Let’s meet at dawn at Warsaw’s Ephemera Festival for Sunrise Shows on June 15th

The magical time of Ephemera festival in Warsaw wouldn’t be complete without our ongoing collaboration with the curators of the “W Brzask” sunrise series. In 2025, we’re not only joining forces with them, but also Manchester’s Abandon Normal Devices, to celebrate the earliest sunrises of the year, as well as the year of Polish-British collaboration. The program includes artists whose work blends diverse musical and performative genres.

On June 15th, as the first rooster crows in the sculpture park, Warsaw’s Andrzej Sławomir Kiełbowicz will perform on a saw, utilising this everyday tool as a musical instrument, including compositions by Penderecki as well as classic Polish pop.

He’ll be followed by Bianca Scout, whose unique approach to music production intertwines with movement and performance. For this special show, she will invite a group of a dozen or so participants to take part in a free workshop and perform alongside her at dawn. Applications are welcome from anyone drawn to Bianca’s practice, regardless of professional experience. Please send submissions to wbrzask@gmail.com by the end of May.

Later in the morning, we’ll present a commissioned piece by Harry Górski-Brown, a Scottish composer and experimental bagpipe player (some of you may remember his performance at last year’s Unsound), and Wojciech Rusin, the Polish UK-based composer who moves fluidly between medieval music, alchemical atmospheres and cutting-edge electronic experimentation.

Of course, dawn at Królikarnia wouldn’t be complete without a DJ set in the meadow in front of the Palace. Joining forces for a b2b meeting are kacha – known from the band Coals – and felicita, a British-Polish producer affiliated with the PC Music label.

Tickets for this event are already available via the website of the National Museum — our co-organiser. Admission is also included with the Ephemera festival pass, which you can still purchase here, along with tickets to other individual events. Check the full program on our website.

We still have a few events to add to Ephemera 2025 — stay tuned for upcoming announcements. In the meantime, keep an eye out across the city for ephemeral kisses and amber drops created by Alicja Pakosz.

“W Brzask” at Ephemera is co-organised by the National Museum in Warsaw, the British Council, and Abandon Normal Devices.

Ephemera will take place in Warsaw for the sixth time, this year from June 11 to 15. The Unsound-produced multi-art event is created together with local curators, theatres, museums and artists. Lineup announced so far include:

Bal w Operze - Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa x BMW - Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka present Hiraeth (SHAPE+) / Miłosz Kędra / LEYA / + Feast by Pola Sutryk - SOLD OUT, still available with FESTIVAL PASSES

Wagary - Komuna Warszawa - Aleksandra Słyż & Alex Freiheit present GHSTING / Julian Sartorius & Marek Pospieszalski & Artur Rumiński (SHAPE+) / Still House Plants / Six Sex - TICKETS

Odpust - ATM STUDIO - SUNN O))) / Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko present Гільдеґарда - TICKETS

Ephemera x Dragana Bar by Kem - OCZKI - Veronicami / Vicky Nasty / DIVAS (Rafał Pierzyński) / aya presents hexed! / Oldyungmayn b2b Some Guest / Ewa Dziarnowska / Danny L Harle (live) / LSDXOXO (dj) / Leon Dziemaszkiewicz / DiV4 / androgienia b2b softchaos - TICKETS

ASIANDOPEBOYS present PHYSIS - Nowy Teatr - Tianzhuo Chen, Gabber Modus Operandi, Dis Fig, KIM KHAN, Felix-Florian Tödtloff, City Ndoho Ange, Lavinia Vago, Léa Djyl, OMI, Siko Setyanto, and Ylva Falk - TICKETS