To start off with, I would like to show you some photos of a place I stayed at. It's a very artistic flat so the interior is very creative and sometimes funny:
It's kitchen's equipment: meet upside down giraffe, a dog's tail sticking out of the wall, a bear - coffee maker's guard, colourful shoes straight from Macedonia, a very dangerous shark - a bottle's warmer and of course, a red-black man - invitation's holder:
Here you can see equipment from the rest of the flat: a snake in a jungle of numbers, wooden statues of NYC's landmarks, a lego-pretending clock, a blue limo sliding down the ceiling's slant, French board on a bookcase and a green carpet which looks like football turf:
Two goring goats are Poznań's icon. It's because of very popular legend which I've already told in my old post about Poznań. Because as some of you may know, this time it was my second visit in that city.
While walking around the city, we bumped into charming Charlie Chaplin who was inviting people to a music club:
We visited a beautiful church in the city centre in which we were onlookers of the wedding taking place inside:
One of our main goals was to see Malta Festival in Poznań. It's an international theatrical festival on which there are a lot of performances in reasonable prices and sometimes in extraordinary places, meetings with authors and music concerts. Moreover, I should mention that Malta is a name of a lake in Poznań.
On Friday, we went on a gypsy music concert which was held at lakeside:
This year's events were connected with Asia. We went for 2 payable events. The first, Living Dance Studio's Memory was that one which was organised in out of the ordinary place - in Handicrafts Guild's head office. It was connected with Cultural Revolution in China and showed its impact on people. The second one - Dries Verhoeven's The Big Movement was very intriguing! At the beginning the audience was lined up in front of the town hall and escorted in silence to a big black box in the other part of the market. The box turned out to be a small cinema hall where we saw a film about humans' existence. To be accurate, the film was recorded a few minutes before the performance...we were watching real people passing through the market...and also we saw us while going in a line to the box...that was pretty compelling and so...different than other performances because we were a part of that event.
We also poped in on a meeting with J. M. Cotzee, a Nobel Prize in literature winner:
photo taken my my friend's sister:
I found a video about festival's events which you can see here. The first and the last performances in that film are those on which I was (Memory & Gypsy music concert)
This post opens a 3-post report about my trip to Poznań!
Cheerio,
Karolina xx
