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• Practical Meetings in May

  Join us for workshops  in May. The workshops are part of the project “Practical Meetings”.  English and Ukrainian translations will be provided. Polish Sign Language option is also available.  Sewing summer pants&...

• Happy Easter from the team at Workshops of Culture

• The Herbaliser at East of Culture – Different Sounds Art’n’Music Festival 2019

  The Herbaliser, the living legends of British jazz and club music and one of the leading representatives of the iconic label Ninja Tune will perform at East of Culture – Different Sounds that takes place between 27-30 June 2019.  The...

• Wrekmeister Harmonies, Shalosh and We Will Fail to perform at Different Sounds 2019

  The avant-garde duo from Chicago, the jazz trio from Israel and the leading Polish representative of experimental electronic music, namely, in order: Wrekmeister Harmonies, Shalosh and We Will Fail will visit Lublin in June. East of Culture...

• April in Miasto Movie [programme]

  #Topic 25: The city of reporters We are going to spend spring in Miasto Movie in the company of reporters. We are going to watch a series of films focusing on their style of work, investigations and groundbreaking discoveries. We will have ...

• Dezerter and AK/DK are joining the line-up of East of Culture – Different Sounds 2019

  Dezerter photo credit: Maciej Olinkiewicz The legends of Polish punk rock, for years among the most important bands on the Polish punk rock scene and the British percussion duo fusing trance, motorik drum sounds with the dance-like, sy...

• Spring Shopping– Unique Iterms Market | Exhibitors wanted!

  Spring Shopping (27-28 April 2019) is the second edition of Unique Items Market, an event dedicated to the work of Lublin-based designers. Once more, we will meet in Workshops of Culture where  before summer arrives, you will be able t...

• Different Sounds Zone presents: Alpha Strategy and Ciśnienie |Tickets now on sale!

  When: 5 April 2019 (Friday), 19.00 Where: Workshops of Culture in Lublin, Grodzka 5a – auditorium (2nd floor) Tickets: 10 pln – on sale in Workshops of Culture’s online store In April, Different Sounds Zone invites you to a ...

• Alexander Hacke&Danielle de Picciotto and Brain Damage are the next acts for Different Sounds

  The phenomenal duet from Berlin and the French legend of dub are the next acts confirmed to visit Lublin in June. Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto and Brain Damage are joining the line-up of East of Culture – Different Sounds t...

• Ministry are the first headliners for East of Culture – Different Sounds Art’n’Music Festival 2019

  The first headliners of this year’s East of Culture – Different Sounds are the legendary band Ministry. The band, established in 1981 in Chicago, are considered the pioneers of industrial metal and one of the most important bands in the...

• Miasto Movie in March | The city of Reporters

  #Topic 25 The city of reporters We are going to spend spring in Miasto Movie in the company of reporters. We are going to watch a series of films focusing on their style of work, investigations and groundbreaking discoveries. We will have a...

• East of Culture – Different Sounds nominated for Fryderyk Awards 2019

  We are very pleased to announce that East of Culture – Different Sounds Art’n’Music Festival is among 20 events nominated for Fyrderyk Audience Award in the category Event of the Year. The short-listed nominees include music events wh...

• Miasto Movie in February

  Topic #24 Fantasy City Filmmaking as an art which tells interesting, immersive stories quite naturally relies on fantasy. Cinema can take us to incredible places, fantastical realms and gives us a chance to share fantastic adventures togeth...

• Hańba’s concert has been moved!

  Due to national mourning following the death of Jan Olszewski, the date of the concert has been moved to 28.02. If you have bought tickets bvut can’t come to the concert on its new date, please let us know via direct message on Facebo...

• Four events which transform the city beyond recognition! Save the dates of Lublin festivals 2019

  Even someone who walks the streets of the Old Town on the way to work every day is likely to be surprised during those brief moments in the city’s life. The four largest Lublin festivals: Night of Culture, East of Culture – Different So...

