LUBLIN – A CITY OF CULTURE MAIN CULTURAL EVENTS LUBLIN – A CITY OF CULTURE MAIN CULTURAL EVENTS kultura.lublin.eu TABLE OF CONTENTS * INSTITUTIONS * EVENTS 06 13 26 - THE CENTRE FOR CULTURE IN LUBLIN * - “CODES” FeSTIVAL OF TRADITIONAL - THE LABIRYNT GALLERY - THE OLD TOWN HARMONIES * anD aVANT-GARDE MUSIC - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL THEATRE Dear Readers! - DED MOROZ CONVENTION - “CITY OF POETRY” LITerARY FESTIVAL CONFRONTATIONS - THE BRIDGE OF CULTURE - “THE OLDEST SONGS OF EUROPE” INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Lublin is a city on the move: inspiring and brimming with positive energy. 07 We would like its future to be grounded in qualitative progress - in building - STUDENT FILM CONFRONTATIONS 14 27 social capital, in taking care of the residents’ wellbeing, in supporting their - INTERNATIONAL WIENIAWSKI BROTHERS - GRODZKA GATE – NN THEATRE CENTRE FESTIVAL - THE BITTER-SWEET THEATRE FESTIVAL - PERFORMANCE PLATFORM LUBLIN creativity. Culture is an integral ingredient of the development of Lublin. - “SENTIMENTAL METAMORPHOSES”: - THE SOUNDS OF WOrDS – SHOWCASES JAceK KaCZMARSKI LUBLIN FESTIVAL OF OF muSIcAL AND THEATRICAL FORMS 28 In 2014, we initiated the process of preparation for the greatest event in SINGER-SONGWRITERS AND SUNG POETRY - CHATKA BLUES FESTIVAL the modern history of Lublin. In 2017, the urban space will become the site 17 of the yearlong celebration of the 700th anniversary of granting Lublin its 08 - THE NIGHT OF CULTURE 29 location privilege, i.e., Magdeburg Rights. This unique festivity will be a mag- nifi cent joint work prepared together by the residents of the city. The pro- - “WęGLIn” cULTURAL CENTRE - SUMMER CONTEMPORARY DANCE FORUM - INTERNATIONAL DANCE THEATRE FESTIVAL - LENTEN SINGING - INTERNATIONAL ORGAN FESTIVAL - “bAKCYNALIA” – THe STUDENT gramme will constitute the expression of the needs of the residents of Lublin - MAAT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL “LubLIn – cZUBY” anD TOURIST SONG FESTIVAL as citizens and its creation, founded upon the principle of social participation, - “FALKOn” – FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION will become a unique experience shared by us all. When Duke Ladislaus, the 09 18 CONVENTION future King Ladislaus I of Poland, granted Lublin its location privilege in 1317, - LUBLIN BLUES SESSION - CENTRE FOR INTERCULTURAL CREATIVE he made the city enter the european economic and cultural bloodstream. INITIATIVES “CROSSROaDS” 30 - “WSCHODY” arT SONG FESTIVAL 700 years later we intend to ask about the importance of this event, to return - “OPEN CITY” – FESTIVAL OF ART IN PUBLIC - WANDA KANIOROWa “LubLIn” FOLK SONG to our roots but to look into the future as well. - LUBLIN JAZZ FESTIWAL SPACE AND DANCE ENSEMBLE 10 - THE SMALL THEATRES FESTIVAL - UKRAINE IN THE CENTRE OF LUBLIN The highlights of the jubilee will take place in 2017 but we have already - “FuLL LenGTH” InTernaTIONAL FESTIVAL started to conduct projects that are in tune with the forthcoming 700th - “brONOWICE” cULTURAL CENTRE OF YOUNG CINEMA 19 anniversary. The cultural life of Lublin encompasses the constantly wid- - BRUNO SCHULZ DAYS IN LUBLIN – - “eAST OF CULTURE” – DIFFerenT SOunDS ening range of events, a handsome selection of which we have decided to “brUNO4EVER” ART’n’muSIc FeSTIVAL 32 highlight in the present brochure. I wholeheartedly believe that the city’s - “TEMPUS PASCHALE” FeSTIVAL - THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN THEATRE extensive cultural off er will be to your liking, satisfying your needs 20 - “MIKOŁaJKI FOLKOWE” InTernaTIONAL and meeting your expectations. I avowedly recommend becoming acquainted 11 - THE OLD THEATRE FOLK FESTIVAL with the cultural side of Lublin. - “CONTESTATIOnS” – FESTIVAL OF POLISH - MAGIcIanS’ cARNIVAL - “JaZZ beZ” – InTernaTIONAL STUDENT THEATRES JaZZ FeSTIVAL - IGNACY WACHOWIAK INTERNATIONAL Mayor of Lublin - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF INCLUSION DAYS OF FOLKLORE THEATRES “MEETINGS OF THE ARTISTS 34 Dr Krzysztof Żuk OF THe unbLAZED TRAIL” 23 - HIEROnIm ŁOPAcIńSKI munIcIPAL - OGRÓD SASKI BAND SHELL PubLIc LIbrARY - CENTRAL PLAYGROUND - CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL - SOLO OF A LIFETIME FESTIVAL 12 - MUNICIPAL NEW YEAR’S EVE - WORKSHOPS OF CULTURE - JAGIELLONIAN FAIR - WITOLD LUTOSŁaWSKI CONTEMPORARY 36 ART FORUM 25 - CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN LUBLIN - MULTICULTURAL LUBLIN – THE FESTIVAL - MEETING OF STYLES – THe InTernaTIONAL OF mInOrITY CULTURES GRAFFITI FESTIVAL - FLAVOURS OF EUROPE FESTIVAL - “ANDRZEJ NIKODEMOWIcZ – TIme anD SOunD” InTernaTIONAL FESTIVAL INSTITUTIONS EVENTS The Old Town Ded Moroz Student Film International “Sentimental Harmonies Convention Confrontations Wieniawski Brothers Metamorphoses”: JANUARy – DeCEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH Festival Jacek