OFF Festival Katowice 2013: One week to OFF

 
The countdown begins for this year’s OFF Festival and as well as the all the amazing artists and music to enjoy, OFF also offers visual arts, a late night cinema and literary café.
OFF is a truly unique boutique music festival, taking place from 2 - 4 August in 'Three Lake Valley', Katowice - a beautiful green oasis in the heart of industrial Silesia. OFF Festival is a way of life, one that flies in the face of current trends and stays true to itself, and the ethos of organiser Artur Rojek is firmly aimed at supporting art and music with the festival bringing many acts to Poland for the first time.  From the greatest alternative music stars from around the world to the increasingly strong Polish scene, OFF festival has inspiring music, art and culture in abundance.
Visual Arts:
The visual arts have been a part of OFF since its inception and this years festival features a particularly strong sampling of the best in contemporary painting. Pieces from the collection of the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow will be on display throughout the festival grounds. Over a dozen works of the museum's collection of several thousand pieces will be exhibited at the festival, including paintings by Charlotte Beaudry, Rafał Bujnowski, Edward Dwurnik, Marcin Maciejowski, and Wilhelm Sasnal.
The billboard at the mBank Stage this year will feature a piece specially created for the festival by Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, titled OFF is ON. Friend of the festival Wilhelm Sasnal has provided us with a piece that will adorn festival t-shirts and gear. This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Late Night Cinema:
Every night after the last concert at the Forest Stage, at around 2:40 am, a movie will be screened to help festival goers cool off after the excitement of the day. Together with the Legal Culture Foundation, we'll be holding a Late Night Cinema at the Food Court. Here’s a schedule of this year's screenings:
Friday - Indie Game: The Movie
Saturday - Unmade Beds
Sunday - John Dies at the End

Literary Café:
"It's like a pilgrimage. Katowice is my Mecca in August," Krzysztof Varga wrote of the OFF Festival in one of his newspaper columns in the summer of 2011. A long-time friend of the festival and annual pilgrim, this year he finally takes his vows and becomes a fully ordained organizer of Poland's greatest alternative festival, joining us as the new curator of the Literary Café.
Krzysztof Varga (1968) is a writer, journalist, and columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza. He is the author of numerous books, including the rock'n'roll novel Tequila, Nagrobek z lastryko (Terrazzo Tombstone), Aleja Niepodleglosci (Independence Avenue), and the somber Trociny (Sawdust).
 
 
All acts:
1926, A Band Of Buriers, AlunaGeorge, Ampacity, Austra, Autre Ne Veut, Babadag, Bisz/B.O.K Band, Blondes, Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, Brutal Truth, Buke And Gase, Cass McCombs, Circle, Cloud Nothings, Daniel Higgs, Deerhunter, DJD, Dope Body, Drekoty, Fatima Al Qadiri, Fire!, Frozen Bird, Fucked Up, Luka Lata, Furia, Girls Against Boys, Goat, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gowno, Guardian Alien, Hera, Hokei, Holy Other, How How, Japandroids, Jens Lekman, John Grant, John Talabot - Live, Julia Holter, KTL, Labyrinth Ear, Laurel Halo, Magnificent Muttley, Mark Fell, Merchandise, Metz, Micachu, Mikal Cronin, Molesta Gra Skandal, My Bloody Valentine, Mykki Blanco, Nathalie And The Loners, Nite Jewel And Peanut Butter Wolf, Patrick Wolf, Peter J. Birch & The River Boat Band, Piotr Kurek, Rebeka, Rudi Zygaldo, Sam Amidon, Semantik Punk, Shackleton, Skalpel, Stara Rzeka, Super Girl & Romantic Boys, Teenagers, The Haxan Cloak, The Pop Group, The Skull Defekts feat. Daniel Higgs, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Soft Moon, The Walkmen, Thee Oh Sees, Tres.B, Trupa Trupa, Woods, UL/KR , Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Veronica Falls, We Draw A, Woods, Zbigniew Wodecki with Mitch & Mitch Orchestra and Choir, Zeni Geva. Full schedule online here

Tickets
Tickets are now available at the OFF Shop at the official festival website, as well as at Ticketpro.pl, ebilet.pl and Empik stores in Poland, and internationally at seetickets.com and festicket.com.
Four Day Passes: Sold Out
Three Day Pass without campsite: 190 zl / 45 Euros 
Three Day Pass with campsite: 230 zl / 54 Euros
One Day Ticket: 100 zl / 20 Euros

The price of passes and single day tickets will go up on August 1 so buy now and save!
Buy tickets direct from OFF here http://offsklep.pl/public_html/settings/lang/en

Travel and Accommodation
There are regular cheap flights to from the UK and Europe to Katowice with Wizz Air, Ryan Air, Lufthansa and KLM.
Katowice has a broad range of accommodation, from cheap hostels to luxury hotels, but you can also live the festival life 24 hours a day at the OFF Festival Village, providing you with a place to stay, take care of sanitary needs, and grab a bite to eat.
More information on all the travel and accommodation is available on the festival website soon. 

About OFF:
A truly unique boutique music festival, OFF Festival takes place from annually in August, in 'Three Lake Valley', Katowice - a beautiful green oasis in the heart of industrial Silesia. OFF Festival is a way of life, one that flies in the face of current trends and stays true to itself, and the ethos of organiser Artur Rojek is firmly aimed at supporting art and music with the festival bringing many acts to Poland for the first time. OFF Festival is growing in prominence year on year with this years event promising one of the strongest line-ups to date in line with the festivals forward-thinking, eclectic music policy. From the greatest alternative music stars from around the world to the increasingly strong Polish scene, OFF festival has inspiring music in abundance.