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International Festival of Theatre Improvisation JO! 2024 in Torun
The seventh edition of the International Festival of Theatre Improvisation JO! From July 25, 2024, the Dwor Artusa stage will host groups and theatres from all over Poland and guests from the world.
Prepare for four evenings of fantastic entertainment, lots of laughter, emotions and surprises.
Impro is a modern field of theatre and a method of creative work, enabling actors to create live performances without a previously written script. The multitude of its forms is as lush as the imagination of improvisers.
During the Festival you will experience many views – short and comedy, long and more dramatic, and even musical!
A detailed program:
· Thursday 25 July, h. 18:30
· The Bachelor's Evening (Spectacle in Polish)
· Passion and Pain – Lee White x Paula Galimberti (Spectacle in English)
· Oxcellant... Beat to beat by Jeff Michalski (Spectacle in English)
· Woman Up (Spectacle in English)
· Friday July 26, h. 18:30
· Inhased (Spectacle in Polish)
· SzaFoFe (Spectacle in Polish)
· Improv Musical Mixer Team by Sacha Hoedemaker
· Hotel Superior by Andrew Hefler (Spectacle in English)
· Saturday 27 July, h. 18:30
· Impy (Spectacle in Polish)
· Improkration (Spectacle in Polish)
· Prism (Spectacle in English)
· The Scramble by Joe Bill (Spectacle in English)
· Sunday 28 July, h. 18:30
· Seniorization (Spectacle in Polish)
· Mikrokosmos by Małgorzata Różalska (Spectacle in English)
· Huntress and Healer (Spectacle in English)
· Paradigm by Joe Bill x Lee White (Spectacle in English)
Season in the Culture Park in Torun
The next edition of the Park Kultury project - a concert and film screening as part of summer cinema is planned in the park amphitheater in Bydgoszcz Przedmieście.
We invite you to the event on Saturday, July 27, 2024, beginning at 19:00. The admission is free.
It will be the third meeting with culture as part of a project organized from May to August 2024 in Toruń. This time in the cinema “under the cloud” in cooperation with Monolith Films, the organizers will display an absolute film classic. Six Oscars, 7 Golden Globes, 5 awards from the British Film Academy: the musical comedy-drama “La La Land”. On the screen in the park amphitheater in Bydgoszcz Przedmieście, we will see Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the Los Angeles landscape escalation directed by Damien Chazelle. Start of the session at an hour. 20:00.
Earlier, the audience will be introduced to the musical atmosphere by the excellent Toruń singer, composer and songwriter, vocal trainer Sara Pach-Szulc. The artist will perform as part of the Park Culture project at an hour. 19:00.
US Army orchestra will play on the Bolesławiec Market Square
Orchestra of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army – The Lone Star Brass Band will play for you on July 27 at 19:00 in the Boleslawiec Market Square.
And on August 2, we invite you to the square behind Boleslawiec Cultural Commune, where at 19:00 the Cavazos Jazz Combo jazz quartet consisting of musicians of the orchestra will perform. This performance will be pleathed by the artists 60. International Ceramic and Sculpture Open Air.
Monte Cassino battle patriotic mural in Boleslawiec
On one of the garages at Jezierski Street in Boleslawiec, a patriotic mural is created commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino.
The originators and clients of the mural are the Bolesławiec fans, who took part in a charity auction organized by the 1st High School in Boleslawiec. The author of the work is a Bolesławiec artist Gutek Ip.
The mural is ready - As announced by the artist himself, the painting will also feature, the famous polish military bear Wojtek.
A passenger car crash with a U.S. Army vehicle in Swietoszow
On 18th July, 63-year-old resident of the municipality of Osiecznica, driving a passenger car, unexpectedly changed its lane and caused a head-on collision with a US Army vehicle where two military personnel travelled.
As a result of this collision, only the driver of a passenger car who was transported to a hospital in Zielona Góra was seriously injured. US Army military personnel get some minor injuries.
Police determine the causes of the accident
Attention Lubusz ! On August 1, alarm sirens will be used in the whole region
The Lubusz Voivodship Office sent information about a loud attempt of emergency sirens. They will die on August 1. This has to do with the celebration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
It has been 80 years since the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising. The armed uprising against the German occupier began in the capital on August 1, 1945, at 5 p.m. It is at 5 p.m. in the entire Lubusz voivodeship that alarm sirens will be transmitted the alarm sirens will be used to commemorate these events.
The Lubusz Voivodship Office informs that the continuous sound of the sirens will be transmitted for one minute. Such trials take place in the region quite often. The provincial office and local governments always inform about them in advance.
The Warsaw Uprising was the largest military uprising that the Home Army carried out as part of the so-called. The Storm Action, directed against the Germans and started before the Red Army entered Poland. It lasted from August 1, 1944,
to October 3, 1944. The losses were huge. - They died ok. 10,000 Polish soldiers, approx. 150 and 200,000 civilians. About 6,000 Polish soldiers were missing and 20,000 were injured. Fifteen thousand were captured. More than 600,000 civilians were expelled from Warsaw and the surrounding area.
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