Busker Tour 2024 – a travelling festival that showcases the richness of street art in its international and diverse forms returns to Zielona Góra!
The festival program changes annually and includes interdisciplinary performing arts (theatre, dance, music) and circus acts. During this combined tour, street artists will perform in Krotoszyn (24th-25th August), Zielona Góra (27th-28th August) and Wrocław (30th August-01st Sep, 2024).
A mix of surprising and unconventional circus acts
Buskers will present a mix of surprising and unconventional circus acts alongside popular routines, demonstrating feats like juggling with their feet, and juggling while playing drums with flaming sticks. The festival will feature, among many others, archery, contortion, unicycling, acrobatics, and concerts with original music. From playful Latin clowning and poetic storytelling to energetic Arab rhythms, the Busker Tour offers a blend of styles, cultures, art forms, and disciplines.
The Busker Tour is a truly international festival, with this year’s performers hailing from numerous countries across five continents. Most of them will be visiting Poland for the first time, at the invitation of Małgorzata Węglarz, the festival’s artistic director. The lineup includes artists from Taiwan, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Australia, Poland, Bulgaria, Austria, Mexico, and, traditionally, Argentina.
Meet street artists of Busker Tour 2024.
Pursuing the summer
While some of them perform mainly locally, others travel across continents, pursuing the summer. At the festival, they will take the audience on a journey around the world, making every location feel like Sunday afternoon in Mauerpark in Berlin, on the Southbank Promenade in Melbourne, or in Parque Urquiza in Rosario, Argentina—renowned street performance spots.
Busker Tour Festival Club
Once the street scene ends, the event will continue at the festival club Piekarnia Cichej Kobiety, where you will have the chance to witness both remarkable and unconventional performances by invited artists, or even step onto the stage yourself, as it is open to all attendees. Busker Tour is a festival that fosters extensive conversations, the exchange of ideas and experiences, and group training sessions, thus ensuring spontaneous group shows.
Entry:
Admission is free; however, following the tradition of street theatres, if you enjoy the performance, the artists would greatly appreciate tips in their hats.
Organisers:
Małgorzata Węglarz and Zielonogórski Ośrodek Kultury.
Festival Club: Piekarnia Cichej Kobiety
The festival is under the honorary patronage of the Consulate of the Republic of Chile.