SONG LABORATORY WORKSHOPS – song workshops dedicated to women
“This is the time, this time,” says Rosa Giove’s famous icaro. This time, this time to open up to your authenticity, your sensitivity in your voice, in singing, in breathing. Find and encounter what is most precious, what is most delicate – the truth of your own song. Free Song. A true song. A song that regained its power and direction. Songs of a woman who is no longer afraid, but sings and dances her life, in accordance with her intuition.
We invite you to journey through polyphonic songs to awaken your voice and deepen your breathing, relax your body, and discover sounds within yourself and in the space around you. We will also sit in a circle to support each other in searching for our own melodies that are just waiting to come true. The workshop is conducted by Alina Jurczyszyn’s own method of practicing with voice, body and breath, inspired by, among others, training of the Gardzienice Theater and paramusical practices of the Institute. Jerzy Grotowski in Wrocław. The material for practice will be traditional songs and improvised songs. Participants are not required to have any musical experience, but only the desire to express themselves through the sound and musicality they carry within themselves.
More about the workshops: http://laboratoriumpiesni.pl/warsztaty/
WORKSHOPS LEAD BY:
Alina Jurczyszyn (Aja Piesionka): Woman Song, founder of the Song Laboratory, has been dedicating her path to exploring the extraordinary matter of sound and traditional songs for almost twenty years. He travels all over the world (including the USA, Japan, England, India, Turkey, Israel and most European countries), conducting workshops, giving concerts, collecting songs from the sources. A graduate of the Gardzienice Theater, director of musical performances. She has recorded ten albums (including the album Laboratorium Pieśni: Rasti – nominated for the Fryderyk Award in 2020) and has written the book “Unleash Your Song”. In recent years, he has been practicing healing songs and music therapy using his instruments: medicine drums, rattles, shruti box, bells, lyre, flute, ukulele, singing bowls.
Kamila Bigus: violinist, graduate of the Academy of Music. Stanisław Moniuszko in Gdańsk, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Interfaculty Institute of Art Sciences); vocalist and music arranger in the Tri-City bands Laboratorium Pieśni and Annutara, co-host of Laboratorium Pieśni vocal workshops in Poland and abroad, including: in the United States, Japan, India, Turkey, Portugal, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland; co-participant in many album recordings of such bands as: L.U.C, Symphonic Theater of Dreams, Crane Days, False Month and Głosovi; An artist who creates illustrations under the name “My Gold Medicine”, a graphic designer for the albums: Laboratorium Pieśni “Rasti”, “He oyate”, Annutara “Po drum”, False Month “Forty winks”. An artist who creates illustrations and music under the name “My Gold Medicine”
Solo album “Underwater” is available on:
mygoldmedicine.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/mygoldmedicine
Song Laboratory: a women’s group of singers from Tricity, arranging traditional polyphonic songs: Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Serbian, Polish and many others. Songs of the World are performed both a cappella and with the accompaniment of shamanic drums and other ethnic instruments (including shruti boxes, bells, rattles, flutes, kalimba, singing bowls), introducing a new space of voice improvisation into traditional songs, inspired by the sounds of nature, often intuitive, wild, feminine.
The band visited over 20 countries with concerts and workshops (including the USA, Japan, England, Scotland, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Spain, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France). The video with the Belarusian song “Shtoj pa moru” has had over 10 million views, and the group is followed by over 140,000 fans on Facebook.
Website: www.laboratoriumpiesni.pl
FB: https://www.facebook.com/laboratoriumpiesni/
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fEWQOwUD4
.
REGISTRATIONS AND FINANCES:
Investment: PLN 990
The order of applications confirmed by payment of the total amount or an advance payment (PLN 490) is decisive.
Please pay the remaining amount in cash before the workshop.
It is possible to refund the advance payment until August 15, 2024. After this date, the advance payment is non-refundable and covers the costs of organizing the workshops.
Place: KRAKÓW | Space for Movement and Dance Kontakt, ul. Szpitalna 40
Info and REGISTRATION: Sandra | EMAIL: sklepydzwiekiglos@gmail.com|
The workshop is addressed to adult women (without children).
We have a maximum of 20 places.
ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS:
What to take with you to the workshop?
– notebook and pen
– drinking water, maybe a thermos with warm tea
– comfortable clothes
– if you have one, you can take a comfortable seat cushion with you
MEALS: participants provide their own lunch. You can bring your own meal or eat in nearby restaurants (the workshop location is in the center)
SCHEDULE:
The weekend workshop includes 10 hours of practice
We start at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
We ask participants to arrive at the venue no later than 10:40 a.m., we want to start on time.
SATURDAY (September 7)
11.00 – 14.00 – practices with the body (including Kamila Bigus’s violin training), breath, voice, polyphonic singing
14.00 – 16.00 – lunch break
16.00 – 18.00 – polyphonic singing
SUNDAY (September 8)
11.00 – 14.00 – practices with body, breath, voice; song circle
14.00 – 16.00 – lunch break
16.00 – 18.00 – polyphonic singing
We also invite you to a relaxation concert! Saturday |07/09/24| 20:00 | Krakow | Space for Movement and Dance Kontakt, ul. Szpitalna 40
