About NARRACJE

NARRACJE Festival has been exploring urban themes and stories since 2009. Using various media ranging from intimate performances to large-format video projections, artists from Poland and abroad are placing well-known districts of Gdańsk in a new context. Each year, the Festival takes place in late autumn, giving a reason to leave the house and explore the city on two November evenings.

Among the previous curators of NARRACJE were: Bettina Peltz (2009-2011), Steven Matijcio (2012), Rob Garrett (2013), Anna Witkowska and Adam Witkowski (2014), Anna Smolak (2015), Stach Szabłowski (2016), Anna Czaban (2017), Piotr Stasiowski (2018), Sylwia Szymaniak and Sarmen Beglarian (2019). In 2020 the Festival was postponed due to pandemic – it will take place in 2021 and will be curated by  Karina Kottová i Piotr Sikora.

Over the years the festival has taken place in the Lower, Main and Old Town of Gdansk, at the Gdansk Shipyard, on the Long Gardens, in Upper Wrzeszcz, New Port, Biskupia Hill, Brzeźno, Oliwa, Siedlce. The 2021 edition will take over Lower Wrzeszcz.

NARRACJE are organised by the City Culture Institute in cooperation with the Gdańsk City Gallery.