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20 CULTURE & EVENTS<br />
Exhibitions<br />
14.09 Friday - 11.11 Sunday<br />
<strong>In</strong>credible everyday life. Streets and Squares<br />
of Wrocław on old postcards - from Mariusz<br />
Kotkowski collection<br />
H-5, Ethnographic Museum, ul. Traugutta 111/113,<br />
tel. (+48) 71 344 33 13, www.muzeumetnograficzne.<br />
pl. Compare and contrast is the name of the game here. 120<br />
old postcards will be shown next to 120 modern postcards,<br />
all of the same sites. The exhibition will be completed with<br />
advertising objects from the city’s pre-war restaurants. Q<br />
Open 10:00 - 16:00, Thu 09:00 - 16:00. Closed Mon. Admission<br />
5/3zł. Groups over 10 people 2zł per person, Sat free.<br />
15.10 Monday - 01.12 Saturday<br />
Eugeniusz Geppert - retrospective exhibition<br />
D-3, National Museum, Pl. Powstańców Warszawy 5, tel.<br />
(+48) 71 372 51 50, www.mn.wroclaw.pl. 40 paintings<br />
and 20 drawings from one of the best painters connected with<br />
Wrocław are on display here. The exhibition has been prepared by<br />
the Academy of Fine Art in Wrocław, whose patron Geppert is. Q<br />
Open 10:00 - 17:00, Sat 10:00 - 18:00. Closed Mon, Tue (except<br />
last Tue of each month). From October open 10:00 - 16:00, Sat, Sun<br />
10:00 - 17:00. Closed Mon, Tue (except last Tue of each month).<br />
Admission 15/10zł. Groups over 10 people 5zł per person, Sat<br />
free. Entry free with a ticket to the nearby Racławice Panorama.<br />
Festivals<br />
13.11 Tuesday - 18.11 Sunday<br />
American Film Festival 2012<br />
Events take place in various locations. Please check<br />
description for more details., http://www.americanfilmfestival.pl/.<br />
The American Film Festival (AFF) will give Polish<br />
audiences the chance to meet contemporary art house American<br />
cinema in the context of its wider culture and themes. There<br />
will be premieres, seminars, lectures as well as discussions on<br />
social, political and cultural issues. To sum up the festival is an<br />
unmissable chance to rediscover the magic of classic American<br />
cinematography as well as see what’s at the cutting edge. One<br />
special event is sure to be a project with brilliant guitarist Bill Frisell<br />
and his 5-piece band performing music to “The Great Flood” by<br />
Bill Morrison. The full schedule will only be known in October, but<br />
some of the films you will have a chance to see include: “Sun don’t<br />
shine” by Amy Seimetz; a crime drama about people running<br />
across America in a car. “Now, Forager: A film about love and fungi”<br />
which had its premiere in Rotterdam, (the title is the obscurist<br />
I’ve ever heard - it refers to the 40s Bette Davis romancer Now<br />
Voyager! - splendid stuff - we love a good pun at IYP). “Not Waving<br />
but Drowning” will also have its Polish premiere during the festival.<br />
Q Tickets 15-18zł. Passes 150zł. Available from 8th October at<br />
www.americanfilmfestival.pl and before the events.<br />
17.11 Saturday<br />
One Love Sound Fest 2012<br />
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1, www.onelove.pl.<br />
The biggest indoor reggae festival in Poland takes place in the<br />
Centennial Hall; it can hold 12,000 fans when chokka. This<br />
will be the 9th time out and, judging by previous successes,<br />
a must for fans of reggae, ragga, hip hop and dancehall. The<br />
headline act this year must be the legendary Max Romeo,<br />
Jamaica’s finest was first heard on John Peel in the mid 70s<br />
and is still going. Also up will be Mr. Vegas, from Jamaica too,<br />
Overproof Soundsystem from Great Britain and Herbalize It<br />
from Holland, what could they be referring too? Q Event starts<br />
at 16:00. Tickets 69-170zł. Available at www.ticketpro.pl and<br />
Empik, Rynek 50, A-3 (Open 09:00 - 21:00, 11:00 - 21:00).<br />
