The Finale Concert

The two parts of the Finale Concert are performed both at 16:00 and 20:30.
The 20:30 concert ends with the award ceremony.

Part I: The finale of The Song Interpretation Contest

host: Filip Cembala
music direction and arrangements: Marcin Partyka
set design: Damian Styrna
visualisation: Eliasz Styrna
light direction: Mateusz Sikora
production management: Agnieszka Kozak

The names of the finalists will be announced on Friday 29 March late evening
The finalists will be evaluated by a jury consisting of Anna Radwan, Jan Klata, Michał Litwiniec, Agnieszka Szydłowska and Leszek Możdżer.

The awards:
Grand Prix – the Golden Toucan statuette and 25,000 zlotys,
The Toucan of the Journalists,
The Toucan of the Audience,
The Polish-German Cultural Society Polonica Award – 5,000 zlotys and an invitation to the next edition of the Rock & Chanson Festival in Cologne,
The Museum of Polish Song in Opole Award – a recording studio session,
The Monika Jaworska Award – a statuette and Tour de RAM: participation in selected programmes and podcasts of Radio RAM,
The ZAiKS Authors’ Association Award for the best performance of a Polish song – 10,000 zlotys.

This evening will also feature the awards ceremony for the Off Contest and The Master Diploma of the Aleksander Bardini Chapter.

Part II: Mirrors

script and concept: Agnieszka Kozak, Mateusz Sikora
direction: Ewa Kaim i Agnieszka Kozak
music and arrangements: Łukasz Pospieszalski
set design and animation: Damian Styrna i Eliasz Styrna
costumes: Magdalena Nikiel
concept and the idea of make up: Martyna Sikora
cast direction: Agnieszka Kozak
light direction: Mateusz Sikora
production management: Agnieszka Kozak
stage manager: Filip Zaszewski

Woman with a beard: Emose Uhunmwangho
Albino: Kamil Studnicki
Bullet man: Sebastian Stankiewicz
Demon of otherness: Marcin Januszkiewicz
Monkey man: Marcin Czarnik
Singer: Justyna Szafran
Birdman: Ralph Kaminski
Woman with a tattoo: Natalia Sikora
Strongman: Bartosz Picher
Tall man: Cezary Studniak
Diva: Dorota Pomykała

DIFFERENT IS GOOD. BUT DIFFERENT IS HARD.
Matthew Quick “Forgive me, Leonard Peacock”

In a world like any other, there are different people, and people who are DIFFERENT. They are not outlaws, but they live on the fringes, outside the community that stigmatises and excludes them. They do their best to be accepted.

You are too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too pretty. You are lame, deaf, cross-eyed, blind… You keep hearing this and fighting to be accepted. Only not to hear that you are DIFFERENT.

The director creates a freak show and gives refuge to individuals who struggle to navigate the “normal world” that often rejects them. But what does the “normal world” mean, indeed? Does a person who is too short not deserve equal treatment? Does someone with a deformed face not have the right to love?

In the freak show, being different is not a punishment or a stigma – it becomes a value. The demons are still here, but you have the chance to advocate for yourself.
There is strength and empowerment in the group.