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7. Festival Krzyżowa-Music - 21.08-05.09.2021

In the past, first year of the coronavirus pandemic, we were extremely lucky. We were able to organize our concerts and celebrate them with the guests almost as if the surrounding danger did not exist, and this was possible thanks to easy access to coronavirus detection tests, which could be performed throughout Europe. This extremely generous strategy, supplemented with sophisticated logistics, was a gift from our sponsor Centogene. This ensured the continuity of the Krzyżowa-Music festival and the health of all people involved, and thus saved our budget, which consists mostly of donations, and only thanks to generous donors we can continue our music and program work.

Although, unfortunately, our hopes for this year's edition of the festival without pandemics and restrictions will not come true, the loyalty of our sponsors allows us to start our seventh season with full self-confidence and great plans. We want not only to deal with 50 masterpieces of chamber literature and rejoice that 30 years of good neighborhood in Central Europe could have resulted in something as beautiful as Krzyżowa-Music, but also to deal with the impact of the current crisis on the music scene and to consider what previous states of emergency have taught us in order to survive economically as creators of art. In 2021, the rules for the second year of the pandemic differ from the first. Of course, we will obey them, but we will not shy away from anything that can arise from free music making and a friendly community. 

Viviane Hagner, Matthias von Hülsen

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Managing Director of the Krzyżowa Foundation with a doctorate of science degree

We are very pleased to inform you that the Managing Director of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, Robert Żurek, has been awarded a postdoctoral degree in history. The degree was conferred by a resolution of the Council of the History Discipline of the Pedagogical University in Cracow on 16.12.2020 on the basis of his scientific achievement "The Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Western and Northern Lands 1945-1948". The habilitation diploma is dated 11 June 2021.

Robert Zurek is a graduate in history and Catholic theology from the Free University of Berlin. He received his doctorate in Halle. He was a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2003-2005) and then a researcher and deputy director of the Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin (2006-2012). From 2013 to 2016 he was director of the Wrocław branch of the Institute of National Remembrance.

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A set of educational posters: Why should we restrict eating meat?

In Krzyżowa we encourage you to try the vegetarian and vegan diet. Every day we offer vegetarian meals in our kitchen. Why do we do it? Mainly for environmental reasons. For the sake of the planet, it is worth limiting meat consumption.

An information campaign on this topic, in the form of four posters, which addresses various aspects relating to the environmental costs of meat production and other types of food, encourages us to reflect on the environmental and climate consequences of our food choices and try to change our habits. We show that a vegetable diet can be not only healthy, but also colourful/urosized, tasty and nutritious!

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21. Summer Guitar Festival – 22.07-1.08.2021

Today begins the 21st edition of the Summer Guitar Festival, which every year brings together dozens of guitar practitioners and outstanding musicians from around the world in Krzyżowa. The workshops and master classes will be attended by children, adolescents and adults, because one of the main assumptions of the festival is not to set the age limit. Thanks to this, the guitar meetings in Krzyżowa have an intergenerational dimension.

An important element of the festival are also concerts held in the Piwnica Palace in Krzyżowa, which are open to the public, so not only guitarists, but all music lovers can participate in the festival. Admission to this year's concerts is free, but there is a limit of places.

CONCERT PROGRAM:

• 24.07, 08.30 PM Pełech & Horna Duo – „Caliente”
• 26.07, 08.30 PM Piotr Restecki & Piotr Krępeć – „Ogień i woda”
• 27.07, 08.30 PM Petra Polaćkova – „Recital”
• 28.07, 08.30 PM Auditions for the "Takamine" competition
• 29.07, 08.30 PM Auditions for the "Martinez" competition
• 30.07, 08.30 PM The award ceremony of the Takamine and Martinez competitions / Concert of Laureates / Concert of Yorgos Bechlivanoglou & Dimitris Kotronakis
• 31.07, 08.30 PM Final Concert - participants and lecturers / guitar orchestra

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