Music (July - August) Folk Art Fair (August) International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music (September 16–29) Organ Music Festival (October) Unsound Festival, electronic and alternative music (October) International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, international film festival (November) Zaduszki Jazz Festival (November) Festival of Animated Film Christmas Market ('till December 26) Kraków szopka Nativity Cribs Festival (first Thursday of December) New Year's Party at the Main Square (December 31) Theatres Kraków is home to one of nation's most active theatre scenes and some of the oldest continuing performing arts companies. It is considered to be the second largest centre for Polish theatre behind Warsaw. It is home to both acclaimed productions by companies such as the National Stary Theatre, and the emerging companies supporting new generation of local artists. Among established theatres in Kraków with permanent stages often in buildings of historic significance are: National Stary Theatre, a.k.a. The Old Theatre, at 1 Jagielonska St. Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, at 1 Sw. Ducha Square Bagatela Theatre, at 6 Karmelicka St. The Ludowy Theatre, a.k.a. The People's Theatre, at os. Teatralne in District Nowa Huta Groteska Theatre of Puppetry, at 2 Skarbowa St. Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Nowa Huta The Krakow VARIETE Theatre Music Opera Krakowska one of the leading national opera companies, stages 200 performances each year including ballet, operettas and musicals. It has, in its main repertoire, the greatest world and Polish opera classics. The Opera moved into its first permanent House in the autumn of 2008. It is in charge also of the Summer Festival of Opera and Operetta. Cracow is home to two major Polish festivals of early music presenting forgotten Baroque oratorios and operas: Opera Rara and Misteria Paschalia. Meanwhile, Capella Cracoviensis runs the Music in Old Cracow International Festival. Academy of Music in Kraków, founded in 1888, is known world-wide as the alma mater of the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and it is also the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw among its alumni. The Academy organizes concerts of its students and guests throughout the whole year. Music organizations and venues include: Kraków Philharmonic, home of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the chamber Capella Cracoviensis, Sinfonietta Cracovia (a.k.a. the Orchestra of the Royal City of Kraków), the Polish Radio Choir of Kraków, Organum Academic Choir, the Mixed Mariański Choir (Mieszany Chór Mariański), Krakow Academic Choir of the