WROCŁAW - In Your Pocket

18 CULTURE & EVENTS
Avant Art Festival
02.10 Tuesday - 07.10 Sunday
Avant Art Festival
http://avantart.pl/. The Avant Art Festival is an
international presentation of experimental and
avant garde art packed with original and unique
cultural phenomena. Prepare to have all your preconceptions
blown away and get ready to explore
new genres. This will be 5th edition of the Avant
Art Festival, this time under the subtitle ‘Germany’,
the first wide-ranging presentation of that region’s
culture in Poland. However the performers are from
all over the world and the line-up list is as long as
you could hope for. Established in 1978, DAF are
the real German legend deal. The inspiration for
future synthpop artists, without them the style
EBM, joining industrial music with punk, would never
have been created, which is nice. Another star will
be Bonaparte. This band from Berlin’s musical
style is hard to categorise, but electro-rock-punkrave
manipulation doesn’t seem too wide of the
mark. The magnificently monickered Defibrillator
& Peter Brontzmann are masters in the world of
free jazz and improvised music. He will perform
with the band using a trombone to perform electronic
music...sounds interesting... sounds great...
Mmmm. Knuckleduster , you couldn’t make these
names up - it just gets better, are from Germany
and Canada. They found their style and renewed
post-rock by adding installations and improvisation;
their music joins ethnic sounds with electronic
music. Meanwhile the Moritz Von Oswald Trio, I’m
saying nothing, appeared early on the electro scene
of the 90s and they join percussion, synthesizers
and improvisation to show a new side of electro.
For the first time ever there will be a performance
by two recording studios: Raster-Noton, home of
Kangding Ray, Byetone and Frank Bretschneider,
as well as Project:Mooncircle. Also for the first time
Avant Art Film presents German films about music.
Last but not least we shouldn’t forget the debates,
workshops, performances, and the presentation of
the festival abroad: this year in Berlin and Cologne.
From its foundation the Avant Art Festival has been a
celebration of artistic electicism where experiments
in art have no limits, the quality of creation being the
only thing that matters - check it out. Q Ticket prices
were undecided at the moment. Please check our
website for updates.
Theatre Stages
Capitol Music Theatre (Teatr Muzyczny Capitol)
A-5, ul. Piłsudskiego 72, tel. (+48) 71 789 04 52, www.
teatr-capitol.pl.QBox office open 12:00 - 19:00, Sun one
hour before performance. Tickets 13-49zł.
Centennial Hall (Hala Stulecia) I-4, ul. Wystawowa
1, tel. (+48) 71 347 72 00, www.halastulecia.pl.Q Tickets
for events available at Centennial Hall box office (Open
10:00 - 19:00, Fri, Sat 10:00 - 21:30. From November open
10:00 - 18:00, Sat, Sun 11:00 - 19:00). Tickets depending
on repertoire.
Contemporary Theatre (Wrocławski Teatr
Współczesny) A-3, ul. Rzeźnicza 12, tel. (+48) 71
358 89 22, www.wteatrw.pl.QBox office open 12:00 -
19:00. Sun open 2 hours before performance. Closed Mon.
Tickets 20-32zł.
Puppet Theatre (Teatr Lalek) A-4, Pl. Teatralny 4,
tel. (+48) 71 335 49 00, www.teatrlalek.wroclaw.pl.Q
Box office open 09:00 - 14:30, 15:00 - 19:00, Sat, Sun two
hours before performance. Closed Mon. Tickets 15-30zł.
Information & Tickets
Lower Silesian Information Centre
(Dolnośląskie Centrum Informacji Kulturalnej)
A-3, Rynek-Ratusz 24, tel. (+48) 71 342 22 91,
www.dcik.pl. Come here for complete information on
what`s happening in Wrocław and the surrounding area.
QOpen 10:00 - 18:00. Closed Sat, Sun.
Wrocław In Your Pocket wroclaw.inyourpocket.com
Concerts
16.11 Friday
Ethno Jazz Festival: Diana Krall
Orbita Hall, ul. Wejherowska 34. This Canadian jazz
singer and pianist, wife of Elvis Costello if you’re interested
in domestic matters, has won 5 Grammies and performed
with Ray Charles, Tony Bennett and, er, Celine Dion - two out
of three’s not bad and she seems to have come out of the
experience relatively unscathed. Her music has sometimes
sentimental rhythms connected with energetic instrumental
sounds. Q Concert starts at 19:00. Tickets 90-300zł. Available
at www.ticketpro.pl and Empik, Rynek 50, A-3 (Open
09:00 - 21:00, Sun 11:00 - 21:00).
18.11 Sunday
Seal
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1, www.makroconcert.pl.
