For the first time, Busker Tour — a travelling festival of performing and circus arts featuring international street artists— will take place in Zduńska Wola on August 30-31, 2025. It will be part of the celebration of the city’s 200th anniversary of receiving its city rights.
Street shows will take place on:
August 30, 2025 – Zduńska Wola, playground at the MDK branch, Karsznice, Zduńska Wola
August 31, 2025 – Zduńska Wola, green area next to MDK Ratusz, Plac Wolności 26
Who are the buskers?
Busker Tour celebrates buskers, street artists who turn everyday squares into stages and passers-by into their audience. Each artist will perform in Zduńska Wola on both festival days, and they’re all worth seeing more than once. Buskers don’t stick to a strict script; it’s just a reference point. They improvise, use new places as inspiration, and engage their audience engagement. The same artist’s show can be a different experience every time.
Line-up of Busker Tour 2025 in Zduńska Wola
- Alvin Yong | Circus show, diabolo, Cyr wheel | Malaysia
- DEANisHOME | Music, live looping | Bulgaria
- Gaia Ma | Circus show, hat manipulation, clownery | Italy
- GAKU The Jugglingdrummer | Circus show, juggling and drumming | Japan
- Juggling Dom | Circus show, juggling | Australia
- Justin 3 | Music, pop, rock | Lithuania
- Richard Filby | Circus show, rolla bolla | Australia
- TIMAY | Music, handpan | Austria
The invited street artists are distinguished by their masterful control of their bodies and props, charisma, and unique and surprising ideas. You can expect acrobatics in the Cyr wheel, juggling various objects, balancing on a rolla bolla, and original music.
TIMAY from Austria, will play a handpan concert filled with the subtle sounds of melodic percussive songs from his album “Stone Museum” released in 2024.
GAKU from Japan also plays a percussion instrument, but he uses it to showcase his talent for combining drumming with juggling routines. For a more spectacular effect, his drumsticks will be set on fire!
Juggling is also the discipline of Juggling Dom from Australia, considered one of the best in his field in the circus community. He’ll prove it by presenting numerous juggling sequences with up to 9 balls. Buskers are known for their interaction with the audience. Spectators become stars, and the show’s direction depends on them. In the grande finale, Dom will juggle on a rope attached to a structure held by the audience.
His compatriot, Richard Filby, is a man of many talents who constantly adds new circus routines to his repertoire, combining them with personal charm and Australian wit. Juggling while balancing is as natural to him as speaking, so he usually does it all on top of a rolla bolla built with the help of the audience.
Gaia Ma will also present a circus show with a comedy Being Italian, she laughs loudly, which is contagious to the audience. She manipulates hats, and dances, and encourages a chosen audience member to shoot an arrow directly into her balloon heart.
The new circus encompasses many different disciplines and props. Malaysian Alvin Yong weaves Cyr wheel acrobatics and diabolo juggling into a lyrical narrative.
DEANisHOME from Bulgaria — a multi-instrumentalist, composer, lyricist, and vocalist — plans to get the audience dancing. Dean sings catchy songs, most of which he wrote for ex-girlfriends. At his concerts, he combines live-looped drum beats and vocals with joyful guitar lines, making it sound like a multi-person band. Dean has released over 20 albums, and with each new song, he demonstrates his versatility as an artist, transcending musical genres and playing multiple instruments.
Justinas Stanislovaitis from Lithuania, leader of many musical projects and founder of the band Justin 3, also doesn’t like to be pigeonholed. They will perform in Zduńska Wola, presenting their pop-rock songs in English, as well as premiere songs in Polish. The band Justin 3 believes that by singing lyrics in the audience’s language, they can connect more closely with them.
Visit Busker Tour 2025: Meet the Artists for more detailed descriptions.
Who is this for?
For everyone, regardless of age. See how all generations have fun together in one place. You don’t need to know foreign languages. New Circus focuses on using props, tricks, and body language to tell stories and engage the audience.
Admission
All events are free, but if you enjoy the show, it’s customary to tip the performers by putting something in their hat!
Organisers
Małgorzata Węglarz www.busker.pl
Miejski Dom Kultury in Zduńska Wola https://www.mdk-zdunskawola.pl/