Jacek Malczewski’s Life on canvas

With a selection of 100 most outstanding oil paintings by Jacek Malczewski, the Polish Painting Gallery of the National Museum in Warsaw commemorates the 80th anniversary of the death of one of Poland's most celebrated artists of all time. My Life, Jacek Malczewski’s Works from the Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw brings together the best of the best of the artist’s œuvre, pulling it out of a stunning ensemble of 130 paintings and oil sketches as well as a set of about 1,000 drawings (pencil, ink, crayon), watercolors and nine sketchbooks. You can visit this remarkable show from December 4 until February 7, 2010.
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Life is a cabaret in Warsaw

Many foreigners who have been to Warsaw’s Sabat Theatre have felt that they had gone back in time to a pre-war Parisian cabaret venue or walked onto the set of Moulin Rouge. Adorned with plush red and gold furnishings, Toulouse-Lautrec paintings and feather-laden showgirls, the revue theatre in Foksal Street was established by dancer, choreographer and director, Malgorzata Potocka, to entertain VIPs, diplomats and tourists alike. Treat yourselves with some good old cabaret entertainment next time you are in Warsaw and watch one or more of the shows onstage all year round.
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Factory: A visualization of labour

When graphic artist Mariusz Waras and avant-garde musician Krzysztof Topolski worked together, they produced Factory, a spectacular site-specific installation that was created specifically to be exhibited in the biggest room of CoCA or Center of Contemporary Art-Znaki Czasu in Toruń, the medieval town by the Vistula River in northern Poland that gave birth to Nicolaus Copernicus. The exhibition gives a good excuse to visit it until January 17, 2010.
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Placebo Battle for the Sun

With 38 gigs in 34 cities and 14 countries in Europe from October to the end of December, the legendary alternative rock band of Placebo completes their Euro-tour for 2009. The London-based trio of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest was founded back in 1994. Six studio albums, six EPs and 27 singles later, they gained a considerable amount of international recognition, and sold over ten million albums worldwide (one million in the UK alone). The promotion of their latest work Battle for the Sun brings them now to France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, UK and Ireland.
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Diana Krall’s Quiet Nights in Europe

With a Canadian and US tour now behind her, international jazz superstar Diana Krall is focusing on her remaining European trek behind her latest album, the Brazilian bossa nova-flavored Quiet Nights. The remaining part of her European leg in October and November 2009 is a hectic 37-date tour that spans 33 cities in 19 countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, FYRoM, Serbia, Romania, Czech Rep. and Russia. If you’re anywhere close where she performs do not miss the opportunity.
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Guitar days in Wroclaw

Many consider it as the most attractive event in the Polish guitar life and one of the most interesting events in the world. What’s for sure is that the Wroclaw Guitar Festival has a uniqueness that stems from the fantastic diversity of the styles, repertoire and genres of the presented guitar music. The 12th edition of this fascinating event takes place from 21 to 29 of November in many enchanting locations of the beautiful Polish city of Lower Silesia, where you can enjoy live concerts of Al di Meola with his New World Sinfonia, Jesse Cook in his first European tour, Ulisses Rocha with Teco Cardoso and many other musicians of the highest level.
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Krakow’s American Dream

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the USA, the National Museum in Krakow and the US Embassy in Poland are presenting one of the largest museum projects in the country encompassing several exhibitions and an extensive interdisciplinary educational programme. The project America, America..., running until the end of the year, is happening not only in the museum itself, but, first and foremost, in and around the city.
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An exciting new season at Teatr Wielki

For over 170 years the Teatr Wielki (Grand Theatre) has been hosting Poland's grandest opera and ballet theatre, which continues its more than 200-year tradition, producing works by Polish composers as well as world classics. Lead by its artistic director Mariusz Treliński, a great stage director whose opera productions constitute highlights of operatic repertoire in Warsaw and overseas, Teatr Wielki presents an exquisite programme for the 2009/2010 season with 21 operas, 18 ballet and dance performances and more than ten concerts and music productions.
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Theatre in dialogue

It’s no accident that Dialog-Wrocław international theatre festival is taking place in one of Poland’s most historic place where Czech, Polish, German and Jewish influences have met. The city, which has been called Wratislavia, Breslau and Wrocław, has always been friendly to artists, open to what is new and tolerant to what is different. From 10 to 17 of October, fifteen theater productions from Poland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Russia, Lithuania, Lebanon and South Africa will be proving just that.
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Händel’s genius remembered

Paying a tribute to the genius of Georg Friedrich Händel, the German-born composer who left a deep mark in baroque music as we know it today, the Warsaw Chamber Opera has been organizing a wonderful festival that should not be missed if you are in the Polish capital from September 28 to December 19. The Georg Friedrich Händel Festival is kicking off its second edition at Warsaw’s Royal Castle and includes operas, chamber music concerts and recitals.
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Warsaw Film Fest’s jubilee year

Already in its 25th year, the Warsaw Film Festival is the country’s best and most in demand international celebration of world cinema featuring hundreds of films from Poland and overseas over a week-long screening marathon. This year, the 25th edition runs from 9 to 18 of October 2009 and screens movies in four cinema theatres (Multikino Złote Tarasy, Kinoteka, and, after a break of some years, Kultura and Rejs) in the centre of the Polish capital.
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Depeche Mode touring the Universe

The English electronic band Depeche Mode returns to Europe to continue the Tour of the Universe 2009, after a long leg in the Americas. The trek is in support of the group's 12th studio album -Sounds of the Universe, released in April 2009- and takes them to 36 cities in 17 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, UK, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway, Russia, Poland, Croatia) from October 31, 2009 to February 27, 2010.
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Who’s gone to the Croatan?

Social exclusion can take many forms. It may result from unfavorable circumstances, or from an autonomous decision taken by an individual whishing to be excluded. The project presented at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń, Poland, aims at exploring these practices and their causes with special attention given to the variety of gestures establishing private utopias. The exhibition showcasing video works and photographs by some twenty Polish artists runs until the end of September under the strange title Gone to the Croatan.
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