This year’s festival will be different from the previous editions, just like our general mode of functioning is different from the one before the virus pandemic. The epidemic situation is still precarious, and so the town of Nowy Sącz cannot host our foreign participants. This is all the more impossible, because some of them come from the regions where the pandemic is taking a tragic toll. Instead, they will be joining us via cyberspace. In this way they will convey their message, presenting their colourful and exotic programmes. Since the idea of “comradeship” is the pivotal element in the Festival, we have - by way of exception - invited ensembles from other regions of Poland. They will be paired up with the Carpathian host ensembles, thereby forming the Festival comrade pairs.
We invite you to the concert inaugurating the Festival of the Children of Mountains on Sunday, 18 July, to a new venue, which from now on will provide the setting for the Festival performances. The amphitheatre in a picturesque park in Nowy Sącz offers the audience comfortable conditions. The concert programme will be very attractive: exoticism on the screen and Polish children's folklore in a nutshell live. The subsequent Festival days will have a hybrid form. We are preparing a number of workshops, during which the participants will be originally exposed to the cultures of the countries and regions represented at this year's Festival. The summer holiday evenings between the 19th and 23rd July will be filled with online concerts presenting programme of the Festival threes - two Polish ensembles and one foreign guest.
We are also going to take the Festival around Małopolska. Our mobile multimedia stage will visit a number of beauty spots in the region, which will make it possible to watch the recordings of this year’s most interesting programmes.
On Saturday, 24th July, if the epidemic situation permits, we invite you to the unusual, one-of-a-kind final concert full of artistic surprises. And again, that is not a permanent proposition, but some kind of experiment that will allow us to meet without too much risk to both the Festival children and audience. The Children of Mountains have always worked hard during the finale. This time they will be our guests of honour, and it is to them that we dedicate this concert. The performers will be artists who as children absorbed tradition in their families and surroundings, and now they have turned its creative interpretations into their passions and way of life.
In the recent months the dominant emotion felt by the majority of people in the world has been anxiety. The pandemic has infected all the continents with it to the same degree as the virus itself does. The anxiety - for life, safety and the way the world will be after the pandemic - is more tiresome than the restrictions themselves. No one feels indifferent or is off the hook. It is natural that the survival instinct makes us look for an antidote, relief, hope. Culture appears to be coming to our aid.
Our invitation to participate in the artistic meeting of the children of mountains opens up extraordinary potential for you. Children harbour honesty, trustful openness, and in their eyes one can see... future. The twenty-seven past editions of the festival have taught us that this meeting of children during which we celebrate local and traditional cultures dearest to man carries an unusual charge of energy. Good energy. The energy that emanates vitality, moves hearts and strengthens spirit. The energy that connects the little folk artists with the audience, building a unique and multicultural community.
As we invite you to this atypical Festival edition that is so challenging to us, we hope that the audience, without which none of this would make any sense, will as always help us create this unique atmosphere of the CELEBRATION. To celebrate means to get out of a rut, to be overjoyed, sometimes moved, and - last but not least - to experience a sense of community with others who are celebrating as well. We realize that it is all going to be different than usual. But it will still happen! The Children of Mountains invite you to visit their colourful world in late July, for the twenty-eighth time. And as the Festival motto goes: “children’s friendship builds peace of the adults’ world.” Participation in the live and online Festival events will let us feel the energy of this friendship, delight and soothe our hearts. In a word: peace is the best antidote to anxiety. The 28th Festival of the Children of Mountains is counting on its audience!
We are also going to take the Festival around Małopolska. Our mobile multimedia stage will visit a number of beauty spots in the region, which will make it possible to watch the recordings of this year’s most interesting programmes.
On Saturday, 24th July, if the epidemic situation permits, we invite you to the unusual, one-of-a-kind final concert full of artistic surprises. And again, that is not a permanent proposition, but some kind of experiment that will allow us to meet without too much risk to both the Festival children and audience. The Children of Mountains have always worked hard during the finale. This time they will be our guests of honour, and it is to them that we dedicate this concert. The performers will be artists who as children absorbed tradition in their families and surroundings, and now they have turned its creative interpretations into their passions and way of life.
In the recent months the dominant emotion felt by the majority of people in the world has been anxiety. The pandemic has infected all the continents with it to the same degree as the virus itself does. The anxiety - for life, safety and the way the world will be after the pandemic - is more tiresome than the restrictions themselves. No one feels indifferent or is off the hook. It is natural that the survival instinct makes us look for an antidote, relief, hope. Culture appears to be coming to our aid.
Our invitation to participate in the artistic meeting of the children of mountains opens up extraordinary potential for you. Children harbour honesty, trustful openness, and in their eyes one can see... future. The twenty-seven past editions of the festival have taught us that this meeting of children during which we celebrate local and traditional cultures dearest to man carries an unusual charge of energy. Good energy. The energy that emanates vitality, moves hearts and strengthens spirit. The energy that connects the little folk artists with the audience, building a unique and multicultural community.
As we invite you to this atypical Festival edition that is so challenging to us, we hope that the audience, without which none of this would make any sense, will as always help us create this unique atmosphere of the CELEBRATION. To celebrate means to get out of a rut, to be overjoyed, sometimes moved, and - last but not least - to experience a sense of community with others who are celebrating as well. We realize that it is all going to be different than usual. But it will still happen! The Children of Mountains invite you to visit their colourful world in late July, for the twenty-eighth time. And as the Festival motto goes: “children’s friendship builds peace of the adults’ world.” Participation in the live and online Festival events will let us feel the energy of this friendship, delight and soothe our hearts. In a word: peace is the best antidote to anxiety. The 28th Festival of the Children of Mountains is counting on its audience!