Sarajevo 2006. International poetry meetings

The Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings are back, a project that the House of Poetry has been organizing for five years in memory of the great Bosnian poet Izet Sarajlić who passed away in May 2002. This year's edition will take place from 13 to 15 October. The International Poetry Meetings are slowly gaining an important space in the international poetic panorama. The poetic event, dedicated to Izet Sarajlić, was created to realize what had been the dream of the great Bosnian poet in recent years, to bring great international poetry back to Sarajevo and contribute to repositioning the city in an international cultural circuit as its history and tradition deserve. More than ten years after the end of the horrors of the war, relocating the Bosnian capital in a project which, through poetry, has as its centrality a culture of encounter, knowledge, exchange and brotherhood acquires a symbolic and political value. The event is curated by the House of Poetry and is organized by the Italian Embassy in Sarajevo, with the participation of a series of public and private bodies from various countries. The old and glorious Kino Bosna cinema-theatre will be used again, which has become a true reference for the Italian community (and not only) in Sarajevo, in an unusual atmosphere and intensity for poetry readings, a strong sign of solidarity, friendship, affection, sharing, exchange. The entire event will take place with a bilingual structure and therefore understandable to Italian spectators as well as Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian spectators, etc. Over the three days: readings, seminars, screenings with prestigious and extraordinary participations such as those of Antonio Carvajal (Spain), Michel Cassir and Claudia Christiansen (Lebanon/France), Milo De Angelis (Italy), Tommaso Di Francesco (Italy), Sinan Gudžević (Serbia/Croatia), Barbara Korun (Slovenia), Ivo Machado (Portugal), Devorah Major (United States), Fadila Nura Haver (Bosnia), Josip Osti (Bosnia/Slovenia), Sotirios Pastakas (Greece), Martin Reints (Holland), Abdullah Sidran (Bosnia), Vojo Šindolić (Croatia), Vicente Valero (Spain), Marko Vesović (Montenegro/Bosnia), Mehmet Yashin (Cyprus). The musicians: Marco Collazzoni, Riccardo Morpurgo, Luca Colussi, Almir Nezić. And again Sergio Iagulli, Raffaella Marzano, Francesco Napoli, Zero Teatro During the event documents and interventions dedicated to Giuseppe Ungaretti (the great Italian poetry), Samuel Beckett (for the centenary of his birth), Allen Ginsberg (fifty years of the publication of the legendary "Howl"), "Le coquille e le clergyman" by Germane Dulac on a screenplay by Antonin Artaud (to continue a journey on the "cinema of poetry"). The fifth edition of the Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings can be considered the closing of a cycle, a project which in five years has attempted to bring the great names of international poetry to Sarajevo. This small miracle of will and affection ends with the end of the diplomatic mission of Prof. Gianluca Paciucci, an extraordinary traveling companion who conceived and strongly supported this event with us. But it also marks the beginning of a new cycle which we hope will allow, in the years to come, that the Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings, now recognizable and recognized in the international panorama of poetry festivals, will continue and be consolidated as an indisputable, important, "poetic" moment, and as a bridge between Europe and the Balkans, a moment of meeting, knowledge and exchange between cultures, languages ​​and religions.

Program

SARAJEVO 2006 13/14/15 October 2006 KINO TEATAR “PRVI MAJ” (KINO BOSNA), Ulica Alipašina 19 “Even verses are happy when people meet” edited by / organized by: Multimedia Edizioni – House of Poetry Program 13 October 2006 at 6.00 pm Homage to Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) Screening of "The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg" (80' – 1994 - o.v. English) by Jerry Aronson 9.00 pm Inauguration H.E. Alessandro Fallavollita, Ambassador of Italy to Bosnia and Herzegovina Mrs. Semiha Borovac, Mayor of Sarajevo prof. dr Marko Vešović, writer Sergio Iagulli, House of Poetry Reading Antonio Carvajal Tommaso By Francesco Barbara Korun Martin Reints Marko Vešović 14 October 2006 12.00 Screening of the film "La coquille et le clergyman" (1927, 25', b/w, silent) by Germaine Dulac subject by Antonin Artaud hours 6.00 pm Homage to Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888 – 1970) Video screening "The rivers of Ungaretti" + fragments with Francesco Napoli and Gianluca Paciucci 9.00 pm Reading Milo De Angelis Devorah Major Fadila Nura Haver Sotirios Pastakas Abdullah Sidran Vicente Valero 15 October 2006 11.00 am Visit to the old Sarajevo Library with poems by Izet Sarajlić 12.00pm Screening of "Videoletter by Izet Sarajlić" (1994-2005, 50', o.v. and s/t in Italian) by Andreas Achenbach, Marina Achenbach 6.00pm Homage to Samuel Beckett Screening of "Film" by Samuel Beckett (1965, 21', b/w, silent) by Alan Schneider "Krapp's Last Tape" (2000, 58', color, english) by Atom Egoyan 9.00 pm Reading Michel Cassir & Claudia Christiansen Sinan Gudžević Ivo Machado Josip Osti Vojo Šindolić Mehmet Yashin _____________ Musicians: Marco Collazzoni (wind instruments) Luca Colussi (drums and percussion) Riccardo Morpurgo (piano) Almir Nezić (bass) Performances by ZEROTEATRO

Information

Embassy of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Municipality of Sarajevo Campania Region Province of Salerno Municipality of Baronissi (Salerno) Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture of Trieste Ministerio de Education, Cultura y Deporte Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Libraries, Madrid. Espana Embajada de España en Sarajevo Acción cultural exterior española – Sarajevo International Writers Program, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam. Slovenski Center P.E.N. National Book Center of Greece Dante Alighieri Society - Sarajevo Committee Center André Malraux - Sarajevo UTL / Italian Cooperation – Sarajevo UPI Banka - Banca Intesa SOL S.p.A. - Monza (MI)