Smyki i pierniki

We invite the youngest music lovers and their families to a festive concert from the ĄsąBąble series!

Do you remem­ber old-fash­ioned Christ­mas trees? A lit­tle mis­matched and not quite in tune, they had their charm: they shim­mered with vari­ety, and their orna­ments were often col­lect­ed over sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions. Each one could tell a short sto­ry or inspire a piece of music. Each could sym­bol­ise a spe­cial gift: a colour­ful bauble — play, a pine cone — shar­ing, a rock­ing horse — a cud­dle at lul­la­by time. There is also kind­ness, atten­tion, accep­tance — things you will not find in any shop. 

The musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensem­ble will wrap these gifts in sounds, to give us more joy in dis­cov­er­ing. Hid­den in the sounds will be melodies that bring us good things for this Decem­ber time — like the car­ol from the 3rd String Quar­tet by Pēteris Vasks. The com­pos­er want­ed this music to bring peace to the earth. That is still a very pre­cious gift, is it not?

The last con­cert of the year has an inter­gen­er­a­tional char­ac­ter — we invite you to come as whole fam­i­lies. Wait­ing for you will be a fam­i­ly of string play­ers: two vio­lins, vio­la and cel­lo. We will munch gin­ger­bread togeth­er and cre­ate sound­ing Christ­mas orna­ments. Let it be var­ied and colour­ful, with imag­i­na­tion. Just like the Christ­mas trees of old. 

Per­form­ers:

About the series:

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 space friend­ly to the youngest, 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 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 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 a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A per­ma­nent fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or one from the sphere of sound design and electronics.

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

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — an actor and nar­ra­tor who spe­cialis­es in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She enjoys work­ing on bound­aries: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, phys­i­cal­i­ty and abstrac­tion, always in con­nec­tion 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 by the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” foun­da­tion, with­in which in 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 con­cept and cura­tion of Smykow­iz­je was by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series in Poland addressed to the very youngest chil­dren, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead role.

The media patron of the event is Kos­mos dla Dziew­czynek magazine.

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.

Tickets

60 PLN