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 the whole sea­son (fire trucks, San­ta Claus­es, Valen­tine’s hearts), blue is so short it has near­ly van­ished (all those vast seas and skies have tak­en their toll!), black is tired of doing noth­ing but out­lines (black is a colour too!), and pink dreams of a dinosaur. The crayons would like to step out of their roles and final­ly scrib­ble some­thing com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent. That’s the book for you — which we’ll phys­i­cal­ly bring into the event and read aloud. 

But sure­ly instru­ments also have their very spe­cif­ic shapes, colours, and roles. Might they not grow bored of them? Don’t they dream of escap­ing their cas­es? Could the vio­lin secret­ly want to be a wind instru­ment? Isn’t the voice tired of singing? What about the clar­inet — does­n’t it some­times long to sing? And the accor­dion. Always accom­pa­ny­ing — but what if…

Free and play­ful explo­rations of step­ping out­side these roles will be made pos­si­ble by the won­der­ful music of, among oth­ers, Béla Bartók and Eddy Flé­ci­jn, 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 of course make a per­son­al appear­ance. We’ll draw green suns, pink clar­inets, and per­haps fly­ing hares — every­thing you hear in the music and every­thing your imag­i­na­tion, awak­ened by sound, sug­gests to you.

The even­t’s part­ner is Wydawnict­wo Kropka

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

Performing:

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

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs of new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is built around an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play, and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a space designed to be child-friend­ly, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in ver­sions and pro­por­tions adapt­ed for young ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages focused lis­ten­ing and allows sounds to cast their spell, while invi­ta­tions to shared impro­vi­sa­tion release the young par­tic­i­pants’ nat­ur­al need for expres­sion. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words — “There are no chil­dren, only peo­ple” — every par­tic­i­pant is treat­ed with respect and has a part to play in the event. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music from the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A reg­u­lar fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ed sym­phon­ic work or a piece from the sound design and elec­tron­ics tradition.

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

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

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series run by the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” foun­da­tion, with­in which Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel per­formed more than 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances togeth­er between 2016 and 2022, search­ing for the most com­pelling ways of pre­sent­ing new music. The con­cept and cura­tion of Smykow­iz­je was by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series in Poland aimed at the very youngest audi­ences, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

Tickets

30 PLN