ZAKOPANE
EVENTS
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SUMMER in ZAKOPANE: EVENTS
Wait a second please to see the movie (made by TVIP - www.zakopanetv.pl) from the Final Concert of the
39th International Festival of Mountain Folklore
which took place in Zakopane at August 24th.
Wait a second please to see the movie (made by TVIP - www.zakopanetv.pl) from the Final Concert of the
39th International Festival of Mountain Folklore
which took place in Zakopane at August 24th.
Either inhabitants of Zakopane or tourists can no more imagine Podhale region without International Festival of Mountain Folklore - event organized here every year in August. It became a tradition that in the town center the festival’s village is created and Zakopane hosts very colorful ensembles from many parts of the world - you can hear folk music in the whole town.
The beginnings of the festival reach the year 1934, when the idea to organize it appeared for the first time. Since 1968 it is an international event..."
.: Second Greatest after Chopin
Zakopane is celebrating the Year of Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), composer and pianist and one of the greatest Polish artists of the twentieth century. He came to Zakopane for the first time in 1922 to study the region’s traditional music. His fascination with the Polish highland style led to his writing such masterpieces as the ‘Harnasie’ ballet-pantomime, on which the composer worked in Zakopane for eight years, his Podhale Mazurkas for piano, and the String Quartet No 2. The Atma Villa, where the artist lived from 1930 to 1936, houses a museum devoted to him, in which Szymanowski’s study has been reconstructed. Among the recommended events of the Szymanowski celebrations are: Autumn Music Meetings at the Atma Villa on 6-7 October, a course on piano interpretations of works by Szymanowski conducted by Professor Paula Gulda (Austria) on 20-28 October, and a poetry and music evening entitled ‘Artists and their Museums’ at the Jan Kasprowicz Museum at Harenda on 12 October at 5 p.m., during which the poetry of Jan Kasprowicz and the music of Karol Szymanowski will be presented. /www.welcome.com.pl/
.: Meet Jazz in the Mountains
The tradition of playing jazz in the Tatras dates back several decades. The tradition had been discontinued, but a group of jazz enthusiasts decided to revive it, and for eleven years now the Jazz Camping festival in Kalatówki has been a regular event. Veterans of the jazz scene and a large group of young musicians meet at the beautifully situated Górski Hotel in Kalatówki for a jam session which lasts several days, and each year the list of celebrities includes such names as Janusz Muniak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Krzysztof Herdzin, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Jerzy Małek and Jerzy Bartz. In spite of the fact that the concerts start late, and the road which leads to the hotel is rather bumpy and is sometimes crossed by bears, there is always a large audience. It is a superb opportunity to be at a concert and then sit round a campfire in an unusual spot in the mountains. A joint concert of jazzmen and highlanders, a confrontation of highland power with the feeling of jazz, always leaves an unforgettable impression. This year’s Jazz Camping Kalatówki will be held on October 1-7. /www.welcome.com.pl/
.: Breath of Foehn
The exhibition at the W. & J. Kulczycki Art Gallery in Koziniec in Zakopane is an attempt to touch the intangible beauty of the mountains – a foehn, peaks veiled in mist, and the sun reflected in Tatra tarns. It invites visitors to discover the Tatras through the works of various artists, beginning from Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, the first painter of the Tatras, to whom a separate room is devoted, through Leon Wyczółkowski, Stefan Filipkiewicz and Stanisław Kamocki. The first stage of this artistic trip consists of sights from Poronin, Głodówka, Bukowina Tatrzańska and Harenda. Next look at the proud High Tatras and the peaks surrounding Lake Morskie Oko and the Hala Gąsienicowa, which have proved a bigger attraction to contemporary artists than Giewont and Zakopane, and then the West Tatras – vast valleys, streams and limestone peaks. The last stage of the trip includes modern compositions by Andrzej Wróblewski, Irena Trzetrzewińska and Władysław Klamerus. The whole collection includes almost 150 works by artists enchanted with the Tatra Mountains. The exhibition can be seen until 28 October, 2007. /www.welcome.com.pl/
.: Second Greatest after Chopin
Zakopane is celebrating the Year of Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), composer and pianist and one of the greatest Polish artists of the twentieth century. He came to Zakopane for the first time in 1922 to study the region’s traditional music. His fascination with the Polish highland style led to his writing such masterpieces as the ‘Harnasie’ ballet-pantomime, on which the composer worked in Zakopane for eight years, his Podhale Mazurkas for piano, and the String Quartet No 2. The Atma Villa, where the artist lived from 1930 to 1936, houses a museum devoted to him, in which Szymanowski’s study has been reconstructed. Among the recommended events of the Szymanowski celebrations are: Autumn Music Meetings at the Atma Villa on 6-7 October, a course on piano interpretations of works by Szymanowski conducted by Professor Paula Gulda (Austria) on 20-28 October, and a poetry and music evening entitled ‘Artists and their Museums’ at the Jan Kasprowicz Museum at Harenda on 12 October at 5 p.m., during which the poetry of Jan Kasprowicz and the music of Karol Szymanowski will be presented. /www.welcome.com.pl/
.: Meet Jazz in the Mountains
The tradition of playing jazz in the Tatras dates back several decades. The tradition had been discontinued, but a group of jazz enthusiasts decided to revive it, and for eleven years now the Jazz Camping festival in Kalatówki has been a regular event. Veterans of the jazz scene and a large group of young musicians meet at the beautifully situated Górski Hotel in Kalatówki for a jam session which lasts several days, and each year the list of celebrities includes such names as Janusz Muniak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Krzysztof Herdzin, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Jerzy Małek and Jerzy Bartz. In spite of the fact that the concerts start late, and the road which leads to the hotel is rather bumpy and is sometimes crossed by bears, there is always a large audience. It is a superb opportunity to be at a concert and then sit round a campfire in an unusual spot in the mountains. A joint concert of jazzmen and highlanders, a confrontation of highland power with the feeling of jazz, always leaves an unforgettable impression. This year’s Jazz Camping Kalatówki will be held on October 1-7. /www.welcome.com.pl/
.: Breath of Foehn
The exhibition at the W. & J. Kulczycki Art Gallery in Koziniec in Zakopane is an attempt to touch the intangible beauty of the mountains – a foehn, peaks veiled in mist, and the sun reflected in Tatra tarns. It invites visitors to discover the Tatras through the works of various artists, beginning from Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, the first painter of the Tatras, to whom a separate room is devoted, through Leon Wyczółkowski, Stefan Filipkiewicz and Stanisław Kamocki. The first stage of this artistic trip consists of sights from Poronin, Głodówka, Bukowina Tatrzańska and Harenda. Next look at the proud High Tatras and the peaks surrounding Lake Morskie Oko and the Hala Gąsienicowa, which have proved a bigger attraction to contemporary artists than Giewont and Zakopane, and then the West Tatras – vast valleys, streams and limestone peaks. The last stage of the trip includes modern compositions by Andrzej Wróblewski, Irena Trzetrzewińska and Władysław Klamerus. The whole collection includes almost 150 works by artists enchanted with the Tatra Mountains. The exhibition can be seen until 28 October, 2007. /www.welcome.com.pl/