We are pleased to announce the start of registration for the anniversary edition of the Summer Guitar Festival, which will take place in Krzyżowa from July 20 to 27, 2025!
It is a unique event that has been combining musical education with summer recreation in the picturesque surroundings of Lower Silesia for years. The festival is aimed at all guitar lovers - regardless of age and skill level.
What do we offer participants?
🎶 5 hours of individual lessons with guitar masters - classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock, fingerstyle
🎸 Group workshops - guitar orchestra and pop music band
🏆 Classical playing competitions - Martinez and Quena
📚 Lectures and educational panels
🎨 Instrument exhibitions and presentations by luthiers
🎤 Concerts by outstanding artists - in Krzyżowa and in Świdnica.
Read more: Recruitment for the Summer Guitar Festival 2025 in Krzyżowa has begun!
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What made Krzyżowa a symbol of German-Polish reconciliation? What were the beginnings of the construction of this place as a space for dialog, education and remembrance?
These and many other questions are answered in a moving conversation between Aureliusz Marek Pędziwol and Maryna and Michał Czaplinski, board member of the Krzyżowa Foundation and member of the Foundation's Honorary Council. It is a meeting full of memories, personal reflections and a deep conviction of the strength of the civic community.
There are many topics in the conversation that relate not only to Krzyżowa's past, but also to the city's current mission and future. The interviewees remember the defining moments of the place - both on a symbolic level and on a very concrete level: human decisions, daily work and community involvement.
🔹 Why has Krzyżowa become a place of encounter?
🔹 What role did the civic grassroots initiative play on both sides of the Oder?
🔹 How can historical memory create trust between nations?
This is a remarkable story about how history influences our present and how we can live it wisely. Important words are also spoken: “We will go to Krzyżowa if the Poles invite us” - a symbolic sentence that reminds us that true reconciliation cannot be one-sided. It must be based on mutual respect and a willingness to engage in dialog.
We invite you to read the interview - it is an important voice in the debate on remembrance, responsibility and the future of Europe:
https://forumdialogu.eu/
Read more: “We will go to Krzyżowa if the Poles invite us” - an extraordinary conversation about the history...
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In the foyer of the Palace in Krzyzowa (2nd floor), you can now see the extraordinary exhibition "JAZDA! Ways of Becoming," which is the fruit of an international youth exchange from Poland, France and Germany. The exhibition touches on important and timely topics of identity, migration and memory culture, posing questions that concern us all:
👉 How to find your way in the world?
👉 Can borders - physical and mental - be crossed?
👉 What is solidarity in modern times?
As part of the 2023 project, young volunteers and students worked together to analyze their own experiences and reflections around these questions. The result of their work is this unique exhibition - presented for the first time in June 2024 in Friedland, Germany, and now open to the public in Krzyzowa. The exhibition will remain here for three months before traveling further - to France.
We cordially invite you to visit the exhibition at the Palace in Krzyzowa - it's a great opportunity to see how young people from different countries look at the world and build common narratives about the past, present and future.
The exhibition can be visited until the end of May.
Read more: Visit the exhibition "JAZDA! Ways of Becoming" in Krzyzowa
A trilateral TRIYOU youth exchange took place in Krzyżowa from March 10-14, 2025, with students and teachers from Poland, Germany and Ukraine. The event attracted 34 participants and 6 chaperones from schools: Albert-Einstein-Schule Langen (Germany), School and Kindergarten Complex No. 3 in Wroclaw (Poland) and Lviv Academic Gymnasium at Lviv Polytechnic University (Ukraine).
The program was full of integration activities, such as team-building games and team competition. Participants worked in international teams, preparing presentations on schools, cities, music or national cuisines in the form of posters, performances or multimedia presentations.
Read more: Poland, Germany, Ukraine - where do we go together?
