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New Horizons review: “Love” by Michael Haneke (2012)

Haneke loveThe winner of the 13. edition of the International Film Festival New Horizons that took place in Wroclaw between 19th and 29th July is “From Thursday till Sunday” by Dominga Sotomayor Castillo. My personal highlight from the festival is, however, Michael Haneke's newest movie “Love,” shown as an opening film in Wroclaw and a winner of this year's festival in Cannes.

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The Warsaw Cross Culture Festival coming soon!

Cafebabel.com is proud to announce its media partnership with The Cross Culture Festival in Warsaw!

Sound of the Orient in Warsaw

The 8th edution of the Cross-Culture Festival in Warsaw takes place between 23 and 29 of September 2012. This year's theme is: ‘Inspirations: The Orient’. The festival, initiated in 2005, is a presentation of the most interesting phenomena within the field of world and music. It is one of the biggest events of such kind in Poland, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe, it’s been selected by “Songlines Magazine” as one of top 25 music festivals I Europe.
This year's theme is: ‘Inspirations: The Orient’. Polish capital will welcome artists from eleven countries, from Central Asia to Far East.
The star ensemble will include artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and Syria. Among them three cross-generation concerts: Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana will perform mughams – classical songs of Azerbaijan, Jivan Gasparyan and his grandson Jivan Junior will present the power of Armenia’s duduk. The group Ayarkhaan from Yakutia, Russia – Albina Degtyareva and her twin daughters will sing songs calling upon natural powers and play khomus.
This year’s edition will also see the performances of Syria’s Al Kindi Ensemble, Georgia’s most renown choir – Rustavi Ensemble, South Korea’s pansori great singer – Ahn Sook-Sun, India’s upcoming Sufi music star – Raza Khan, Japan’s taiko drumming group – Ondekoza and many more. The encounter with different faces of Asia will be completed by a special film programme, prepared for the first time in collaboration with PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL.
During the past seven years of its existence, the Festival permanently fitted into the multi-cultural landscape of Warsaw, building its character and prestige and gathering its own loyal audience. Over 150 individual artists and groups from over 50 countries have presented their art within the Festival so far. Since the very beginning, the Festival has been organized by Stołeczna Estrada and funded by the capital city of Warsaw

For all the details in English please visit: www.festival.warszawa.pl

For further information please contact:

 

Jakub Krzeszowski, Go Culture. Communication for culture
t: + 48 22 224 28 48, 22 490 10 20 oraz  + 48 790 765 640, jakub.krzeszowski@goculture.pl

 

 

Masza Grabowska, Go Culture. Communication for culture
t: + 48 22 224 28 48, 22 490 10 20 oraz  + 48 790 765 642, masza.grabowska@goculture.pl


Are you eager to participate in the festival? Are you willing to do a written/photo reportage for cafebabel.com? For photo accreditation, drop us a line at redakcja@cafebabel.com!                                                                  

                                                                      

Polish cinema abroad - 10th Brussels Film Festival

10th Brussels Film Festival: "Courage" - a mini study of the state of masculinity in a contemporary society

Although most reviews of Grzegorz Zglinski's "Courage" shown during the 10th Brussels Film Festival underline the biblical dimension of the story and concentrate on the relationship between two brothers, my attention was strongest attracted by something else. Telling at the first glance a tragic but rather simple story, this movie touches on an important subject - the crisis of the traditional concept of masculinity in a contemporary rapidly changing society.

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Multikulti on the ground: Warsaw is ours and we belong to her

This is the title of debate taken place on 29 June in Warsaw café Coco de Oro, in which free guests took part, who have been in Poland for several years. This meeting was the part of project Multikulti on the ground realized by Cafê Babel in ten european cities. Aim of the project was to do research on multiculturalism of these cities, on their openness to foreigners, but also to point the beauty of these cities by eyes of others.

