Sarajevo 2011. International poetry meetings

The tenth edition of the "Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings" will take place on 23, 24 and 25 September 2011. The magic that envelops the Bosnian capital produces the miracle of creating one of the most beautiful and exciting poetic events on the international scene every year. And it is truly a small miracle of will to have reached this tenth edition which concludes a cycle and a project. The meetings are dedicated to Izet Sarajlic, great poet of Sarajevo, honorary President of the House of Poetry, honorary citizen of the city of Salerno, beloved poet in Italy, former friend of our fellow citizen, Alfonso Gatto. The event was born in 2002, after Sarajlic's death in May of that year, to realize what had been the dream of the great Bosnian poet in recent years, to bring great international poetry back to Sarajevo after the tragedy of war and siege. A few years after the end of the horrors of the Bosnian war and the terrible siege of its capital, it acquired a strong symbolic and political value to relocate the city in a project that had as its centrality the culture of meeting, knowledge, exchange and brotherhood. It was also a sort of "mourning process" on the part of the House of Poetry circuit which had lost one of its most prestigious representatives. And remembering that "even the verses are happy when people meet" (Sarajlic's verses which have always characterized the work of the House of Poetry) we thought of bringing his "poet friends" to his city, to have them meet each other and with other poets from Sarajevo and the former Yugoslavia. Sarajlic was an extraordinary traveling companion. It is he who has always encouraged the work of building that "big family" that is the House of Poetry circuit. His Italian readings in Salerno, Baronissi, Naples, Amalfi, Pistoia, Trieste, Rome, Genoa, Reggio Emilia are unforgettable for us. For us, moving memories are his joy when his Italian book Someone Played translated with love by Raffaella Marzano and Sinan Gudzevic came to light, when he received the 2001 Moravia Prize in Rome and when the city of Salerno wanted to give him that honorary citizenship that made him proud and happy perhaps for the last time. We have therefore remembered him every year in his city for the last ten years, with poetry and with poets, trying to do it without rhetoric, as he would have wanted, remembering his irony and his melancholy, his poems and his songs. The event, promoted by the Italian Embassy in Sarajevo and curated by Casa della Poesia, is made possible every year by the collaboration of many Italian and foreign bodies and small sponsors, who generously contributed to the realization of the event. Many poets have wanted to honor us with their presence in recent years. For each of them we should spend words of affection, friendship and gratitude. They are all together and with many others that "great poetic family" that Izet had in his heart and that he taught us to love. In this tenth edition we wanted to have alongside us some of the closest friends from Izet, from Sarajevo, from the House of Poetry. The poets invited to celebrate this extraordinary milestone are: Fleur Bourgonje (Holland), Beat Brechbul (Switzerland), Giancarlo Cavallo (Italy), Gianluca Paciucci & Adriana Giacchetti (Italy), Ferida Durakovic (Bosnia), Agneta Falk (Sweden/Great Britain), Sinan Gudzevic (Serbia/Croatia), Tony Harrison (Great Britain), Devorah Major (United States), Jack Hirschman (United States United States), Marko Kravos (Slovenia), Maram al-Masri (Syria), Josip Osti (Bosnia/Slovenia), Sotirios Pastakas (Greece), Paul Polansky (United States), Eloy José Santos (Spain), Vojo Sindolic (Croatia), Serge Pey & Chiara Mulas (France/Italy), Marko Vesović (Bosnia), Yashim Agaoglu (Turkey), Carmen Yanez (Chile/Spain), Slavko Santic (Bosnia), Alberto Masala (Italy). Some video messages by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Erri De Luca, Predrag Matvejevic, Margaret Mazzantini will also be screened. During the event, some videos will be shown of Sarajlic reading his poems and also of other poet friends who are no longer with us, but who continue to live and be with us with their voice, their poems, our memories. This year too, the “Kamerni Teatar 55” (Galerija Gabrijel, Maršala Tita, 56) will host the Sarajevo International Poetry Meetings, in an atmosphere of solidarity, friendship, affection, exchange, desire to meet. The entire event will take place in two languages, the local one and Italian, thanks to the commitment of many who contribute with passion, dedication and commitment. Even the collateral meetings have the characteristic of being extraordinary: the screening of Vesna Ljubic's new film: "Bosnian Rhapsody on the Sidelines of Science", the homage to one of the most beloved Italian poets in Sarajevo, through the screening of Laura Betti's film: "Pier Paolo Pasolini and the reason for a dream", presented by Francesco Napoli. And also the collective visits to one of the most evocative places in Sarajevo, the Visit to the Tekija of Hadži Sinan and to the Lion Cemetery where Izet Sarajlic rests. The International Poetry Meetings of Sarajevo and the House of Poetry which adhere to the World Poetry Movement (WPM) dedicate this year the festival and above all the day of 24 September, as happens simultaneously in 274 poetry readings in 80 countries around the world, to the "100 Thousand Poets for Change" event. This year too, two groups of "conscious travellers" (and there will be almost 100 of them and it is an extraordinary result which contradicts those who think that there is no audience for poetry), will reach Sarajevo, from Italy by bus (via Trieste) and by car (via Bari), to live and share this extraordinary experience that tries to build bridges of peace and friendship with poetry. We hope that the Sarajevo event, now well known in the international panorama of poetry festivals which has now reached the conclusion of a cycle, can in the future reaffirm itself not only as an indisputable, important, "poetic" moment, but above all as a bridge between Europe and the Balkans. We are certain that the magic of this city will once again attribute a sort of added value to the poetic event, making it different from many other events. This magic ensures that poetry is transformed into a real meeting place, which builds bonds, which becomes a moment of knowledge and exchange, which settles in the hearts and minds of the people who participate, until it becomes an unforgettable and inalienable experience of one's conscience. The three days usually allow poets and visitors to also appreciate the beauty of the city and its surroundings, taste the gastronomic specialties and experience all the proposals of the Meetings even in a limited time.

