie rock and acoustic pop

Biff – crazy pop rock songs

Concert organized by city Katowice taking part in a competition for 2016 European Capital of the Culture

Rynek Główny

near City Hall – lonely tower on the western side of the Market

Recently opened museum (11th of June) as a branch of Historical Museum of the City of Krakow in former Oskar Schindler’s Factory (4 Lipowa Street) display exhibition Krakow under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945.

Documentary photographs, witnesses to history relations, multimedial presentations built the picture of everyday life in occupied Krakow.

Through casual objects, newspapers, photographs, personal and official documents we have a chance to explore history of II World War.

Museum open:

Monday 10 am – 14 pm, free entrance

Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 18 pm

Tickets:

regular – 15 PLN

reduced – 13 PLN