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A cavernous industrial hall in deep red light, its far wall lost in shadow.
A choir in a dry dock

Sound of the Shipyard

Gdańsk · Stocznia · One weekend a month · 19:30

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The night itself

A dry dock with a forty-second reverb tail and a choir who know how to use it. The programme is shipyard song — call-and-response work music, most of it collected from former yard workers, some of whom still sing in the back row. It is cold. They tell you it is cold.

Host

Chór Stoczniowy

A community choir formed by shipyard families in 1998.

Attribution

Songs were collected from named yard workers between 1998 and 2004; the choir credits each source in the programme.
Why Cue picked this

What I can actually back up

No ratings here. These are the signals I have, and where each one came from.

  • 40 singers, no amplification

    The dock does the work; there is no PA in the space.

    Creator-verifiedSource: Choir's technical note

  • Repertoire collected 1998–2004

    Songs were recorded from former workers and are credited by name.

    Creator-verifiedSource: Choir archive listing

  • Unheated, roughly 8°C

    The dock is open at one end. Audiences are told to dress for outdoors.

    Read now · Inferred by CueSource: Read now · Cue's inference from the venue notice

Cue: Bring a coat you'd wear on a boat. Stand near the middle — the reverb collapses if you're too close to the wall.

Plan it

Tell me the night and how many

Around 60 zł, or free for yard families. Not sold through me. I'm not wired to a real box office yet, so I'll hold the details rather than pretend a seat is yours.
Plan this night
Cue said:

Everything above is either the host's own words or my reading of published information — I've labelled which is which, and I've left out what I couldn't check.