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5th edition of the MARKETING IN CULTURE Conference coming up on April 7th-8th, 2020
The fifth edition of the Marketing in Culture Conference will take place on April 7th-8th, 2020 in Gdańsk. The event, organised by the City Culture Institute, is addressed to professionals in the field of promotion, communication and marketing of culture. (…)
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Spain – a country at a crossroads | NON-FICTION at CCI
January’s Non-Fiction meeting will take us on a reportage journey to Spain. Our guides around the country will be reporters Katarzyna Kobylarczyk and Aleksandra Lipczak, and the conversation will be moderated by Joanna Wiśniowska. “We are going to forget all (…)
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Holidays at the CCI. Art Tuesdays and architectural Fridays
Looking for creative staycation ideas? Throughout July and August, the City Culture Institute is organising art and architectural workshops. On almost every Tuesday and Friday, between 10 am and 3 pm, Margareta Sobczak will be holding workshops for kids aged (…)
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Women’s routes: summer walks around the Gdańsk Shipyard (in Polish and Russian) as well as Stare and Główne Miasto (in Russian)
What did gantry crane operators do? What role did women play in the strikes? Were women proud of working in the shipyard? What did social support and cultural life in the shipyard look like? The CCI is proud to announce (…)
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Liberated Opera on the stoops of Główne Miasto and Paria on Targ Węglowy
Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor, Halka, Spinning Song and The Goldfish are just some of the musical treats you’ll be able to hear on the narrow Główne Miasto streets. They will act as introduction to the main show of the (…)
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Words are free and poetry is invading the city. Read poetry every day
A take-away coffee with a poem, free poem giveaways, reader-friendly areas in Główne Miasto arranged with the support of IKEA Gdańsk, poems on public transport, billboards, poster pillars, in shop windows, on walls, in pubs and restaurants. Poetry in the (…)
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Freedom Reading Room on Kobzdeja Square | 1-4 June, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Between 1 and 4 June, the Dariusza Kobzdeja square will turn into a workshop space and a literary meeting place. Agnieszka Michajłow, Jacek Naliwajek, Maciej Kosycarz and Maciej Drzewicki will talk about press articles from 1989–2019. Andrzej Kasperek, Krystyna Chwin (…)
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Walk of the Gdańsk Shipyard with Metropolitanka
During the special tour of the Gdańsk Shipyard on July 6th, participants discover the herstories of Solidarity activists as well as the everyday reality of the August 1980 strike and work in the shipyard. Guides talk about the most notable (…)
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Corners Gdańsk at Dolne Miasto
On 20 and 21 May, Dolne Miasto will be hosting installations, and presentations of interdisciplinary art projects, short films, and performance art. The projects is carried out within the framework of the international art/research project Corners, which gathers artists (…)
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NARRACJE in Biskupia Górka. Whose works are we going to see in October?
We already know the artists for the eighth edition of the NARRACJE festival, which is going to take place on 21 and 22 October 2016 in Biskupia Górka in Gdańsk. Who is going to present the works which will relate (…)
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Visit districts of Gdańsk with Local Guides
City Culture Institute introduces the sixth summer season of free walks with Local Guides. You can visit Biskupia Górka, Dolne Miasto, Zaspa, and Nowy Port from June 20th. From July Orunia will join in as a new district on the (…)
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New murals are to be created in Zaspa. Who? Where? What?
Geometrical patterns, mural as a stained glass, flags of countries, ethnic groups, regions, or people looking for the simplest solutions – these are the projects proposed by the artists of the eighth and last edition of Monumental Art Festival in (…)
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Opening of Monumental Art Festival. Last time in Zaspa
This is the end of the Festival, but not the end of the collection – says Barbara Sroka from the City Culture Institute. The last opening parade with live music will take place on July 8 at 6:00pm next to (…)
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Interviews with artists from Monumental Art Festival 2016
What are they waiting for, what did they paint and how was it to work on the scaffoldings reaching 12 floors? On July 8, Monumental Art Collection in Zaspa expanded with 4 murals, which altogether gives 58 large-format works. The (…)
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Friends from the Seaside (Znajomi znad morza) in Wroclaw
Friends from the Seaside (Znajomi znad morza) is a project presenting Tricity artists in Wroclaw as part of the Koalicja Miast initiative, which includes Gdansk – the twinned town of the ECC Wroclaw 2016. The project is a combination of various ideas (…)
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Gdansk Neighbour Days break another record!
Over 25,000 people (4 thousand more than last year) took part in neighbourly barbecues, street holidays, picnics and festivals of Gdansk Neighbour Days 2016. 221 meetings were organised, most of them in Wrzeszcz (23), Chełm (15) and Gdańsk Śródmieście (15). (…)
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