Can contemporary music suck you in? We will find out on September 15-24, 2023 during the 13th Festival of Contemporary Music for Children ‘Little Warsaw Autumn’ and we will learn about new ideas, concepts and things thanks to which we can visit completely new, sounding worlds in deeper and more interesting ways. As part of this 'theatrical' Autumn, all the works and performances presented will be world premieres.
During this edition of 'Little Warsaw Autumn', the youngest listeners, alone or in the company of adults, will enter three spaces of unlimited musical imagination.
The first of them will be the famous land of Through the Looking-Glass: A Smile Without a Cat is an experiment - a para-opera performed by Agata Zubel, presented by means of a hologram that will draw the participants of this spectacle (literally) inside: to the intriguing world of Through the Looking-Glass.
The Young Orchestra of the Nowy Theater (MONT) led by Dagna Sadkowska and Sean Palmer will lead us to the land of Music and Animation over the bridge of sounds and images.
During the final day of the 13th Little Warsaw Autumn and 66th Warsaw Autumn, we will immerse ourselves in the contemporary vision of the secret garden from the famous novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett thanks to the full-length musical performance The Secret Garden of the Zagłębie Theater directed by Justyna Sobczyk with music of Wojciech Błażejczyk.
This year's edition will be realized thanks to the co-organizers of the Festival, partners and sponsors: the Capital City of Warsaw, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Programme 2 of the Polish Radio, the Association of Authors ZAiKS, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Polish Music Publishing House and the Żoliborz Cultural Centre.
The festival was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund - a state special purpose fund under the ‘Music’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the City of Warsaw, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and the PZU Foundation. The festival is co-financed as part of ‘Creative Europe’ programme of the European Union. The festival is a member of the European Ulysses network associating cultural institutions as part of the European Union programme ‘Creative Europe’.
Detailed programme: https://warszawska-jesien.art.pl/2023/program/program,little-wa