Event
This Earth Theatre Festival
From June 18th to 21st, the Sądecki Ethnographic Park and Galician Town will be the stage for the Theatre of This Earth Festival. The extensive program includes performances, concerts, films, and video screenings with lectures. Admission to the events is free after registering using a QR code. We invite you!
Online registration is required for individual festival events. Participants are required to wear their festival wristbands in a visible location.
Online registration link: tiny.pl/bkwr4vckr
The festival takes place in the outdoor spaces of the Sądecki Ethnographic Park and the Galician Town. It is recommended to dress appropriately for the weather and bring comfortable footwear, blankets, sleeping mats, or folding chairs.
Some events are itinerant. Seats are unnumbered, and visibility and audibility may vary depending on the location.
Online registration link: tiny.pl/bkwr4vckr
The festival takes place in the outdoor spaces of the Sądecki Ethnographic Park and the Galician Town. It is recommended to dress appropriately for the weather and bring comfortable footwear, blankets, sleeping mats, or folding chairs.
Some events are itinerant. Seats are unnumbered, and visibility and audibility may vary depending on the location.
The festival programme has been built around the idea of returning to the rhythm of nature. Rhythm is understood both as the one shaped by the natural world — the cycle of seasons and local traditions — and as the rhythm of human relationships, the shared experience of art, and attentiveness to place and memory.
It is no coincidence that the festival will take place in the open-air museum and the Galician Town. The scenery of a former 19th-century village and small town will become a full participant in the events. Performances, concerts, film screenings, and workshops will unfold among the historic buildings and in direct interaction with the audience.
Day I – June 18
The first day of the festival will open with Into the Woods by Natalia Koza — a sensory performance for children about nature, in which the space transforms into a forest experienced through all the senses. The audience will then enter a calmer soundscape with Sound Journey with Singing Bowls, a relaxing musical journey based on gongs and songs. The afternoon will bring a second performance of the play, while in the evening the festival moves to the Galician Town, where the Cantores Carvatiani concert Fly, Voice, Across This Land will take place. The day will conclude with an energetic concert by the evening’s headliner, Gooral, who masterfully combines electronic music with the traditions of the Carpathians.
Day II – June 19
The second day begins with the performative fairy tale You Have Images by Masza Winiarska, followed by a screening of the film Whisperers and a lecture about the expeditions of the legendary Gardzienice ensemble to the Sącz region. In the second part of the day, audiences will see Kinga Kowalska’s monodrama Once Around. The Women of The Wedding and Floyd Favel’s performance Sweet Cherry Wine. A special highlight of the day will be the premiere of the new spectacle by Teatr Tej Ziemi: OЯYNA.CZAROVNICA. The programme closes with Ewa Langer’s musical-performance piece Songs of the Frogs – Voice from the Marsh, a story about the relationship between humans and nature and the disappearance of wetlands.
Day III – June 20
The third day opens with an ethnographic and herbal walk led by Anna Pietrusza, devoted to local plants and herbal traditions. This will be followed by a screening of The Man from the Forest directed by Małgorzata Szyszka. Afterwards, audiences will be able to watch the guest performance Sweet Cherry Wine directed by Floyd Favel and created by Indigenous artists from Canada. In the evening, another spectacle by Teatr Tej Ziemi, STORM OVER THE POPRAD, will explore the relationship between mother and son against the landscape of the Poprad Valley. The evening concludes with the Circle of Songs — an open communal singing gathering led by Kat Poręba.
Day IV – June 21
The final day of the festival begins with workshops and rehearsals involving participants of the project In the Rhythm of Nature, followed by the performance Fairy Tales of the Open Heart by Mateusz Trembaczowski. Next comes a presentation inspired by the rhythm of the seasons, while the culmination of the day will be the travelling spectacle JANOSIK. AWAKENING by Teatr Tej Ziemi. The festival closes with a concert by the band Sójki — a shared celebration and the final burst of energy for the entire event.
The festival has an international character: during the Festival of Teatr Tej Ziemi, an international artistic residency led by Floyd Favel and Ewa Benesz will take place. Both artists have long been connected with theatre practices exploring the relationship between voice, body, landscape, and community.
