This is the fifth edition of our Festival Metropolis is Okey. The Festival venues are: club "Parlament" in Gdańsk, club " Sfinks 700" in Sopot, club " Ucho" in Gdynia, the seat of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre - the Old Town Hall, St. John's International Cultural Centre, and the seat of Gdańsk 2016.
The Festival will take place between 26th and 29th December and we shall see over 50 performances of local bands and exclusive presentation of dance theatres performing at St. John's International Cultural Centre. The Festival includes "literary meetings" with authors crowned with a performance of "Impro" theater-cabaret improvising group " W Gorącej Wodzie Kompani" . But it is not all... This year we shall introduce dj's night reviewing club scene as a part of our Festival on 27th December in "Sfinks 700" and "Flea Market" presenting works of the Tri City recording studios.
We want to invite you to the next meeting in the series Gdansk Reads to Kids. This meeting is entitled: Dad, when will Santa Claus come?
by Markus Majaluoma
A book will be red by actors from Wybrzeże State Theatre – Małgorzata Brajner and Grzegorz Gzyl
We are also preparing sweet workshops on this occasion!
START: 3.00 pm
ADMISSION: You can take a free pass for a meeting in a bookstore in the Old Town Hall and in the Bookstore GWO in Wybrzeże Theatre. The amount of seats is limited.
Issues of death, illness and adversity for a long time weren’t present in art created for children – similarly sex, domestic abuse or parents’ divorce. Nevertheless, the last decade has brought changes on this field and more and more often authors of books for children reach for the taboo subjects. Mostly Scandinavian authors and illustrators tend to present these subjects, but it can also be noticed at Austrian, Swiss or Portugese authors and artists.
Literarure has a power of setting ones thoughts and feelings free. Reading widens horizons, teaches to differ good from evil, develops imagination, helps to learn to formulate ones thoughts beautifully. Common reading builds emotional bound between children and parents. Let then Gdansk Reads to Kids!
START: 3.00 pm
ADMISSION free tickets (details beneath)
Soon within the 3rd Festival of Spacial Forms Crossroads of Freedom an open-air literary action will take place! To participate in it we encourage all poets and writers and all of you are warmly invited to observe it.
Within the Festival we decided to celebrate this year’s anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement: we invite all Tri-City based poets and writers, no matter age, achievements and affiliation to write texts – all together, censorship-free and division free.
START: 3.00 pm
ADMISSION free
The Literary Sopot project is a stroll in the company of literature. In selected locations of Sopot, local actors will read fragments of books by Paweł Huelle, Czesław Miłosz, Marek Krajewski, Mariusz Czubaj and Zbigniew Herbert. The literary route will be constituted by places associated with the writers or their stay in Sopot and by locations characteristic of the city and described in the books.

Literarure has a power of setting ones thoughts and feelings free. Reading widens horizons, teaches to differ good from evil, develops imagination, helps to learn to formulate ones thoughts beautifully. Common reading builds emotional bound between children and parents. Let then Gdansk Reads to Kids!
START: 3.00 pm
ADMISSION free tickets (details beneath)
Soon we will celebrate Johannes Hevelius’s nameday! Together with the Mayor of Gdansk, Paweł Adamowicz and publishing houses: Muchomor and BUKA we will invote you to a promotion of a book and an e-book Wędrując po niebie z Janem Heweliuszem (Wandering through the skies with Johannes Hevelius) written by Anna Czerwińska-Rydel.
START: 2.00 pm
ADMISSION free
Soon in the Old Town Hall we will host the real artistic combo: Krzysztof Skiba, Paweł Konjo Konnak and Jarosław Doctor Janiszewski – authors of a book Artyści, Wariaci, Anarchiści – opowieść o gdańskiej alternatywie lat 80-tych (Artists, Madmen, Anarchists – a story of Gdansk alternative of the 80s), that was published by the National Cultural Centre.
In the programme: stormy discussions, shows of short documentary movies and shocking – as the authors announce – presentations.
START: 6.00 pm
ADMISSION free
Together with Nasza Księgarnia Publishing House we invite you to a meeting with the authors of a book Dziecko z chmur (A Child from the Clouds), Justyna Bigos and Beata Mozer. The subject of a book – adoption – will also be the main theme of a panel discussion that will take place after presenting the publication.
START: 6.00 pm
ADMISSION free
Znak Publishing House and the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre invite for a meeting with Marek Krajewski, an author of a novel Liczby Charona (The Numbers of Charon).
The meeting will host Adam Kamiński, and selected fragments of the book will read Michał Kowalski.
START: 6.00 pm
ADMISSION free