• Workshops of Culture have partnered up with CircusNext Platform

  Carnaval Sztukmistrzów (Workshops of Culture in Lublin) have partnered up with the international platform Circus Next. It means that  contemporary circus artists from Poland can now take part in the next edition of the proje...

• Winter Workshops – how to spend winter in the city

  Between 11.02 and 23.02. 2019, during the winter break in Lublin’s schools,  kids are welcome to join us for a series of workshops for children. The following events are scheduled: 11.02.2019, 11.00-12.00 – Laughter Yoga, which...

• Hańba! | Different Sounds Zone

  When: 15.02.2019 (Friday): 19.00 Where:  Workshops of Culture in Lublin, Grodzka 5a, auditorium – 2nd floor Tickets: 20 PLN – pre-sale, 25 PLN on the day of the concert. Tickets will be soon available in our online store....

• The Magic Lantern 2019 | Registrations open!

  2019 means that the Magic Lantern and some of its club members have been with us for 6 years.  We have watched many fantastic films, laughed and cried together, all the while learning the secrets of cinema.  It gives us a great pl...

• Spend January in the Photography Studio

  Every Thursday and Friday  from 14:00-18:00 you can visit Photography Studio in the Hartwig Alley to see ancient camera models,  the dark room and learn about old photographic techniques, all for free. The guide is Roman Krav...

• Miasto Movie in January – Fantasy City

  Topic #24 Fantasy City Filmmaking as an art which tells interesting, immersive stories quite naturally relies on fantasy. Cinema can take us to incredible places, fantastical realms and gives us a chance to share fantastic adventures togeth...

• Seasons Greetings from the team at Workshops of Culture!

• Shopping – Unique Items Market at Workshops of Culture

  Workshops of Culture in Lublin cordially invite you to “Sprawunki – Targi Rzeczy Wyjątkowych” | Shopping – Unique Items Market” . During the event, you will meet Lublin artists, designers and artisans and find original Christ...

• Different Sounds Zone presents: Tęskno

  When: 7 December 2018 – Friday, 19.00 Where: Workshops of Culture in Lublin, Grodzka 5a – auditorium, 2nd floor Free admission Different Sounds Zone ends 2018 with the concert of the group Tęskno. The band, formed by Joanna Longi�...

• Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals at Workshops of Culture

  From 23-26 November 2018, every item at: www.warsztatykultury.pl/wydawnictwo will be 10% off.

• Miasto Movie in December – Fantasy City [ Programme]

  Topic #24 Fantasy City Filmmaking as an art which tells interesting, immersive stories quite naturally relies on fantasy. Cinema can take us to incredible places, fantastical realms and gives us a chance to share fantastic adventures togeth...

• The culture-forming role of large panel housing estates | screening “Block” – a documentary series

  It is a series of documentary films dedicated to the culture-forming role of large panel buildings. A big housing estates is an experience shared by the entire Polish society. Blocks are frequently associated with social problems,...

• “Ta mała” | Music for the centenary of Polish independence

  On Sunday 11 November we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence. However, November 2018 is also important for another reason – Józef Piłsudski signed a degree granting women the right to vote. One of...

• Autumn and Winter in the Hartwig Alley

  Check out Photography Workshops in Autumn and Winter.

• Miasto Movie – November programme

  Check out the screenings in November!

• Meetings with Kultura Enter

  Kultura Enter cordially invites you to authorial meetings with Krzysztof Czyżewski ( 21 October) and prof. Timothy Snyder ( 22 October 2018). Both meetings are accompanied by book promotions. We have the great honour of introducing the Pol...

• Different Sounds Zone: Tickets for Nagrobki’s concert

   How to buy tickets for the concert? BEFORE THE CONCERT (from 3 to 24 October) – price: 15 PLN  1. In Workshops of Culture’s secretary’s office (Grodzka 7 – 1st floor, room 104). We are open 10:00-16:30 from Monday-Friday....

• A wall unit – design workshop for families

  NO PLACES LEFT Workshops accompanying the exhibition “ABCs of Polish design” will focus on the wall unit. This rack which used to be a staple element of any self-respecting household –read: flat in a block of flats- took up the whole ...

