Open-air music and film evening
September 15th, 2012,
From 15.30 to 01.00
Park around the Ujazdowski Castle.
EUNIC –Warszawa and CCA Ujazdowski Castle
Summer Opera is an interdisciplinary outdoor event, entirely devoted to ‘the joy of music’ in a broad perspective: to create music, to listen to it, to understand it, to appreciate it and to dance on it.
Summer Opera is the follow-up of last year's "Awakening of the summer" which was organized by the network of national institutes for culture and embassies in Warsaw: “EUNIC Warszawa” and CCA Zamek Ujazdowski and which brought 3000 persons to the castle on a warm midsummer night.
This year, once again, the gracious environment of the Castle transformed into a lively European boulevard and the keyword is ‘Opera’. ‘Opera’ in the sense of a spectacular synthesis of arts; combining various elements, often surprising and sometimes disturbing, but always fascinating. The main role in the Summer Opera was played by cinematography. 3 screens showed documentaries devoted to musicians, music and instruments. There were animation- and feature films as well as music videos from several European countries and even a silent film. There was a voice-workshop, lessons in Irish dancing, you could make music on what needs to be recycled and – of course – the opera brought also a music workshop for children and parents. Workshops were dedicated to everyone: those talented and those who cannot sing or play.
An Opera is not an Opera without a choir and an orchestra! Therefore on stage: Małe Instrumenty (Poland), Alfredo Costa Monteiro (Portugal) and Anthony Chorale (The Netherlands) and in the late hours: DJ Disco DJ Partizanti (Poland) and DJ PM Misha (Portugal).
For the hungry and thirsty the opera served Hungarian, Portuguese and Czech delights and more, more, more!
Workshops were open for everyone. No registration needed.
Organizers:
EUNIC Warszawa (European Union National Institutes for Culture): Embassy of Greece - Press Office, Delegation Wallonie-Brussels (Embassy of Belgium), Embassy of Ireland, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Center, Danish Cultural Institute, Instituto Camões, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Goethe Institute, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Romanian Cultural Institute, the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw
and:
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / KINO.LAB
Coordination, curator for film program: Katarzyna Boratyn (KINO.LAB CSW Zamek Ujazdowski)
Curator for music program: Andrzej Załęski (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski)
Partners: Cafe.Hu, Smaki Portugalii, Portucale, Klub Bazar, Videoteca. bodyspace, Guimarães European Capital of Culture
The event took place in the framework of: Green Jazdów or CCA on the grass.
Green Jazdów is supported by the City of Warsaw and Embassy of Thailand in Warsaw
Main partner: IKEA
Partner: internet shop www.whamaku.pl
Technical partner: Jerry Media
Green Jazdów cafe in the summer paviliion: OSIR cafe&bar
Salads and baked goods served Małpi Biznes.
Media patrons: TVP1, TOK FM, Przekrój, o.pl, F5, EMMA PAK, PURPOSE, Projektor Kulturalny, magazyn Smak, ecowawa.pl, ekologia.pl, ulicaekologiczna.pl, portalfilmowy, placdefilad.com, uwolnijmuzyke.pl, qlturka.pl, mowianamiescie.pl
Media patrons of the CCA: Aktivist, Exklusiv, Stolica, Elle Decoration
