National Holidays

    January 1 - New Year
    March/April - Easter Saturday, Sunday, Monday (moveable feast)
    May 1 - Labour Day
    May 3 - Anniversary of the ratification of the first Constitution in 1791
    June - Corpus Christi (moveable feast)
    August 15 - the Assumption of the Holy Virgin
    November 1 - All Souls Day
    November 11 - Independence Day
    December 25-26 - Christmas

 Calendar of Events
January

• The New Year's Concert at the Philharmonic Hall

February

• Shanties Festival - an anual festival of sailors' songs
• Grand Ball of the Royal Capital City of Cracow - highlight of the carnival: a charity ball, combined with the elections for the Cracovian of the Year

March

• International and All-Poland Festival of Commercials and Advertising
• International Festival of AlternativeTheatre - Cracow Theatre's Reminiscences - the year 2005 will mark its 25th edition

April

• Jazz Juniors International Competition for young jazz bands
• Great Night of Jazz - concerts, meetings and workshops
• PaKa - meetings of 'cabarets' (stand-up comedians)
• Organ Music Days
• Emaus (Easter Monday) and Re;kawka (Tuesday) - traditional church fairs
• International Tournament of Ballroom Dancing - The President of Cracow Cup

May

• Jazz Festival 'The Old and the Young, or jazz in Cracow'
• Student Song Festival
• Christian Student Days
• Juvenalia - the biggest student fiesta
• Commercial-freaks' Night (Noc Reklamoz.erców) - entire night of ads in Cracow's biggest cinema
• Internatonal Contest of Guitar Music

May/June

• Orthodox Church Music Days
• International and All-Poland Festival of Short-feature Films
• Cracovian Composers' Days
• Cracow Ballet Spring

June

• Cracow Workshops of Animated Film
• International Triennial of Graphic Art (every 3 years; the next edition in the year 2006)
• Military Bands Meetings
• Children and Young Adults Folk Festival
• The Lajkonik Parade (first Thursday following Corpus Christi)
• Wianki (floating of the wreaths) - St. John the Baptist's Day - an open-air event by the Vistula river, accompanied by a fireworks display
• Enthronemen of the President of the Rifle Club (a mediaeval tradition)
• Villa Decius Open Days
• Krak-Cult-Film
• The Day of Krupnicza Street
• The Day of Kanonicza Street

Summer - ongoing
Concert cycles:

• Organ Recitals in Tyniec Monastery
• Wieliczka Concerts
• Summer of Organ Music
• Summer Morning Concerts in the Cracow Radio Station
• Organ Recitals in St. Mary's Church
• Summer Concerts of Organ Music
• Summer Concerts of Chamber Music

June/July

• Jewish Culture Festival

July

• Summer Festival of Cracow Opera and Operetta
• International Street Theatre Festival
• Summer Festival of Ancient Music
• Solo-Duo-Trio Small Ensembles Jazz Festival
• International Clarinet Festival
• Festival and Fair in Wieliczka Salt Mine - 'Kinga Picnic'
• Cracow Jazz Festival

July/August

• Summer Jazz Festival
• Children Arts Festival

August

• International Festival 'Music in the Old Cracow'
• 'Rozstaje' - World Mountaineers Folklore Festival
• Cepeliada Folk Art Fair
• European Meetings of Marksmen Societies

September

• Krzysztof Penderecki International Festival of Contemporary Chamber Music
• Miles Davis Memorial Night - festival of Jazz Trumpeters
• Podgórze Autumn of Culture

September/October

• International Bach Academy
• Bajit Chadasz - a month of encounters with Jewish Culture

October

• International Workshop of Contemporary Music Cracow - Stuttgart
• Biennial of Architecture (every 2 years, next one in 2006)
• Festival of Ancient Music
• Underground Film Festival
• Cracovia Open International Dance Tournament
• Lost Music International Festival

November

• Etiuda International Film Festival - competition of film and art school students
• Audio-Art Festival
• Cracow 'All Souls' Day' Jazz Meeting (50 years' tradition)

December

• Student Culture Forum
• Competition and display of the Christmas Manggers, by the Mickiewicz statue in the Market Square
• International Ballet Meetings
• Festival of Silent Movies

December/February

• Festival of Christmas Carols and Christmas Songs

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