14-18.09.2010 - Łódź of Four Cultures Festival
Concerts, theatre plays, meetings with writers and workshops – all of these you may find in the program of the "Łódź of Four Cultures" Festival (Festiwal "Łódź Czterech Kultur"), which will take place from 14th to 18th of September. This cultural event will replace the Festival of Four Cultures Dialogue (Festiwal Dialogu Czterech Kultur), which has been organized since 2002.
The main theme of this year's festival will be "Coming back" ("Powroty"). "We want to come back to the multicultural tradition of our city, touch its roots and remind its vivid history", the organizers of the event say. The Festival "Łódź of Four Cultures" is to present the peculiarity of all the nations that have created the industrial magnitude of the city: Poles, Germans, Jews and Russians.
The Festival will be inaugurated by the vernissage of Jacek Waltoś's works "Ludzie Czechowa" ("People of Czechow"), which is to be in the City Art Gallery (Miejska Galeria Sztuki) on 14th of September. The band Kwartet Śląski, which promotes its new album based on the works of Jewish composers Szymon Laks and Joachim Mendelson, will play during the Festival. Moreover, Jonathan Plowright will play piano. Theatre fans will be able to watch a pre-view of the play "Powidoki" by Maciej Wojtyszko. The play, which is based on the life of the most famous couple of Łódź artists (Władysław Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro), will be shown in the Art Museum (Muzeum Sztuki) "ms2". In addition, Boris Ejfman Ballet Theatre will come from Saint Petersburg and will play "Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman."
A literary meeting "Paul Celan. Poeta. Ocalony. Żyd" ("Paul Celan. A poet. A saved one. A Jew.") and the promotion of John Felstiner's book as well as a meeting with Ksenia Starosielska, a translator of Polish literature into Russian, will take place during the Festival. Chidren will have a great opportunity to take part in the workshop of Jewish culture, and cinema fans will watch Grigori Aleksandrov's films. The event will be closed by the concert performed by Andrzej Olejniczak and Apertus Quartet.
More information at the website of the Festival.
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