18. CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-Garde Music
27–31 May 2026

About

CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music whose first edition took place in 2009, has gained the opinion of a great creativity initiative. Its formula is based on the idea of finding common issues and determining similarities between distant cultural phenomena.

The yearly event confronts the latest music pursuits with the still vivid archaic musical forms. Old music is re-discovered in unexpected present-day contexts and avant-garde experimental artists listen intently to the voices of the past. The combination of two distinctive canons of aesthetics forms a completely unique experience where the magic of archaic melodies and the artistry of contemporary music co-exist.

The Festival provides a rare opportunity for the outstanding composers, representatives of the avant-garde jazz, instrumentalists and artists reconstructing archaic music traditions to meet, perform and take artistic risk together.

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Organiser
Ośrodek Międzykulturowych Inicjatyw Twórczych ROZDROŻA

Director of CICI CROSSROADS
Piotr Franaszek

Programming Curator
Grzegorz Paluch

Coordinator
Agata Tomasik

Advancing manager
Magda Stępień

Technical Coordinator
Piotr Szamryk

Logistics, translations from French
Anna Horyńska

Media, volunteer coordinator
Klaudia Olender

Promotion
Agnieszka Kozłowska

Chief Accountant
Beata Kijek

CICI ROZDROŻA team
Adam Czaja, Krzysztof Makuch, Anna Poniatowska-Kosicka, Barbara Żarinow

Cooperation
Git Media Anna Sadurska-Czochra, Aleksander Papiewski-Paluch

Website, print design, photography
Tomasz Kulbowski

CODES Festival logo
Robert Zając / kilku.com

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