Do you love exploring? Experimenting? Hiking? Travelling? Well, we have great news: head to the celebration of the mountains and people who are united in their curiosity in the world and drive to...
Indie bookshops, libraries, museums, theatres and even care homes – between 7 and 9 October , Cracovian institutions host meetings with verse during the 12th Poetry Night . This year's...
Musical Korzkiew Summer Festival is formed by a cycle of weekly classical music. On Sundays in July and August, the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, known for its spectacular acoustics,...
The Wawel Dragon is a symbol of Kraków, just like the Mermaid of Warsaw and Neptune of Gdańsk. That’s why Kraków abounds with dragons… and this year there will be even...
Culture and Engagement My favourite spaces form something of a cultural patchwork and perform more than a single, obvious function. Different genres form relationships and grow fresh...
This summer, locals and visitors spend their holidays with dance and spectacles of myriad genres, styles and conventions. The “Cracovia Danza” Courtly Dance Festival kicks off on 16...
Safe and Welcoming War changes everything, including tourism and marketing. This is particularly relevant in a city which has blossomed during peacetime and suddenly finds itself just 300 km...
Looking to the Future The world around us and issues such as the looming climate disaster and the food shortages, mass migration and energy supply problems resulting from it set brand-new...
Real Spaces for Art On the eve of the Miłosz Festival starting on 7 July, we talk to Joanna Oparek about poetry in her and our Kraków. Grzegorz Słącz ("Kraków...
We talk to Prof. Andrzej Betlej, director of the Wawel Royal Castle. Grzegorz Słącz: The last two pandemic years have put a major strain on cultural institutions worldwide....
We talk to Liraz and Jeremiah Lockwood, performers at the 31st Jewish Culture Festival, about women’s voices, musical roots and artistic expression. Eta Hox: You are proud to admit...
The shortest night means the longest party! Wianki – Fête de la Musique 25.06.2022 Interview with Łukasz Warna-Wiesławski Bartosz Suchecki: Wianki in Kraków...
Adam Mazur talks to Tomasz Gutkowski ahead of the 20th Krakow Photomonth Festival . Adam Mazur: Krakow Photomonth is celebrating an anniversary this year. How would you describe organising...
We talk to Szymon Miszczak, director of the Mastercard Off Camera festival, about this year’s anniversary, the local and international aspects of the event and the most important elements of...
The XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery of the National Museum in Krakow is expanding in June with a new space dedicated to sculpture of the mid-20th century onwards. This space is the last on the...
For many years, Kraków’s cultural life of late spring has been indelibly linked with the big screen, celebrated by three major festivals: Mastercard Off Camera drawing independent film...
“The tyrant will not bring us to our knees, he will not enslave our souls today,” sing Sofia and Alona. Recorded at the Groteska Theatre, the song is a perfect expression of what we are...
The festive period traditionally resounds with carols and other Christmas songs. The ICE Kraków Congress Centre also presents some quirky takes on classical music. On 2 January , the...
We are picking our favourite Cracovian bookshops for the fifth time! How do you buy books in Kraków? Slowly and thoughtfully, or perhaps on a whim when a cover or title catches your...
