Vegetable Festival Club
Oliwa Town Hall of Culture, Opata Rybińskiego 25
The leitmotif of this year’s Festival Club are VEGETABLES. On Saturday night, the Club will host a fancy dress ball, where you can either arrive in a vegetable-inspired costume or prepare one on the spot. The Club is located in the Oliwa Town Hall of Culture (Opata Rybińskiego 25) and operates in three areas: garden (5–10 p.m.), bar in front of the entrance (7 p.m. – 1 a.m.) and ground floor of the Town Hall (10 p.m. – 1 a.m.).
PROGRAMME
16th November (Friday)
Area 1: 5–10 p.m. Garden of the Town Hall (entry through the café or from the back of the building)
– workshops on the subject of vegetables (for children and adults)
– tasting of vegetable preserves, herbal teas, soups and cakes made with vegetables
Area 2: 7 p.m. – 1 a.m. Bar in front of the Town Hall entrance
Area 3: 10 p.m. – 1 a.m. Ground floor of the Town Hall
– 10 p.m.: Arszyn “Vegetable-powered” | concert
– 11 p.m. – 1 a.m.: DJ Ryan R | afterparty
17th November (Saturday)
Area 1: 5–10 p.m. Garden of the Town Hall (entry through the café or from the back of the building)
– workshops on the subject of vegetables (for children and adults)
– tasting of vegetable preserves and herbal teas
– sewing vegetable costumes for the ball
Area 2: 7 p.m. – 1 a.m. Bar in front of the Town Hall entrance
Area 3: 10 p.m. – 1 a.m. Ground floor of the Town Hall
– 10 p.m.: Vegetable IRD* with Poly&Ester | sporty warm-up
– 10.30 p.m. – 1 a.m. “Wild Vegetables” fancy dress ball, DJ set: Zosia +Grześ
*Intensive Recreational Discipline
DETAILED INFORMATION
16th November, Friday
AREA 1 / Garden of the Town Hall / 5–10 p.m.
__Super-memo at the market stall / Agata Królak
__SECTIONS / Natalia Recław
__Kaleidoscopes / Joanna Stachowiak
__Greengrocer’s at a cake shop / Joanna Stachowiak
AREA 3 / Ground floor of the Town Hall / 10 p.m.–1 a.m.
__10 p.m. Arszyn Vegetable-powered | concert
Krzysztof Topolski aka Arszyn:
When planning what to make for dinner, I usually buy the following vegetables: potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, onions, broccoli, peppers, courgette, pumpkin, cauliflower, kohlrabi, celeriac, leek, parsnip and cucumbers. I plan to buy similar ingredients before the concert.
While contemporary music and media art are constantly on the lookout for new, interesting and ever more complex means of expression, simple, everyday vegetables have the qualities that could be of interest for both these fields. With their interesting acoustic properties and very good conductivity – owing to their high water content – vegetables may find a variety of uses in digital art.
I would like to invite everyone to a concert of electronic, electroacoustic, improvised and dance music performed using vegetables as tools to generate, create and control sounds, during which I am going to use the acoustic and electric properties of vegetables that take on the role of music instruments.
On the following day, I am going to use the concert vegetables to cook my dinner.
Krzysztof Topolski aka Arszyn is a percussionist, electroacoustic improviser, author of sound art projects and curator. Noise, soundscape and groove are the basic notions that characterize his work. He is interested in percussionist explorations as well as live electronic, improvised and electroacoustic music. He composes using computer software, creates sound installations and makes field recordings. He organizes presentations and lectures on contemporary music, acoustic ecology and sound art, and holds workshops. Topolski is the author of various projects presented in Poland and abroad. His music has been published in the following labels: Sangoplasmo, Post_Post, Nefryt, Monotype, Audiotong, Sqrt, Lado ABC, Plg, Konkretourist, Pawlacz Perski, Plaża zachodnia, Thisisnotarecord. (soundcloud / www)
__11 p.m.–1 a.m. DJ Ryan R | afterparty
DJ Ryan R (Transatlantyk Records) is the esoteric and exotic alias of one of the most interesting Wrocław-based DJs. In his project, Ryan R presents unusual sets based on African tempos, erudite fluency in combining ethnic threads from all over the world and highly dynamic, deft mixing. [source: Culture.pl] (soundcloud / FB)
17th November 2018, Saturday
AREA 1 / Garden of the Town Hall / 5–10 p.m.
__Cabbage art or art-in-cabbage? / Aurora Lubos with Kostka and Józek
__An abundance of vegetables
__Close neighbours and veggie soups
__Vegetable costume design station for the fancy dress ball
AREA 3 / Ground floor of the Town Hall / 10 p.m.–1 a.m.
__10 p.m. Vegetable IRD* with Poly&Ester | sporty warm-up
Before the ball, for a good start, try the VEGETABLE IRD WITH POLY&ESTER! IRD stands for Intensive Recreational Discipline, presented by our experienced international coaches: Poly Muskelbauch and Ester Schnelle Fusse, here in its particularly high-fibre rendition. The Queens of Low Sit-Ups and Deep Squats will check how tight your jars are before winter. (FB)
__10.30 p.m.–1.00 a.m. WILD VEGETABLES fancy dress ball with music by Zosia and Grześ
Zosia and Grześ is a duo that mostly performs in locations that are not too far removed from Poland’s maritime boundary; they form part of Tricity’s social and art collective Gnojki. Their taste in music was shaped by joint trips to Malbork. (FB)
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Authors of NARRACJE’s Festival Club:
Kamila Chomicz: author of the idea and coordinator of vegetable workshop stalls and the fancy dress ball, author of the Club’s promotional videos
Inicjatywa Miasto Association: authors and designers of the Club’s architectural space
Aleksandra Jagła, Philip Szymankiewicz: authors of the Club’s set design.
Urszula Kozak, Mateusz Kozłowski: authors of visuals
