Radiowroclove.com own wine show. Everything you need to understand wine better and to enjoy it even more! Hosted by a man mad for wine – Maciek Klimowicz. Listen on Tuesdays and Thursdays after 8 pm. Fot. Przemek Nowak/Formaty.pl
shiny!
It’s shiny, made of two kinds of precious metals and for the next two months, it will be Wrocław’s official currency. The “dukat” will soon be available in gift shops and museums across Wrocław. The list of shops in which the currency will be accepted will be published shortly, but for now, the coin is already looking valuable to collectors.
This is the first currency introduced by the town since 1630, when its last “dukat” was produced. This is without doubt one reason why the coin collectors are so excited over that – but there is also some real-world value connected with Wrocław’s new currency. One “dukat” will be worth about 7 złoty, and it will be accepted by many of the town’s museums and gift shops.
Wrocław is not the first Polish town to produce its own currency: Rybnik has done so for over a year now, and for Gdańsk, the money earned through its “talar” came in handy during restoration works on St. Catherine’s church. The authorities here in Wrocław are therefore optimistic, and for a good reason.
“Europe – It’s our history” is not what you could call a standard, things-behind-glass, uninspiring museum visit. The exibition, which you can visit every day in Wrocław, is designed around a common and popular theme: the integration of Europe from since the Rome Treaty of 1945. What is uncommon, though, is the way the story is told.
27 people, from 27 EU countries, have been chosen and allowed to tell their stories – and they always have a lot to say. You can hear from the people who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall, or from a Polish hero from the Gdańsk Shipyard. Apart from that, the exhibition features photographs, video clips, charts and everyday objects, that take you through the history of unifying Europe with style and gusto you would never expect from any museum.
“Europe: It’s our History” is open to visitors every day from 9 a.m. till 7 p.m. (8 p.m. during the weekends), until the 5th of August. The place is the Centennial Hall in Wrocław, 1 Wystawowa Street. Tickets range from 6 zł (discount) to 12 (normal), and there’s a special offer: for 50 zł you get a multi-ticket, which gives you access to the exhibition, the zoo (across the road), the aquapark (four solid hours of water fun) and the cinema (the one in Pasaż Grunwaldzki).
But that’s not all! We will be giving out free books connected with the exhibition next week. They will be big, colourful and chock-full of photographs, so you can listen to us freely and not get distracted by too much written word 
We’re expecting a big amount, and we will be handing them out – absolutely free – on air. Tune in to “Breaking Muse” every day to grab your copy!
The King is dead, and the tweets are flown.
Today’s “Breaking Muse” is devoted to Michael Jackson – The Breaking Muse. Listen to us and keep in touch.
If Twitter was good for rallying Iran protesters, it sure is good enough for mourning the mysterious, the ephemeral, the King of Pop. Below is a short collection of our friends, colleagues, the people we admire – and just completely randomly stumbled upon – trying to squeeze their grief (or shock, or respect, or irritation…) in 140 characters. Some of the posts below are commentaries on what was going on in the streets of L.A. the moment the news broke out – others are simply emotional reactions to the news. Warning: some strong language and plenty of cheesiness follows.
creative_order MichaelJackson. Such a shock! RIP MJ you inspired so many fans and artists alike with your amazing contribution to music and pop culture.
zoetica :
neilhimself (Neil Gaiman):
- People died: people die every day. It’s what they do. In truth, none of today’s deaths hurt me, although they upset friends.
If you’ve got anything to say about Michael Jackson (and we assume you do, because you’re like, reading this), let us know: info(at)radiowroclove.com , or IM us: radiowroclove.com at Skype. You can also follow us on Twitter, and obviously, spend the rest of the day listening to MJ’s music and our special show on radiowroclove.com .
Today’s “Breaking Muse” on radiowroclove.com is devoted to Michael Jackson – The Breaking Muse. Tune in and listen to us.
This was the news that brought down Twitter, slowed down Google and for an hour or so, left the wired populace awake and hitting their “reload” buttons frantically. It’s still impossible to know for sure what happened. What we can do for you, however, is to arrange the confused (and confusing) reports of Michael Jackson’s death in some sort of order.
The first source to break the news about Jacko’s death was TMZ.com, a celebrity gossip website, around 11.46 p.m. CET. The paparazzi shots made by their reporters were immediately shown by cable TVs across U.S. Other news agencies and websites held back until other sources would confirm what was going on. Reports of MJ being “rushed to hospital” and being “not okay” were quickly (though momentarily) followed by news about “a coma”, until finally, around 00.29 a.m. CET, Associated Press reported Michael Jackson’s death.
