WroclawWeekly goes around the city of Wroclaw, Poland, and captures its cultural life in film. You get to see European & local Polish indepedent artists, musicians and performers in action - it's the stuff that you would never see elsewhere!
Teatr Lalek, 20.03.2012 - this is a fragment from the recording of the concert of Benjamin Paulin. The concert took place as a part of the official opening night of this year’s “Journées de la Francophonie” in Wrocław. In this video, you see Paulin perform the song from his new single: “Variations de [...]
This is the recording from the piano recital of François Dumont (at Wrocław Philharmonic Concert Hall on 17.03.2012). François Dumont is a prizewinner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2010, and this piano recital was the 1st concert of this year’s “Journées de la Francophonie” in Wrocław. “Journées de la Francophonie” in Wrocław is [...]
During this year’s “Journées de la Francophonie” festival, 3 exhibitions were organized. In this video are the views from their opening receptions. The first exhibition in the video is the exhibition of collages by the renowned Polish artist Hanna Bakuła on the theme of Frédéric Chopin’s life. The second fragment presents the [...]
This is the recording from the concert of Nouvelle Vague on 25.03.2011 at Club ETER (ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 19), with the fragments from the songs: “Je suis déjà partie,” “Master and Servant” & “Heart of Glass.” The concert was presented as part of the “Journées de la Francophonie” festival. For more information about [...]
22.03.2011 at ORATORIUM MARIANUM (pl. Uniwersytecki 1) - On the second day of the “Journées de la Francophonie” festival, Axoum Duo - Elwira Ślązak (PL) & Gabriel Collet (FR) - played a concert of 2 marimbas. The tunes featured in this video are: “Tango-Prélude” (based on F. Chopin’s Prélude 4 op.28) followed [...]
21.03.2011 at ORATORIUM MARIANUM (pl. Uniwersytecki 1) - This is a fragment of the concert of opera arias by Nikolay Dorozhkin, the distinguished Russian tenor with the Wrocław Opera, accompanied by the pianist Olga Rusina. The concert was performed at the opening of the “Journées de la Francophonie” festival. The aria featured [...]
This is the belated release of the recording of a dance performance - “God Studies #3″ - by Kenneth Flak (NO). It was recorded during the Mandala Festival 2010 (24.04.2010) at IMPART (ul. Mazowiecka 17). In this performance, Flak traces the Norse mythology in 4 parts: “Odin,” “Thor,” “Loki” & “Ragnarök.” Download: mandala2010-flak.mp4 (640×360 [...]
13.03.2010, IMPART (ul. Mazowiecka 17) - The 4th installment of “Wibracje Taneczne / Dance Vibrations” presented a project of the choreographer Marysia Stokłosa. The performance was entitled “Prawa półkula (Right Hemisphere).” For more details, please see our previous post. Download: wt04-right-hemisphere.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 52.13MB / 5:28) LQ version is also available: [...]
20.02.2010, IMPART (ul. Mazowiecka 17) - This is the recording from the performance “IDIOTA albo TRANS (The Idiot, or Trans)” by Tomasz Bazan & Romuald Krężel. The performance was presented as the 3rd installment of “Wibracje Taneczne / Dance Vibrations.” Download: wt03-idiota.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 91.66MB / 9:34) LQ version is also [...]
22.01.2010, IMPART (ul. Mazowiecka 17) - The 2nd installment of “Wibracje Taneczne / Dance Vibrations” invited Teatr Dada von Bzdülöw (Katarzyna Chmielewska & Leszek Bzdyl) and SzaZa (Paweł Szamburski & Patryk Zakrocki) for the Wrocław premiere of their collaborative project: “Caffè Latte.” Download: wt02-caffe-latte.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 88.98MB / 9:21) LQ version [...]
16.01.2010, MASZROOM (ul. Ruska 34) - Selected fragments from the concert of FAT BURNING at the official opening of the club Maszroom. With BOND - Bass & Low Freq Modulation MUCHA - Drums GIBON - Guitar For more information and video, please see myspace.com/fatburningstep “Fat Burning” was previously seen in our podcast in the episode “From the [...]
04.12.2009, IMPART (ul. Mazowiecka 17) - this is the recording from the 1st installment of “Wibracje Taneczne / Dance Vibrations,” with the fragments of performances by Leszek Bzdyl, Harakiri Farmers, and Sławek Bendrat & Dominik Krawiecki. Download: wt01.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 88.35MB / 9:19) LQ version is also available: wt01_lq.mp4 (320×180 / [...]
