On Saturday, at Bolesławiec’s Market Square, we will celebrate the approaching Christmas holidays together with guests from Kamenz. Bolesławiec will turn into a city of angels thanks to workshops organised by BOK-MCC.

As part of an EU-funded project, seven-day art workshops were held in Bolesławiec and Kamenz. Participants created their own angel wings. The workshops were aimed at children and young people aged 6 to 20, as well as people with disabilities from a special school and an occupational therapy centre.

The workshop participants were invited to take part in the happening. On Saturday, 17 December, they will walk in a procession around the Market Square during a pre-Christmas meeting of residents with the city authorities.

An angels’ town will also be created in the Market Square on Saturday. It will include a nativity scene with live animals and a house where Santa Claus will read Polish and German Christmas stories to children. There will be demonstrations of bauble painting, stalls offering traditional Christmas goods, and stalls serving Christmas Eve dishes. A rich artistic programme will be presented on stage.

Programme – 17 December, Saturday

  • 10:00–20:00 Christmas market: bauble-painting demonstration, Santa Claus reading Polish and German fairy tales, nativity scene with live animals, carriage rides, Christmas traditions from Poland and Germany, competitions, tasting of Christmas Eve dishes, stalls with traditional Christmas goods from Polish and German exhibitors, carol singing by artists from Poland and Germany, Christmas tree presentation
  • 14:00 – Christmas music performed by students of the first-degree State Music School in Bolesławiec, carols and pastorales performed by participants of the vocal workshop and the Poeticon ensemble
  • 16:30 – finale of the “You Too Can Become an Angel” workshops – procession of workshop participants from Bolesławiec and Kamenz, competition and awards ceremony
  • 17:00 – Bolesławiec Star of Kindness – a Christmas meeting of residents with the city president, greetings from official guests from Poland and Germany, sharing the Christmas wafer
  • 17:30 – performance by the Kamenz choir “Haus der Begegnung“
  • 18:00 – the “Street Nativity Play” performance by Teatr Prawdziwy
  • 19:00 – Christmas carol concert performed by the “Bolesławiec” Municipal Brass Band

The “You Too Can Become an Angel” project is co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund and by state budget funds, with the support of the Nysa Euroregion.

(information: BOK-MCC/ii)