The first moments – and, frankly, the situation until now – have been chaotic and filled with uncertainty. Security was allegedly blocking all entrances to the emergency room of the hospital, whilst outside, grief-stricken people began to gather. We will certainly hear more about the circumstances surrounding Jackson’s death in the days to come.
This is it. (source: myconcertarchive.com)
Today’s show on radiowroclove.com is entirely devoted to Michael Jackson – the King of Pop, and his music. Tune in and listen to our guests – musicians, journalists, artists etc. – discussing their memories of Jacko and how he influenced their lives. You will have a chance to listen to Michael Jackson’s greatest hits and appreciate the impact of his persona on pop music. Live commentary, interviews, emotions – this may be difficult to handle, but equally difficult to miss out.
Contact us with anything related to that special day: your memories, reactions, opinions. Email us at info(at)radiowroclove.com , IM us on Skype: radiowroclove.com , or follow us on Twitter: radiowroclove . Keep checking the page for updates, and stay tuned to our special Breaking Muse.
Survival 7 logo
The Four Domes’ Pavillion on Wystawowa street has been rarely used so far. Tomorrow, a festival of young artists is taking over the space for three days – “Survival 7″, a Young Art Festival, is going to take place there.
The festival is a place to admire over 40 works of art of Polish and foreign artists – ranging from video art to modern painting. The organizers’ main idea was surprise: many of the works presented will invite participation, require finding (there’s a special Survival map to help with that) or appear in unexpected places.
The exhibitions will open every day at noon. Entry is free. The official opening of “Survival 7″ takes place on Thursday, at 6pm, in the 4 Domes’ Pavillion on Wystawowa.
Official Website of the Festival
“Blueberry Garden”, an independent game by Erik Svedäng, has been awarded the title of “The Best Independent Game of 2009″ during the 2009 Independent Games Festival.
The game is described as “a short experimental game about curiosity and exploration” and sells for as little as 5 dollars on its official website. Below you can see a sneak peek trailer of the game:
\”Blueberry Garden\”, the best independent game of 2009.
This should be interesting for you if you’ve come to town to look for a job. Economic crisis or not, companies in Wrocław are hiring – and big-time at that. Capgemini, a major French company, is seeking to employ 100 engineers and consultants here, and Opera Software, a Norwegian company known for its web browser, is looking for programmers. It seems the people in Wrocław are doing a good job – the employers are happy and looking for more. Give yourselves a round of applause, give your CV a boost – and go get those jobs before somebody else takes them!
RadioWroclove started at midnight, June 1. The first broadcast programme was “The Wisest Man in the World”.
RadioWroclove.com is the first English-speaking station in Poland that broadcasts round the clock. The place we reach you from is Wrocław – the city of meetings that has always been open to a mixture of cultures, languages and religions. The city that spins the most twisted – but the most fascinating – stories imaginable, and where the people are still trying to work out the true meaning of the word “identity”.
RadioWroclove deals with a wide range of issues, sometimes seriously, more often not. Bitter-sweet, sweet-and-sour, sour-Polish, Polish-Polish, Polish-English, English-Swedish, Swedish-Asian, Asian-Czech, Czech-European, European-traditional, traditional-modern, modern-analogue, analogue-digital, etc, etc, etc. Anything, really. As long as it’s interesting.
We want to reach you, wherever you are, be it Wrocław, Dublin, Seoul or Bhutan. As long as you understand – or really want to understand – English (the fact that you can read this is a good sign). And have access to the Internet.
You want to visit Poland, on business or just to get away from it all – we’ll help you get your bearings and keep you up to date with what’s latest in culture, arts and entertainment here. You’re planning to come specifically to Wrocław – or Prague, or Berlin, or any major city of this part of Europe for that matter – we’ll be there for you. Currently visiting the area? Excellent – there’s no better way to learn what to do and where to go while you’re here than download RadioWroclove.com on your laptop. Or perhaps you are an English-speaking resident here, an expat or simply a student learning the language – that’s even better. We’ll keep you posted without making you dig for info in countless sources or boring you to death. You don’t fall into any of the above categories? Don’t despair. If you just enjoy listening to something dynamic and enjoyable without risking brain damage, plus you appreciate good music – welcome aboard!
Speaking of music. We’re into positive tunes that don’t irritate but keep you awake. We play old and new numbers that commercial stations don’t because… well, because they are commercial stations.
Do we speak perfect English? Probably not, but who does, eh? We try, though, being thoroughly educated and all… We even know words like “thoroughly”. Note: if you do come across the odd mistake, that’s probably because we’ve thrown it in on purpose – for fun or to keep you alert.
Photo: Jan Kiełczewski
Your one-stop source for witty banter with a healthy dose of absurdity and live music to boot! Listen in if you’re brave enough and thou shalt be rewarded. Mic’n’Angelo. Mondays, 9.00 pm – 11.00 pm.