Wrocław <strong>In</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Pocket</strong> wroclaw.inyourpocket.com<br />
Jesse Cook<br />
23.09 Sunday<br />
Jesse Cook - The Blue Guitar<br />
L-4, Centennial Hall, ul. Wystawowa 1, www.gitara.<br />
wroclaw.pl. Jesse Cook is, along with the likes of Paco<br />
de Lucia, seen as one of the finest flamenco guitarists<br />
around. Coming from Canada, he plays rumba, flamenco<br />
and funk jazz, which must warm the cold nights up a bit.<br />
He has supported such stars as Ray Charles, Diana<br />
Krall and his music has been used for the TV serial Sex<br />
in the City. Q Concert starts at 18:00. Tickets 48-180zł.<br />
Available at www.ticketpro.pl and Empik, Rynek 50, A-3<br />
(Open 09:00 - 21:00, Sun 12:00 - 21:00).<br />
Misc. Events<br />
23.11 Friday - 23.12 Sunday<br />
Christmas Fair<br />
A-3, Rynek, www.jarmarkbozonarodzeniowy.com.<br />
Europe’s most beautiful Christmas bazaars. Beside<br />
local stalls, there will be merchants from Germany and<br />
Austria, and a lot more on top of that. The diversity<br />
includes The Fairytale Forest. The first of its kind in<br />
Poland, amongst the 300 spruces placed on the Rynek<br />
kids will be able to meet characters from fairy tales.<br />
The stalls will be selling Christmas tree decorations,<br />
lamps and other Christmas craft as well as silver and<br />
amber jewellery, leather products, handmade glass<br />
lamps, Christmas tablecloths, aromatic candles and<br />
a whole lot of other unusual bits and bobs. Q Open<br />
10:00 - 21:00. Admission free.<br />
wroclaw.inyourpocket.com<br />
CULTURE & EVENTS<br />
Wroclaw Guitar Festival<br />
10.10 Wednesday - 08.11 Thursday<br />
Wrocław Guitar Festival 2012<br />
tel. (+48) 71 718<br />
29 17, www.gitara.<br />
wroclaw.pl. The<br />
Wroclaw Guitar Festival<br />
is a wide ranging<br />
event, no guitar style<br />
is ignored and the<br />
fans are numerous.<br />
The musicians play on<br />
everything from lutes<br />
and classical guitars<br />
to the latest gizmos.<br />
There’s thundering<br />
flamenco, Latin music<br />
for lovers and jazz.<br />
However, the festival is<br />
not only concerts, there<br />
will be master classes<br />
and workshops as well as presentations of what’s new<br />
on the music market. As always the list of artists is<br />
impressive - here are some of the events<br />
10.10 Wednesday<br />
19:00 Ultra High Flamenco<br />
Wrocław Philharmonic, E-5, ul. Piłsudskiego 19<br />
This young band from Spain joins jazz with instrumental<br />
flamenco<br />
17.10 Wednesday<br />
19:00 Ana Vidovic<br />
Wrocław Philharmonic, E-5, ul. Piłsudskiego 19<br />
A diva of classical guitar from Croatia, be prepared to be<br />
moved by the sensitivity of her music<br />
27.10 Saturday<br />
19:00 Christian Haimel<br />
Stara Giełda, F-4, Pl. Solny 16<br />
More creative and sensitive classical guitar<br />
28.10 Sunday<br />
18:00 Zehnder - Preisig Duo<br />
White Stork Synagogue, D-3, ul. Włodkowica 7<br />
A duet from Switzerland combining singing with the<br />
sounds of violin, a new form of chamber music, if<br />
you will.<br />
03.11 Saturday<br />
19:00 John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension<br />
Hala Orbita, ul. Wejherowska 34<br />
The new project of jazz guitar master John McLaughlin<br />
gathers musicians of various music styles, come and<br />
find a mix of Western and Eastern roots.;<br />
08.11 Thursday<br />
19:00 Tommy Emmanuel<br />
Wrocław Congress Centre, L-4, ul. Wystawowa 1<br />
The master of fingerstyle has the unique title of “Certified<br />
Guitar Player”, from whom we don’t know. However,<br />
he is self-taught and has 20 albums to his name, no<br />
slouch then.<br />
QTickets 15-190zł. Available at www.ticketpro.pl and<br />
Empik, Rynek 50 (Open 09:00 - 21:00, Sun 11:00 -<br />
21:00).<br />
September - December 2012<br />
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