Love Songs

When June blos­soms and bears fruit, and bright sun­shine streams into the Lab, we want more.

It is pre­cise­ly in June, on Mid­sum­mer’s Eve, that light sym­bol­i­cal­ly over­comes dark­ness. Kupała Night, or the Sum­mer Sol­stice — the longest day and the short­est night, dur­ing which one can find the fern flower and love for a life­time, fire joins with water and the laws of log­ic do not apply. Since ancient times the Slavs have hon­ored this time with var­i­ous rit­u­als such as light­ing bon­fires, float­ing flower wreaths on water, gath­er­ing herbs and flow­ers, and even… hunt­ing witches!

At Hash­tag Lab we will be hunt­ing no one, but the world of mag­ic and rit­u­al will be brought to us by Katarzy­na Szwed and Paweł Janas. Both have cre­at­ed com­po­si­tions spe­cial­ly for this occa­sion, inspired by the sym­bol­ism and cus­toms cel­e­brat­ed on Kupała Night. For the sec­ond time the Hash­tag musi­cians will stand on the roof of their home and play amidst the sounds of the city on unusu­al instru­ments: zither, cim­balom, por­ta­tive organ, K‑dron and vio­la d’amore, and they will be joined by sopra­no Anna Zaw­isza. And after every night there always comes the sun­rise, through which Ter­ry Riley will guide us.

Come to Hash­tag Lab, set­tle into the deckchairs in the gar­den, grab a refresh­ing lemon­ade and lis­ten to sto­ries of love at the time when the sun bows twice.

Pro­gram:

Katarzy­na Szwed Love Songs (2025)*Paweł Janas Kiedy słońce kła­nia się dwa razy (2025*)Terry Riley Sun­rise of the Plan­e­tary Dream Collector

*world pre­miere

Per­form­ers:

Anna Zaw­isza sopra­noMar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­li­nAlek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka vio­la, vio­la d’amorePaweł Janas por­ta­tive organ, K‑dron, accor­dionLil­ian­na Krych zither

Robert Dacko cello

Pro­duc­tion:

Artis­tic con­cept: Cre­ative Group­text: Mar­ta Piórkowskapro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkowska­sound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Stander­av­i­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

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 Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio and POLMIC​.PL.

Co-financed by the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­tur­al Pro­mo­tion Fund with­in the “Music” pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance.

Tickets

40 PLN