Floyd Favel, an artist from the Poundmaker Cree Nation in Canada, develops a practice of Indigenous theatre rooted in communal memory, storytelling, and relationships with the land.
Ewa Benesz is connected with the tradition of Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre and has spent many years working with song, presence, and theatrical practices based on attentiveness and authentic encounter.
The residency will bring together artists from Poland and abroad, including actors from Teatr Tej Ziemi and invited performers associated with rooted theatre practices and oral traditions. The work will take place within the natural landscape of the Sącz region and become a space for exchanging experiences between different cultures of storytelling, song, and memory.
It is no coincidence that the festival will take place in the open-air museum and the Galician Town. The scenery of a former 19th-century village and small town will become a full participant in the events. Performances, concerts, film screenings, and workshops will unfold among the historic buildings and in direct interaction with the audience.
Day I – June 18
The first day of the festival will open with Into the Woods by Natalia Koza — a sensory performance for children about nature, in which the space transforms into a forest experienced through all the senses. The audience will then enter a calmer soundscape with Sound Journey with Singing Bowls, a relaxing musical journey based on gongs and songs. The afternoon will bring a second performance of the play, while in the evening the festival moves to the Galician Town, where the Cantores Carvatiani concert Fly, Voice, Across This Land will take place. The day will conclude with an energetic concert by the evening’s headliner, Gooral, who masterfully combines electronic music with the traditions of the Carpathians.
Day II – June 19
The second day begins with the performative fairy tale You Have Images by Masza Winiarska, followed by a screening of the film Whisperers and a lecture about the expeditions of the legendary Gardzienice ensemble to the Sącz region. In the second part of the day, audiences will see Kinga Kowalska’s monodrama Once Around. The Women of The Wedding and Floyd Favel’s performance Sweet Cherry Wine. A special highlight of the day will be the premiere of the new spectacle by Teatr Tej Ziemi: OЯYNA.CZAROVNICA. The programme closes with Ewa Langer’s musical-performance piece Songs of the Frogs – Voice from the Marsh, a story about the relationship between humans and nature and the disappearance of wetlands.
Day III – June 20
The third day opens with an ethnographic and herbal walk led by Anna Pietrusza, devoted to local plants and herbal traditions. This will be followed by a screening of The Man from the Forest directed by Małgorzata Szyszka. Afterwards, audiences will be able to watch the guest performance Sweet Cherry Wine directed by Floyd Favel and created by Indigenous artists from Canada. In the evening, another spectacle by Teatr Tej Ziemi, STORM OVER THE POPRAD, will explore the relationship between mother and son against the landscape of the Poprad Valley. The evening concludes with the Circle of Songs — an open communal singing gathering led by Kat Poręba.
Day IV – June 21
The final day of the festival begins with workshops and rehearsals involving participants of the project In the Rhythm of Nature, followed by the performance Fairy Tales of the Open Heart by Mateusz Trembaczowski. Next comes a presentation inspired by the rhythm of the seasons, while the culmination of the day will be the travelling spectacle JANOSIK. AWAKENING by Teatr Tej Ziemi. The festival closes with a concert by the band Sójki — a shared celebration and the final burst of energy for the entire event.
The festival has an international character: during the Festival of Teatr Tej Ziemi, an international artistic residency led by Floyd Favel and Ewa Benesz will take place. Both artists have long been connected with theatre practices exploring the relationship between voice, body, landscape, and community.
Floyd Favel, an artist from the Poundmaker Cree Nation in Canada, develops a practice of Indigenous theatre rooted in communal memory, storytelling, and relationships with the land.
Ewa Benesz is connected with the tradition of Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre and has spent many years working with song, presence, and theatrical practices based on attentiveness and authentic encounter.
The residency will bring together artists from Poland and abroad, including actors from Teatr Tej Ziemi and invited performers associated with rooted theatre practices and oral traditions. The work will take place within the natural landscape of the Sącz region and become a space for exchanging experiences between different cultures of storytelling, song, and memory.
