Carillon Festival

more The Carillon Festival is a perfectly unique musical event in Poland, as Gdansk is the only Polish city to have these two precious instruments: carillon in Main City Town Hall and the concert bell set in St Catherine’s. The festival is another example of the city reviving its ancient traditions. Its programs are mostly made up of solo performances.[Concerts & Festivals]

The Heineken Open`er Festival

more The Heineken Open'er Festival is the largest Polish open-air music and performing arts festival and definitely the most important music event in Gdynia - a city in the north of Poland at the Baltic Sea coast, next to Gdansk. It is a special place on the Polish map, where people from more than 30 countries are meeting, enjoying the best performances and having the best weekend in the year. Total area of the festival in Babie Doly airfield makes 75 hectares of space for one to explore and contains 7 stages, around 120 artists, festival town with merchandising area, gastronomic zones, camp site, beach, sea and sun, space for sports activities and multimedia, NGO, films, theaters and performances. 10 hectares are dedicated to campers- place where the true festival admirers are sleeping in their tents after the sun goes up.[Concerts & Festivals]

International Jazz Festival

more Three-day festival promoting all types of jazz. The greatest musician of this trend perform.
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Stars Festival

more Holiday Stars Festival is a popular annual artistic event, which has been taking place in Gdansk since 2006. It attracts the polish celebrities of theatre, film, music, art and literature – in del’ arte festival formula. On this occasion the concerts, exhibitions, outdoor show and literary saloons are organized. The most important theatrical performances, film show enable a wide audience to experience art, to have a contact with the artists popular from media, with the leading representatives of the polish culture canon.[Concerts & Festivals]

St. Dominic`s Fair

more Today, St. Dominic’s Fair is the largest trade and cultural outdoor event in Poland and one of the largest such events in Europe. The contemporary form of St Dominic’s Fair recalls the Medieval tradition of fun and trade. Every August, over 1000 merchants, artists, artisans and collectors put up their stalls in the historical city center.[Concerts & Festivals]

Shakespeare Festival

more Shakespeare Festival is an international periodic theatrical event, organised every year during the first week of August in Gdansk and the whole Tri-city. The festival’s history dates back to 1993 and the organisation of first Shakespeare Days in Gdansk, which were transformed into Shakespeare Festival in 1997, to become part of the Millennium of Gdansk celebrations.[Concerts & Festivals]

Helios

more Helios Movie Centre is a multiplex cinema operator in Poland. The first cinema was opened at 1993.[Cinemas]

Cinema Neptun

more This is one of six movie theaters belonging to the Neptun-Film group in and around the Gdansk area.[Cinemas]

Cinema Helikon

more Helikon Cinema is a  movie theater belonging to the Neptun-Film group, which has 6 theaters in and around the Gdansk area.[Cinemas]

Cinema City Krewetka

more Cinema City International is the largest multiplex cinema theatre operator in Central and Eastern Europe. Company is based in Israel. This modern network operates many cinemas across Poland including of course Gdansk.[Cinemas]

Multikino

more Multikino is one of the biggest networks of cinemas in Poland. It belongs to Polish company ITI Group which also operates on media market.[Cinemas]

The Polish Baltic Frederic Chopin Philharmonic

more The Polish Baltic Frederic Chopin Philharmonic is the largest music institution in the northern Poland, visited not only by local music-lovers but also by people from all over Poland and all over the world. This is a place for the ones who desire to enjoy the art of the highest quality. The Philharmonic organizes symphonic concerts, recitals, and chamber music soirees performed by the most prominent Polish musicians as well as by many worldwide-known artists.[Operas & Theatres]

The Baltic State Opera

more The Baltic State Opera is an opera company in Gdansk,  which performs in the Baltic State Opera House. Originally, in 1949, it was organized as an Opera-Studio rather than as a full scale opera company. Due to the destruction of all theatres in Gdansk by the end of World War II, it made do with temporary facilities for a number of years after its founding, giving performances in various places around Gdansk and Sopot and finally settling in its current location, a building adapted from a former gymnasium to which a newly built stage was attached. The entire building has been completely renovated. In the same year (1949), as many other institutions in Poland, Opera-Studio was nationalized.[Operas & Theatres]

Good Girl Killer

more Good Girl Killer was founded at the beginning of 2005 by four polish artists: Magda Jedra, Zbigniew Zibi Bienkowski, Anna Steller and Grzegorz Welizarowicz. Their first project, Good Girl Killer performance, premiered in March 2005 in Poland, Gdansk.[Operas & Theatres]

Dada von Bzdulow Theatre

more Dada von Bzdulow Theatre was founded by Leszek Bzdyl – a director and a choreographer, and by Katarzyna Chmielewska – a dancer and a choreographer. On stage since 1993; an independent group of professional dancers and actors, which produces performances in cooperation with Polish and foreign cultural institutions, such as: Teatr Wybrzeze, Gdansk / Klub Zak, Gdansk / Dance Advance, Philadelphia (USA) / Les Hivernales, Avignon (France) / Old Brewery, Poznan / Teatr Nowy, Lodz. Since 2008 the theatre is represented by Dada von Bzdulow Artists Association with its seat in Gdansk, Poland.[Operas & Theatres]

The Forest Theatre – Lesny Theatre

more The Forest Theatre is a summer stage situated in a forest of Wrzeszcz. The easiest way to get there is to go through an entrance from Jaskowa Dolina Street. It is a place of numerous events, concerts and festivals that are organized here from May to September.
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Maybe Theatre Company

more The first, and for a long time the only, registered theatrical company in Poland presenting plays exclusively in English. The company was officially formed in 1992, after the success of the 1991 production of "A Tempest in a Spaceship", a musical based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"'. This was the second play put on in English at the University of Gdansk - the first had been produced some years earlier by Kathy Cioffi, an American theatre enthusiast who was accompanying her husband, Frank, on a Fulbright scholarship at the Institute of English.
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Gdansk Shakespearean Theatre

more Gdansk Shakespeare Festival is an international theatre festival devoted to the idea of the Elizabethan theatre, and especially to the works of William Shakespeare. The event was first organized in 1993, on the initiative of Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, which had been created by prof. Jerzy Limon and Wladyslaw Zawistowski. Its original name, "Gdansk Shakespeare Days" was transformed into "Gdansk Shakespeare Festival" in 1997, during the celebration of Gdansk's millennium.[Operas & Theatres]

Znak Theatre

more From 1992 to 2000 the Znak Theater provided a meaningful artistic experience for underprivilaged and ill children. Since 2000, the theater has expanded its operations to include theater workshops, actor training courses, and open air spectacles as well as the origional acting camps for interested youth.[Operas & Theatres]

Miniatura City Theatre

more This ‘toy theater’ holds true to its tradition – started in 1947 by Olga, Irena, and Ewa Totwen under the name Latek Theater, it has amused audiences for over 50 years. Currently it is under the direction of one of the most famous Polish directors, Ali Bunsch.[Operas & Theatres]

Wybrzeze Theatre

more Gdansk hosts regular festivals of street theatre each year, where language is no barrier. Most of the performances here, however, are in the mother tongue, so unless you've triumphed over Polish grammar you may be a tad bewildered by what's going. Nevertheless, given modern dramas tendency towards minimalism and experimentation, you may find that this historic theatre is worth your investigation.
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