Editing Gdynia (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:Strokes Opener 040719-139 (48247874422).jpg|thumb|[[Open'er Festival]] in 2019 ]]
Gdynia hosts the [[Gdynia Film Festival]], the main Polish film festival. The [[International Random Film Festival]] was hosted in Gdynia in November 2014.
Since 2003 Gdynia has been hosting the [[Open'er Festival]], one of the biggest contemporary music festivals in Europe. The festival welcomes many foreign [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]], [[Rock music|rock]] and [[electronic music]] artists every year. In record-high 2018 it was attended by over 140,000 people, who enjoyed the lineup headlined by [[Bruno Mars]], [[Gorillaz]], [[Arctic Monkeys]], and [[Depeche Mode]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History - Open'er Festival |url=https://opener.pl/en/history-10/ |access-date=28 March 2021 |website=opener.pl |language=en |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925073244/https://opener.pl/en/history-10/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Another important summer event in Gdynia is the Viva Beach Party, which is a large two-day [[techno]] party made on Gdynia's Public Beach and a summer-welcoming concerts CudaWianki. Gdynia also hosts events for the annual [[Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival]].<br />
In the summer of 2014 Gdynia hosted [[Red Bull Air Race World Championship]].

=== Cultural references ===
In 2008, Gdynia made it onto the ''[[Monopoly (game)#Monopoly Here and Now|Monopoly Here and Now World Edition]]{{Broken anchor|date=18 September 2024|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Monopoly (game)#Monopoly Here and Now|reason= The anchor (Monopoly Here and Now) [[Special:Diff/1186938100|has been deleted]].}}'' board after being voted by fans through the Internet. Gdynia occupies the space traditionally held by [[Mediterranean Avenue]], being the lowest voted city to make it onto the Monopoly Here and Now board, but also the smallest city to make it in the game. All of the other cities are large and widely known ones, the second smallest being Riga. The unexpected success of Gdynia can be attributed to a mobilization of the town's population to vote for it on the Internet.

An abandoned factory district in Gdynia was the scene for the survival series ''Man vs Wild'', season 6, episode 12. The host, [[Bear Grylls]], manages to escape the district after blowing up a door and crawling through miles of sewer.

[[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], the supervillain in the [[List of James Bond novels and short stories|James Bond novels]], was born in Gdynia on 28 May 1908, according to ''[[Thunderball (novel)|Thunderball]]''.

Gdynia is sometimes called "Polish [[Roswell, New Mexico|Roswell]]" due to the alleged [[UFO]] crash on 21 January 1959.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ufocasebook.com/polandcrashes.html |title=Poland UFO Crashes, UFO Casebook Files |first=B. J. |last=Booth |work=ufocasebook.com |access-date=24 July 2016 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002412/http://www.ufocasebook.com/polandcrashes.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-01-21-poland-gdynia.htm |work=UFOs at close sight |title=URECAT-000112 — January 21, 1959, Gdynia, Gdanskie, Poland, beach guards and doctors |first=Patrick |last=Gross |access-date=24 July 2016 |archive-date=18 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818200410/http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1959-01-21-poland-gdynia.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvp.pl/wiedza/aktualnosci/ufo-nad-gdynia-czyli-polskie-roswell/3830096 |title=UFO nad Gdynią, czyli… polskie Roswell |date=21 January 2011 |work=[[TVP.pl]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124035903/http://www.tvp.pl/wiedza/aktualnosci/ufo-nad-gdynia-czyli-polskie-roswell/3830096 |archive-date=24 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/1,35612,14557902,Gdynia_polskim_Roswell__Legendy_o_UFO_i_tajnych_broniach.html |title=Gdynia polskim Roswell? Legendy o UFO i tajnych broniach III Rzeszy |date=6 September 2013 |first=Krzysztof |last=Katka |work=[[Wyborcza.pl]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160724161547/http://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/1,35612,14557902,Gdynia_polskim_Roswell__Legendy_o_UFO_i_tajnych_broniach.html?disableRedirects=true |archive-date=24 July 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://strefatajemnic.onet.pl/ufo/ufo-rozbilo-sie-w-polsce/nd0g3 |title=UFO rozbiło się w Polsce |first=Piotr |last=Cielebiaś |date=7 July 2013 |work=StrefaTajemnic.onet.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102092658/http://strefatajemnic.onet.pl/ufo/ufo-rozbilo-sie-w-polsce/nd0g3 |archive-date=2 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://niewiarygodne.pl/kat,1031991,title,Katastrofa-UFO-w-Gdyni-Czy-to-polskie-Roswell,wid,15268503,wiadomosc.html |title=Katastrofa UFO w Gdyni. Czy to polskie Roswell? |date=22 January 2014 |work=niewiarygodne.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125015828/http://niewiarygodne.pl/kat,1031991,title,Katastrofa-UFO-w-Gdyni-Czy-to-polskie-Roswell,wid,15268503,wiadomosc.html |archive-date=25 January 2014}}</ref>