EU presidency culture launch
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
27.06.2011 13:17
A wide range of cultural events to mark the Polish presidency beginning on 1 July are being planned in major European capitals, as well as in Beijing and Tokyo.
A total of some 400 exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and festivals are scheduled.
The highlights include a tour of the I, CULTURE orchestra which brings together musicians from several post-Soviet countries under a Polish conductor, the commemoration of the composer Karol Szymanowski and the writers Stanislaw Lem and Czesław Miłosz, and a series of documentary films entitled The Guide to Poles.
In Brussels itself, around 60 events are planned, starting with a concert on July 1 during which the accordion Motion Trio will symbolically take over the presidency from a Hungarian musician.
On July 6 and 7, the Biuro Podróży or Travel Bureau theatre company will give open-air performances of its latest production Planet Lem, which draws on the legacy of the famous Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.
Szymanowski’s opera King Roger, which premieres in Warsaw’s National Opera on 1 July, moves to Brussels on 10 September. (mk)
"Guide to the Poles" from Culture.pl on Vimeo.