It will be energetically and creatively. Underground Festival … – BiałystokOnline.pl

Before us for the 16th edition of the festival Underground / Independent. In its program of films, concerts and exhibitions, which anywhere else in Bialystok not see and do not hear!

Photo: organizer

the festival will open an exhibition of comics and illustration “slime 2″

the event begins on March 4 in Bialystok Cultural Centre.

– I am glad that the project is accepted and is very popular among the locals. For a few days you will be able to commune with the independent culture – says Vice President Rafal Rudnicki responsible, among others, for culture.

What shapes the independent spirits?

– This is the 16th edition of the event, who competed under the name Underground.pl. It grew out of the need to present underground cinema and was a kind of answer to this boom – like Maciej Rant of the Bialystok Cultural Centre.

This year’s edition of the festival will be diverse. It will include movies, concerts, exhibitions, meetings and workshops.

The organizers want to think about what shapes and is characterized by truly independent spirits. How important is what we eat, how we dress, what we hear, as we move? Is independence a characteristic attributed only to young people? What determines that a seemingly small but sincere action does not allow close-up in the ghetto, and thanks to its originality and courage takes over the government of souls?

Tombstone and look for hell

the event begins on March 4 an exhibition of comics “For me, all right,” Agnieszka Szczepaniak, creating under the pseudonym paplaLAla. Opening of the exhibition at. 17.00 in the foyer of the cinema Forum. At. 18.00 start the movie “Searching for hell.” It is an international, independent document, consisting of five different original vision of the film, telling the stories of contemporary hell. Its initiator is Paul Nazaruk, known to fans share FPA!

About hrs. 20.00 is scheduled exhibition of comics and illustration “Slime 2″ Luke Kovalchuk. It will be an original anthology, presenting independent, underground work, which appeared in zines, comics and at festivals around the world.

On the final Friday, there is a project Memorials playing alternative nekropolo. It has been very well received by the audience at the Off Festival and Unsound. The band consists of Adam Witkowski (derived from Bialystok) and Maciej Salamon, a band formed as a side-project of the home team Shit. Before Tombstones occurs Johnny Uraner. The beginning of the evening in the Fami pm. 20.30.

Subsequent events 5 and 6 March.

Concerts, films, workshops

The festival Underground / Independent will also be showcased at the next weekend in March – 11-13 of March. Then you will be able to hear the project Old River.

– We have heard about the exceptional concerts Old River – says Krzysztof Sienkiewicz of the Bialystok Cultural Centre. – In addition, the project Cuba herbs has been awarded the Passport Policy 2015 in the category of popular music.

This music is created using guitars, effects, samples, wind instruments and voice.

During the festival, there is also Kirk – a team looking for new forms of expression at the crossroads of electronic and acoustic music. From Berlin come Sasha Perera with a new solo project – Perera Elsewhere. It performs the shift from being associated with her bass music to a more acoustic sounds and minimal towards doom folk.

There will, of course, independent cinema from around the world, meetings with artists and workshops. Also scheduled to discuss “Why Bialystok can not be another Iceland?”.

The cost of the festival is 35 thousand. zł. Patrons of the event.

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