A Year of International Collaborations

Our Lab is setting sail on international waters. The year 2025 will stand out for an exceptional number of collaborations with artists from around the world.

In Feb­ru­ary, we invit­ed you to a debate on Belaru­sian cul­ture and the pre­miere of Andrey Evdoki­mov’s Rust of Rev­er­ence. The debate gave us a deep­er under­stand­ing of the cul­tur­al trans­for­ma­tions tak­ing place among our neighbours.

We will begin the spring of 2025 with a vis­it to Belfast in March. We are plan­ning joint con­certs with the Irish con­tem­po­rary music group Hard Rain Ensem­ble. This col­lab­o­ra­tion takes place with­in the frame­work of the Pol­ish-British Year and is sup­port­ed by the British Council.

Anoth­er excit­ing inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion will involve Ger­man per­cus­sion­ist Sab­ri­na Ma, who on 24 May will per­form a piece writ­ten for Hash­tag Ensem­ble and for Sab­ri­na by com­pos­er Alek­san­dra Bil­ińs­ka. The artist will also lead work­shops with Akademia PRO stu­dents, and Swiss com­pos­er Lucien Danzeisen will give a lecture.

Inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tions will also fea­ture promi­nent­ly at our sum­mer fes­ti­val: at AżTak Fes­ti­w­al we’ll meet, among oth­ers, Japan­ese dou­ble bassist Masashi Yamamoto.

In autumn, we will also col­lab­o­rate with the Croa­t­ian ensem­ble Can­tus Ensem­ble, who will vis­it Bars­ka in Octo­ber. In turn, Hash­tag Lab will open the 2025/2026 con­cert sea­son in Zagreb with a con­cert on 13 Octo­ber 2025.