Kaczmarski The Old Town Harmonies is a series of con- Ded Moroz Convention, a project by Robert Student Film Confrontations is an annual MARCH Lublin Festival of certs which presents music in the exten- Kuśmirowski and Rafał Chwała, is an showcase of the most seminal works of Brothers Henryk and Józef Wieniawski belong Singer-Songwriters sive context of national and worldwide open-air gathering of musicians and audi- world cinema. Held in the screening room among the top echelons of world-class culture, promoting traditional as well as ences in the snow-encrusted scenery of of “Chatka Żaka” - Maria Curie Skłodowska and Sung Poetry composers and individuals of global music modern music genres, forms, techniques wintry Lublin. This artistic assembly made University’s Academic Centre for Culture The Centre for Culture world. The value of Henryk Wieniawski’s and performance practices. The series its debut on 22 January 2010 in the Saski - the Festival strives to present critically MARCH compositions and the renown of his virtuosity in Lublin draws on and evokes the centuries-old Garden’s outdoor Concert Hall (bandshell). acclaimed films that were either short-listed are second to none. His younger brother Józef “Sentimental Metamorphoses” is a show- musical tradition of Lublin – the birthplace Ded Moroz Convention is an unprecedented for or awarded the Golden Globes, the Palme is perhaps less known and for that reason case of the work of singers-songwrit- Programmatically open and flexible, of Henryk Wieniawski, a virtuoso-violinist, event based on as yet unparalleled formula. d’Or in Cannes, and the Oscars. All the movies his heritage ought to be dusted off. Fittingly, ers and sung poetry. It is dedicated to the Centre for Culture showcases the entire composer and teacher – a place where On the one hand, it is an endurance test shown during Confrontations are premiere the International Wieniawski Brothers the memory and the oeuvre of Jacek spectrum of artistic endeavours without the East and the West meet, a synergetic for both artists and new technologies. On Lublin screenings; many of them are also Festival serves as a reminder of their dual Kaczmarski, the towering figure of becoming entrenched in designated, fixed city which has served as a meeting place the other, it dusts off the slightly forgotten premiere screenings in Poland. The Festival, contribution to the history and development Polish music. The Festival seeks to areas of culture. With a view to reach- of musical trends and artistic tendencies. idea(l) of hospitality, openness; it is a sym- which attracts crowds of cinema-goers of music, providing an opportunity to become popularise sung poetry in general and to ing the widest audiences imaginable as These unique concerts are complemented bolic meeting of the Other with the Other. and film aficionados, has indelibly imprinted familiar with not only his works but also with promote particular performers. It is well as in order to live up to the expecta- by their equally unique setting: Lublin Musically, the Convention is as impressive itself on the city’s cultural landscape. So outstanding composers and performers of produced by the students of the Mikołaj tions of the city’s residents, the Centre Castle’s Holy Trinity Chapel, the Dominican as it is inclusive, ranging from primal has the Festival’s founder and programming world-class music. Kopernik IX Secondary School in Lublin organises and hosts both mainstream Church, the Archcathedral of Lublin, sounds to hip alternative music. director - Piotr Kotowski, an indefatigable and the Association of Graduates of and alternative events. The Centre organ- the Crown Tribunal, the Wieniawski promoter of cinema in Lublin. Henryk Wieniawski Philharmonic in Lublin the School, in cooperation with the Faculty Building in the Old Town Square. The con- Robert Kuśmirowski, Rafał Chwała ises theatre, music, and film festivals; T +48 81 531 51 20 of Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska cert series is addressed to the city’s T +48 600 422 113 “Chatka Żaka” - Maria Curie Skłodowska the most important ones include Theatre E [email protected] University in Lublin and the “Chatka Żaka” residents and tourists alike, to everyone E [email protected] University’s Academic Centre for Culture Confrontations, International Dance Theatre I www.filharmonialubelska.pl Academic Centre for Culture. The four I www.diedmoroz.org T +48 81 533 32 01, wew. 115 Festival, MAAT Festival, Lublin Jazz Festival, who endorses the idea of dialogue through editions of the festival held so far have E [email protected] and Multicultural Lublin. art. On principle, the Old Town Harmonies featured almost twenty artists. promote young talent as well as laureates I www.ack.lublin.pl/kino of significant music competitions. T +48 81 466 61 00 Mikołaj Kopernik IX Secondary School E [email protected] in Lublin Henryk Wieniawski