The ARKA Theatre in Wrocław regularly organizes theatre workshops for people with intellectual disabilities or mental illness for the purpose of social and professional rehabilitation. Their public-funded project “Forum Możliwości (Forum of Possibility)” aims to extend their service to other cities in Lower Silesia, and in 2009, they organized the 2nd edition [...]
11.11.2009 at MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) - Digit-All-love is a Wrocław-based trip-hop band, and “Digit-All-love Soundsystem” is its chamber version, taking away the live drum, guitar and bass, and keeping only the vocal, strings and electronic sounds. This video features a new track from their upcoming 2nd album. With: Natalia Grosiak, Olga Kończak, [...]
This is a recording from the concert of a French singer Pierina Bencetti at RURA (ul. Łazienna 4) on 28.10.2009. The concert was dedicated to her good friend, Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993), a great composer of contemporary French popular songs. This concert was made possible by Alliance Française, Kogeneracja S.A. and [...]
On 26.09.2009, at the Wrocław Puppet Theatre (Teatr Lalek / pl. Teatralny 4), as a part of the European Day of Languages events, Alexandre Marquézy and Patrycja Łacina-Miarka performed a paper theatre play “Les frères corses (The Corsican Brothers)” in French. The project of the paper theatre at the Wrocław Puppet Theatre [...]
This is the recording from the Mandala Performance Festival 2009 (24.04-26.04.2009), recorded on 25.04.2009 at Galeria Miejska (ul. Kiełbaśnicza 28). The Mandala festival is an annual international art performance festival, and the themes of this year were 1) the meeting of art performance and choreography and 2) the question of identity and [...]
Once again, it is the season for cleaning our video backlog. For the next few weeks, we will be editing and publishing the materials from our archive. The first video in this summer clearance series is the recording from the concert of LILA at MLECZARNIA on 26.04.2009. LILA is a free-style jazz quartet [...]
Monday 06.04.2009, at OPT (Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych), Wrocław - Jazz drummer & composer Mike Reed from Chicago played a concert with his band “People, Places & Things.” Before the concert, he talked to us about the project “People, Places & Things” and the idea behind it. Download: m_reed.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / [...]
On Friday 20.03.2009, Nuru Kane and his band “Baye Falle Gnawa” played a concert at Jazz Club Rura. The music of Nuru Kane mixes the sound of West Africa with the rhythm of Maghreb. The concert took place as a part of Journées de la Francophonie 2009. Download: nuru_kane.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC [...]
Monday 16.03.2009, Teatr Lalek - at the gala evening of this year’s Journées de la Francophonie fesvial, a French dance company Marie-Laure Agrapart & Cie, led by dancer/choreographer Marie-Laure Agrapart, performed a piece entitled “Àuctor.” “Àuctor” takes its inspiration from the poetry of Anna Akhmatova, and the dance - performed here by [...]
On Tuesday 17.02.2009, Galeria ENTROPIA hosted a sound performance entitled “Revenant Sound,” led by John Grzinich & Patrick McGinley. “Revenant Sound” is an open project around site-specific acoustics and sounds. The project is “open” first of all to the different sites and their physical as well as acoustic uniqueness. It is also [...]
15.12.2008, BROWAR MIESZCZAŃSKI (ul. Hubska 44-48) - This is the recording from the last concert of “Enjoy Mondays 3” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”). The guest for the evening was avant-folk group Maćko Korba. Maćko Korba: Paulina Srzednicka - voice, violin Marek Przewłocki - traverso, gaita galega Sebastian Wielądek - bansuri, lire Maciej Kierzkowski - drum Maciej Cierliński - lire Download: macko_korba.mp4 (640×360 [...]
On Tuesday 13.01.2009, Berlin-based musician Barbara Morgenstern played a concert at OPT (Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych) in Wrocław. Morgenstern recently released her 5th album “bm,” and the concert was a part of its promotional tour. In our interview, she talks about her new album and also about improvisation in her live performance. Download: morgenstern_bm.mp4 (640×360 [...]
20.10.2008, OSSOLINEUM INSTITUTE (ul. Szewska 37) - Under the heading of “Terra Incognita III,” Zbigniew Pilch played various violin pieces from the 18th century. “Terra Incognita” is Pilch’s personal project, and it aims to present the compositions which are often confined in the academic and professional circles to the wider public. This [...]
