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Film Young Polish Filmmakers in Italy
Events Calendar Padua, 28.05.2013 - 09.06.2013With late-night showings on screens floating on the waters of the Piovego River, the River Film Festival’s 7th edition promotes and encourages young international talent and...
Music Oh, Man, Oh, Machine: Castellucci’s Malta Festival
Events Calendar Poznań, 24.06.2013 - 20.07.2013Electro-rock legends Kraftwerk and stars including Thom Yorke and Flea come together with Polish and international artists in a programme selected by the Italian theatre maven...
Film Accolades for Polish Filmmakers in Canada
Events CalendarAt Vancouver’s Doxa Documentary Film Festival, awards go to Kacper Czubak’s film on AIDS in Zambia and Adam Palenta’s short insight into swimming championships for the disabled
Visual arts Virtual Treasure Hunt for Poland's Lost Art
News and Events, Events CalendarThe Lost Museum brings back the memory of works lost or pillaged through history. Some of these have been rediscovered, yet for thousands of works, the search continues as their...
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Film Magnetic Poles at the Brooklyn Film Festival
Events Calendar Padua, 31.05.2013 - 09.06.2013A study of those invisible forces that bring people together or push them apart, the "magnetically" themed Brooklyn Film Festival 2013 chooses a lineup of smart, multilayered, deceptive, and...
Music Royal String Quartet with Polish Masters in Seville
Events Calendar Seville, 23.05.2013One of Poland’s premier string ensembles presents the works of three Polish musical greats: Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penderecki
Literature Contemporary Writers and Actors Animate Old Masters of Painting
Events Calendar Wrocław, 24.05.2013 - 05.07.2013Ganymed goes Europe opens up new perspectives on old-master works in the National Museum in Wroclaw. The Austrian theatre group wenn es soweit ist invites Polish and international authors to compose a...
Film The Serial Killer of the Kraków Film Festival
Events Calendar Kraków , 26.05.2013 - 02.06.2013Entering its 53rd edition, the historic annual festival is the country's hotspot for new films from know directors and those who are less recognised. The festival in 2013 buzzes with premier showings...
Theatre Warlikowski’s Own Warsaw Cabaret
News and Events, Events Calendar Warsaw, 26.05.2013 - 02.06.2013In his new piece, a co-production with the Festival d’Avignon in France, the Polish director toys with the idea and form of a cabaret in order to portray contemporary oppression and alienation, as...
Music Who's From Poland at Primavera Sound
Events Calendar Barcelona, 21.05.2013 - 26.05.2013Don’t Panic! We’re from Poland - the revolving musical showcase headed by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute - joins Europe’s hipsters at the premier music festival in Spain
Literature Krajewski’s Crime at BookExpo 2013
Events Calendar New York, 28.05.2013 - 31.05.2013The largest annual book fair in the U.S. hosts readings, discussions and book signings with Poland’s leading crime-novel writer, Marek Krajewski. Supported by The Polish Cultural Institute New York...
Film Polish Identity Animated in Milan
Events Calendar Milan, 21.05.2013 - 25.05.2013Presenting a programme of 50 short animations by Polish directors, the Identi_TY Animated Film Festival takes place in Milan’s DOCVA, Documentation Centre for Visual Arts.
Theatre A Polish-American Past, Present & Future in Dance
News and Events, Events Calendar New York, 21.05.2013 - 23.05.2013Jacek Luminski is the first outside choreographer to create the season-opening piece for the Battery Dance Company in New York City.
Film Confused Values and Flexible Morality in Kiev
Events Calendar Kiev, 21.05.2013 - 25.05.2013A film about the emotional burden and consequences of hunting Roman Polański for pictures and of taking shots of the Smoleńsk jetliner catastrophe, Piotr Bernaś’s Paparazzi takes part in the 2013...
Photography Photography From the East of Poland
Events Calendar France, 08.05.2013 - 26.05.2013The work of young Polish photographer Adam Pańczuk’s is present at the ImageSingulières festival in Sète on the coast of the Languedoc-Roussillon region
Music Górnicka’s Pop Meets Psalm Across Europe
Events Calendar 17.05.2013 - 14.06.2013The award-winning Magnificat production opens the Spring Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht. The show marks a first stopover of the Chorus of Women’s European tour, after which they are headed to...
Visual arts Dłubak's Avant-garde at PHotoEspaña
News and Events, Events Calendar Madrid, 04.06.2013 - 28.07.2013Highly analytical, geometricised, focused on the fragment - acts by Zbigniew Dłubak will be presented during PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts.
Literature Ed Vulliamy Wins 2013 Kapuściński Award
Events Calendar Warsaw, 17.05.2013Recognised as finest literary reportage published in Polish, Ed Vulliamy's Amexica: War Along the Borderline wins the Ryszard Kapuściński Award
Music New Russian Theatre Rolls Into Warsaw
Events Calendar Warsaw, 17.05.2013 - 22.06.2013Da!Da!Da! presents Warsaw audiences with a series of 11 special theatre productions, with artists of Moscow and St. Petersburg’s leading stages coming to the Polish capital. The first review of...
Film Audio-Visual Letters to Those Far Away
Resource Library, Events Calendar Warsaw, 18.05.2013 - 30.09.2013The video installation by Hungarian artist Peter Forgács and the New York-based band the Klezmatics inaugurates temporary exhibitions to be hosted by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in...
Film Films Denouncing Injustice in Barcelona
Events Calendar Barcelona, 16.05.2013 - 26.05.2013Awakening conscience, denouncing injustice and reflecting the social and cultural diversity of humanity, the Human Rights Film festival enters its 10th edition and sheds light on freedom, through the...
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Visual arts On Beauty from Beecroft to Sasnal
29.03.2013 - 28.07.2013These works build on the historical and philosophical considerations of aesthetics, while weighing how "beauty" has become trivialised in daily usage. The hedonistic approach to life simultaneously upholds beauty as the ultimate value, while debasing its intrinsic worth.