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7th "Singer's Warsaw" Jewish Culture Festival
Warsaw, August 28 - September 5, 2010 Among the many artists taking part in the 7th edition of the "Singer's Warsaw" Jewish Culture Festival are legendary clarinettist and saxophone player Giora Feidman, cantors Yakov Lemmer, Benzion Miller, Jakob Motzen and Alberto Mizrachi, conductors Krzysztof Penderecki and John Axelrod, along with the extraordinary Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band duet. Top avant-garde musicians from Poland and abroad are also taking the stage, including Raphael Rogiński, Mitch and Mitch, Kruzenstern & Parahod, as well as masters of improvisation Boris Malkovski and Paweł Szamburski.
55th International Book Fair
Warsaw, Palace of Culture and Science, May 20 - May 23, 2010 Photo gallery...
Ryszard Kapuściński's Path in Mokotów Field
Warsaw, Mokotów Field, June 2010 Photo gallery...
Four Cultures Combine in Łódź
Łódź, September 14 - 18, 2010 The Four Cultures of Łódź Festival presents an extensive repertoire of events that bring together the four cultures of Łódź: Jewish, German, Russian and Polish. The rich programme features over 30 events spread all over the city including music, theater, literature, visual arts and cinema, revolves most importantly around the city's multicultural tradition, but also its roots and colourful history...
"Stefan & Mayo" or "Żeromski Differently"
Kielce, National Museum, August 12 - September19, 2010 The National Museum in Kielce presents the "Stefan and Mayonnaise" exhibition as a part of a broadwe project called "Żeromski Differently". Its aim is to peddle the persona of the author in a rather inconvenient way, reaching out to the legendary Łódź Kaliska group to refresh the image of the writer and popularise his works among the younger generation...
Meeting with Miłosz
Sejny, Krasnogruda, August 13 - 15, 2010 The town of Krasnogruda in Sejny devotes the entire weekend to the memory of Czesław Miłosz. The Pogranicze Foundation (Borderland Foundation) has organised the event dedicated to the poetry, art and memory of Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz...
Ryszard Przybylski, "Uśmiech Demokryta. Un presque rien"
Uśmiech Demokryta" / "Democritus' Smile. Un presque rien" is a novel based on memories from the writer's childhood in Volhynia in the 1930s and '40s and his youth as a repatriate in Gdańsk just after the war, composed as a Tolstoyesque sequence of childhood, boyhood, and youth. The book has been nominated for the Nike Literary Award 2010...
Tadeusz Słobodzianek, "Nasza klasa"
"Nasza klasa" / "Our Class" is a story about a group of classmates - Poles and Jews - from 1925 up to our times. It is a shocking tale about complicated Polish-Jewish relations in the 20th century, collective blame, truth that nobody seems to need, and history which cannot be judged, retraced, or even explained...
Wojciech Jagielski in Germany
Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, August 31 - September 2, 2010 Author Wojcich Jagielski is set to tour three German cities to promote his new book "Nocni wędrowcy", translated by Lisy Palmes and published by Transit Buchverlag, Berlin this past March. The book tells the story of Joseph Kony's army of children kidnapped from their homes and turned into killing machines. It depicts the insanity and evil of a nation in the grips of an absolute ruler obsessed with power and violence...
Piotr Sommer, "Dni i noce"
The volume contains poems that are ostentatiously private, which is characteristic of Sommer. This poetry does not come from abstract questions, but from the specifics of life: from the experience of pieced-together moments that do not follow a chronological path, from meetings and partings, even those that are final, from family or friendly relations that bear a handicapped, inconclusive communication - the only one we have. has been nominated for the Nike 2010 Literary Award...
Andrzej Sosnowski
Andrzej Sosnowski, poet and translator, is in the limelight for the fifth film of the "Fahrenheit Questionnaire" series...
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On Monday, September 20, the first Polish arena for the Euro 2012 Cup will open in Poznań. The official ceremony will be honoured with a concert featuring Sting performing with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio.
Until September 25 (except for Sundays and holidays), the John the Baptist Archcathedral in Warsaw will host daily organ recitals as part of the 7th edition of the "Grand Organ of the Archicathedral" Festival.
"Dotyk człowieka/Beruehrungen" is the title of the exhibition presenting works of six Polish contemporary artists displayed at the German Embassy in Warsaw (Jazdów street): on view until September 27.
On October 17, the National Museum in Poznań will host the first public presentation of Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville". The painting was stolen ten years ago. The painting returned to the museum in January 2010 after the folice found the thief.
Jazz pianist Chick Corea will give his only Polish solo concert on November 8 in Zabrze.
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