The first episode of our Mandala Festival III (19.04-25.04.2007) video series presents a view from the exhibition of ceramic works by a French ceramicist Alain Gaudebert. In the interview, he tells us about his works (in French - the English translation of the interview is available below). Download: gaudebert.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / [...]

  A short video from the Artistic Freedays back in May. Download: majowka.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 8.17MB / 1:35) Please use Quicktime 7 or VLC Media Player for playback This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License by Wrocław Weekly

  The voice of Grzegorz Karnas is one of a kind in today’s Polish jazz scene. This episode of our weekly podcast presents the recording from his last concert in Wrocław (29.03.2007 at Jazz Club RURA). In our interview, Karnas talks about his music and his vocal art. Video download (iPod video compatible): karnas.mp4 (H.264 [...]

  Last year Teatr Arka adapted E. Ionesco’s “La Leçon” and presented it with the dialog mixing Polish and French languages. This year, they adapted Molière’s “Le Tartuffe” (”Świętoszek” in Polish) in the same manner. In the interview, the actor Alexandre Marquézy talks about the translation of Molière and the advantage of [...]

  The fourth episode of our Journées de la Francophonie 2007 video coverage presents the scenes from the concert of the French jazz quartet Lady Bird Jazz’tet at the local jazz club RURA (24.03.2007). Video download (iPod video compatible): ladybird.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 26.20MB / 4:38) Please use Quicktime 7 or VLC Media Player for [...]

  Here is the video snapshots from the last concert of the alt. rock group George Dorn Screams (21.02.2007, Bezsenność). As Wojtek Trempala from the band explains in the interview, the sound of George Dorn Screams is a combination of the alt. rock instrumental tunes and the haunting female vocal. The resulting sound [...]

  The third podcast episode from this year’s Journées de la Francophonie (18.03-25.03.2007) presents the performance “Génération Kadors” by the dance company NGC25. This recording is from their performance at the opening evening of Francophonie (19.03.2007 at Teatr LALEK). Video download (iPod video compatible): ngc25.mp4 (H.264 / AAC / 14.33MB / 2:42) Please use Quicktime 7 [...]

  This is the video recording from the concert of Husky at Firlej (27.01.2007). After a few years of silence, Husky finally released their second album “Zgadnij” (”Guess” in English) at the end of 2006, and this concert was part of their album promotion tour. In the interview after the concert, the composer [...]

  On 29.03.2007, Schola Teatru Wegajty with Wrocław choirs will perform “Ludus Passionis” – the liturgical drama about Passion of Jesus Christ from manuscript Carmina Burana (13th century). We visited their rehearsals and interviewed the key personnel of this production about its play and music. Ludus Passionis will be performed at ST. JOHN THE [...]

  The second episode of our video podcast from Journées de la Francophonie 2007 features Yeti (23.03.2007 @ Jazz club RURA). Their songs are all in French, and their concert itself is presented like a show in French. When everything is in French, it is not really clear how the non-French-speaking public would [...]