Program

SARAJEVO 2011 Međunarodni poetski susreti International poetry meetings International Poetry Meeting omaž / homage to / hommage to IZET SARAJLIĆ SARAJEVO 23, 24, 25 /09/2010. KAMERNI TEATAR 55 GALERIJA GABRIJEL, MARŠALA TITA, 56 SARAJEVO Ulaz slobodan / Free entry / Free entrance u organizaciji / curated by / organized by Multimedia Edizioni - House of Poetry * * * * * 23/09/2010 20:00h Opening / Inauguration / Opening Raimondo De Cardona Ambasador Italije u BiH Ambassador of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Miroslav Živanović Zamjenik gradinačelnika Sarajeva Deputy Mayor of Sarajevo Deputy Mayor of Sarajevo Sergio Iagulli House of Poetry Reading: AGNETA FALK TONY HARRISON DEVORAH MAJOR ALBERTO MASALA JOSIP OSTI MARKO VEŠOVIĆ CARMEN YAÑEZ 24/09/2010 «100 Thousand Poets for Change» WPM (World Poetry Movement) 12:00h Posjeta groblju Lav/Visit al Cimitero del Leone/Visit to the Lion Cemetery 17:30h Projekcija filma / Screening of the film / Screening BOSANSKA RAPSODIJA NA RUBU ZNANOSTI / RAPSODIA BOSNICA A MARGINS OF SCIENCE/ BOSNIAN RHAPSODY AT THE MARGINS OF SCIENCE Režija/Directed by/Directed by U prisustvu režiserke/In the presence of the director/ In the presence of the director Vesna Ljubić (2011, 50', bos., engleski titlovi) 20:00h Reading: FLEUR BOURGONJE MARKO KRAVOS MARAM AT MASRI GIANLUCA PACIUCCI/ADRIANA GIACCHETTI SOTIRIOS PASTAKAS PAUL POLANSKY SLAVKO ŠANTIĆ ELOY JOSÉ SANTOS 25/09/2010 12:00h Projekcija filma / Screening of the film / Screening PIER PAOLO PASOLINI AND THE REASON FOR A DREAM/PIER PAOLO PASOLINI I RAZLOG JEDNOG SNA/PIER PAOLO PASOLINI AND THE REASON OF A DREAM Režija/Directed by/Directed by Laura Betti Italy, 2001, 90' (it., engleski titlovi) Uvodničar/Introduce/Introduced by Francesco Napoli 17:30h Posjeta Hadži Sinanovoj Tekiji/Visit to the Hadži Sinan's Tekija/Visit to the Hadži Sinan's Tekija 20:00h Reading: YESIM AGAOGLU BEAT BRECHBÜHL GIANCARLO CAVALLO FERIDA DURAKOVIC SINAN GUDŽEVIĆ JACK HIRSCHMAN VOJO ŠINDOLIĆ * * * * * NA VIDEU/IN VIDEO/ON VIDEO: IZET SARAJLIĆ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Margaret Mazzantini, Erri De Luca, Predrag Matvejević Janine Pommy Vega, Ken Smith, Velomir Milosević, Jorge Enroque Adoum, Ante Zemljar, Martin Matz. MUZIČARI / MUSICISTI / MUSICIANS: Marco Collazzoni: soprano sax and flute Martin Diaz Gonzalez: guitar and percussion Marta Polimadei: clarinet alto sax Francesco Guzzetta: various and electronic instruments PRIJEVOD / TRANSLATIONS / TRANSLATION: Sinan Gudžević, Raffaella Marzano, Nadira Šehović, Ivana Varunek, Amela Zec Filipović, Jolka Milič, Valentina Confido, Giancarlo Cavallo, Vojo Šindolić, Franco Paris, Patrizia Filia, Sandra Mitrović, Zoran Herceg, Fusun and Alessandro Fallavollita, Amina Šiljak Jesenković, Bianca Carlino, Trtko Kralić, Massimo Bacigalupo, Sonja Najdeski. * * * * * INFO: Embassy of Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, Čekaluša, 39 tel.: +387 33 203960/961, 218021/022 e-mail: cultural.ambsarajevo@esteri.it Multimedia Edizioni – Casa della Poesia Via Convento, 73, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy tel.: +39 089 951621, cell.: +39 347 6275911, +39 328 8450483 e-mail: amministrazione@casadellapoesia.org www.casadellapoesia.org

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House of Poetry Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Grad Sarajevo Dante Alighieri Society - Sarajevo Committee Trieste Chamber of Commerce Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. SOL S.p.A. - Monza (MI) Embassy of United State of America British Council, Sarajevo Embassy of Spain Ministerio de Cultura. Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas (España) Embassy of Greece Embassy of Turkey International Writers Program, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam Slovenski Center P.E.N. Pro-Helvetia Municipality of Bologna Invisible Cities, Nice, France Women's House, Trieste Knulp, Trieste