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.
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)
We warmly invite you to join a walk through the Garrison Cementery in Gdansk that will take place within the Necropolis of Pomerania project in the frame of the European Days of Herritage.
The tour will be guided by dr Anna Wancław (architect), Anna Kruger and Klaudiusz Grabowski.
START: 11.00 am
ADMISSION free
Mariacka under the Stars is a meeting of amber and art in natural scenography of one of the most beautiful streets of old Gdansk - Mariacka Street. Here are traditionally located galleries and studios preparing and presenting amber. This is already the second time that the International Amber Asocciation prepared the celebration along with Gdańsk International Trade Fair, many cultural institutions and the St. Mary’s Basilica.
START: 5.00 pm
ADMISSION free
Already for the 4th time we will invite you to enjoy the contemporary Lithuanian art with us. This year, during Vilnius in Gdansk Festival we will present exhibitions, concerts, films and animation. As an addition we have also prepared a fair of traditional Lithuanian crafts.
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
Temple of All Arts is a unique combination of everything that constitutes an expressive spectacle. It’s a theatre admiring beauty of a human body, presenting extraordinary costumes, a theatre drowned in life music, set on a mobile and in virtual scenography. Keeping vibrant pace it touches issues connected with the history of the city, history of the venue, tells stories of people.
This international conference is organized in cooperation with the Culture Action Europe – the biggest European network of institutions and organizations focused on cultural policy – within the European culture-oriented campaign WE ARE MORE!. It also involves engagement of representatives of the Citizens of Culture Movement. The conference will be devoted to two thematic areas: Culture in political dimension and Culture in participatory dimension.

Within Out de Bicz! project,Teatr Stajnia Pegaza of the Sopot Off de BICZ Stage will present four performances in public space. Both the choice of performances and the scenery are not incidental. They are linked by a theme of the contemporary man’s condition, questions on the sense of existence in the world of technology and dehumanization of relationships. Artists decided to go for an experiment – they will quit the quiet and safe stage and ‘take over’ the city instead, trying to find new, surprising contexts and create a new space for encounters with the audience.

During this year’s, 11th edition, the Festival organisers will include a special section within which the most interesting European films of the past decade, repeatedly awarded at the most important European film festivals, will be presented. We will also screen new productions which have not been officially released so far as well as films from partner festivals from Great Britain, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. We will organize film workshops with participation of European filmmakers, screenings of silent films, outdoor shows on the beach, exhibitions and video art presentations in urban space.

Crossactions: Urban Tales project embraces an exhibition of site specific works as well as a cycle of perfomative actions and direct artistic interventions in the public space which take advantage of infrastructure of a given place. We invited young artists of various fields to present their projects in selected locations at Grunwaldzka street and in the exhibition space at Haffnera street.

Ecological culture inn (Ekologiczny pensjonat kultury) is a one-week cultural program within Open Culture Spa, concerned with activity of Swelina Association which will embrace lectures, workshops, exhibitions, screenings and concerts with an ecological picnic on the beach as a finale.

Brodwino estate is located in the vicinity of Tri-City Landscape Park. The only in Sopot made entirely of blocks of flats - the quintessence of communist thinking about urban space. Organizers decided to use the human potential of the place by preparing a series of workshops and installations by Aleksandra Chomicz and Antonio Xavier. Brodwino Public Library will become a center for information and communication base, discussion forum and workshops.

Nature is an outdoor performance of the Sopot Dance Theatre based on the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian. It refers to the need of intimacy among humans, the synergy of sensuality, spirituality and physicality, longing for the nature and crossing of boundaries set by civilization and culture.