14.10.2008, MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) - This is a video snippet from a free-jazz concert by Trzaska / Thomas / Zerang Trio. Featuring Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) in saxophone, Clayton Thomas (AU) in contrabass, and Michael Zerang (US) in percussion. Download: trzaska_trio_b.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 24.90MB / 2:47) LQ version is also available: [...]
12.10.2008, MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) - This is a video snippet from the opening reception for the exhibition of the photography by Światosław Wojtkowiak, the winner of Polish National Geographic Photo Competition 2007. The exhibition is open everyday from 18:00, through 27.11.2008. Download: mle_october08_1_b.mp4 (640×360 / H.264 / AAC / 15.81MB / 1:40) LQ version [...]
27.09.2008, FIRLEJ (ul. Grabiszyńska 56) - This is our second video podcast from Avant Music Festival (19.09.2008 - 27.10.2008), and we bring you the scenes from the concert of Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet “Beat Bag Bohemia.” Drum Quartet is Lucas Niggli’s one of the latest undertakings, and we asked him in the [...]
26.09.2008, MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) - The local multi-instrumental group “Małe Instrumenty“ played a late-night concert as a part of Avant Music Festival (19.09.2008 - 27.10.2008). “Małe Instrumenty” means “Small instruments,” and as its name indicates, the stage is filled with many small instruments; Some of them look like toys for children [...]
12.09.2008, Jazz Club RURA (ul. Łazienna 4) - An Oxford-based band Jonquil performed their first concert in Poland. The sound in live was much livelier than the recorded version (you can find the samples on their myspace page: www.myspace.com/jonquiluk), and in our interview, Hugo Manuel and Sam Scott from the band explain [...]
Last December, Exploding Star Orchestra played a concert in Wrocław and this week they are back in Poland. This time they are playing in Łodź, at a jazz club Jazzga, as a part of the Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures 2008. To give you a taste of their performance, we present [...]
09.07.2008, MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) - “Czesław Śpiewa” is a music project by Czesław Mozil, and at the occasion of its 4th birthday, Café Mleczarnia invited Czesław to play 2 concerts (09.07.08 & 10.07.08). This video is from the first day of the concerts. Download: czeslaw_spiewa.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 33.44MB / 6:19) Please use [...]
Wrocław Non Stop 08, Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych (ul. Wystawowa 1) - the video installation by Louis Rollinde - “W.EARTH” - was presented as one of the major events at this year’s Wrocław Non Stop Festival. The installation was inspired by the satellite images from the Google Earth, and Louis Rollinde worked on [...]
On 24.06.2008, KLUB WŁODKOWICA 21 (ul. Włodkowica 21) hosted the festival NowoBrzmienia (see our previous post). In our interview, the organizer Maciek Zakrzewski from Wrocławski Klub FORMATY explains the idea of the festival and introduces the bands featured in this event. For your pleasure, we also included in this video extensive shots [...]
In May 2008, Shakespeare Wrocław performed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the courtyard of Club Pracoffnia (ul. Więzienna 6). Shakespeare Wrocław is an amateur/student theatre group led by the director John White, and they perform each year one Shakespearean play in the original English dialogue (Read more about Shakespeare Wrocław and their [...]
27.04.2008, Club Bezsenność (ul. Ruska 51) - after their a-month-long tour to Germany and UK, Miloopa returned to the Wrocław stage. The concert featured Roli Mosimann, the producer of their 2nd album “Unicode.” Miloopa is a Wrocław-based Drum’n'Bass unit. Their music, however, is not limited to Drum’n'Bass: Miloopa incorporates many different music forms, [...]
The Japanese cult group Boris played a concert at FIRLEJ (ul. Grabiszyńska 56) on 08.05.2008. Before the concert, Jakub Pajek interviewed Atsuo, the drummer/vocalist of the group, in Japanese, and asked him about their work and artistic influences, and also about their new album “Smile.” Download: boris_interview.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 52.69MB / 9:51) For [...]
On 18.05.2008 at Café Mleczarnia (ul. Włodkowica 5), the exhibition by Anka Mierzejewska - “Ciacho w Mleczarni” – opened the 2-week long festival “Czyli Wrocław,” the first cultural initiative by Mleczarnia Foundation. The exhibition title “Ciacho w Mleczarni” is here given a double meaning: one is literally “cake (ciastko) in Mleczarnia” [...]