Famous all over the world for hits like Kiss From a
Rose, Crazy and Amazing, the last time he gave a concert
in Warsaw the tickets sold out immediately. For this reason
he’ll take in 3 cities on this tour: Gdynia Warsaw and Wrocław,
and will be playing all his greatest hits as well as songs from
his latest album: Soul 2. Q Concert starts at 19:00. Tickets
180-350zł. Available at www.ticketpro.pl and Empik, Rynek
50, A-3 (Open 09:00 - 21:00, Sun 11:00 - 21:00).
30.11 Friday
St Andrew’s Concert - Thomas Anders and
Modern Talking Band
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1. No plans for St.
Andrew’s day? Then here’s something for you. Provided you
are not sick to the back teeth of hearing “You’re my heart
you’re my soul”, you can take a trip down musical memory
lane. Q Concert starts at 19:00. Tickets 60-110zł. Available
at www.ticketpro.pl and Empik, Rynek 50, A-3 (Open 09:00
- 21:00, 11:00 - 21:00).
18.12 Tuesday
GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1, www.makroconcert.pl.
The band comes again to Poland, this time with
programme “In the Miller Mood” featuring the classics of
Glenn Miller, as well as the songs of Count Basie, Harry James
and Ray Anthony. They will visit 4 cities here, a small part of
the 300 concerts a year they give which makes them most
polular swing band in the world. Q Concert starts at 20:00.
Tickets 115-180zł. Available at www.ticketpro.pl and Empik,
Rynek 50, A-3 (Open 09:00 - 21:00, Sun 11:00 - 21:00).
19.12 Wednesday
Smokie with Symphonic Orchestra
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1, www.makroconcert.pl.
Bizarrely popular in Poland this tour will take in
9 cities. Together for 40 years, the one that gets everyone
going here is “Living next door to Alice”. We can only marvel
at the prospect of that and other favourites, name one - I
dare you, being given the symphonic treatment. Q Event
starts at 19:00. Tickets 110-170zł. Available at www.
ticketpro.pl and Empik, Rynek 50, A-3 (Open 09:00 - 21:00,
Sun 11:00 - 21:00).
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CULTURE & EVENTS
National Museum
National Museum
(Muzeum Narodowe)
D-3, Pl. Powstańców
Warszawy 5, tel. (+48)
71 372 51 50, www.
mn.wroclaw.pl. Paintings,
sculptures, engravings,
photographs and
handicrafts are exhibited in a Dutch Neo-Renaissance
building from the 19th century. Both permanent and temporary
exhibitions show precious items from the Middle
Ages to the present day from Lower Silesia, Poland and
Europe.QOpen 10:00 - 17:00, Sat 10:00 - 18:00. Closed
Mon, Tue (except last Tue of each month). From October
open 10:00 - 16:00, Sat, Sun 10:00 - 17:00. Closed Mon,
Tue (except last Tue of each month). Admission 15/10zł.
Groups over 10 people 5zł per person, Sat free. Entry
free with a ticket to the nearby Racławice Panorama.
European Art of the 15th - Early 20th
Prepare to come and see
work by Pieter Brueghel the
Younger, Agnolo Bronzino,
Cosimo Rosselli, Raphael’s
father Giovanni Santi, Lucas
Cranach as well as Wassily
Kandinsky. These and other
masters of European art
will be featured at the newlyarranged
permanent gallery
and the show entitled European
Art of the 14th - Early
20th century which will re-open at the National Museum
in Wrocław after an absence of 20 years. Altogether, the
new permanent gallery will feature some 300 objects of
fine and decorative arts. The story of European art in the
early modern and modern era will be traced and will start
with ‘the juxtaposition of the Italian and Northern Renaissance,
particularly their respective approaches to religious
themes’. Also explored will be the influence of major social
changes in the 16th century combined with the ideas of
humanism and the emerging Reformation. Next will be
the Golden Age of Dutch and Italian painting and the show
closes with a focus on the the early modern era and an
exquisite selection of 18th century artists connected with
the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
03.09 Monday - 30.09 Sunday
Ryszard Kapuściński - Twilight of Empire
If you don’t know the work of Poland’s most famous, and
sadly departed, journalist, you should do, and this could be a
good place to start. Over 40 photos by Ryszard Kapuściński
will be prsented charting his journeys through old soviet
Russia. Come and see photos of the August Coup as well
as other aspects of the empire, complete with pictures of
houses and churches, taken between 1989 and 1991.
10.09 Monday - 30.09 Sunday
Dogs in the Museum
This show has collected together over 200 ceramic
dog figures. They come from the private collection of
museum curator Magdalena Szafkowska, a specialist
in department of XIX, XXth century graphics. (I’d like to
apologise in advance for even thinking of typing that
‘You’d be barking mad to miss it’.)
September - December 2012
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