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More than just a concert<\/h2>\n\n

What is it about?<\/h2>\n\n

\u201cLezbianke\u201d is Patrycja Kowa\u0144ska’s premiere performance-concert, the result of an artistic residency as part of the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a of Many Cultures Festival 2025. Based on herstory research and archival materials about female artists from the avant-garde \u0141\u00f3d\u017a group Jung Jidysz, Kowa\u0144ska creates a performance that restores the memory of female creators, their queer relationships, and forgotten voices. At the same time, she places the narrative of the concert in the present day, confronting a landscape in which queer existences are systematically overlooked and intimate relationships are invisible or invalidated.Translated with DeepL.com (free version) <\/p>\n\n

For a long time, there was no word in Yiddish to describe a lesbian. The word lezbianke<\/em> was first introduced in 1984 by Irena Klepfisz, an American poet and translator. In her poem \u201cEtleche werter ojf mame loszn\u201d (\u201cA Few Words in My Mother’s Language\u201d), the term \u201cdi lezbianke<\/em>\u201d is defined as \u201cone who has a roommate.\u201d Among other things, the concept of a \u201croommate\u201d as a cover for a lesbian relationship is the impetus for this event to reveal a perspective that many people do not see or do not want to see. <\/p>\n\n

The performance combines spoken poetry, electronic music, and visual materials inspired by the work of Dina Matus, Ida Brauner, and Rahel Lipstein. The artist reveals the experience of exclusion, confronting it with the power of memory and artistic expression. It is a performance-gesture: of regaining identity, pride, and visibility. <\/p>\n\n

By whom?<\/h2>\n\n

Patrycja Kowa\u0144ska<\/strong> (a.k.a. Marianna Furor) – playwright, performer and theater director, co-creator of, among others, the \u201cVery\u201d trilogy, nominated for the \u201cPolityka\u201d Passport (2024). Author of the performance \u201cFuror.\u201d Creates performances in repertory and independent theaters. <\/p>\n\n

Szymon Lechowicz<\/strong> \u2013 composer and music producer, member of the band R\u00f3\u017ca, winner of the Robert Brylewski Songwriter Competition, performed at OFF Festival and Jarocin. <\/p>\n\n

Expert consultation: Joanna Podolska<\/strong> (University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a) and Irmina Gadowska<\/strong> (University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a)<\/p>\n\n

Who is it for?<\/h2>\n\n