River//Cities Annual meeting in March in Lisbon

Lisbon, 23-03-2012

Meeting with profesor Andrzej Januszajtis

Old Town Hall in Gdansk, 18-01-2012

Meeting with profesor Andrzej Januszajtis

Old Town Hall in Gdansk, 21-12-2011

Our Gdansk Association and the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre cordially invite you to a lecture by professor Andrzej Januszajtis entitled Gdansk Cuisine. The lectures take place on every third Wednesday of the month.

START: 5:30 pm
ADMISSION: free

Gdansk Reads to Kids

Old Town Hall in Gdansk, 10-12-2011

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.





 

Theatrum vitae. Marian Kołodziej

St. John's International Cultural Centre, Old Town Hall, 04-12-2011 - 06-12-2011

Recital of Marian Opania - "Masters of Imagination"

Old Town Hall, 07-10-2011

Another meeting within the cycle of Masters of Imagination is coming! This time it will be a meeting with a truely incredible guest, great theatre and film actor and a cabaret artist Marian Opania.

START: 6.00 pm
TICKETS: 20 PLN (can be purchased in the BSCC the day of the recital from 3.00 pm)

Conference "Football in the World of Arts"

details in the description, 06-10-2011 - 08-10-2011

We want the conference to be our intelectual input into European Football Championship EURO 2012 that will take place in Poland (also in Gdansk) and Ukraine next year. Participants of the conference will investigate presence of football in the area of different fields of art: literature, film, theatre and widely perceived culture. We will host the finest Polish specialist dealing with the issue.
The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition of theatrical and film posters connected with football, an exhibition of books about football as well as with a presentation of a film Piłkarski poker (Football Poker) and a meeting with its creators.

"Taboo in art for children"

Old Town Hall, 01-10-2011 - 16-10-2011

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.

Garrison Cementery in Gdansk – European Days of Herritage

gate near the Garrison Cementery chapel, 17-09-2011

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” – celebration of the Mariacka Street

Mariacka Street, 10-09-2011

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

We Are More - Culture Conference [Open Culture SPA]

Sopot (details in the description), 28-07-2011 - 30-07-2011

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.

Swelina 2011 [Open Culture SPA]

Sopot - 4 Dębowa Str. + Swelina River, 18-07-2011 - 23-07-2011

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.

"World Cafe: Democracy – Art Sopot 2011" [Open Culture SPA]

Sopot, 03-07-2011 - 31-07-2011

World Cafe: Democracy – Art Sopot 2011 project is a mobile structure that combines reflection on urban policy and artistic presentations as well as cultural and civic education. We will reach places that are not traditionally associated with culture and the other way round – places of culture (such as the State Art Gallery or the Sopot Museum) will be transformed into the center of citizens’ debates. We will establish a metaphorical Participatory Office – a place of meetings, ideological disputes and reflections on the contemporary world.

Off Centre | Poza Centrum [Open Culture SPA]

Sopot Kamienny Potok, Sopot Wyścigi, 03-07-2011 - 31-07-2011

Off Centre | Poza Centrum project embraces a cycle of artistic and performance actions whose central figure and scenery will be Kamienny Potok residential block located at Tatrzańska street, in the vicinity of railway track and major artery.
The heart of the project will be a rented apartment which will serve as an alternative gallery, studio and artistic office. Off Centre project is to surprise inhabitants as well as participants and audiences with unexpected micro (elevator, apartment, balcony) and macro (façade) scale of artistic performance and events.