• Miasto Movie – The City of Fashion [programme]

  October programme

• Concert Asia Nawojska & Eddie/Hai

  Asia Nawojska – Creates, writes, plays and sings. Winner of Poland-wide contests. She has released the debut EP “Kwiaty do domu”, where she has captured sounds in all their colours using a variety of instruments. She resp...

• Streetwalker – Community Arts Lab

  Discover surprising artworks in the most unexpected places in Lublin and get to know the city from a radically new perspective!

• Current location of our offices

  Hi!  If you are visiting our website then you probably know us a little by now and are aware that we organize four largest cultural festivals in Lublin: Night of Culture, East of Culture – Different Sounds, Carnaval Sztukmistrzów an...

• Current Exhibitions at Workshops of Culture

  The following exhibitions are currently available for viewing at Workshops of Culture.  Yellow&Blue” presents interesting and bright Ukraine. Through the visual language of posters we show traditions, locations and features that ...

• ABCs of Polish Design | exhibition opening

  What sort of things Poles have been surrounding themselves with for the last 100 years? Which Polish armchair delighted the renowned architect Le Corbusier? What type of bicycle was used by at least two generations of Poles? How propaganda ...

• Starring: blocks of flats | Screening “Bloki”, “Architektura w Polsce 1945-1989” book promotion and discussion

  Blocks of flats are like air, they make up the Polish landscape even though, in spite of appearances, they are not all the same. They were built in various periods, different technologies – subordinated to political and economic decisions...

• Miasto Movie – The City of Fashion [programme]

  In autumn, as always, Miasto Movie returns from outdoor screenings (this time we had over two months of VHS screenings) to the auditorium inside Workshops of Culture at Grodzka 5a. The new theme will take us to the world of fashion, one of ...

• The Lost World. Leon Barszczewski’s journeys across 19th century central Asia-Igor Strojecki’s collections

  The opening of Leon Barszczewski’s exhibition and a meeting with Igor Strojecki When: 30 August 2018, 18:00  Where: starts in the Hartwig Alley and then we will move to Próba Cafe (Grodzka 5a) for a lecture on Leon Barszcze...

• Juliusz Dutkiewicz – Photographer from Kolomyia

  The exhibition presents the photographs of Juliusz Dutkiewicz who ran his photography studio in Kolomyja. The studio photographs featured at the exhibition date back to 1860-1890 and show Galician ethnic types, mainly Hutsuls, Boykos but al...

• Melodies of tradition

  Natalia Kukulska, Paulina Przybysz, Barbara Wrońska and Wojtek Mazolewski – this year, these singers will take on traditional repertoire during re: tradition - a special project of Workshops of Culture produced for the Jagiellonian Fai...

• Lace – the main theme of this year’s Jagiellonian Fair

  The main theme of this year’s Jagiellonian Fair (17-19 August 2018) is lace. Traditional bobbin lace, tatting, crochet lace in all their forms will be presented at exhibitions, available for purchase at the Handicrafts Fair and you will b...

• Tradition in Freedom, Freedom in Tradition at the Jagiellonian Fair

  Tradition in freedom, freedom in tradition” is a special programme within the Jagiellonian Fair (17-19 August 2018)  that will weave into the festival the theme of freedom presented in the context of traditional art and folk music. T...

• Miasto Movie Analogue in August [ Programme]

  VHS movie screenings in August. Click to check out the programme.

• The Jagiellonian Fair 2018

  From 17-19 August 2018, the Old Town in Lublin will fill up with traditional music, dance and handicrafts for the 12th time. Carefully selected crafts of artisans from Central-East Europe will delight all visitors who will not only be able ...

• Exhibitions in July

  Post-festival exhibitions are still available for viewing. All these exhibitions were part of East of Culture - Different Sounds 2018.

• Miasto Movie Analogue in July [Programme]

  Cinema is one of those rare forms of culture that easily combine and reconcile two seemingly contradictory aspects: as a form of high culture it presents high artistic values, but it is also excellent entertainment that provides spontaneous...