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#MUSIC

Jozef van Wissem at Pardon, To Tu

Have you seen ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ by Jim Jarmusch? One of the most intriguing elements of the film is the music score composed by – yes, you’re guessing it right – Jozef van Wissem. He even got the ‘Cannes Soundtrack Award’ for it. Apart from that Wissem, who plays the lute, has released 12 albums and despite his music being strongly influenced by renaissance and baroque tradition, he has performed on such festivals as All Tomorrow’s Parties or Primavera in Barcelona.
The Warsaw venue of Wissem’s concert is a very intimate club so come early to get a good seat!

Where: Pardon, To Tu
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When: Tuesday, 10 June, 8:30pm
How much: 20 zł
Details: click here

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#MULTIMEDIA SHOW

Master of Polish Poster celebrated

Henryk Tomaszewski, one of the classics of Polish poster art, was born exactly 100 years ago – on 10 June 1914. To celebrate this anniversary Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts prepared a special multimedia presentation of his works in the courtyard of the Academy: just off Krakowskie Przedmieście, exactly in front of the gate to University of Warsaw main campus. The show is part of ‘Akademia Otwarta’, the annual celebration of the Academy’s students.

Where: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych
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When: Tuesday, 10 June, 9am-10pm
How much: free!
Details: click here

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#MUSEUM

Can poor advertisment be good art?

To get the joke in this exhibition’s name- Typo-Polo- you have to realize what disco polo was. Well, that was one of the most popular types of music in Poland in 1990s. Think of countryside wedding songs arranged for keyboards and here it is! Disco polo bands sold hundreds of thousands cds (or cassettes, to be precise!) but they quite obviously remain a symbol of kitsch and bad music taste.
The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art takes a look at a parallel phenomenon: home-made banners, posters and ads that were supposed to help emerging Polish entrepreneurs of the 1990s get through with their message in public space. As it’s easy to guess, the results were not works of typographic art.

Where: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej (Museum of Contemporary Art)
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When: Tue-Sun, 12pm-8pm, until 15 June 2014
How much: free!
Details: click here

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Compare first-rate Polish posters and proto-capitalist home-made ads or listen to the lute master in a cosy venue. All this on Tuesday in Warsaw.