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We invite you to the first family disco at Barska 29 — there will be dancing and chilling, games and fruit.
In jumps and spins, swaying and cuddling, we’ll spend time together with music. Dusted with glitter, we’ll splash around in endorphins. With lightness and ease and one big watermelon. Because that’s exactly how we at Hashtag Lab picture a great September. (A reminder: it’s the time of back-to-school and back-to-preschool, queues in the stationery shop and scheduling extracurricular activities.) With that in mind, we’ve decided to organise ourselves a holiday vibe. We invite you to the first family disco at Barska 29 — there will be dancing and chilling, games and fruit. The musical cocktail is being prepared by DJ Myszka; it will contain more than one pineapple, and definitely songs by the bands Czereśnie and No, cześć, hits that don’t give you toothache, and even electronics by Rafał Ryterski. The dancefloor at Barska is already waiting for you!
The party and animations are dedicated to families with children 3+, but in our studio we have a carpeted corner for younger children, and a sun-lounger zone on the patio.
Performer:
DJ Myszka — that’s Asia Krukowska-Gulik. A theatre educator, tutor and socio-cultural animator. In her day job she works in the Theatre Education Department at the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, but for some time now she has been fulfilling herself as a DJ. She has had the chance to play at large events and festivals such as “Panie proszą panów” and the Instytut Festiwal, EJC, Festiwal Najmłodszych, Multi Art Festiwal, in clubs (including Chmury and Bardzo Bardzo) and cultural institutions across Poland. She loves people and dance, and most of all dancing with people. She has led numerous workshops for families, children and young people, as well as for educators. Together with parents and children she has prepared, among other things, a performance in the exhibition space at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN and a performance “Letnie wakacje. Niezła propozycja”. Co-creator of “Zgubowisko” — a family new-circus performance created in collaboration with Fundacja Sztukmistrze. Creator of publications for families.
The media patron of the event is the magazine Kosmos dla Dziewczynek.
Przestrzeń Muzyki Współczesnej Hashtag Lab is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.
ĄsąBąble are performative concerts featuring new music for families with children aged 0–7. Each one is based on an original scenario in which listening to music, interactive games and educational value are equally important. In a space friendly to the very youngest, one can listen to the music of leading contemporary composers in a version and proportion adapted for small ears. The theatrical format of the concerts encourages focus and allows one to be enchanted by the sounds, while the invitation to join in collective improvisations releases the natural need for expression in little people. In the spirit of Janusz Korczak’s words “There are no children, there are people,” all participants are treated with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents exclusively music of the 20th and 21st centuries. A regular feature is the presentation of a recording of a symphonic work or a piece from the field of sound design and electronics.
While each edition of ĄsąBąble takes musical material as its point of departure, it also abounds in extra-musical contexts close to the practice of Hashtag Ensemble: literary, visual, social. The events are interdisciplinary in character: also taking part are invited artists who have long worked in close proximity to children’s imagination — dancers, performers, illustrators and writers. Theatre is a natural arena for new music, and so the educational character of the ĄsąBąble series also incorporates actor training for the musicians.
The curator and host of the series is Anna Szawiel — an actress and narrator who specialises in interdisciplinary cultural and educational events. She likes to work at the boundaries: between concert and performance, education and play, the physical and the abstract, always in connection with children’s imagination. The concert programmes are co-created by musicians of Hashtag Ensemble.
The ĄsąBąble project creatively develops the concept of the “Smykowizje” series by the foundation “Muzyka jest dla wszystkich”, within which in 2016–2022 Hashtag Ensemble and Anna Szawiel gave over 130 concerts and mini-performances together, seeking the most compelling forms for presenting new music. The concept and curatorial direction of Smykowizje was by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland aimed at the very youngest children, in which contemporary music played the leading role.