The hottest temperature will appear in Depozyt 44 music club where Continent Warsaw portal is going to celebrate its first birthday. Continent Warsaw (Kontynent Warszawa) is a very special space where many cultures meet and summing up they create something more than just a review of single cultures present on the map of Warsaw. It's a fascinating variety and discovering its new aspects every day.
Continent Warsaw portal's birthday is an unusual occasion to present a little part of the variety - during one night you will be taken for an extraordinary journey in the rhythms of Africa, the Middle East and India as well as Latin America. Programme:
- a concert by a Senegalese group Djolof-Man
- a concert by Adiós: hot latino rhythms mixed with reggae and ska
- dance workshops - lead by Salsa Libre dance school instructors - Klaudia and Jacenty
- djembe workshops and drum jam sessnion - prepared by music agency Niezła Agentka.pl
- visualisations and slideshows: performances by Cuban artists from Omni_zonafranca group and a slideshow with photos taken while working on the documentary 'Alamar Express. El Hombre Nuevo', on her staying in Cuba and the film talks Patrycja Satora - the director
- visualisations and slideshows: events organized by Continent Warsaw team: African Unity Day, Syrian Warsaw, Multicultural Street Party, Vietnamese Warsaw, Continent: India - Inonesia
- Sztuka Etiopska (Ethiopian Art): traditional crafts and dresses, jewellery as well as books, sculptures
- yerba-cupboard: presentation of infusing yerba mate and its degustation prepared by yerbamarket.com
- Arab cuisine by Habibi restaurant
- Ethiopian cuisine - yndzera (a traditional Ethiopian cake) filled with lentil, vegetables, cabbage or with meat sauce - kej uot with berberie, a characteristic for Ethiopia spice
- Caucasian stall
- Brasilian stall - prepared by Stowarzyszenie Kultury Brazylijskiej
- Indian stall - prepared by Stowarzyszenie Shamiana and Basu Group
- DJ party with the best African: DJ Steve, Arab: DJ Ela Krawczyk and Indian as well as Latin music sets: DJ Marcos, DJ GringoLoco
- and many more high lights and surprises
Organized by:
- Kontynent Warszawa
- Salsa Libre
- yerbamarket.com
- Habibi
- Sztuka Etiopska
- Depozyt 44
- Prokaukazja
- Stowarzyszenie Kultury Brazylijskiej
- Simba Friends
- Arabia.pl
- Music Agency - Niezla-Agentka.pl
- Kaukaz.pl
- Stowarzyszenie Shamiana
- Basu Group
Media patrons:
Depozyt 44 club
44 Solec St.
Admission: 10 pln
Admission: 10 pln
All the income from the tickets will be donated for children from one of the refugee centres.
We will also collect the gifts for refugees in friendly cafes and clubs:
- during the birthday party in Depozyt 44 (44 Solec St.)
- Café Lente (8/30a Warecka St.): from 15th to 22nd Dec., during the cafe opening hours
- Radio Luxembourg (67 Górczewska St.): from 15th to 22nd Dec., he club opening hours
- Dobra Karma (67 Górczewska St.): from 15th to 22nd Dec., the club opening hours
- Motto Cafe (10/12 Ordynacka St.): from 15th to 22nd Dec., the cafe opening hours
We would like to thank warmly all the organizations, artists, instructors, animators, news editors and volunteers, companies, offices, media - all the people who have been cooperating with us the whole year and who always have been so helpful while working on the portal, the development and promotion as well as 'Kontynent Warszawa' publication, organizing the events and realizing the other bigger and smaller projects.
And we request for another year!