Morzaika

What does the sea dream of? Can the sea sing? Could the peb­bles washed up on the shore be the Sea’s Alpha­bet? Or just an ordi­nary morzai­ka (sea-mosa­ic)? The Novem­ber ĄsąBąble leads us to Buenos Aires, the city of fair winds. We will hear its whistlings and mur­murs and clap out colour­ful rhythms that have sailed here from all cor­ners of the world.

We will stay close to the har­bour dis­trict, because it was right near­by, in the San Tel­mo neigh­bour­hood, that the most famous milon­gas took place — that is where we will meet the lit­tle fish­er­woman from Gabriela Mis­tral’s poem, and where the work “Tales of the Old Piano” recent­ly writ­ten by Aitana Kasulin leads us. The pro­gramme is round­ed out with works by oth­er out­stand­ing Argen­tine com­posers: Alber­to Ginastera and Astor Piaz­zol­la. Along the way we will find peb­bles washed up on the shore which, coloured with felt-tip pens, will form a sound­ing morzaika.

Performers:

• Anna Kar­pow­icz — flute
• Krzysztof Kozłows­ki — piano
• Anna Sza­w­iel — actress

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and car­ers togeth­er with chil­dren are wel­come to enjoy treats at our café.

About the series:
ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs of new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is based on an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue car­ry equal weight. In a space friend­ly to the youngest, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed to lit­tle ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs fos­ters con­cen­tra­tion and allows lis­ten­ers to be enchant­ed by sound, while the invi­ta­tion to shared impro­vi­sa­tion releas­es the nat­ur­al expres­sive needs of young peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple”, all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A per­ma­nent fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a work from the sound design and elec­tron­ics tradition.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal fab­ric as its start­ing point, it also abounds in non-musi­cal con­texts close to the prac­tice of Hash­tag Ensem­ble: lit­er­ary, visu­al and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary in char­ac­ter: invit­ed artists who have long worked in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion also take part — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is a nat­ur­al domain of new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also encom­pass­es actor train­ing for the musicians.

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

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The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series of the “Music Is for Every­one” Foun­da­tion, with­in the frame­work of which, from 2016 to 2022, Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel gave over 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances togeth­er, search­ing for the most inter­est­ing forms of pre­sent­ing new music. The con­cept and cura­tor­ship of Smykow­iz­je was cre­at­ed by 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