ABOUT US

The Spokój Foundation was founded in 2022 in Dąbrowa near Stężyca, in Kashubia. It was started by a group of friends who weren't satisfied with just complaining that too little happens outside the big cities. We started doing our own thing.

We're a foundation and we operate as a not-for-profit organization. We're not a company selling pretty wristbands, little fences and sponsored awe. We make cultural events because we want art to be normally accessible: close to people, places and everyday life.

We combine music with art education and work with the local community. We're interested in the moment when someone from the city meets someone from over the fence, when an artist chats with a kid after a workshop, and the stage isn't an ivory tower but a piece of floor, ground or planks.

Access to culture shouldn't depend on your postal code, your industry connections, or whether you know the right words. You can come from far away. You can live here all year round. You can be just starting out. We make a place you can walk into without dressing up as someone smarter.

Spokój Festival is the Foundation's main project. It's an intimate music and culture festival that gathers artists and participants every year in Dąbrowa near Stężyca. Four stages, workshops, open-air cinema, a skatepark. All around, the Kashubian forests, which don't need a description in a brochure because they do the job anyway.

The festival grew out of a need to bring people together through music, image, movement and conversation. We want to make an event close to nature, close to the local community and close to a culture that still breathes, scratches, laughs under its breath and doesn't pretend to be a premium product.

We make Spokój by people, for people. Partly out of stubbornness, partly out of tenderness for the place, partly because once something like this works, it's hard to later pretend it can't be done.