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Lecture will held in Polish.

The lecture focused on selected photographers documenting the everyday life of the Weimar Republic, incl. Hannes M. Flach, August Sander, Lotte Jacobi or Friedrich Seidenstücker ...

How can cities rich in culture host mega-events without putting their own heritage at risk? How can mega-events become effective ways to promote and protect tangible and intangible heritage?

Workshop in Polish.

The end of WWI brought new social and political realities that shaped the development of culture and architecture in Europe in the following decades.

The socio-economic potential of heritage is discussed more and more often, going beyond the basic associations related to tourism and city marketing. However, exploring the relationship between heritage and innovation is a new area of ​​interest for the international research project ILUCIDARE.

"Entangled in the (c.k.) past" is to some extent a continuation of the topic of Professor Waldemar Łazuga's book entitled Calculate .... Poles at the tops of the c.k. monarchy . But not "life after the monarchy", but those Poles (ministers, parliamentarians, high officials, university professors, artists and people of pen) who played a key role in it or whose great career (like Piłsudski or Dmowski) in Galicia began.

Workshop in Polish.

Cracow Art Week KRAKERS is a communication platform that is a meeting of independent art centers and the inhabitants of Krakow. The slogan of this year's 10th edition is (NO) HOPE and is a response to the prevailing pandemic situation. It oscillates around two opposing, utopian visions: giving hope for the future or definitely taking it away. The topic points to many interpretative clues: it draws our attention to economics or ecology, but also explores social and artistic topics.

Enthusiasm related to the development of modern visual culture: cinema, popular illustrated press and photographic experiments under the sign of "das neue Sehen" had already been critically complemented in the 1920s in comments about the increasing "photoinflation". A specific response to this situation was the collection and processing by artists of ready-made images, from a collection of "found materials" (Album Hannah Höch), using them in the mode of ironic and mocking paraphrases, to politically engaged photomontage (John Heartfield).

With the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria also disappeared from the maps of the world. The memory of the complex and multidimensional history of this almost mythical land has survived, despite the passage of time, and in later years also in spite of the efforts of the occupation authorities or, after World War II, the policies of the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union.

Music does not need a language, because sound carries emotions and connects across cultures, languages, nationalities and identities.

The birthday of the International Cultural Centre, on the last weekend of May, will be organized in a way that, on the one hand, will allow you to meet personally at the headquarters at the Main Market Square, in compliance with the applicable safety rules, and on the other hand, connect with all those who would like to take part in the event remotely.

From May 28th to June 6th, the Architecture Center organized a book fair about architecture and the city - BAZARCH 2021. Among the publications you could find books about architecture, space, city, countryside, landscape, heritage, monuments, art in public space.