Since the beginning of its activity under the Lesser Poland's regional government, the Mościce Cultural Centre has been building its image as a new institution. After three years of intensive modernisation of the building and making changes to the program formula, we can now see it as a new, recognisable, and established trademark. It is a place where art overcomes commercialisation, a place which attracts the audience, a place which, thanks to its spatial potential, manages to combine various art disciplines, creating original and ambitious programs.
The important goals of the Centre are: creating a good repertoire, gaining audience, self-promotion, and reinforcing its image. The Centre has been publicly recognised for its unique repertoire and successful reactivation. Its creators were commended by the Minister of Culture Bogdan Zdrojewski. The artistic events offered by the Centre are focused on promoting Polish culture and presenting the most interesting works of foreign artists. The idea of the institution is to offer valuable, professional contemporary art projects, including theatre, cinema, visual arts, and music (jazz, classical, opera, and ballet). The artistic endeavours undertaken so far prove that the Centre's central attractiveness derives from the high cultural quality of what it offers. This is why we try to use space to the maximum and organize events combining various art disciplines. They are becoming our trademark and a base to realise regular events and festivals. Among them are, for example: Summer Festival "Musical Terraces", the International Dance Theatres' Festival Open Stage, film festivals such as "Galicja", a jazz concert series entitled "the Mezzanine Stage", "Lesser Poland's Theatre Evenings", the ArtFest Arts Festival, the "Personalities Series", exhibitions of photography, paintings, and multimedia.
The Mościce Cultural Centre in Tarnów is the largest and most complex cultural object in the Tarnów region. It includes an exhibition room, a concerts and theatre room for 600 people, two screening rooms with digital and 3D projectors, ballet rooms, classrooms, multimedia rooms and professional backstage facilities. Thus, the Centre serves art which involves hi-tech approaches, new information carriers, and innovative creative technologies.
Throughout the period during which Poland was isolated from European and World contemporary art and from any kind of progress, we were deepening our educational deficits and our misunderstanding of modern world phenomena. As a result, despite being open to the West during the last 30 years, one can still see a dose of conservatism in Polish artists' and audience's behaviour. The offer of the Centre is meant to overcome their resistance. It is a number of interdisciplinary projects which have one thing in common - a new, brave insight into art, concerning indigenous and foreign works.
The juxtaposition of international interdisciplinary projects highlights the common Europe of many different nations, cultures, and ways of thinking. The purpose of bringing together professional and amateur artists is to present these differences as mediated via such materials and techniques as preserve the "common denominator" which in this case means a common heritage.
