Idealistic Festival

From 22 to 25 Sep­tem­ber, dur­ing the jubilee edi­tion of the fes­ti­val, the most inter­est­ing artists of the younger gen­er­a­tion and inter­na­tion­al cre­ators of cre­ative music will meet on the stages of the cap­i­tal’s clubs. Con­certs are not all. The event will also fea­ture work­shops and impro­vised music ses­sions. Ide­al­is­tic Fes­ti­val will vis­it Hash­tag Lab on 24 September!

What does an ide­al­is­tic fes­ti­val look like? Accord­ing to its founders, it is one that does not bank on stars, does not pigeon­hole artists by style, likes or num­ber of awards, but instead — in response to “head­lin­er cul­ture” — bets on bring­ing togeth­er artists with an estab­lished cre­ative direc­tion, regard­less of their career stage, musi­cal genre or mar­ket posi­tion. We know that out­stand­ing cre­ators are already here; some­times all it takes is to invite them onto the stage.

Some of the invit­ed cre­ators suc­cess­ful­ly per­form at the biggest musi­cal events in the world, yet they have also cho­sen to appear at inti­mate cap­i­tal-city clubs in sup­port of the idea behind the fes­ti­val. Ide­al­is­tic Fes­ti­val con­nects the inde­pen­dent Dan­ish scene with the Pol­ish music com­mu­ni­ty, pro­mot­ing cre­ative uncom­pro­mis­ing­ness, an empha­sis on orig­i­nal music and shared impro­vi­sa­tion. That is why after each event there will be inti­mate con­certs at the leg­endary vinyl shop Plaka­ton. An impor­tant ele­ment of the event is also its edu­ca­tion­al val­ue. As part of Ide­al­is­tic Fes­ti­val it will also be pos­si­ble to take part in free work­shops open to pupils (and oth­ers) at the Music Edu­ca­tion Con­cert Cen­tre on ul. Połczyńska.

At Hash­tag Lab (Sun­day 24.09) we will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see three solo con­certs. Hubert Kostkiewicz, known from the bands Kur­ws and Atol Atol Atol, will play elec­tric gui­tar. Marcela Lucatel­li, a rad­i­cal com­pos­er and vocal­ist, will per­form mate­r­i­al based on her solo album “ANEW” using piano and voice. The evening of con­certs will be closed by Kresten Osgood, a Dan­ish leg­end of impro­vised music and jazz.

Cre­ators

The fes­ti­val was found­ed by pianist Kamil Piotrow­icz and per­cus­sion­ist and inde­pen­dent events organ­is­er Szy­mon Gąsiorek. Dur­ing their stud­ies at the Rhyth­mic Music Con­ser­va­to­ry in Copen­hagen they observed many grass­roots ini­tia­tives in the sur­round­ing envi­ron­ment, all try­ing to fore­ground uncom­pro­mis­ing orig­i­nal music. These ini­tia­tives often seemed to be iso­lat­ed, with their reach severe­ly lim­it­ed. Tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from the Danes, who val­ue cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tion, they decid­ed to cre­ate a plat­form to con­nect them — one that would strength­en the inde­pen­dent music scene.

Tick­ets

Tick­ets for Ide­al­is­tic Fes­ti­val are avail­able in the GOING app and at goin​gapp​.pl.

Ear­ly Bird tick­ets 35 PLN until 16 August­Sec­ond batch 40 PLN until 21 Sep­tem­ber­Full pass (4 days) 95 PLN — lim­it­ed num­ber of passes

Tick­ets on the day 45 PLNEn­try to work­shops and improv ses­sions is free.

Full fes­ti­val programme:

22.09 / Fri­day / Chmury, ul.11 Listopa­da 22, War­saw­Tymek Papi­or [PL] / Jim Kim­chi [DK] / pasz­ka [PL]

23.09 / Sat­ur­day / Klub SPATiF, Al.Ujazdowskie 45, War­sawSVIN [DK] / Asger Thom­sen [DK] / Arti­fi­cial­ice [PL]

24.09 / Sun­day / Hash­tag Lab, ul.Barska 29, War­sawHu­bert Kostkiewicz [PL] / Marcela Lucatel­li [BR/DK] / Kresten Osgood [DK]

25.09 / Mon­day / Music Edu­ca­tion Con­cert Cen­tre (KCEM), Połczyńs­ka 56, War­saw­Work­shops with Kresten Osgood

22.09–25.09 / PLAKATON, War­saw Under­ground Pas­sages beneath Ron­do 40-lat­ka (near Dworzec Cen­tral­ny, unit 58/59)Late-night improv ses­sions after the main concerts

Part­ners

Dan­ish Min­istry of For­eign Affairs and Dan­ish Min­istry of Cul­ture | Embassy of the King­dom of Den­mark in Poland | Jaz­zDan­mark | STOART | Glis­san­do | Radio Kam­pus | Radio Kap­i­tał | Nowe Idzie od Morza | Going. | Anx­ious Musick Mag­a­zine | Hałasy i Melodie | Pismo

The Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Tickets

100 PLN