1-st meeting: Vilnius

1-st meeting: Vilnius and Uzhupis Republic, Feb. 2-4, 2018

Programm:

February 2, Friday

Uzhupis kavine-parliament

12:00 Session of the network. General ideas.

12:15 Session of the network: Roles of organisers in the network

12:35 Session: Programm and expectations of Vilnius meeting

12:50 Walk around Uzhupis

13:30  Lunch in Uzhupis cafe

14:15 Inauguration of the network

14:30 Irena Aleksaite. Multilingual Gorky street of my childhood in Vilnius

15:00 presentation of the network’s website and FB group , discussion on dissemination of the project

15:30 Andrei Antonau (Belarus) – Belarussian poets and Vilna

16:00 Pavel Lavrinec (Vilnius un-ty) – 2 Russian writers of XIX century, that praised Lithuania

16:30 Rimas Užgiris (USA-Vilnius) – my work as translator of Lithuanian poets into English;  New York experience in multicultural events

17:00 guided walk to the Jewish library

Jewish library  

18:00 Žilvinas Beliauskas (director) introduces a last issue of Jewish magazine “Brąsta”.

18:30 Ovidiu Ivancu (Romania) about his work in Vilnius un/ty and: “The Ups and Downs of a Romanian Literary Generation: Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran and Eugen Ionescu”.

19:00 Rami Ibrahim (Syria-Switzerland) about immigrant writing schools

 

February 3, Saturday

Trakai, Kibinlary and Karaim School

11:30 sessions of network. Theme of the day: Language, Culture and Poetic language

visit to the Castle.

13:00 Lunch in Kibinlary, national karaim restaurant

14:00 lection on Karaim poetry and art by Halina Kobeckaite in Karaimų mokykla (school) (Karaimų st., 28)

15:00 Karaim museum

17:30 possibly excursion to the Angels’ Hill and then back to Uzupis

19:00 Free evening

 

February 4, Sunday

Venclovų namai muziejus

11:00 sessions of network. Muse Erata and other muses in our network and in festivals

Session of the network: Roles of participants in the network. Expanding the network.

Memorabilia of the network and festivals – budges, posters, stickers etc.

12:00 Vladimir Hanaan (Jerusalem) about literary organisations in Israel.

Session of the Network: preplanning the 2019 activity

13:00 Lunch in Post Sciptum

Uzupis cafe-parliament

14:00 – 15:00 Sessions of the network. Results of the Vilnius meeting

Themes for next 4 meetings (Tartu, Helsinki, Italy, Pskov, Sweden)

Free time 3 h

18:00 multilingual poetic mini-festival “Frannie”

featuring Polina Kopylova (Helsinki), Larissa Joonas (Tallinn), Tomas Czepajtis (Vilnius), Kerry Shawn Keys (Vilnius-Pennsylvania), Jamal Juma (Vilnius-Kopenhagen-Bahdad), Andrej Antonau (Vilnius-Mahilev), Rimas Užgiris (USA/Vilnius), Zoila Forss (Peru-Helsinki), Antanas A. Jonynas (Lithuania), Ahmed Faraz (Pakistan), Vladimir Hanaan (Jerusalem) Vitaly Asovsky (Vilna), Fikrat and Liubov Salimov  (Pavilnys) and others

Closing of the network

 

February 5, Monday

departure of paricipants