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The 8th edition of the Visegrad Summer School: 28 June-11 July 2009

The Inauguration of the 8th edition of the Visegrad Summer School will be held on 29th of June 2009 at the Villa Decius in Krakow. This year's School will be opened with a lecture entitled ‘Legacy of Freedom’ by Professor Maciej Koźmiński, Director of the Institute of Diplomacy Collegium Civitas.

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Visegrad Summer School calls for applications

wyszehrad_ang.jpgThe Visegrad Summer School is a two-week educational programme organised by The Villa Decius Association, which provides an interdisciplinary learning space for young Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak students, and for their peers from other Central and Eastern European countries.

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Invitation: U.S. Presidential Election: Campaigns from the Backstage

We would like to invite you to a meeting U.S. Presidential Election: Campaigns from the Backstage, which will take place on October 22 at 6-7.30 p.m. at the Warsaw Public Library (Koszykowa St. 26/28).

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Cafebabel.com Warsaw Team launches cooperation with ESN!

We are happy to announce that our team established a partnership with the Erasmus Student Network in Warsaw, represented by ESN at the Warsaw University of Technology. We are going to provide media patronage for ESN events and hopefully organize an event together in the future. We are looking forward to good cooperation! ESN logo

The annual concert "Solidarity with Belarus": Photos

concert3 Warsaw Castle Square hosted the annual concert "Solidarity with Belarus", which took place on March 30th, gathering Belarusian and Polish bands and musicians as well an impressive crowd. The concert and a demonstration before it marked the 90th anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of Belarus. Organizers wanted to send a signal to the Belarusian opposition that Poland has not forgotten the aspirations of the Belarusian people. The event was organized also to remind Poles that not much has changed in Belarus and it is still not a free nation.

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The Trans-topical Everything

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Open from Friday, March 7th, 19.00h, Galeria Wejście, Until 4.04.08

Did we witness EVERYTHING in art? Is EVERYTHING possible for modern artists? "The Trans-topical Everything" exhibition links different styles and elements from various fields creating strange new objects of art that can't be even described as 'collage' but 'bricolage', which in French means making machines with no respect for rules of engineering. Interested? For more info about this exhibition go to CSW website.

"Świdermajer Portret"

Cafebabel Warsaw recommends... "Świdermajer Portret". Click here to find out more about this crazy and unique architecture...

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Warsaw: a city of contrasts

Studnia na Siekiewicza

Photo: Tomasz Kaczor

Warsaw is a city of contrasts, where modernism meets history, and western and eastern influences melt together. Only about 40% of the city inhabitants where born in here. Historical buildings often stand side-by-side with new skyscrapers. Just like this old, built before the II World War house at Sienkiewicza 4 street, in the city center. Over its closed messy backyard (popularly called a "well") one can see a shining blue skyscraper. Quite an extraordinary view.

Discover Warsaw with us!

Palac i zyrafa

Photo: Tomasz Kaczor

Surprised? There are many places in our city that will make you stop dead. Under the "Spots" category you will find photos and short descriptions of spots worth seeing in Warsaw, that are often not easy to find.

If you have photos of interesting places around the Polish capital that you would like to show, send us them along with a short description of the spot/the situtation it was shot in. We will be glad to publish it on our blog and expand our original photo guide.

Discover the city with us!

In the photo: Melman, giraffe from the "Madagascar" cartoon, surprised by the view of Palace of Culture (one of the city's best known buildings). The photo of the animal statue has been shot during the movie promotional event in Warsaw city center.

Cafebabel.com in Warsaw

Our team has been active for 5 years now, and since two (thanks to the establishment of the Polish office) our activities gained on pace. We organize debates, conferences, panel discussions, provide press patronage and cover local events and cooperate on regular basis with “Czarne” publishing house.

Along with the development of cafebabel.com community website we decided to establish a blog. You will find here information on cultural events in Warsaw, our local team events, and have a chance to discover our city through a series of photo-reportages of interesting spots of Poland’s capital. Feel invited to browse the blog and comment on the topics!

If you would like to contribute to the Warsaw blog or join our team, write at: warszawa(at)cafebabel.com