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On the map of Amsterdam, Barcelona, ​​Berlin or Paris, the modern institution of the museum occupies one of the key places of social and cultural life. How does Vienna compare on this background? We invite you to a lecture by Dr. Danielle Spera, director of the Jewish Museum in Vienna. Her activity in recent years has made this institution one of the most interesting tourist attractions of the Austrian capital and a hot center for discussing Jewish heritage in Central Europe.

How to value creativity? What is cultural capital really? Can culture be commodified and subordinated to market requirements? How to understand the cultural industries? What is the sustainable management of cultural heritage? Why do we need an understanding of the economic dimension of culture and the cultural context of the economy? We invite you to a lecture by David Throsby, a world-renowned specialist in cultural economics from Macquarie University in Sydney.

On Sunday, November 17, the 15th edition of the Open Doors Days of Krakow Museums will take place - the program will include lectures, workshops and visits to exhibitions and institutions. This year, we decided to open the door of our headquarters at Main Square 25.

The building at Smoleńsk 9 in Krakow and its history is an important and interesting chapter in Polish art of interior design and furniture.  We invite you for a November walk that will allow you to learn about the history and collections located in the building of the Technical and Industrial Museum in Krakow. The walk will be led by dr Michał Wiśniewski.  Meeting point: in front of the entrance to the building of the Faculty of Industrial Design of the Academy of Fine Arts, ul. Smoleńk 9. All places for the November walk have already been booked.

The Austrian Culture Forum invites you to a lecture entitled Concept / context by Michael Salvi and Thomas Weber, winners of numerous architectural awards from the Viennese studio Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten. The event accompanies the exhibition Young Viennese architects and landscape architects presented in the medieval cellars of the ICC from November 6th to December 1st, 2019. Free entrance. Simultaneous translation. ICC is an event partner.

Do we know everything about the author of The Master and Margarita ? Are there any white spots in his biography, and if so, what do they relate to and what is their reason? The ICC, the Center for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding and the Sedno Publishing House invite you to a meeting with Marietta Czudakowa, an outstanding Russian literary scholar, literary critic and writer, the author of the biography of Mikhail Bułhakov, which has just been published in Polish. The event's partner is city of Krakow, the UNESCO City of Literature.

MINI meetings with art have been organized in the ICC for almost 10 years, during which, in a pleasant, family atmosphere, we activate sensitivity and passion in children, and bring the most important art related concepts. From October this year, we also invite parents and guardians with Ukrainian and Russian-speaking children to the workshops.

What is left of the memory of Boykos, Lemkos, Hutsuls, Wallachians, Shekels or Transylvania Saxons? What significance do the Carpathians have for Poles, Slovaks, Romanians or Hungarians?  We invite you to a discussion devoted to the largest mountain range in Central Europe. An opportunity to meet and talk is the 36th issue of the quarterly "Herito".

We invite you to meeting with an outstanding translator of Polish literature, the author of the translation of the Bolesław Prus The Doll into Japanese, a longtime friend of the ICC - prof. Tokimasa Sekiguchi from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

We invite you to meet with Ahmad Nabaz, a 33-year-old Kurdish artist who will talk about his works currently presented at the Dark East exhibition in the medieval cellars of the ICC. The meeting with the artist will be conducted by Zyiad Raoof, Plenipotentiary of Kurdistan Regional Government in Poland.

The 23rd International Book Fair in Krakow will take place on October 24-27th. On this occasion, the ICC prepared several Central European news and numerous book promotions. We invite you to stand B69 to the Dunaj hall in the EXPO Kraków Trade Fair and Congress Center at ul. Galicyjska 9.

From November 21, 2019, a new exhibition entitled Fotoblok. Central Europe in photo books. Inspired by its idea, we already invite book lovers aged 5-11 to creative workshops during the International Book Fair in Krakow.

The next edition of the international ArtCoMe project took place on October 25-28 in Bratislava. Art and Contemporary Me. A group of 20 students from four countries met again to participate in activities devoted to the cultural heritage of Central Europe. The event's Polish partner was ICC.

On October 24, 2019, the ICC was visited by representatives of the most important Russian cultural institutions to discuss the nearly thirty years of experience of our institution in the field of international cultural cooperation. During the visit, they met with the ICC management, Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik and Łukasz Galusek.