Take a walk on the wild side

Garrett Van Reed - 14th January 2010

© Garrett Van Reed
Wroclaw
Wroclaw's ‘Cultural Resuscitation Centre’
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Looking for an alternative to trendy lounges and mindless club music? Need allies for your next political action? Looking for a free place to crash? Head to CRK, Wrocław’s counter-culture headquarters.

In a dodgy neighbourhood north of the city centre, across an isolated quad, buried between some forgotten back-lot apartment buildings, the ‘Cultural Resuscitation Centre’ (Centrum Reanimacji Kultury) has been breathing fresh air into the iron lung of Poland’s conservative culture and pissing on the shoe of the powers-that-be for the last decade. Walk through the gates of CRK on a Saturday night and you’ve discovered a home grown scene of do-it-yourself debauchery. Hippies, hipsters, ...

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