FreeForm Festival 2009
Free Form Festival is a unique cultural undertaking on a Polish music scene. Festival presents modern and independent music and art in a city surroundings and its purpose is to show new music and art trends in the world.
FFF program is full of events from various artistic spheres. It includes numerous concerts, live acts, dj sets but also audiovisual presentations, short and feature films, video art and displays of young polish design.
Stars of the festival included inter alia: Ladytron /UK, Telepopmusik / Fracja, Hooverphonic / Belgia, Koop / Szwecja, Coldcut / UK, Herbaliser / UK, Jimi Tenor / Finlandia, Chicks On Speed / Niemcy, Sonar Kollektiv Orchester / Niemcy, Client / UK, Mouse On Mars/ Niemcy, Addictive TV / UK, Hexstatic / UK czy Parov Stelar / Austria.
Previous editions of Free Form Festival were an artistic and turn out success and the festival itself has become a fixed date in Warsaw’s artistic calendar. Since 2005 the festival took place at the Fabryka Trzciny Arts Center. Fifth jubilee edition because of the extended program and large interest in the festival will take place in new, bigger venue – Culture Center Koneser (Centrum Kultury Koneser formerly Fabryka Wódek Koneser). New venue means not only more events and new space but also marks a new chapter in the festival’s history. We warmly invite all the fans of good music and visual arts to the 5 jubilee edition of the Free Form Festival.
Storm on Free Form
Fourth Free Form Festival in Fabryka Trzciny ended in artistic and turn-out success. The festival has not witnessed such high turn out since Free Form’s first edition. Large crowds inside and long line outside even despite the cold. Next year the organizers will have a hard nut to crack. Risk changing the venue (…) or stay at the same place ehich may mean sending a lot of people empty-handed.
Łukasz Kamiński, Gazeta Wyborcza, October 20th 2008
Festival in good shape. Masters of mixing music and video, exuberant performers, Betolucci’s favorite musicians – second edition of Free Form Festival took place this weekend in Fabryka Trzciny.
Łukasz Kamiński, Gazeta Wyborcza, October 16th 2006
Three day music celebration. Free Form Festival took place in Warsaw for the second time. From 12th to 14th September in Fabryka Trzciny visitors had an opportunity to see exhibitions, installations, designer projects and videos (…) The artists didn’t disappoint, the organizers didn’t disappoint and the audience didn’t disappoint. All that’s left is to wait for the third hopefully equally successful edition of Free Form Festival.
www.alternativepop.pl, October 2006
(…) The example of Free Form Festival is encouraging as it proves that nothing is impossible to a willing mind. Fabryka Trzciny for the second time hosted festival of electronic music and media related to it. Great organization and top-shelf repertoire made us feel like we were in a totally different country. (…) Night Owls (Nocne Marki) for the October festival goes to FFF!
Łukasz Figielski, Aktivist, November 2006
“Electro, hip-hop that sounds like free jazz and new pop from France. Yesterday ended a two-day Free Form Festival in Fabryka Trzciny. And it ended with a success! (…)During two days close to 1500 people visited Fabryka Trzciny. It’s a lot. I hope that next editions of the festival will take place because an increasingly more demanding Warsaw audience expects not only concerts but undertakings similar to Free Form Festival linking various spheres of modern art.”
“Electro, hip-hop that sounds like free jazz and new pop from France. Yesterday ended a two-day Free Form Festival in Fabryka Trzciny. And it ended with a success! (…)During two days close to 1500 people visited Fabryka Trzciny. It’s a lot. I hope that next editions of the festival will take place because an increasingly more demanding Warsaw audience expects not only concerts but undertakings similar to Free Form Festival linking various spheres of modern art.”
Łukasz Kamiński, Gazeta Wyborcza, October 3rd 2005
