Friday 5 May 2017

Anstehende Termine: Litauen

Save the date!
We Heartily Invite You to the Multi-Vocal, Multi-Lingual Music Reading 
“Between Tongues / Tarp kalbų”!

When?
20 May 2017 / 2017-05-20
at 5 p.m. / 17 val.

Where?
At the Writers’ Union of Lithuania / Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungoje.

Who will read and play? Who will perform?

The poets:
Marco Grosse (Italian and German)
Žygimantas Kudirka (Lithuanian and English)
Schirin Nowrousian (German and French)
Rūta Suchodolskytė (Lithuanian and English)
and (most probably) one more poet whose name is still flying in the air. We will let you know as soon as it has landed!

The musician:
Michaël Grébil.
Michaël will come along with – at least! – two of his beautiful instruments: the lute and the cetara!

Stay tuned!
And save the date:
NOW!

And SPREAD the WORD! (The entrance is free!)
Ačiū!

“Between Tongues / Tarp kalbų” is a special Poetry Event bringing together poets who write in (at least) two different languages. It's a celebration of multilingualism. For the poets and translators involved the meeting starts already on Monday 15 May, and the reading on 20 May is the closing event of what will be an intense one-week encounter all around poetry – in six different languages: Lithuanian, German, French, Italian, English and XYZ (see the point of the flying name of the ‘missing’ poet above).

The translators who come and work with the poets must of course not go unmentioned. We are vey happy to work with: Ramunė Brundzaitė, Dainius Gintalas, Austėja Merkeviciūtė and Markus Roduner!

Join us for the reading on 20 May that turns languages into music and music into languages (and water into whiskey or something like that). We’ll be very happy to see you there!

And if you want to save another date right away – as you are now already trained to do so – please also save the date of Thursday 18 May at 3 p.m. (15 val.) and come to our Public Discussion/Round Table at Vilnius University (Universiteto gatve 5, Room 92) where we will talk about what it means and how it is to write in more than one language! (A separate invitation for the 18 May will follow later.)

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“Between Tongues / Tarp kalbų” is sponsored by the Embassy of Germany in Vilnius, Lithuania and is organized by the Lietuvos rašytojų sąjunga. It is embedded in the „Poezijos pavasaris“.
Many thanks to all our partners!