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#COMMEMORATION

Warsaw Rising 70th Anniversary

August 1st is one of the most remembered days in Warsaw. On this day we recall the dramatic events of summer 1944 when people of Warsaw made a dramatic attempt to liberate the city from German occupation. However heroic was their fight, the uprising ended after 63 days of bloody fights with capitulation of the polish units. The rising is being judged in a various ways by historians but on that day regardless to political affiliations we pay respects to those who faught and those who fell in Warsaw during that hot summer of ’44. State celebrations are accompanied by concerts, sport events etc. In the evening communal singing will take place at Piłsudski’s square – people will perform so called Forbidden Songs, rebelious songs from the war time.

Where: Plac Piłsudskiego
Map: click to open
When: Friday, August 1st 8.00pm
How much: free
Details: click here 

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#COMMEMORATION

Ships Parade

On August the 1st at 5pm sirens howl, pedestrians stop in honour of the Warsaw’s insurgants . Every year the anniversary starts to be more and more boisterous and the memory of the Uprising starts to be commemorated in the new ways. This time you have a chance to admire ship parade that will start to move at 4.20 next to the castle and will pass the boroughs that happened to be the battlefields 70 years ago. The column will be formed out of different units, sailboats and motorboats . They’ll all stop at 5pm at Warsaw’s Rowing Society, where the sailors will launch sirens and fire flares.

Where: Start at the foothill of the Castle ; main events at Warszawskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie
Map: click to open
When: August 1st, 5pm
How much: free

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#EXHIBITION

The Universe is calling!

Cold War era was a time of enormous fascination with science and new technolgies. Astronautics, robotics, biocybernetics where the fields of sharp Soviet-American rivalry. Great hopes and fears awaken by scientific discoveries reflected in arts and literature of that time. Just to mention Stanisław Lem’s or Philip K. Dick novels (by he way the latter was convinced that Lem wasn’t a real person but a codename for KGB section). „Kosmos Wzywa!” exhibit presents ambiguous ties between artists with science, technology and industry wich were exploited by communist propaganda. While cooperation between artist and scientists turned out not to be very productive it left some reminiscence in the industrial design.

Where: Zachęta Sztuk Pięknych, Pl.Małachowskiego 3
Map: click to open
When: 1.08-28.09.2014
How much: 15 pln normal , 10 pln students: free on thursdays
Details: click here 

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See how Varsovians commemorate one of the most important dates in the our city’s calendar and go to the exhibit that will launch You straight into space