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Krakow's Regular Culture Events 

There are over fifty culture festivals in Krakow every single year. Some of them have been held for decades, some are relatively fresh calendar entries. Below see the list of events with the biggest following. As the day dates keep changing you can look up details in the site’s EVENTS section. 

Yearly events 

February: Shanties International Festival of Sailors’ Songs, Festival of the Theaters for Children, International Percussion Festival. 

March: Bach Days (Johann Sebastian Bach’s Festival), PROGRESSteron Festival for Women, 4 Seasons of the Book - Poetry Season (a literature festival), Music and World Documentary Film Festival

Holy Week: Misteria Paschalia festival of classical music, Easter Festival of Ludwig van Beethoven

April: PaKA Cabaret Review, Off Camera International Independent Cinema Festival, Cracow Theatrical Reminiscences International Theater Festival, ‘POPLIT’ Festival of Popular Literature, ‘The Old and The Young’ International Jazz Festival.

May: Krakow International Film Festival, Festival of Krakow Composers, Krakow Month of Photography Festival, Orthodox-Church Music Meetings, Juvenalia Student Festival, Festival of Children Song, Film Music Festival, New Music New Faces International Young Composers Festival

June: City of Krakow Festival, Selector Festival /electronic music/, Art Boom Visual Arts Festival, International Days of Music by Krakow Composers, International Festival of Military Bands, Jewish Culture Festival.

July: Summer Jazz Festival, International Street Theatre Festival, Tyniec Organ Recitals, Summer Organ Concerts, Summer Festival of Opera and Operetta, 'Crossroads' Festival of Traditional Music.

August: Music in Old Krakow’ International Festival, Coke Live Music Festival, Folk Art Fair, Tyniec Organ Recitals, Summer Organ Concerts, 'Cracovia Danza' Festival of Court Dances, PyroMachina International Gala of Pyrotechnics Art.

September: Sacrum-Profanum Festival (classical music)International Competition of Modern Chamber Music, Bajt Chadasz - Jewish Culture Month, Young Artists in Krakow Festival.

October:  Unsound Festival /electronic and experimental music/, Genius Loci Theater Festival, 4 Seasons of the Book - Prose Season (a literature festival) International Ethnic Television Festival, Student Song Festival, Krakow Book Fair. 

November: Festival of Polish Music, Zaduszki’ (All Souls) Jazz Festival, Joseph Conrad Literature Festival, Etiuda&Anima 2007 Festival of Student Films, Audio Art Festival.

December: Krakow Christmas Crib Contest, The Divine Comedy festival of the Polish theater, ‘Jazz Juniors’ International Competition of Young Jazz Bands, Krakow BalletOFF Meetings, OFAFA Poland’s Festival of Auteur Animated Film.

Every second year: International Festival of Military Bands (the nearest one in June 2010).

Every third year: International Triennial of Architecture (the nearest one in April 2012).

Every third year: International Print Triennial (the nearest one in September and October of 2009). 

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