Concerts & Festivals
Carillon Festival
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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
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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
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Three-day festival promoting all types of jazz. The greatest musician of this trend perform. [Concerts & Festivals]
Stars Festival
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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
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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
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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]
