Common rhythm. DJ set and party for everyone available | Festival of Culture without Barriers

As part of the Culture Without Barriers Festival, we invite you to WOAK for an event for everyone under the slogan Common Rhythm. DJ Edee Dee will play for you.

Edward Gil Deskur, known as DJ Edee Dee, is a blind musician who masterfully combines playing the turntables with singing, rap and beatboxing. An energetic DJ set will play in Toruń that will make us dance. We will feel the music with our whole body.

A Polish Sign Language interpreter will stand on stage next to the DJ.

The visualizations will be accompanied by poetic audio description.

The event will take place in an architecturally accessible space. The building has an elevator with Braille signs and sound. There is a toilet for people with disabilities on each floor. There is no threshold at the entrance to the auditorium.

Noise-cancelling headphones will be available. People who need peace and relaxation are welcome to the silence zone.

We provide support from assistants.

We will be happy to prepare a bowl of water for assistance dogs.

More information: katarzyna.peplinska-pietrzak@woak.pl, tel./SMS: 696 572 383

DJ Edee Dee (Edward Gil-Deskur) – a blind musician of Roma origin. He is a producer, sound engineer, vocalist and DJ playing under the pseudonyms DJ Gipsyman and DJ Edee Dee. He collaborated with THC Underground, Funk Fu, Kinetic Formation. He worked with such musicians as: Michał Urbaniak, Wojciech Karolak, Joachim Mencel, Sławek Jaskułke, Jacek and Wojtek Fedkowicz, Jan Pilch and Jarosław Śmietana. Additionally, he played with: DJ Assault, UK Apachi, MC MC, Goldie, The Freestylers, Aron Spector, Black Sun Empire, Krime, Mk Fever, DJ Technic, DJ Dokuro. He participated in festivals in Poland and abroad, including: at Unsound, the International Percussion Festival and the Pollen kommen Festival. Together with Michał Gorczyca (DJ Dokuro), he wrote music for theater performances such as: Werther in New York (J. Słowacki Theater in Krakow) and Leonce and Lena (Drama Theater in Warsaw). Moreover, he hosted the program “Muzykodelia” on Radiofonia radio. In 2019, he participated in the play “I wonder” (directed by Joanna Pawlik), while in 2020 he took part in the exhibition “Black Pasta” in Bytom. In turn, in 2021, he appeared in the play “The Absent Room” (directed by Joanna Pawlik). In 2022, he was invited to play, alongside other performers, at the “Uszanowanko” Festival in Krakow. Recently, as part of the Krakow Archipelago of Culture “Kultura Wtajemniczenia” program, he was asked to play a DJ set and speak about his work and life as a disabled person. Work is still ongoing on the film “You are here” by Xawery Deskur about the activities of Edward Gil-Deskur and his difficulties and struggles in everyday life from the perspective of a person with a visual disability.

Access to the event was co-financed from the budget of the Culture Without Barriers Festival.