Anna Lindh Foundation

Krystyna Bochenek Katowice Centre of Culture (Centrum Kultury Katowice im. Krystyny Bochenek)

National Network

Poland

Address

pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2 Katowice Poland

Country

Poland

City

Katowice

Street address 2

pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2

Mobile Phone

148.9047619

Telephone

158.9980892

Telephone (other)

71.9205298

E-Mail

isabela.kosowska@ck.org.pl

E-Mail (2)

dorota.pociask@gck.org.pl

E-Mail (3)

ola.matuszczyk@2016katowice.eu

E-Mail (4)

skwira@gck.org.pl

Year of Establishment

1983

Contact Person1

Dorota Pociask-Frącek (Deputy Director)

Contact Person 2

Aleksandra Matuszczyk

Organisation Type

Public Institution

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

1. Statutory representatives: Director – Tomasz Janikowski; Chef Countable - Barbara Gabriel; The persons municipal institution of culture, 42 employees. 2. 450 000 pln (about 100 000 EURO) 3. Subsidized by city hall; grants from Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, ?l?skie Voivodeship and sponsors. 4. Activity of institution includes projects: - exhibitions (contemporary art and photography) - music (chamber classical music, jazz and modern music) - theater (including summer international festival) - education (education on a range of art., music and culture, seminars, workshops, lectures) 5. City hall, NGO`s from the region, “Korez” Theater, other cultural institutions, artistic colleges.

Mission and Objectives

1. Recognition, stimulation and fulfillment of cultural needs and interests of local community. 2. Creation of conditions for active participation of youth people in cultural life of town and region. 3. Running comprehensive activity in range of culture’s popularization.

Main Projects / Activities

1. Presentation of valuable phenomena and different forms of art – 6 art galleries 2. Organization of festivals, reviews, exhibitions, autorship’s/autors’ and poetical evenings, concerts, spectacles, auctions, etc. ( the biggest and the most important every-year-projects “International Summer Garden of Theater”, cycle of concerts “Jazz and Surroundings”). 3. Promotion of creators, patrons and of culture (include young culture’s creators). 4. Publishing (catalogues of exhibitions, post-conference stuff). 5. Educational and workshop’s actions (“The artistic workshops for children”). 6. Informative, educational and popularization’s activity (“Codes of Culture” “Collection of Culture”).