Advance ticket sales for the major events of the International Singing Poetry Festival in St. Catherine's Church. The organizers of the festival, which will be held for the eighteenth year, say that they have prepared a plan B for their spectators, if sometimes, as in the spring of this year, life happens. So October 12 - 17 the festival will take place under any circumstances.
In this year's program, a strong interdisciplinary vitamin cocktail of good mood has been prepared for the residents of Vilnius and the guests of the city in autumn. In the traditional big concerts of St. Lithuanian artists will perform in St. Catherine's Church with their latest programs. "At the opening concert of the festival "Bardai Kitu Kampu", we will invite you to take a new look at bardic music. The actors of the "Kitas Kampas" improvisation theater, together with the performer Giedris Nak and the band, will invite you to become creators of contemporary bardic music. After 20 years, the last Bremen musicians will return to the stage with the new program "3+3". Ilona Balsytė, Aidas Giniotis and Darius Auželis, two different generations of the theater of freaks, and their younger but no less charismatic, vocal colleagues Sigitas Mickis, Dalius Skamarakas and Aurimas Meliešius. The trio of actors will retrospectively perform well-known works and present new songs in one concert", says Lina Užkuraitytė, the head of the festival.
The festival program includes more pleasant surprises. Musical crews will once again spread around the centers of bardic culture — Skapiškis, Veisiejus, Prienus, Trakus, etc. regions of the country. Traditional creative workshops of foreign artists for young people and their musical performances will move to the virtual space. It will be possible to watch them on the Facebook account of the festival and on the YouTube channel of the Vilnius Teachers' House.
Special attention in this year's program is dedicated to families. Saturday, October 17 of the festival. 12 o'clock the concert for the whole family will feature the best childhood songs of all time about the white tick, small cars, etc., from the performances of "Keistulių teatro" and "Telebimbam" repertoire, which will be performed by director, actor, bard Aidas Giniotis together with the group "Plumbum" - actors of the younger generation .
An interactive performance of poetry will invite you to walk around the city for even two days - the installation "City Verses for Children". "In the performance-installation, the original optical theater and animation devices will come to life: thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, stroboscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope and many others. They will become interactive artistic kinetic objects in the performance, whose moving pictures will bring the action of the poems and its heroes to life. A QR code will be placed on each artistic kinetic object, which by scanning the audience will be able to hear lines read by the actors — poems by Lithuanian poets for children (D. Čepauskaitė, VV Landsbergios, M. Marcinkevičiaus), revealing the extraordinary world of poems spread by wisdom and imagination in unexpected, undiscovered urban spaces ", says Kristina Maurusevičiūtė, the curator of this project, actress, head of the "Teatro istorijos" institution.
Traditionally, in the Vilnius teachers' house, the "Nights" of the king's young poets and creators of bardic music, invited by the bard Gytis Ambrazevičius and his charming creative team. "Bardazmus", an intercultural laboratory of creators of foreign nationalities living in Lithuania, which was started last year, will also take place.
Traditional creative workshops of foreign performers for young bards, performers from France, the United States of America, Ireland, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, etc. musical performances will move to virtual space. You will be able to watch them on the Facebook account of the festival and on the YouTube channel of the Vilnius Teachers' House.
For the finale of the festival, the organizers are preparing a special musical surprise for the audience. Unlike previous years, the festival will last longer and will be crowned by musical hums on the Summer Terrace of the Vilnius Teachers' House. At the "(NE) Bardai Bardiškai" concert, 2 male and female musical groups will meet. Follow the festival news on "This is me" Facebook account and you will be the first to know about this musical meeting of bands and its most important details!
You can buy the first tickets for the big festival events now at a lower price, later the tickets will be more expensive. Tickets are sold by bilietai.lt.
About the festival: The international singing poetry festival "Tai — aš" has been held since 2003. "This is me" means: communal, intercultural creative laboratories for young songwriters and performers, concert crews traveling around Lithuanian towns and neighboring countries, performances by Lithuanian and foreign artists for children and non-children, and cozy nights of original creativity until dawn... More information about the festival at www.tai-as.lt
