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International Theatre Festival 'Malta'
For 15 years Poznan, the biggest city in Wielkopolska region transforms to a great theatre stage at the beginning of July. Poznan's courtyards, squares, streets and even a Malta Lake become an offset to the greatest modern performances of theatre, music and visual arts.
'Malta' Festival was set up to exist and play the role of a scene for off-theatres which do not derive from the main, popular theatrical trends, for the contemporary performances and interesting concerts, and finally, for the pieces whose authors experimented with the art's pattern and visualization. Time has showed that this type of event can't be just a small, local happening - its wide already program had been widening more and more to become finally a huge international festival.
Today's 'Malta' program divides into three parts:
- main theatrical program of innovatory performances of outdoor and street theatre groups from all over the world
- MALTA OFF, which is a program created specially for the most interesting phenomenon of theatre, music and visual arts of the young artistic circles. This program's additional attraction is a reward adjudged by journalists, called 'OFF-eusz', which is also an invitation for the next year's 'MALTA' Festival edition
- Poznan on Lake Malta, which is a place of performance of new theatrical and ballet arts that have been lately created in Poznan
Apart from these sections, you can also find there many presentations of Drama Centre from the Polish Theatre in Poznan, which is a festival created not only for watching the performances but also meeting with their authors amongst who there are many great artists (e.g. Jewgienij Griszkowiec) from all over the world.
'Malta' had several worldwide theatrical troupes over: La Fura dels Baus, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Compagnie du Songe, Plasticiens Volants and many others.
http://www.malta-festival.pl/en/
International Theatre Festival 'Dialogue-Wroclaw'
The festival first took place in 2001 and goes on every two years. The festival's main purpose is to unite the theatrical Europe. Europe, which unites itself, but is still differential regarding history and culture.
Dialogue. A dialogue between artists who can exchange there their experiences and diagnosis on the most important phenomenons in nowadays-European theatre world. That was the aim of the festival's director Krystyna Meissner. Each day of the festival is a great performance of one Polish and one foreign spectacle and many different discussions on the traditions of European theatre, the influence of different cultures to each other, Eastern and Western theatres forming and their trends and the way of inciting young spectators to became active in the theatre as a part of their culture.
The International Theatre Festival 'Dialogue-Wroclaw' is a place where the most remarkable European artists meet. There have been already guests from Russia, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain and many others. They meet here in Wroclaw, as this city is a kind of borderland of many different European cultures. This is the place where they meet, permeate themselves and finally join together.
http://www.festival-dialog-wroclaw.pl
International Street Art Festival
The International Street Art Festival is a significant outdoor event dedicated to a great number of people.
Every year Warsaw becomes a centre of nowadays, modern culture which is here presented by using, new dynamic patterns. The culture goes out of theatres, museums and art galleries into the streets and city squares, stadium and almost twenty other popular places in Warsaw like RKS Skra Stadium, Plac Zamkowy, The Old Town, Agrykola Park, Pola Mokotowskie or Lapidarium.
The Street Art festival is accessible to all the spectators - not only the local public but also over a million people from all over the world, ahead with the tourists. They may become active participants of many festival outdoor performances.
The festival is an unique cultural event, which includes several days of street alternative performances of theatre, music, film, dance and circus. The happenings' creators use the elements of Warsaw infrastructure like tunnels, metro stations, bus stops and trade passages which not only play the role of stage design but sometimes are also a heroes of the events.
The first edition of the festival took place in 1993 and only three Polish theatre troupes had been showing their pieces. The time has shown that this kind of festival is necessary because people are hungry of culture. Thus, the festival became more and more popular abroad. Many theatre troupes have visited the festival e.g. from Spain, Belgium, France, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Ukraine, Argentine, Italy and many others. Above two thousand artists from over 150 theatres had been presenting their pieces.
The festival became a magnificent international event and is being promoted in the most popular radio and TV stations.
http://www.sztukaulicy.pl
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