This year’s 36th Krakow International Festival of Composers explores the close relationship between the world of sounds and the kingdom of numbers – a phenomenon humankind has been...
Stary National Theatre invites to a meeting with poetry: every week on Sunday at 12.00 at the Helena Modrzejewska Hall (in Polish).
This year, the festival's main inspiration is noir cinema with its dark atmosphere, protagonists and their convoluted lives, as well as unobvious endings… It will be a journey into the land...
Are you an avid runner or cyclist, who simply loves picturesque forest trails? Are you an adrenaline junkie and want to feel that familiar thrill of competing with others? Or perhaps you feel...
Wine and Culture text: Szymon Gatlik Libiamo, libiamo! sings Alfred in a toast in one of Verdi’s most famous arias from La traviata . This may be the most famous...
Krzysztof Siwoń Cinematic life wakes up in spring, and Kraków’s festivals have been presenting captivating screenings and events for many years. Mastercard OFF CAMERA,...
Rebellion in the System: Musical Spaces of Freedom 1945–89 23.02.2024 – 23.02.2025 By Leszek Gnoiński When Wojtek Słota and I were working on the film Beats of Freedom ,...
She fascinates artists and scholars alike. A woman of flesh and blood, King of the Commonwealth… Marek Mikos Kraków Culture It’s hard to believe just...
Graphic novels are increasingly popular in Cracovian cultural circles. Paweł Stachnik Eagle-eyed readers of “Kraków Culture” won’t be surprised to hear that one of...
We talk to Maria Anna Potocka about galleries and collections of contemporary art in Poland and about Teresa and Andrzej Starmach's great donation to Kraków's museums. Dorota...
Limitations Give Rise to Freedom Vincent Dumestre has been enchanting music lovers and critics with his interpretations of early music for over two decades. In 2024, he takes over as artistic...
We talk to the director of the Etiuda & Anima Festival about the original concept of a review of student etudes, animation today and outcomes of confrontations between works by pupils and...
Michał Rusinek talks about events held as part of Year of Wisława Szymborska. Grzegorz Słącz: Centenary of the birth of Wisława Szymborska – sounds almost like a provocation,...
It’s true that “The spirit blows where it will,” but this year the direction seems obvious. The invigorating wind blows us back to Szeroka Street where people of all denominations...
Magdalena Walo talks to Michaël Dudok de Wit, Oscar-winning animator and winner of this year’s Dragon of Dragons. Magdalena Walo: I remember your first visit to Poland, because...
KRAKERS is indelibly tied with many locations throughout the city, according to Małgorzata and Marcin Gołębiewski, organisers of the Cracow Art Week. Cracow Art Week KRAKERS ...
“It’s our national treasure,” said Tomasz Stańko, who had the opportunity to know and collaborate with Seifert in their legendary quintet during the late '60s and...
The Krakow Film Music Festival will present a screening of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s feature “The Lion King” (1994) with Hans Zimmer’s OSCAR®-winning musical score...
The challenge for participants of the 12th FMF Young Talent Award will be to compose music for an excerpt from the movie The Peasants [ Chłopi ] . This international competition is an...
The story can be told with encyclopaedic precision: the first incarnation of the orchestra was the ensemble founded in 1990 by students at the Academy of Music in Kraków, and two years later...
You’re always at the theatre! – my friends often tell me. Of course I am – and not just because, as a cultural journalist, I must be up to date on the latest performances. ...