The idea

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Voice.

Our voice is something we take for granted. It flows from our mouths, carried by our breath, passing through the larynx and vocal cords. We don't think of it as a gift. We open our mouths and it flows out effortlessly. With difficulty, when we're sick. Then our voice, just like us, is weaker, distorted. It gets stuck in our throats when we want to speak. It's not always illness that silences us, but our thoughts, beliefs, and experiences. They prevent certain things from being heard. With a voice, you can offend someone, even destroy them. But you can also lift someone up, support them, save them. For tiny children, their mother is their voice. The voice they heard while still in the womb. Their mother has no physical form; there is only the sound. Only, and yet everything. During the 13th edition of Ethniesy, we want to give ourselves a voice. To sing, to talk, to communicate about things both great and small. We give voice to animals, through their tender protectors and emissaries. We give voice in different languages. We want to hear what you have to say. Every voice matters to someone, every voice is beautiful to someone. Every voice is loved by someone. Be loud, give us your voice.

The Municipal Cultural Center in Bydgoszcz hosting the Ethniesy festival is proud to have presented the amazing and invigorating performances by a plethora of remarkable artists: 5’nizza(Piatnica), Dakha Brakha, Gulaza, Księżyc, Adam Strug, Babadag, Tołhaje, Libelid, Beriozkele, Tęgie Chłopy, Lautari, Maniucha and Ksawery, Żywizna, Niewte, Wowakin Trio, Kapela Maliszów, Marala, Matthew Halsall & Gondwana Orchestra, Yegor Zabelov, Hańba!, EABS, Tuleje, Błoto, Efterklang and others.

The festival has been organized in the Municipal Cultural Center in Bydgoszcz since 2012. Its creator and coordinator is Dominika Kiss-Orska.