ĄsąBąble: Glisstory

Over­tones, har­mon­ics, and oth­er crea­tures invite you to Glis­sto­ry — a sound-illus­trat­ed sto­ry about music for string instruments.

You will hear the colour­ful, swoop­ing music of Paweł Myki­etyn and Ian­nis Xenakis, as well as folk dance-inspired pieces by Graży­na Bacewicz, Romuald Twar­dows­ki, and Rune Ton­s­gaard Sørensen. We will read excerpts from the won­der­ful books by Katarzy­na Huzar-Czub, which intro­duce musi­cal vocab­u­lary in a play­ful way, we will hum and move around a lit­tle. And using a beau­ti­ful red piece of string we will cre­ate Glisst(w)ories, which Hash­tag Ensem­ble will read and impro­vise upon.

The con­cert is co-organ­ised by Wydawnict­wo PWM, pub­lish­er of the “Sonia w krainie Sonos­t­worów” book series.

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and guardians are invit­ed to enjoy refresh­ments at our café with their chil­dren. The café is open from 10:00 to 14:00.

Per­form­ers:

String quar­tet Hash­tag Ensem­bleAn­na Sza­w­iel script and host­ed byKos­ma Standera sound engineering

Tick­ets avail­able in the GOING app and at goin​gapp​.pl.

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs with new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is built around an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play, and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are of equal impor­tance. In a space friend­ly to the very youngest, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers, in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows lis­ten­ers to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in group impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es chil­dren’s nat­ur­al need for expres­sion. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, only peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents only 20th- and 21st-cen­tu­ry music. A per­ma­nent fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a work from the field of sound design and electronics.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal tex­ture as its start­ing point, it is also rich in non-musi­cal con­texts close to Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al, and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: invit­ed artists who have long worked in prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion also con­tribute — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors, and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al are­na for new music, which is why the ĄsąBąble series also incor­po­rates act­ing train­ing for musi­cians as part of its edu­ca­tion­al character.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — an actress and nar­ra­tor who spe­cialis­es in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She likes work­ing at the bor­ders: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, phys­i­cal­i­ty and abstrac­tion, always in con­nec­tion with chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion. The con­cert pro­grammes are co-cre­at­ed by the musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series by the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” foun­da­tion, in the con­text of which in 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel per­formed togeth­er more than 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, explor­ing the most inter­est­ing ways of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

Tickets

30 PLN