At the Mandala Performance Festival (25.04.2008 – 27.04.2008), a Canadian actress Sharon Feder presented a performance entitled “Nostalgia” In the interview after the performance, Feder shared with us some of the personal motivations behind the creation of this piece. Before the camera, she talks about her family history, homesickness, reflection on plural identities and [...]
This is the belated release of our last podcast episode on the second edition of “Enjoy Mondays” (”Polubisz Poniedziałki”) festival (08.10.07-17.12.07). The video features String Quartet MUSICARIUS, and the concert took place on 03.12.2007 at Ossolineum Institute (ul. Szewska 37). Download: em2007_06.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 8.99MB / 1:45)Please use Quicktime 7 or VLC [...]
This is the last podcast episode from this year’s Journées de la Francophonie (07.03-16.03.2008) in Wrocław. Arka Theatre presented a theatrical adaptation of 2 of the most famous tales by Charles Perrault: “Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)” and “Les Fées (Diamonds and Toads).” The play was made primarily for children, [...]
On 29.30.2008 at Ossolineum Hall - this evening’s concert was organized with the heading: “Early German Harpsichord.” In this video, you will see the fragments of a performance of the compositions by Georg Bochm (1661-1733) & Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704). Performing are Urszula Danielewicz (harpsichord), John Ma (violin) & Myriam [...]
On 15.03.2008, the concert of Nosfell took place as part of this year’s Journées de la Francophonie (07.03-16.03.2008) at Firlej. On stage, Nosfell put together simple audio-visual elements - light, voice, movement, etc. - and channelled them into a surprising harmony. Download: francophonie08_04.mp4 (H.264 / AAC /15.97MB / 3:05)Please use Quicktime 7 or [...]
13.03.2008 at Firlej - the evening’s programme featured two bands from France - Gong Gong and Sayag Jazz Machine. This episode of video podcast contains extracts from the multimedia performance by Sayag Jazz Machine. Download: francophonie08_03.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 9.94MB / 1:53)Please use Quicktime 7 or VLC Media Player for playback This work [...]
11.03.2008, Teatr Lalek - A’Corps dance company performed a piece entitled “Nous sommes tous…” for the general public. It was the second performance, following the one at the opening ceremony of Journées de la Francophonie the night before. The performance was offered for free, and many young people took advantage of the [...]
The first video podcast from this year’s Journées de la Francophonie (07.03-16.03.2008) presents the concert by Davy Sicard (08.03.2008 at Jazz Club Rura). The singer Davy Sicard was born in the Réunion Island and is currently living in France. He sang in the mixture of Réunionnaise Creole and French, and, although the lyrics [...]
The video recording from the opening of the exhibition “Forma jest pustką (The Form Is Emptiness)” by Olga Osadowska on 19.11.2007, Mleczarnia (ul. Włodkowica 5). It was the third exhibition of the 2nd edition of “Enjoy Mondays” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”) festival (08.10.07-17.12.07). Download: em2007_05.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 7.30MB / 1:25)Please use Quicktime 7 or [...]
The second concert of the “Enjoy Mondays” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”) festival (08.10.07-17.12.07) featured a newly formed wind-instrument quintet - La Forza Gentile. In this video, Marek Niewiedział from La Forza Gentile talks about their project and the motivation behind it. The concert “La Forza Gentile: Quintessence of Taste” took place on Monday 12.11.2007 at [...]
29.10.2007, MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) — the second exhibition of this year’s “Enjoy Mondays” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”) festival presented the graphic works by Adrianna Konopniak–Kaprowicz, with the title: “Faktura, struktura, skrzydło, papierowy neobarok (Invoice, Structure, Wing, Paper Neobaroque)”. Apart from the usual exhibition inside Mleczarnia, there was also an exhibition of graphic works contained [...]
On Monday 22.10.2007, at the refectory of Ossolineum (ul. Szewska 37), Zbigniew Pilch (violin) and Marta Niedźwiecka (harpsichord) played selected 18th-century compositions (please see the full programme for the details). This concert was presented as part of the “Enjoy Mondays” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”) festival. The second concert of the festival - “La Forza Gentile: [...]
Here is the first video episode from this year’s “Enjoy Mondays” (“Polubisz Poniedziałki”) mini-festival. The opening reception of the painting exhibition - “Ikony codzienności (Icons of Everyday Life)” by Ireneusz Pieczonka – at MLECZARNIA (ul. Włodkowica 5) on 08.10.2007 was accompanied by a violin concert. Download: em2007_01.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 6.13MB / 1:13)Please [...]
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