African Beats Festival 2024 - 3-DAY PASS" 09-11.08.2024 (Friday - Sunday)

The African Beats Festival is the largest music and travel festival in this part of Europe, showcasing the richness of African culture. Ethnic music, a DJ-ska zone, travel meetings, film screenings, workshops, the sound of drums, and wonderful people! African Beats is a celebration of musical roots, as well as a festival of openness and tolerance. Ahead of us is one of the most beautiful world music festivals in Europe!

Taking place in the picturesque surroundings of the Dworek Pod Wiechą in Kawęczyn, 30 km from Warsaw, we will hear the biggest musical stars of African world music and Afrobeat. In addition to concerts at African Beats, we will participate in numerous music and movement workshops, immerse ourselves in the world of African films at the outdoor film festival, and hear breathtaking stories at traveler meetings. Here we will find exhibitors with African fashion and crafts, taste the flavors of exceptional dishes, and after the concerts, we will sit by the bonfires to dance to the rhythm of drums and listen to desert songs. The African Beats Festival is a true cultural gem in this part of Europe that is worth experiencing. It is a family festival for both young and old, uniting people with positive energy and ethnic music at the highest, global level.

VENUE
The grounds of Dworek Pod Wiechą in Kawęczyn.
These are exceptionally charming places, inseparably linked to Polish folk culture. The manor is located in the village of Kawęczyn, 30 km from Warsaw to the south, occupying an area of 10 hectares. In the immediate vicinity of the Chojnów Landscape Park, among picturesque orchards of the Mazovian land, the Dworek Pod Wiechą building has been perfectly integrated into the fairy-tale landscape. In addition, the vast space, green area, perfect for the Music Festival!
Check on google maps  https://goo.gl/maps/fNS2R6bawa6bREhdA

CONCERTS
On our main stage, you will listen to the biggest stars of African ethnic music. You will experience the magical sounds of the kora, the Sahara blues, or the rhythmic sounds of African drums. We have prepared 10 musical concerts for you. Artists will be announced soon. The lineup will be updated on the website https://africanbeats.pl/line-up/

AFROBEAT ZONE
The best DJs will serve you the latest Afrobeat sounds. Ahead of us is an all-night afterparty with DJs under the auspices of Afropolska! The zone will be located away from the camping area to ensure the comfortable rest of our participants.

TRAVELER MEETING
We invite you to the Traveler's Zone during the African Beats Festival. Travelers will perform, telling about their travels to the Black Land. They will show photos, films, excerpts of sound recordings. Get ready for amazing stories, full of twists and turns and beautiful pictures.

CINEMA AFRICA 
Join us for the African film festival, where you can admire the finest film productions from this continent on the big screen. Discover the richness of African cinematography and experience unforgettable stories that will take you to exotic worlds full of emotions and inspiration. Don't miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in African culture and film art during this unique festival.

DRUM WORKSHOPS 
Join us for djembe drumming workshops at two levels, beginner and intermediate. During the classes, you will learn djembe drumming techniques. We will focus on developing playing techniques, learning traditional African rhythms, and building arrangements. We will also take care of solo improvisation elements, and we will enrich the whole with good fun.

Schedule:
Friday 09.08.2023 at 18:00 - Drum Workshops for Beginners
Saturday 10.08.2023 at 13:00 - Drum Workshops for Intermediate
Saturday 10.08.2023 at 17:00 - Drum Workshops for Beginners
Sunday 11.08.2023 at 11:00 - Drum Workshops for Intermediate
Sign up at: workshops@africanbeats.pl

AFRICAN DANCE WORKSHOPS 
Dance workshops at the African Beats Festival 2024 will be led by Anika Kamińska! Under her guidance, we will learn choreography to one of the West African rhythms, and in the meantime, we will also work on agility, body openness, and movement accuracy. Classes will be accompanied by live music, played by musicians on djembe and dundun drums, which will allow us to better understand the danced rhythm.
Sign up for workshops via email: workshops@africanbeats.pl

AFRICAN ECSTATIC DANCE
Ecstatic Dance is a movement-dance practice in which we surrender to joyful, authentic, spontaneous movement. You invite your body to move, relax, stretch, play, improvise, or freely express yourself. Building a special relationship with your body. Releasing your wildness. This practice supports free self-expression and expression of emotions.

