The seventeenth edition of the International Storytelling Arts Festival, with the subtitle "The Singers of Tales".
The Singers of Tales - the title of this year's festival refers to Albert Lord's famous book The Singer of Tales, particularly the formula: Our oral poet is the creator. Our story-singing singer is a story-maker. The singer, the performer, the creator and the poet are one - in different aspects but at the same time. In the search for epic creativity understood in this way, we will follow different paths and bridges, connecting tradition with contemporary artistic practice. Today, is a singer/songwriter still a live storyteller/creator? Follow Lord to the Balkans. Talking to researchers about the topos of the immured woman and listening to epic poems, performed by Bulgarian singer Nina Nikolina and her band, and the stories these songs carry. What are these archaic stories today? We will open our doors and hearts wide to singers and songwriters from Ukraine. Lyricist from Rivne Andriy Liashuk with lyricist Jacek Halas will build a bridge between the epic musical traditions of Poland and Ukraine. Poets Halyna Kruk from Lviv and Aneta Kaminska from Warsaw will speak out against the ongoing war - with their poems. Roksana Pietruczanis and Margarita Udovichenko will introduce the audience to the world of Ukrainian fairy tales, and Tetiana Sopiłka and her band Dziczka will lead in a joint singing of polyphonic songs during the [Night of Tales](https://goout.net/en/szstfhu.
Artists) from Denmark will also have their say on war, bringing the Old English epic Beowulf, or Wolf of War, to life again. Similarly, a storyteller-smith from the Mossi people, referred to by all as KPG (short for first and last name), will tell, sing and dance about the three-day popular uprising in 2014 in Burkina Faso that led to a coup d'etat. Two rebellious contemporary icons will be evoked in the stories of French performer Hélène Palardy and a Polish storyteller: 27-year-old poet/singers, and their poem-songs, full of defiance, rebellion and ecstatic rapture: Janis Joplin and Zuzanna Ginczanka. The living, oral form of literary texts will be restored, feeding them with music and personal experience, such as a tale from Bolesław Leśmian's Klechdy Sezamowe, Jarosław Mikołajewski's Wędrówka Nabu and Katarzyna Jackowska-Enemuo's Tkaczka chmur. There will also be a demonstration of how one can work with the matter of memories, one's own and others', giving them the form of a poem, a traditional formula or painting on water in the Turkish ebru technique. The festival will be accompanied by an exhibition of paintings by Professor Andrzej Bieńkowski, which in itself is a story about the passing away world of the last rural artists -- musicians and singers.