Workshops of Romany culture for children from 6 to 10 years of age
moreThe musicians reach back to the tradition of the nation of wanderers, reconstructing not just the Romani or the Balkan identity, but also common threads in the cultural narratives of Central Europe. This return to musical roots is joined with the contemporary pulse of traditional sounds.
moreAn international exhibition of contemporary visual art. Over 20 artists working in various media have been invited to take part: from installation and sculpture to photography and video. A significant part of the exhibition will be made up of productions made specially for the festival.
moreThis intriguing composer and dramatist will create a spectacular opera for Łódź in the city space. For three days pianos will appear in various parts of Łódź, listening in on the city like giant black ears. What will Łódź’s musical portrait look like?
moreThis overview will include the much-lauded Waltz with Bashir (2008), as well as Ari Folman’s earlier films, unseen in Poland: Made in Israel (2001) and The Material that Love Is Made of (2004). There will also be a discussion devoted to his work.
moreThis play is ahistorical, built on improvisation, a fantasia on the theme of Andy Warhol, his Silver Factory and the people who passed through it and co-created its myth. A guest performance by the National Stary Theater in Krakow.
moreThis photography presentation of sites creates a forgotten topography of Berlin, Łódź, Warsaw and Lviv. The memory of the Jewish societies and the Holocaust in each of these cities is shaped by different influences. After the photography show there will be a stroll around Łódź.
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The lines of power described one hundred years ago by the futurists come in contact with literal signs of disintegration. Dead, condemned spaces are my rudimentary territory.
(Wiktor Skok)
moreThe :PK: project will revive the post-industrial space of the EC1 power station, with an original concept linking choreography, parkour, film and music. The main protagonist is the city of Łódź, with its architectural and symbolic nooks and crannies. The project has been specially prepared for the Four Cultures Festival.
moreWhat is Łódź today – a ‘promised land’? What is – or will be – the new El Dorado? What comes of bringing the myth of a dynamically developing multicultural city in conflict with its contemporary reality? Welcome to the premiere of Jan Klata’s latest production.
moreA two-day project centering on Georges Didi-Huberman’s book Images in Spite of All, which takes up the problem of the aesthetic capacity and ethical appropriateness of creating visual representations of the Holocaust. The project includes: a conference and film screenings.
moreThe yearly OnAir event, organized in the framework of the festival, is also the signal that the Łódź clubbing season has really started. Just as every year, the two stages – open-air and club – will hold special musical events that are not to be missed.
moreOn the night of March 25th 1945, in the castle in Rechnitz, nearly two hundred Jewish workers were murdered. Jelinek does not reconstruct this event: her gaze into the past is an important attempt to speak about the present. A guest performance by Münchner Kammerspiele.
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