AżTak Festiwal 2023

This year the AżTak Fes­ti­val will take audi­ences to com­plete­ly new ter­ri­to­ries and – divert­ing atten­tion for a moment from fake news, cli­mate cri­sis and armed con­flicts – invite them to enter a pri­vate, inti­mate space known only to them.

Dur­ing the fes­ti­val events, Hash­tag Ensem­ble will offer deep reflec­tion on the sur­round­ing real­i­ty, healthy activism car­ried out in col­lab­o­ra­tion with local com­mu­ni­ties and recov­ery of con­tact with one’s own body and emotions.

The mot­to of this year’s fes­ti­val is HOME. Just a few months ago we opened a social cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion – Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab. The vil­la on Stara Ocho­ta became our first per­ma­nent musi­cal home, and at the same time a home for con­tem­po­rary music in War­saw. That’s why we invite you here for evening con­certs. We will per­form on the sum­mer stage and inside the mod­ernist build­ing at Bars­ka 29. We will also be present in the city space, look­ing for new forms of lis­ten­ing, find­ing time for a momen­t’s return to the body tired by the long winter.

On the first day of the fes­ti­val, we invite you to the open­ing of a pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion cre­at­ed with pin­hole cam­eras designed under the direc­tion of Kacper Bartczak and inter­pret­ing home as a space of many mean­ings. Select­ed pho­tographs will serve the impro­vis­ing group Hash­tag Ensem­ble as graph­ic scores in the evening concert.

The sec­ond day of the fes­ti­val will bring music of home “à rebours”, a dark home where we encounter our deep­est fears. The per­for­ma­tive con­cert titled “Chills” will be filled with works by Nina Fukuo­ki, con­sti­tut­ing a study of fear as part of the com­poser’s “Hor­ror Project”. Almost all cor­ners of Hash­tag Lab will sound omi­nous, and after the con­cert we invite you to a film screen­ing and discussion.

In the fes­ti­val finale you will hear a con­cert titled “Touch”, in which home becomes the space of our clos­est rela­tion­ships. We will hear lov­ing com­po­si­tions by Julia Wolfe, Kevin Juiller­at, Jacob Ter Veld­huis and Jakub Krzy­wińs­ki. After the con­cert, we invite you to an after-par­ty in the garden.

Program

July 6, 2023 (Thurs­day)
Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab

7:00 PM – open­ing of “Home” pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion
free admis­sion
8:00 PM – con­cert “Home“
free admis­sion

July 7, 2023 (Fri­day)
Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab

8:00 PM – con­cert “Chills“
tick­ets 10 PLN
9:00 PM – film screen­ing
free admis­sion

July 8, 2023 (Sat­ur­day)
Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab

6:00 PM – walk to be sup­ple­ment­ed
free admis­sion
8:00 PM – con­cert “Touch“
tick­ets 10 PLN

The orga­niz­er of the AżTak Fes­ti­val is the Sfera Har­monii Foun­da­tion, which runs the social cul­tur­al insti­tu­tion Con­tem­po­rary Music Space Hash­tag Lab and the Hash­tag Ensemble.

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

Part­ners:
ZAIKS Authors Asso­ci­a­tion
Glis­san­do
Meakul­tura

Tickets

10 PLN