A LITERARY JOURNEY THROUGH THE BALKANS
Word Express is a new literary exchange project taking place in South-East Europe as part of our Creative Collaboration programme.
Word Express is being organised by UK-based Literature Across Frontiers in co-operation with Delta Publishing in Istanbul, Profil Books in Zagreb, Helicon in Tel Aviv and the National Book Centre in Bucharest, Entefktirio in Thessaloniki, and other partners based in twelve countries in the region.
Approximately fifty young writers and translators from the South East Europe region will eventually be involved in the project, exploring the region’s cultural, social and political legacy and meeting their counterparts from the participating countries.
The writers will form three groups, each of which will go on a different train journey through the Balkans. Along the way they will take part in a series of readings, debates and translation workshops in the cities where their trains stop: Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, Skopje, Sarajevo and Thessaloniki.
All three groups will join together in Thessaloniki before embarking on the last leg of their journey, which will take them to their common final destination: Istanbul.
In collaboration with the literary magazine Entefktirio, we are organising two exciting events in Thessaloniki in October 2009 with the Balkan writers and poets participating in Word Express, who will share with us the experiences they have gained through this unusual train journey. Both events have been designed and developed by the writer Chris Chryssopoulos.
In May 2010 we invite you to an inspiring series of poetry events we're oganising in Athens and Thessaloniki in collaboration with Café Dasein 3rd International Literary Festival, Literature Across Frontiers and the English Deptartment of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
TOM CHIVERS IN CONVERSATION WITH SAKIS SEREFAS AND DON SCHOFIELD
Following a one-week residency in Athens, UK poet Tom Chivers will be visiting Thessaloniki to run a Creative Writing Seminar with 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and also to take part in a cross-cultural poetic event together with Greek writer/poet Sakis Serefas and American poet Don Schofield. The three poets will read from their own work in both English and Greek and discuss poetic practice and how it is influenced and shaped by the urban environment and their experience of daily life in their respective countries of origin.
For further information, please e-mail Chrysoula Melidou at Chrysoula.Melidou@britishcouncil.gr or call 2310 378 314.
WORD EXPRESS WRITERS JOIN TOGETHER IN ATHENS
Building on Word Express's successful conclusion in March 2010, this year’s Dasein Festival presents a series of poetry readings, discussions, creative workshops, residencies, screenings and other parallel events with the contribution of a line-up of talented young poets – Netalie Braun, Ivan Hristov, Adela Greceanu and Gokçenur Çelebioğlu – who all took part in our Word Express train journey through the Balkans last year.
FICTION: A MOMENT'S STORY
The lens of literature focuses on the whole through the partial, traces history through isolated instances and rediscovers the collective through the individual.
POETRY: A VIEW SIDE-WAYS
Five contemporary poets (re)shape reality, memory and experience through the unorthodox geometry of language.
INFORMATION
For further information about Word Express and the events in Athens and Thessaloniki, please contact:
The project is co-financed by the British Council and Literature Across Frontiers (supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union), with kind support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the Ministry of Culture of FYROM, the Scottish Arts Council and Wales Arts International.
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