We would like to invite you to the Garncarska Festival! On September 4, we will explore the nooks and crannies of one of the oldest streets in Gdańsk and talk about the future of urban space. The event programme includes workshops, refreshments from Garncarska restaurateurs, meetings and walks. Participants will spend time together in this characteristic part of the city to take a fresh look at Gdańsk's public space…

Student, professor or doctoral student - anyone can take part in the 18th edition of the Popularisers of Science competition. All you have to do is share your knowledge with a larger group of people daily. You can submit your popular science activity under five categories: 'Animator', 'Institution', 'Media', 'Scientist' and 'Team'. Entries…

The exhibition will be on display from August 5 to September 30 in front of St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk. Until September 30, a new exhibition can be seen in front of St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk: 'Pioneers, researchers, leaders. Women of Gdańsk science'. On the day of the opening - August 5 - a panel discussion was held at Hevelius Square with three…

The Andrzej Wajda UG Film Centre and the Faculty of Philology will host the 28th edition of the 'Visible Evidence' conference from August 10-14. This is one of the most prestigious conferences devoted to film and media globally. Invented almost 30 years ago, it travels the world, organised in a different location every year. Its hosts have included university centres in cities such as Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Istanbul…

Get hooked on one of your favourite magazines (Vogue, The New Yorker, Forbs, Total Film, National Geographic, Homes & Gardens and many more) wherever you are - at home or on the move, by the sea or in the mountains, in Poland or abroad.  You can read magazines on any device: laptop, tablet or smartphone. Using the Flipster app (iOS and Android), you can also download and read selected titles offline - anywhere…

This Friday, the 10th of June, we would like to invite everyone to the premiere of a performance inspired by William Shakespeare's drama 'Othello', directed by Jan Orszulak, the founder and director of Standby Studio at the Academic Cultural Centre of the University of Gdańsk. Elwira Romaniuk: - What is it like to 'create'? Jan Orszulak, director at Standby Studio - It gives you an incredible sense of freedom and self…

Last Saturday, May 28th, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic played the premiere of Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk's composition inspired by the sea, 'There and Here performed by two excellent choirs: the Academic Choir of the University of Gdańsk and the Tadeusz Tylewski Choir of the Medical University of Gdańsk. The final of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Choir of the Medical University of Gdańsk named after…

This Thursday, May 26, we would like to invite you to a ceremony of naming a theatre hall in the Neophilology Building of the University of Gdańsk after prof. Jerzy Limon - an outstanding English scholar, theatrologist and extraordinary lecturer who with great commitment spread knowledge about Shakespeare's works and initiated the construction and first director of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre. The event will be…

We know the winners of the Chinese Song Competition, the final of which took place at the UG Confucius Institute. Primary school pupils presented their vocal skills. The participants competed in two categories - choir and individual performance. The winner of the first one was class IV c from the School and Kindergarten Complex No. 1 in Gdańsk, and the second one was Julia Zygowska. The Chinese Song Contest was mainly…

80 prints and illustrations by Daniel Chodowiecki from the collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk and over 30 works from Jerzy Limon's private collection will be on display from 25.05.2022 in the Main Library of the University of Gdańsk. The day before, on the anniversary of prof. Jerzy Limon's birthday, the opening of the exhibition will take place. The bilingual (Polish and English) exhibition will consist of 80…