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Special Offer
With its drum rhythms, African Village takes
you right into Africa. You can learn about the continent's culture, music,
dance, and daily life. The Village will appeal to your senses with the
richness of its colours, the taste of traditionally prepared tea, and
with musical sounds inseparable from life in Africa.
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Concerts and performances
We offer concerts and drum shows on African, Cuban or Brasilian theme as well
presentations and performances by our bands playing African music and ethno fusion.
The music of Gadająca Tykwa (Talking Calabash) is a diverse
mixture of sounds inspired by African, Arabian, and other cultures.
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With the very first sounds of their music, Trio Wielbłądy (Camels) take us straight
into African desert.
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Traditional rhythms, melodies and songs from West Africa played by African
musicians and Polish musicians educated in Africa.
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Workshops
We organise African, Brasilian, and Cuban drumming workshops for you, as well as
dance classes. In addition to these classic proposals, we also offer creativity
boosting activities where the participants' objective is to repurpose ordinary objects
as musical instruments or to build improvised instruments from available materials.
- African (movie 12MB»)
- Cuban
- Brazilian
- industrial – modern
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Musical workshops combined with instrument making.
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Daily objects (benches, chairs, buckets, pans, bowls, etc.) come to life
and take us into the realm of music.
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Audiovisual presentations
We offer slideshows and video presentations recounting our travels to Africa,
Cuba, and Brazil. We present a wide variety of instruments originating from
these cultures, demonstrate their sounds, and talk about their corresponding
musical traditions, with particular focus on festive ceremonies that involve
drumming and dancing. Between the talks we entertain you with live drum and
dance shows or mini-workshops for volunteers among the audience.
In the early 13th century king Sundiata Keita formed the
splendid Empire of Mali. Mande culture is still vividly present in the area
where the Empire had stretched in its prime. The griots or jaliw —
a hereditary caste of musicians, oral historians and learned poets —
cultivate knowledge of culture and past events of the nations that formed
the Mali federation.
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Rumba came into existence in a melting pot of cultures. It combines
drum music, singing in Spanish, and courtship dance in which two dancers
play a seduction game.
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(...) Stimulated by the influence of European instrument inventory, the
grand Brazilian percussion orchestra known as batucada was formed.
Its rhythms evolved from African music and are inseparable from spectacular
and energetic Carnival dance – the samba.
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