This year, for the second time, the International Student Folk Festival will take place in virtual space. Although we would immeasurably like to meet in Cieszyn to celebrate our folk festival together as before the pandemic, we hope that the virtual form of the Festival will give you many pleasant experiences. Since 1979, the head organiser of our Festival has been the University of Silesia, and the host has been the Student Song and Dance Ensemble “Katowice.” The Festival is still an extraordinary event well-recognised in the folklore environment. How can it be otherwise; every year, the event is co-created by over 300 people, who are artists from around the world and organisers, for whom the end of August means the longing meeting with music, dance, and singing. It is hard to find any other place to experience such an intense integration with cultures and traditions from various places of the world, which usually lasts long after the ending of the last concert. In the coming edition of the Festival, we will present seven foreign groups and two domestic groups, without which the Festival could not take place, i.e. the Student Song and Dance Ensemble “Katowice” and Folk Group “Ziemia Cieszyńska.” Just now we invite you to watch concerts of groups from Romania, Greece, Slovenia, Brazil, Chile, Taiwan, and Japan. We hope that we can recreate the atmosphere, which accompanied us with the on-site meetings with the groups.
The International Student Folk Festival is organised by the University of Silesia in Katowice and the City of Cieszyn.
Detailed transmission schedule:
– 20.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: “ROMANASUL” Folk Ensemble, Romania
– 21.08, 8.00 p.m. – “WESELE PO NASZYMU” – Gala Concert of the International Student Folk Festival – live transmission
– 22.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: Hibiki Rengo-kai Group, Japan
– 23.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: Puente Alto Bafopal Folklore Ballet, Chile
– 24.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: Feng Hsiang Dance Troupe, Taiwan
– 25.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: Cultural Association “NEI EPIVATES” (children group), Greece
– 25.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: Student Folk Dance Group France Marolt, Slovenia
– 26.08, 7.00 p.m. – Concert: International Folk Group “Os Gauchos,” Brazil
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