Ąsąbąble: Piosenniczek

We invite you to a con­cert for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 3–7.

A song as a nap! Just think: we half-close our eyes, prick up our ears and drift into micro-naps: about a cocoon, about a seashell, about Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood and the Wolf who will purr sweet­ly “Hel­looooo, lit­tle gii­i­irl.” Micro-naps of the lul­la­by kind and the lit­er­ary kind, the musi­cal-the­atre kind and the play­ful kind, in which it will be nice to stamp our feet and wake our bod­ies from their naps. They will be pre­ced­ed by sound puz­zles that will set our imag­i­na­tions in motion and tune us in to the audi­to­ry sphere of the con­cert. Piosen­niczek will scat­ter the last rem­nants of win­ter dreams until we feel alto­geth­er, alto­geth­er spring-like. The con­cert pro­gram fea­tures works by, among oth­ers, the duos: Jerzy Ficows­ki and Władysław Sław­ińs­ki, Stanisław Szy­dłows­ki and Jerzy Wasows­ki, Julian Tuwim and Jarek Kor­daczuk, Anna Kierkosz and Agniesz­ka Wid­larz. The colour­ful voic­es of Hash­tag Ensem­ble — Mar­ta Grzywacz and Maciej Nerkows­ki — will sing.

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and car­ers togeth­er with chil­dren are invit­ed to enjoy treats at our lit­tle café. The café is open from 9:00 to 14:00.

Per­form­ers:

Mar­ta Grzywacz voiceMa­ciej Nerkows­ki voiceKrzysztof Kozłows­ki pianoAn­na Sza­w­iel script and host­ed by

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 are equal­ly impor­tant. In a child-friend­ly space, one can lis­ten to music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows one to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in small peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have their share in the course of the event. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A con­stant ele­ment is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or one 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 Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: also involved are invit­ed artists who have long been cre­at­ing in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion: dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al field of action of new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also encom­pass­es actors’ train­ing for musicians.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — actress and voice artist, spe­cial­iz­ing 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 pro­grams are co-cre­at­ed by musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series of the foun­da­tion “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich,” with­in which in the years 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel joint­ly per­formed over 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, search­ing for the most inter­est­ing forms of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator of the con­cept and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

The media patron of the event is the mag­a­zine Kos­mos dla Dziew­czynek. The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL and Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

Tickets

60 PLN