When summer comes to its inevitable end, Poles start foraging for fungi. But what exactly is it that has Poles so mushroom mad? And how can one get started? Here's Culture.pl's guide to mushroom ...
In honour of the start of the European Championships this summer, here’s a look back at some Polish athletes who not only achieved great success, but broke records in their sports. From skiing in the ...
Freedom of speech was non-existent in Poland under the communist regime. Censorship often exercised the power to block films, articles, books and basically all other forms of public expression. The ...
‘Let’s not live from guest to guest’, Wielopolska warned. Stryjeńska emphasized that the most important thing is to ‘control your anger when you get into a rage’. Ipohorska in turn recalled the times ...
The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...
Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...
Exhibitions, concerts, performances, publications, lectures, conferences… These and other events organised by dozens of museums, theatres, galleries, and other cultural and educations institutions ...
In the 17th century, Wojciech Bobowski lived as a captive in the Ottoman Empire. However, he was not idle in his captivity: he created the first ever anthology of traditional Ottoman music and ...
In this 19th-century tale of hypnosis, women’s rights and shocking experiments, Culture.pl describes Napoleon Cybulski’s road to discovering adrenaline, the ‘hormone of fight or flight’. Napoleon ...
O koncertach i festiwalach, kompozytorskiej codzienności i europejskiej tożsamości. Kim byłby Paweł Szymański, gdyby nie ...
O życiu muzycznym w Ukrainie, marzeniach repertuarowych i swoich rodzinnych zwyczajach opowiada Yaroslav Shemet, dyrektor ...
Napisany i wyreżyserowany przez Jessego Eisenberga "Prawdziwy ból" to opowieść o rodzinnej przeszÅ‚oÅ›ci, traumie i pamiÄ™ci ...