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Chopin piano competition’s popularity soars with record-breaking number of applicants

South Korea’s Cho Seong-Jin, who won the last competition back in 2015. Paweł Supernak/PAP

The prestigious competition has pulled in over 500 applicants from 53 countries.

Music festival brings theme of emigration to Warsaw audiences

Touching on emigration and Polish independence the La Folle Journée festival had 1,000 artists performing.

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Poznań’s 19th century Pl. Kolegiacki returned to its former glory as part of movement to reclaim community spaces from ‘carpark hell’

Featuring fountains, greenery, information boards and outbreaks of modern art, the initiative has been hailed by Poznań mayor Jacek Jaśkowiak as a project for the masses, saying: “I am glad that we have managed to revitalize the square while respecting the historic character of this space,”

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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