Music of Fire and Love.
Concept: Jacek Hałas
The Western Borderlands, full of “blank gaps”, forgotten stories, unseen landscapes, are a very inspiring area. Its cultural non-obviousness encourages explorations of borderlands of language, art, or memory. The songs of firefighters – the men who have guts and heart, the men who touch the real border between life and death every day – balancing on the border of good taste, a crap and true emotion, are so far from the stereotype of “folk music” that they did not find their place in maps of ethnomusicologists. For us, this real “borderland” of traditions has become a great place of meeting, of fun, and of joy. And only a physical encounter – through singing, through dancing, at the table – gives us a chance of going across the borders of our village, of our country, of our religion, of our nation – to meet the other human being.
Jacek Hałas is a musician, a singer, a dancer, and an explorer of tradition. He was a co-founder of numerous great musical formations (Reportaż, Bractwo Ubogich, Muzykanci, Ket Jo Barat, Lautari, Kwartet Wiejski, Kapela Hałasów). He is interested in procession dancing, swirling dancing, tradition of wandering singers, workshops and educational activities. Since 2005, he and his wife Alicja (who plays folk percussion instruments) as “Nomadzi Kultury” ["Nomads of Culture"], have been travelling around Europe with traditional Yurt, where they present the effects of their many years of exploration and projects carried out jointly with artists from all over the world. For many years Jacek Hałas has been seeking traces of Dziady songs – in living tradition, in records and notes of ethnographers, and in home archives, and has been playing the hurdy-gurdy himself. He is a laureate of many music awards (including two prizes of “Folkowy Fonogram Roku”, the main award related to folk music in Poland).
June 24th, 2017
7.00 p.m. vicinity of the Stolec Palace [PL]
Free admission for all events
full programe: "Places and Borders"
more information: Caravana next
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“Places and Borders” is a part of the project Caravan Next –Feed the Future: Art moving Cities.
Organizers: Ośrodek Teatralny Kana, Muzeum Pomorza w Greifswaldzie
Partners: Gminne Centrum Kultury i Bibliotek w Dobrej, Teatr Brama z Goleniowa, OSP z Dobrej, Pałac Stolec, Dworek przy Świdwiu, Izba Muzealna w Glashütte, Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno-Artystyczne "Oswajanie sztuki"
Host of the place: Luiza Ślusarenko-Supernak
Coordynation: Kinga Rabińska i Dorota Makrutzki
Artistic conception: Weronika Fibich, Rafał Foremski
More information:
Kinga Rabińska, kinga.rabinska@gmail.com, tel. +48 665490310 [PL]
Dorota Makrutzki, kulturreferat@pommersches-landesmuseum.de, tel. +49 15172413243 [DE]
Music of Fire and Love.
Concept: Jacek Hałas
The Western Borderlands, full of “blank gaps”, forgotten stories, unseen landscapes, are a very inspiring area. Its cultural non-obviousness encourages explorations of borderlands of language, art, or memory. The songs of firefighters – the men who have guts and heart, the men who touch the real border between life and death every day – balancing on the border of good taste, a crap and true emotion, are so far from the stereotype of “folk music” that they did not find their place in maps of ethnomusicologists. For us, this real “borderland” of traditions has become a great place of meeting, of fun, and of joy. And only a physical encounter – through singing, through dancing, at the table – gives us a chance of going across the borders of our village, of our country, of our religion, of our nation – to meet the other human being.
Jacek Hałas is a musician, a singer, a dancer, and an explorer of tradition. He was a co-founder of numerous great musical formations (Reportaż, Bractwo Ubogich, Muzykanci, Ket Jo Barat, Lautari, Kwartet Wiejski, Kapela Hałasów). He is interested in procession dancing, swirling dancing, tradition of wandering singers, workshops and educational activities. Since 2005, he and his wife Alicja (who plays folk percussion instruments) as “Nomadzi Kultury” ["Nomads of Culture"], have been travelling around Europe with traditional Yurt, where they present the effects of their many years of exploration and projects carried out jointly with artists from all over the world. For many years Jacek Hałas has been seeking traces of Dziady songs – in living tradition, in records and notes of ethnographers, and in home archives, and has been playing the hurdy-gurdy himself. He is a laureate of many music awards (including two prizes of “Folkowy Fonogram Roku”, the main award related to folk music in Poland).
June 24th, 2017
7.00 p.m. vicinity of the Stolec Palace [PL]
Free admission for all events
full programe: "Places and Borders"
more information: Caravana next
Facebook
“Places and Borders” is a part of the project Caravan Next –Feed the Future: Art moving Cities.
Organizers: Ośrodek Teatralny Kana, Muzeum Pomorza w Greifswaldzie
Partners: Gminne Centrum Kultury i Bibliotek w Dobrej, Teatr Brama z Goleniowa, OSP z Dobrej, Pałac Stolec, Dworek przy Świdwiu, Izba Muzealna w Glashütte, Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno-Artystyczne "Oswajanie sztuki"
Host of the place: Luiza Ślusarenko-Supernak
Coordynation: Kinga Rabińska i Dorota Makrutzki
Artistic conception: Weronika Fibich, Rafał Foremski
More information:
Kinga Rabińska, kinga.rabinska@gmail.com, tel. +48 665490310 [PL]
Dorota Makrutzki, kulturreferat@pommersches-landesmuseum.de, tel. +49 15172413243 [DE]