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Theatre Grzegorz Jarzyna's 4:48 Psychosis at the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Events Calendar World, 22.02.2012 - 25.02.2012The Polish director's brutal portrayal of Sarah Kane's play delves deep into the harrowing pits of depression and its demons. The play has received critical acclaim in London and...
Music London Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Szymanowski's Song of the Night
Events Calendar World/London, 22.02.2012The masterworks of Brahms and Mozart, with the Symphony No. 32 and the Violin Concerto in D, respectively, are set alongside two rarities of the 20th century on a programme that...
Music Aleksandra Kurzak Shines at London's Royal Opera House
Events Calendar London, 22.02.2012 - 02.03.2012Aleksandra Kurzak is beautiful Susanna in the British Royal Opera's production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, which crowns the Opera’s Mozart-Da Ponte series
Film Argentinean Lesson at MoMA's Documentary Series in New York
Events Calendar New York, 23.02.2012Wojciech Staroń's award-winning documentary "Argentinean Lesson" is on the programme at New York's Musem of Modern Art as part of the Documentary Fortnight 2012: MoMA’s...
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Music Poland's Jazzy Winter in 2012 - A World of Music
Events Calendar Poland, 22.02.2012 - 26.02.2012This week two jazz festivals open in Bielsko-Biała and Toruń, featuring the best Polish jazz performers and international jazz stars, from Tomasz Stańko and Mikołaj Trzaska to Maria Schneider and...
Visual arts Faces and Hands - The Photographs of Julia Pirotte
Events Calendar Poland/Warszawa, 16.02.2012 - 05.05.2012Photograph by Julii Pirotte taken in Marseille in 1943. Photo courtesy of JHI The Jewish Historical Institute is hosting a broad exhibition of photographs by the fascinating Polish photographer known...
Music Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra on US Tour
Events Calendar 08.02.2012 - 26.02.2012NFM - Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra heads to the US with a series of concerts under the baton of Maestro Jacek Kaspszyk. Over three weeks in February, the Orchestra has traveled the country playing...
Music Dutch National Ballet Premieres Pastor's Chapters
News and Events, Events Calendar Amsterdam, 15.02.2012 - 25.02.2012The Dutch National Ballet celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding with a programme of brand-new productions by a diverse group of choreographers. Resident choreographer at the Het...
Theatre Lupa's Waiting Room on Tour across France
Events Calendar World/Paris, 07.01.2012 - 29.02.2012The characters, wandering like empty jars of existence and voids of history all drown in a reality that depersonalises them just like an acid thrown in their faces, whereas the stage appears as the...
Visual arts Academy of Movement at CCA in Warsaw
Events Calendar Warszawa, 17.02.2012 - 29.04.2012Presently, Akademia Ruchu is active first and foremost as a multidisciplinary centre for contemporary art. Its members organise their own showings and occasionally come together for joint projects.
Visual arts Tadeusz Bilecki - Painted in 2011 at Chicago's EC Gallery
Events Calendar World/Chicago, 27.01.2012 - 25.02.2012The portraits explore the essential theme of Bilecki's abstract figurative large format works, based on a theme which oscillates between abstraction and figuration, grand emphasis and calm composure,...
Visual arts Postdocument - Missing Documents of Poland's Transformation Post-1989
Events Calendar Warszawa, 03.02.2012 - 15.04.2012Warsaw's Centre for Contemporary Art delves deeper into the realm of the document through an extended programme of exhibitions placed within a practical and theoretical context, focused around the...
Visual arts Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 Comes To Los Angeles
Events Calendar World/Los Angeles, 05.02.2012 - 29.04.2012Following its premiere at the the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, the broad retrospective of works by Alina Szapocznikow, presents a range of pieces created by the renowned Polish artist...
Visual arts Wojciech Bąkowski, Anna Molska and Agnieszka Polska - The Forgetting of Proper Names
Events Calendar World/London, 25.01.2012 - 18.03.2012London's Calvert 22 gallery hosts a group show of works by three Polish artists of the younger generation as part of a two-month Polish season that aims to explore the fresh and innovative ways in...
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Music I, CULTURE Orchestra Nominated for the MocArty RMF Radio Award
Warszawa, 23.01.2012 - 22.02.2012The I, CULTURE Orchestra Project led by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute has been nominated for MocArty...
Visual Arts Images of the Presidency - Outdoor Exhibition
Warszawa, 01.02.2012 - 29.02.2012An open-air exhibition of images from the six-month Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency...
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Visual arts Julia Pirotte
Photographer. Born in 1907 in Końskowola, died on the 25the of July, 2000 in Warsaw. Pirotte was a photojournalist mainly recognised for photographs taken in Marseille during World War II, a...
Literature 2012 - The Year of Janusz Korczak
This year Poland celebrates the life and works of Henryk Goldszmit, better known by his pseudonym Janusz Korczak. He is remembered today primarily for his contributions to education as a great...