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12 Tadeusz Rolke, Paris 1965 Photomonth 2013 A look ahead to events this month Exhibitions Krakow Photomonth MOCAK New Collection Ethnographic/Animation/Art Szymborska’s Drawer Local and world-renowned photographers The opening of a new collection at Kra- If you’ve ever wanted to peek through the Krakow’s beloved Nobel Prize winning poet will be unslinging their camera and asking kow’s most sexily-acronymed gallery of keyholes of a modern-day Polish village, Wisława Szymborska once said the drawer the city to say ‘cheese’ from mid May as one modern art is a major event on the cultural Krakow’s Ethnographic Museum provides was humanity’s greatest invention and the of Europe’s greatest festivals of photography calander. The, incredibly broad, theme is the chance with an exhibition of artworks giant chest of drawers in which she kept a enters the frame. See pages 25–25 for full ‘media’ and the collection features the created by villagers working with visiting weird and wonderful collection of knick- coverage, or visit: www.photomonth.com work of no less than 59 artists. ethnographers and animators. knacks forms the centre of this exhibition. When: May 16 to June 16 When: From May 17 When: Until May 12 When: Permanent Where: Numerous venues Where: MOCAK, ul. Lipowa 4 Where: Ethnographic Museum, Plac Wolnica 1 Where: Szołayski House, pl. Szczepański 9 The Perfect City A Woman’s Work Traces of Memory Uprising 1863 A comprehensive history of Krakow’s most The idea of this exhibition is to survey re- Photographs by the late Chris Schwarz and Taking place in one of Krakow’s most his- troubled district – the planned Socialist alistic, symbolic and allegorical represen- text by Prof. Jonathan Webber are com- torically significant buildings, this exhibi- paradise of Nowa Huta. The exhibition com- tations of ‘women’s jobs.’ The exhibition bined to offer a powerful, moving, but ulti- tion brings together works created by art- prises photos, multimedia presentations brings together some 150 prints from the mately hopeful insight into the Jewish past ists who bore witness to one of Poland’s and documentaries covering 50 years. 16th to the 19th centuries as well as con- and present in Poland. The material took 12 darkest hours – the heroic, but ultimately When: Permanent temporary works of art. years to compile. doomed, Uprising of 1863. Where: Nowa Huta branch of the Historical When: Until August 11 When: Permanent exhibition When: Until May 26 Museum of Krakow, os. Słoneczne 16 Where: ICC, Rynek Główny 25 Where: Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Where: Sukiennice Limits of Fashion Edward Dwurnik: Madness! Jewish Street Art Lady with an Ermine Part of the main programme of events for A major chronological retrospective of the An exhibition of murals inspired by Jew- Poland’s most valuable work of art, Leon- Krakow Photomonth 2013, the Limits of work of Polish painter and graphic artist, ish culture in its broadest sense and com- ardo da Vinci’s Lady With an Ermine, is now Fashion exhibition is presented as the key Edward Dwurnik, this exhibition aims to missioned for one of the Galcia Museum’s on display at Wawel Castle. Tickets cost to understanding the broad definition of make sense of work that manages to be display areas from artists including: Nawer, 10zl, but book in advance if you want to ‘fashion’ adopted as the theme for this both accessible and mysterious. The mad- Dariusz Paczkowski, Mikołaj Rejs, Pikaso, avoid queues – only 20 people at a time year’s festival of the still image. ness? Dwurnik’s hyperactive output. and Adam Niburski. will be allowed into the room. When: May 19 to June 17 When: Until June 9 When: Ongoing When: Permanent Where: Bunkier Sztuki, Plac Szczepański 3a Where: National Museum, al. 3 Maj 1 Where: Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Where: Wawel Castle C U L T U R A L P A R T N E R S
Film Krakow Film Festival The 53rd edition of Poland’s longest-running film festival will once again attract celebrities, cineastas and simple lovers of the moving image from across the globe to Krakow. See pages 6–7 for full coverage, or visit: www.krakowfilmfestival.pl. When: May 26 to June 2 Where: Cinemas across the city Music / Other Night of Museums Krakow’s tenth Night of Museums will see most of the city’s cultural hotspots welcoming guests late into the night. If past years are any guide, expect hordes of cultural night owls to be prowling the streets. See: noc-muzeow.pl When: May 17/18 Where: Numerous venues Kino Pod Baranami One of Krakow’s favourite art-house / family cinemas, Kino Pod Baranami can be relied on to be fully engaged in the city’s many film festivals, and this month’s Krakow Film Festival is no exception. For details, see: www.kinopodbaranami.pl When: Permanent Where: Kino Pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27 African Festival Africa seems a long way from Krakow but, every year, a taste of the continent from which humanity sprang reaches far into the frigid north in the form of the African Festival. Movies, music and more. See: www.festiwalafrykanski.com. When: May 24–31 Where: Various venues I’m So Excited African Festival Opera at Kijów.Centrum Kijów.Centrum’s long running season of live broadcasts from the world’s top opera and ballet venues continues in May with the chance to see a production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. When: May 12, 16:45 Where: Kijów.Centrum, al. Krasińskiego 34 Juwenalia Every spring, the city’s thousands of students emerge from the darkened libraries where they have spent the previous many weeks studying for their exams and let their hair down as only twenty-somethings can. Expect shenanigans. When: May 6–12 Where: Inescapable I’m So Excited Almodóvar is back with a long anticipated return to ultra-camp comedy in the form of I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros) and Kino Agrafka is showing this tale of milehigh misfits trapped on a trans-Atlantic flight from May 10. When: From May 10 (other dates tbd) Where: Kino Agrafka, ul. Krowoderska 8 Kino Kika Krakow youngest and cutest cinema, Kino Kika, has gone to great lengths to be child (and parent) friendly. It has just been recognised as a ‘breast-feeding friendly zone’ by the Mother’s Milk Foundation and has regular shows for parents and tots. When: Every day Where: ul. Ignacego Krasickiego 18 Opera Krakowska This month at Krakow’s very own temple of the operatic arts, Opera Krakowska’s fine company presents: Puccini’s Tosca and Madam Butterfly, Rossini’s Cinderella, and Markwick’s Little Lord, among others. For more details: www.opera.krakow.pl When: Throughout May Where: Opera Krakowska, ul. Lubicz 48 At the Philharmonic Krakow’s Philharmonic Hall will resound to the tones of the Cracow Horn Quartet; winner of the Wieniawski Violin Competition, Soyoung Yoon; Ensemble Peregrina; and, of course, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. See: www.filharmonia.krakow.pl When: Throughout May Where: ul. Zwierzyniecka 1 Organizer: THE JUDAICA FOUNDATION – Center for Jewish Culture City of Krakow www.krakow.pl Co-organizers: Partners: Media: Współpraca redakcyjna The Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture, Krakow, www.judaica.pl
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