Thematic exhibitions, concerts, workshops, an urban game, visits to museums and normally inaccessible nooks of churches, make up unique programme of this event.
The dates remain the same, while the theme changes every year; this time it reads: Royal Legacy in the Sacred Space. 1000th Anniversary of the Polish Crown. For, by the decision of the Honourary Committee for the Celebration of the Millennium of the Kingdom of Poland, this year’s edition of the Kraków’s festival of sacred art was included in its entirety in the official calendar of the jubilee. The programme includes as many as fourteen concerts, including The Crown and the Cross. A Musical Story About Queen Jadwiga, a performance combining music, word and image, prepared by the artists from St Norbert’s Cellar (August 14, 20.00, Carmelite Monastery,  Karmelicka Street 19), I am the Good Shepherd, performed by the early music ensemble Scepus Baroque (August 14, 15, 19.00, Diocesan Sanctuary of St. John of God’s, Krakowska Street 48) and Lectio Divina, the programme of which includes the oldest preserved treasures and artefacts of the Polish music in the interpretation of the Octava ensemble (August 15, 19.00, Benedictine Abbey in Staniątki, Staniątki 299). The Loch Camelot Theatre and the Auxilium Choir will present the première performance of After Pious Stay in the World, Eternal Life in the Paradise (August 15, 20.15, Franciscan Observants Church, Reformacka Street 4). Nine thematic exhibitions will be exposed, including in the Brothers Hospitaliers hospital garden, Cistercian Abbey in Mogiła and in front of the Pauline and Franciscan Basilicas. The programme of the Cracovia Sacra Night at the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec is interesting. It consists of a thematic tour entitled The Crown and the Monks, the Benedictines and Power and a family workshop entitled At the Origins of Poland. The Wawel Cathedral Museum will present unique parchment documents issued by Casimir IV Jagiellon and Sigismund I the Old. The urban game Crowns, Mitres and Kraków Artefacts will involve finding and learning about places with special references to the Polish history, including in particular the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław I the Brave as the first king of Poland. Admission to the events of the Cracovia Sacra Night is free, but some of them require booking a ticket, so it is worth to discover the programme in advance.