Having lived and studied in the UK, the hosts are fascinated by the English language culture and music in particular. They have therefore taken it upon themselves to promote it using unconventional methods.
Conscious music choices, live performances on air, as well as lively interaction with the listeners and correspondents in different countries, altogether account for two hours of continuous entertainment. The show is aimed at anyone willing to enjoy quality music while, at the same time, having a bit of a laugh.
Listen to Mic’n’Angelo. Monday 9.00 pm – 11.00 pm.
Invited by RadioWroclove, Kutiman will visit Poland. He will come especially for us to Wroclaw from Tel Aviv. Meet Kutiman in EpiCentre, June 19 at 9pm.
Ophir Kutiel was born (1982) in Jerusalem and grew up in Zichron Yaacov. He studied piano since the age of six, and then drums and guitar at age 14. When Kutiel was 18, he moved to Tel Aviv to study Jazz at Rimon Music College.
While working at a local convenience store in Tel Aviv, Kutiel tuned into a college radio station that was playing music that was much different than the classical jazz he had been used to playing. Soon after, Sabbo, another Israeli artist and current music partner, introduced him to afrobeat and funk, including the sounds of James Brown and Fela Kuti. His obsession with Fela Kuti and the fact that his last name was similar led him to create the stage-name of Kutiman. He traveled to Jamaica to research reggae and afrobeat and work with Stephen and Damien Marley.
In 2009 Kutiman released ThruYOU, an online music video project mixed from samples of YouTube videos. After disclosing his work to just twenty friends, Kutiman’s project spread virally across the web, racking up more than one million views in less than a week. [9] After viewing ThruYOU, open source advocate Lawrence Lessig praised the project as a pioneer of a new, less regulated form of media, saying “If you come to the Net armed with the idea that the old system of copyright is going to work just fine here, this more than anything is going to get you to recognize: you need some new ideas.”
The differences between Wrocław and Tel Aviv. By Kutiman
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Kutiman in Epicentre. June 19. Part 1
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Kutiman in Epicentre. June 19. Part 2
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Bio from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman
Photo credit to http://www.myspace.com/kutiman
More infos:
http://www.przekroj.pl/ludzie_sylwetki_artykul,4575.html
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1886626,00.html
http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/news.php/6130/Kutiman-rzadzi-na-YouTube
Brave Festival, organized since 2005 by The Song of the Goat Theatre in Wrocław, Poland, is a festival of brave people, people who speak about where they come from, what their values are and what their tradition and spirituality is. It is a festival not about works of art, but about art through which it is possible to save and protect thousands of abandoned and forlorn cultures and people. That is why we called it “Brave Festival – Against Cultural Exile”.
Each edition of Brave Festival focuses on a different aspect of either humanity, art or region of the world. That is why our previous editions were so far called: “Magic Voices”, “Asian Voices”, “Drowned Songs”, “Rituals: Out of Africa” “Prayers of the World”. This year we would like to draw our audience’s attention to the incredible richness of various forms related to the art of praying, worshipping and meditation, and we therefore want to present a number of authentic and little known rituals, ceremonies, sacred songs and rites from Asia, Africa and Europe. This is the reason why we have titled the fifth edition of the festival “Prayers of the World”.
Brave Festival 2009 is held in Wrocław, Poland between July 3rd and 11th 2009. The program consists of performances, concerts, workshops, exhibitions and film screenings, as well as artists’ meetings with the audience, will allow our viewers to approach and get deeper understanding of various forms of expressing one’s spirituality coming from all over the world. We will thus have a chance to see, among others, a Zikr ritual performed by an all-women’s group from Georgia, libations to the milungu spirit done by the Gogo tribe members from Tanzania, Korean shamans and their mudang rituals, Corsican polyphonies based on Requiem, as well as the Vimbuza healing dance from Malawi, Ahellil chants of the Berbers of Algeria, and the Azer songs of Mugham (the latter three representing art from the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List).
Our aim is to prevent expelling people from their own cultures and sensitivity. Brave Festival is a festival of people who do not accept the models promoted by mass culture, people searching for the deepest possible sources of inspiration – the inner one. In relations with such people and traditions we want to promote diversity, multiculturalism and peace.
We believe that intercourse and an attempt to understand distant traditions is only one of the manners to preserve cultures. The other is charity, which means that all our revenues from ticket sales support the activities of Rokpa International, an organization running educational and cultural projects in various parts of the world. The aim of Rokpa is to raise children, who are aware of their identity, from their early years till adulthood. This is how we want to save cultures, traditions and languages in a very practical and palpable way.
Listen to Brave’s sample music
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More infos at www.bravefestival.pl
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