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Call for Entries: FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS 2024

16 October 2024

The 32nd International Festival of Children's Folk Ensembles FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS will be held on 20-26 July 2025 in Nowy Sącz. We invite you to read the regulations of the event. We are waiting for applications from foreign groups until 31st January 2025.

SOWING

28 July 2024

Gong! With this sound, Andrzej Zarych, the director of MCK SOKÓŁ, opens the door of this year’s last concert of the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS. And through the wide-open time of the final concert, the Costa Rican girls enter, introduced by a flute. They are looking in different directions, sometimes responding with movement to the music, finally appearing to find one another. TOGETHER they are leaving the stage.

Up and down

27 July 2024

This is how that extraordinary evening in the courtyard of SOKÓŁ Małopolska Cultural Centre can be titled. However, the event was officially called “World Music.”

HOW THE OLD WITCHES’ MOUNTAIN HIGHLANDERS AND MACEDONIANS SOWED GOODNESS

27 July 2024

Poland - from the foot of the Old Witches’ Mountain, and North Macedonia - from town of Štip - fall into each other's arms to the joyful whirr of the pinwheels.

The Festival in numbers

7 days
Children spend 7 days at the Festival, during which they live together, give concerts, go on trips, light bonfires and visit the homes of their Polish friends.
400 participants
Every year, about 400 children aged 7 to 14 participate in the event.
356 groups
356 ensembles from all over the world have performed in 30 previous editions of the festival.
68 countries
As many as 68 different cultures have presented themselves at the Festival since 1992.

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