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Family Sunday: Amazing Bird Feeders! – Workshops for children and parents
On-site event In our museum’s garden you can already see sparrows and chickadees. Sometimes one can see a magpie, and the pigeons that are seen all over Krakow. We would like to invite you to a special workshop where we will create amazing and unusual bird feeders. We will think of surprising shapes, materials, and […]
Meeting with Piotr Oleksy, author of the book „Wyspy odzyskane” (“Reclaimed Islands”)
Led by: Łukasz Wojtusik On-site event This story begins at the end of the Second World War, when islands were taken from the retreating Germans and became part of the territory of Poland. Some decided to leave, while some Poles decided to come and live in the abandoned homes. The newcomers brought the memory of […]
Family Memory and Returns. A guided tour through the New Jewish Cemetery at Miodowa St.
The Jewish cemetery at Miodowa St. is both a burial ground for Krakow’s Jews and a special memorial – interspersed with graves are symbolic tombstones and memorial plaques left by family members who survived the Shoah. Among them is a plaque, funded by Ryszard Ores, that commemorates members of his family who were murdered during […]
Concert: Szczodre Gody, 2021 Tour: Velesar / Morhana / Firlith
On-site event Velesar is a folk metal group established in Cieszyn in 2018. The group was originally a solo project by Marcin Velesar Wieczorek, the former vocalist of Goddness of Sin (2001-2007) and Radogost (2010-2014), as well as the artist behind the band River of Time (since 2014). Velesar was born with a fascination in […]
TRAKL-TAT. The finale gala of the 7th edition of the TRAKL-TAT Literary and Arts Festival
On-site event During the ceremony , laureates of the All-Polish George Trakl Poetry Contest will be receiving awards. It is the final event of this year’s edition of the TRAKL-TAT Literary and Arts Festival. The jury for the contest consists of: Marcin Baran (head of the jury), Wojciech Bonowicz, and Dr. Dorota Kozicka. This event […]
Between Us. Polish Fears in the Media and Mass-Culture
Online event Join this meeting on Zoom (link will be activated on the day of the event): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84076851453 The fear of the unknown, the fear of toppling the myths on which we are building our identities, the fear of confrontation with uncomfortable and difficult truths, the fear of revealing shameful facts from the past, the […]
Photos from the Jar – new website accompanying the exhibition “Sweet Home Sweet. A Story of Survival, Memory, and Returns”
“When my father was in the Kraków Ghetto he was still taking photos, and those photos were buried in Plaszow and discovered after the war. He hid them in a glass jar in Plaszow. So I sat with him in his home with these photographs and I asked him who everyone was in the photo. […]
Family Sunday: “Bah Bah. Iran for the Inquisitive” – meeting and workshop with the author of the book, Albert Kwiatkowski
Deserts burnt by the sun and shady gardens; turquoise mines and bustling bazaars; ziggurats from before thousands of years covered in sand and clay cities resembling labyrinths – welcome to Iran! This is the country of the first cosmic female tourist, the most famous doctor in the world, and one of the most genius female […]
Meeting with Rafał Kowalski, author of the book “Reszta ciała” (“The Rest of the Body”)
Led by: Monika Ochędowska On-site event “Reszta ciała” (“The Rest of the Body”) is a publication which includes reportages about a few generations (grandparents, their children, and grandchildren), which are connected by the town of Płock and by Poland, by their Jewish heritage, by memory, and longing. The author spoke with his heroes in Israel, […]
