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Wrocław – European Capital of Culture 2016

In 2016, two cities were selected to be European Capitals of CultureSan Sebastián in the Southern Basque Country and WROCŁAW, in Silesia (Poland). 
The inauguration ceremony for Wrocław-European Capital of Culture took place on 15 January.  Over the course of three days, almost one hundred cultural events – running the gamut from exhibitions on architecture to jazz concerts – were held across the city as part of the largest cultural event ever held in Wrocław. 
>>> The full programme of Wrocław-European Capital of Culture can be found HERE 

The Wrocław 2016’s curators are: Chris BALDWIN (performances), Michał BIENIEK (visual art), Agnieszka FRANKÓW-ŻELAZNY (music) et Jarosław FRET (theater).




          Wrocław 2016 is coming to Belgium!          

As part of events to promote WROCŁAW 2016, the Wrocław National Forum of Music (Narodowe Forum Muzyki we Wrocławiu, NFM) will be the special guest at the KLARAFESTIVAL 2016 – Festival van Vlaanderen in Brussels which will take place from 9 until 23 March. It will participate in the following events:

  • The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Agnieszka FRANKÓW-ŻELAZNY, Music Curator of Wrocław 2016, will sing in the premiere of …And you must suffer/St John Passion performed by the Belgian Baroque orchestra B-Rock conducted by Andreas SPERING (coproduction NFM/Klarafestival)

>>> Kaaitheater, Brussels
>>> 10 > 12 March 2016
>>> Find out more on www.polishculture/AndYouMustSuffer_en 

  • On 13 March, the NFM Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir will perform the music of Zbigniew PREISNER composed for Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI’s DEKALOG films to mark the 20th anniversary of the director’s death. The composer himself will conduct the orchestra
    The concert will be accompanied by a conference on the music of Krzysztof KIEŚLOWSKI’s films, led by Nicholas REYLAND, a musicologist from Keele University (United Kingdom).

(It’s also worth noting that CINEMATEK will be screening the ten DEKALOG films at Flagey in their original language with FR/NL subtitles from 9 until 13 March).

>>> Flagey
>>> 9 > 13 March 2016 : cycle Dekalog
>>> 13 March 2016 : conference at 14:00 and concert at 20:00
>>> Find out more on: www.polishculture.eu/Dekalog_en

  • The NFM Choir will also perform at the gala concert organised by Bozar Music during which the Budapest Festival Orchestra, directed by Iván FISCHER, will play Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony.

>>> Center for Fine Arts – BOZAR (Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels)
>>> Wednesday 16 March 2016 – 20:00 (broadcast live sur Radio Klara and on 21 March on Musiq3 at 20:00)
>>> €92 | 68 | 48 | 22
Online box office
>>> Find this concert on Klarafestival’s website and on Bozar’s website 

  • Please also note that the Wrocław POLISH CELLO QUARTET will perform for the first time four cello pieces by four young European composers, including Artur ZAGAJEWSKI at Bozar, which are variations on the Vexilla Regis from Franz Liszt’s Via crucis.

>>> BOZAR
>>> Tuesday 23 March 2016 – 20:00
>>> Find out more on: www.polishculture.eu/PolishCelloQuartet_en




A few word about NFM
Over the course of the last few years, Poland has invested heavily in museums and cultural spaces: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), the European Solidarity Centre (Gdansk) and the stadia which hosted Euro 2012 (Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw) are but a few examples, to which one must add the building of the Wroclaw National Forum of Music (NFM), the brainchild of the architectural firm Kuryłowicz & Associates. Many ensembles find that this building, with is wonderful acoustics, is the perfect setting for them: one can cite the NFM Philharmonic Orchestra, the NFM Choir, the Polish Cello Quartet, the Lutosławski Quartet… the list goes on. The NFM also plays host to festivals of international renown, such as the Wratislavia Cantans, the Musica Polonica Nova, the Musica Electronica Nova or Jazztopad.


Pictures by Łukasz Rajchert. All rights reserved.


+++ http://www.nfm.wroclaw.pl/



Amongst the events which will be held this year in Wrocław, we would like to focus on one in particular today. An initiative launched last year in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015, it thus built a cultural bridge between the two cities: the concert Contemporary Sound of Poland. The Polish group Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, conducted by Szymon BYWALEC, used Mons as the stage on which to present pieces by contemporary Polish composers, chiefly from Silesia, the region where Wrocław is located (Henryk Mikołaj GÓRECKI, Pawel MYKIETYN, Agata ZUBEL, Cezary DUCHNOWSKI, Przemysław SCHELLER and Jarosław MAMCZARSKI). In Wrocław, it will be contemporary music from Wallonia which will be celebrated! 
More information soon.

+++ The 2015 project on our website: HERE
+++ The project paved the way for the publication of a bilingual (FR/NL) brochure entitled “Imaginary Landscape. Musique nouvelle de Silésie” available here:

In 2015, the Polish Institute of Brussels collaborated with the Hainaut-Mons Club de la Presse and the Mundaneum for a project devoted to literary reportage, a highly-developed genre in Poland. Geared towards intercultural dialogue, it was part and parcel of the European Capital of Culture events. 
+++ Find out more about this project on our website HERE 

On this occasion, we also put together a brochure:

>>> The Wrocław 2016 inauguration programme is here www.wroclaw2016.pl/weekendotwarcia/

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