2004 / Year of original projects
- Poland / Tikkun (Hasidic music – collaboration with M. Filipczuk & Tadeusz Rolke).
- Poznań / Homo Ludus (collaboration with C.K. Zamek).
- Olsztyn / The Book 2 (music performance).
- Armenia / Gyumri / Colours of Armenia (concerts, visual art exhibition).
- Armenia / Gyumri / Xięga – first in a series of improvised concerts within the project.
- Warsaw / Thread of Ariadne.
- Dom Tańca Poznań / Zakręceni – first international hurdy-gurdy festival.
- Dom Tańca Poznań – project “Eastern Procession, Western Procession”.
- Olsztyn / Joculatores Dei – premiere of the performance (Schola Węgajty).
2005
- Poznań / Ashkenazi Themes – Lautari, concert premiere. Improvisations, variations, permutations… A program based on archival recordings and musical transcriptions of early 20th-century klezmer music. Themes from the repertoire of Naftule Brandwein, Max Leibowitz, Philip Friedman, H. Steiner, and Abe Schwartz. Concerts in Poland, Hungary, Serbia, France, Spain, and Morocco.
- USA / first Lautari tour – Symphony Space (New York), Hot House (Chicago), Jazz Bakery (Los Angeles).
- Dom Tańca Poznań – regular meetings and activities.
- Olsztyn / Zamek Warmia – Schola Węgajty, premiere of the performance (musician, actor).
- YURTA – Nomads of Culture project: a 9-meter-diameter tent of original design inspired by nomadic dwellings; construction, first journeys, and artistic activities. A mobile space for meetings, workshops, and concerts focused on traditional culture. film 1 / film 2 / film 3 / film 4 / film 5 / film 6 / film 7
- Dom Tańca Poznań / Zakręceni – second international hurdy-gurdy festival.
- Poznań / Xięga – improvised concert.
- Jacek Hałas – solo concerts for hurdy-gurdy and voice.
- CD “Sounds & Shadows” (guest appearance, Transkapela; Folk Phonogram of the Year 2005).
- Norway / Sykkylven – concerts by Jacek and Alicja Hałas; opening of an exhibition by François Monnet.
- Podlasie / “The Sun in the East, the Moon in the West” – Teatr A3 / dir. François Monnet, Dariusz Skibiński / music: Jacek Hałas (live improvised music) / trailer.
2006
- Atlantis of the North (Schola Węgajty).
- Theatre Music Festival (Teatr Cinema).
- Romania – field research on Csángó traditions in the Moldva region (Schola Węgajty).
- Switzerland – field research on the Silvesterklause tradition in the Appenzell region.
- Yurta – Nomads of Culture (Poland, France, Hungary).
- Solo concerts for hurdy-gurdy and voice.
- Dom Tańca Poznań.
- France / Paris – Lautari concert at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
- CD “The Best of Polish Smooth Etno, Jazz, Folk” (compilation, Lautari).
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