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For the third year running, FestivALT will stage public protest against the mistreatment of one of Kazimierz's architectural jewels, the former Chevra Tehilim prayerhouse, whose walls bear the district's most important still-existing Jewish religious paintings.  In 2017, with the approval of the official Jewish religious community, the owners of the bar currently housed there destroyed

An installation of sculptural works by Stephania Freda Leigh, "Their Breasts, My Breasts" explores the sexual trauma inflicted upon women during the Holocaust.

Di Libe brent wi a nase Szmate (“Love Burns like a Wet Rag”) returns to FestivALT for a Shabbat evening of music, stories, and food.

A panel discussion about the current use of the Chevra Tehilim prayerhouse.

Lucky Jew takes a common object of Polish folk culture and turns it on its head. This performance, at once sincere and satirical, is our most well-known and most controversial piece.

23.06, 7:00–12:00, Hala Targowa
26.06, 10:30–13:00, Plac Nowy
30.06, 7:00–12:00, Hala Targowa

A vibrant intermediary between FestivALT and greater Kraków, Info Budka is a hub based in Plac Nowy, providing passersby and participants with information about FestivALT and its events.

Ten pages of a Holocaust witness testimony taken in Kraków in 1945 were all that appeared to exist of Paulina Hirsch. This exploratory walk investigates sites connected to her story.

Ethnobotanist Karol Szurdak is hosting a workshop on infusions, teas, and lotions that we’ll make from plants and herbs gathered from the site of KL Płaszów.

Two of FestivALT’s co-directors, Adam Schorin and Jason Francisco, lead tours of the site of the Nazi concentration camp Płaszów.

Co-organized by Galicia Jewish Museum Two women, one from the US and one from Poland, were brought together to make sense of one woman’s Holocaust survival story, of the difficult past the story is a part of, its implications in the present, and of each other. Confronting challenges of identity, memory, translation, and place, Michelle