19 September 2000 was the saddest day in the history of the National Museum of Poznań. That day, the most valuable piece in its possession, the painting Beach in Pourville (La plage à Pourville) by Claude Monet, was found to have been cut out of its frame and replaced with a copy.
"With over three thousand films submitted for this year's festival, records are being broken. What makes the result even more impressive is that the production of many pictures had to be stopped due to the pandemic," says Ale Kino! spokeswoman Karolina Kulig. The festival is due to commence on 29 November.
Jan Kurek has the eye. Not everyone has it, not everyone can look and see things. He can. His eye works in perfect unison with a video camera viewfinder or a still photo camera lens. It captures the frame that the average observer would either miss or dismiss.
With exhibitions and book presentations in Poznań and over fifty galleries, libraries and cultural centres in other parts of the Wielkopolska region, the fifth edition of the Ireneusz Zjeżdżałka Wielkopolska Photography Festival, which this year follows in the footsteps of Wielkopolska's photography masters, promises to be a delight.
The Amadeus Orchestra is back in concert! On 11.10, the orchestra will inaugurate its 53rd artistic season with its first appearance since the breakout of Covid-19, to be held in the University Auditorium in front of a live audience. Two weeks later, on October 25, the Orchestra's musicians will take to the stage again.
The long wait has paid off. After it was cancelled due to Covid-19 on its usual date in July, Poland's largest animated film event, the Animator Festival, is set to take place in early October.
One of Poznań's most exciting musical events planned for October is a concert by Łukasz Ojdana scheduled for 7pm on 4 October in the Grand Hall of the Zamek (Castle) Cultural Centre. As part of the JazZamek series, this outstanding pianist will promote his highly successful solo debut album Kurpian Songs & Meditations released last spring.
The Poznań Old Jazz Festival has been held in Poznań since 2009 and is a celebration of "good ol' jazz".
The 17th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Poland's biggest documentary film festival, is going to be a hybrid affair. In addition to the seven cities that are the site of its venues, of which Poznań is one (for the first time ever), selected films will also be shown online making them available all across the country.
Rescheduled from June to September, with its programme reduced almost exclusively to Polish performers, this year's Ethno Port will be different from previous editions. And yet, it promises to be truly fascinating.
