Space of Freedom

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Jarre playing the laser harp

Space of Freedom was a concert performed by French musician Jean-Michel Jarre in Gdańsk Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland on August 26, 2005 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity trade union's founding. There was an audience of more than 120,000 people who bought tickets, as well as many others who observed the event from outside the shipyard, eg. from the high buildings as Zieleniak and the hills as Góra Gradowa.

Some celebrities as Lech Wałęsa -- the famous union leader who lead the strikes from 1980, as well as the current president of The City of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz were invited and present. Lech Wałęsa gave a speech about the meaning of Solidarity and the non-violent change of the political system, and congratulated Jean-Michel Jarre.

The concert has also been broadcasted by the Polish Television and Polish Radio, as well as the satellite television, gathering millions of audience.

1 Track listing
2 Musicians
3 External links

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Waiting for Cousteau (played before the concert)
Shipyard Overture (Industrial Revolution: Overture from Revolutions)
Oxygene 2 (with flute intro)
Chopin Memories
Aero
Oxygene 4
Souvenir (Souvenir of China)
Geometry of Love
Equinoxe 4
Space of Freedom (March 23 from Sessions 2000)
Aerology
Chronology 2 (with Theremin intro)
Speech by Lech Wałęsa
Mury (Walls) (original by Jacek Kaczmarski)
Chronology 6
Oxygene 8
Light My Sky (remixed version of Tout est Bleu from Metamorphoses)
Tribute to Pope John Paul II (Acropolis, originally from the Athens concerts)
Rendez-Vous 2 (Once upon a time version, dedicated to Pope John Paul II)
Vivaldi "Summer-Presto"
The Emigrant (dedicated to Polonia)
Oxygene 12
Rendez-Vous 4
Solidarność (Oxygene 13 from Oxygene 7-13, dedicated to the workers at the shipyard)
Aerology Remix (encore)