For the sixth time now Bank Millennium was hailed Dźwigacz Kultury (Uplifter of Culture) by Kraków Festival Bureau for sponsoring the Sacrum Profanum festival. This is yet another award this year for the bank for supporting cultural events.

Supporting culture during the pandemic? Move with the times and invest in online events? This year’s cooperation of Bank Millennium with the Sacrum Profanum Festival proves this is the way to go. For the first time in its history the Festival will take place online - on the PLAY KRAKÓW platform – going out of the envelope and quite in line with innovation, which is Bank Millennium’s middle name.

On 27 September, the 17th edition of the Cracow Sacrum Profanum festival. Over the eight festival days there will be seventeen concerts and numerous satellite events held. Following the already well-established tradition, Bank Millennium is the sponsor of the event.

Today the 16th Sacrum Profanum festival shall begin. This year’s edition of the Kraków-based festival is focused around four mottos: NPDLGŁŚĆ / WLNŚĆ / EMNCPCJ / FNTZMT. 11-17 September will celebrate Independent Music. Bank Millennium is the traditional sponsor of the event.

On 26th of September, a next edition of the Cracow Sacrum Profanum festival starts. During the six festival days there will be seventeen concerts held and numerous satellite events. Following the tradition, Bank Millennium has become the sponsor of this event.

On October 1st Kraków will become the music capital of Europe. For eight days the stage of Sacrum Profanum Festival will see nine concerts, including two operas. Bank Millennium has traditionally become the sponsor of the event.

A mixture of 20th century classical music and artistic pop gives surprising results The Festival’s thirteenth edition was stylistically involved with the “modern classical” movement presenting ambitious works by composers coming from the pop music community – Four Monographic Concerts – by Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Perry, Kate Moore and Johann Jóhannsson, two creative transformations of the music of John Cage by So Percussion and Matmos and of Frederic Chopin interpreted by Olafur Arnolds and Alice Sara Ott plus two special projects – cooperation between These New Puritans with the classics as a recap of the last three editions of the Festival and “The Magic Mountain” by Paweł Mykietyn – Filip Berkowicz, the Festival Director presented the programme in a concise way.

The twelfth edition of Sacrum Profanum featured: the father of American minimalism – Philip Glass, avant-garde artist – Laurie Anderson, guitarist of Sonic Youth – Lee Ranaldo and Squarepusher.

The Sacrum Profanum Festival is an oasis of genuine musical freedom Which way was contemporary classical music heading? They already know that in Kraków – the right way. And this opinion is quite reasonable if you take into account the interest on part of artists, listeners and the media in the eleventh edition of the “Sacrum Profanum” Festival. Sometimes you may have the impression that the programme of subsequent releases of the festival is something in the likes of a game with the listeners to check how much more taut can the string be drawn without breakage.

The Sacrum Profanum is a festival, which creates its own world The “Sacrum – Profanum” festival, established in 2002, is one of the most unique musical projects in Europe. It is international and open to various musical movements, presenting 20th century and contemporary music, combining various genres in a sometimes surprising manner. Every year it features music by composers from various countries, performed by true stars of contemporary music and the alternative scene.