AFRICAN MARKET 
Exhibitors with African handicrafts. African gastronomic zone, drinks, various goods. Cosmetics, clothes, jewelry. A unique and unparalleled assortment will be provided by 20 carefully selected exhibitors, whose full list will be announced soon. The African Market will be a great attraction of our Festival.
Exhibitor applications are accepted at market@africanbeats.pl
This year we plan a maximum of 20 exhibitors.

MEDITATION & YOGA
Yoga and Meditation classes on Saturday and Sunday mornings will be led by one of the event organizers - Beata Latos from B-less-ed yoga in Bieszczady. A space to meet in motion, which leads to breath. Yoga is a massage of love that you give to yourself, as a result of which your body is relaxed and blissful, and your mind is fresh and calm. In Beata's yoga practice, you will find space both to follow intuition, lightness, and gentleness, as well as strength, grounding, and determination. The yoga practice will be concluded with a meditation session.

FIRE ZONE
It is a zone that will envelop us throughout the festival with a relaxing-therapeutic aura, where you can not only rest solidly but also delve deep into yourself. During the day, with the sounds of instruments at a natural frequency, you can spend a nice time with your loved ones, comfortably settle in silence or in conversation still enjoying the wealth of the entire festival as the zone is located in the center of African Beats. However, the magic of this place will be most visible in the evenings, when the glow of fire will unite us in a circle, where everyone will find their space of creation to discover their inner wealth. Experienced musicians and vocalists will accompany us, who with their skills will introduce us to the world of sound, in which we can stay throughout the duration of the African Beats festival.

CHILDREN'S ZONE
At the African Beats Festival, we invite families. We will prepare a special zone for children, where instructors will conduct animations, games, and physical activities. The program includes drumming workshops for the youngest and fairy-tale theater workshops.

SPORTS ZONE
For our festival attendees, we have prepared a sports zone where you can play football, volleyball, and table tennis. We also plan to organize a mini football tournament, which will take place on Saturday morning and last until the afternoon.

CAMPSITE 
A special area designated for pitching tents and camper entry. We provide a beautiful, picturesque location, access to the gastronomic zone, and all festival attractions, fully equipped with sanitary facilities, showers, and security. Cars and campers can enter the camping area. The cost for one tent or camper space is an additional 45 PLN

TICKETS 
"3-DAY PASS" 09-11.08.2024 
This ticket allows entry to the festival grounds on Friday from 15:00. It allows participation in all activities planned for the entire 3 days of the festival and staying until Sunday at 15:00.

Price:
Early Birds First Day of Sale 05.04.2024 r. - 360 PLN
1st phase until 01.05.2024 - 385 PLN
2nd phase until 01.06.2024 - 410 PLN
3rd phase until 01.07.2024 - 430 PLN
4th phase until 10.08.2024 - 445 PLN

Two-day Camping - 45 PLN / tent
Children up to 6 years old - FREE
Children up to 14 years old - 250 PLN / reduced
Disabled individuals and their guardians - 250 PLN / reduced
Parking included in the ticket price

MORE INFO  https://www.africanbeats.pl

The event is organized by the Agencja Perspektywy & Fundacja Perspektywy

www.agencjaperspektywy.pl

CONTACT 
General  africanbeatsfestival@gmail.com
General  biuro@africanbeats.pl
Exhibitors  market@africanbeats.pl
Workshops  workshops@africanbeats.pl
Event regulations available at: https://agencjaperspektywy.pl/regulamin
https://www.africanbeats.pl
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