Dzień, w którym skrzypce miały dość

A con­cert inspired by the best­selling book “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Day­walt and Oliv­er Jeffers.

One day the crayons dis­ap­pear from the box. Red is over­worked after a whole sea­son (fire engines, Father Christ­mases, Valen­tine hearts), Blue is so short it has almost van­ished (all those vast oceans and skies!), Black has had enough of being only out­lines (black is also a colour!), and Pink is dream­ing of a dinosaur. The crayons want to break out of their roles and final­ly scrib­ble some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent. So much for the book (which we will sum­mon phys­i­cal­ly and through nar­ra­tion at the event). 

But instru­ments also have their very spe­cif­ic shapes, colours and roles. Might they not some­times grow bored with them? Don’t they dream of escap­ing from the case? Could the vio­lin not secret­ly want to be a lit­tle bit wind? Does the voice not tire of singing? And what about the clar­inet — does it not some­times long to sing? And the accor­dion. Always that accom­pa­ni­ment — but what if…

Free and play­ful search­es for ways out of these roles will be enabled by the won­der­ful music of, among oth­ers, Béla Bartók and Eddy Fle­ci­jn, as well as the famous piece “Kolorowe kred­ki” by Wiera Badal­s­ka and Mar­i­an Sawa, per­formed by musi­cians and impro­vis­ers from Hash­tag Ensem­ble. Colour­ful crayons will nat­u­ral­ly make a per­son­al appear­ance too. We will draw green suns, pink clar­inets, and per­haps fly­ing rab­bits — all the things you hear in the music and that your imag­i­na­tion, awak­ened by the sounds, sug­gests to you.

The even­t’s part­ner is Wydawnict­wo Kropka

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and car­ers are wel­come to bring chil­dren to enjoy treats at our café. The café is open from 9:30 to 14:00.

Performers:

Mar­ta J. Bogusławska piano, voice, dance
Kami­la Wąsik-Jani­ak vio­lin
Oli­wier Andruszczenko clar­inet
Paweł Janas accor­dion
Anna Sza­w­iel script and host­ed by

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs of new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each event is built around an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive games and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a space wel­com­ing to the very youngest, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers, adapt­ed in pro­por­tion and pre­sen­ta­tion for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows chil­dren to become enchant­ed by sound, while invi­ta­tions to join impro­vised activ­i­ties release the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in 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 their part in the unfold­ing of each event. The series presents exclu­sive­ly 20th- and 21st-cen­tu­ry music. A reg­u­lar ele­ment is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a piece from the sound design and elec­tron­ics tradition.

Tickets

30 PLN