Network

meetings

1-st meeting } Vilnius and Uzhupis Republic } February 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 AleksaiteMultilingual 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) “Chruščiovas-Sokolnikovas и Minclovas. Два русских писателя литовской литературы”.

16:30 Rimas Užgiris (USA-Vilnius) will tell about his work as translator of Lithuanian poets into English and about New York experience in multicultural events

17:00 guided walk to the Jewish library

 

Jewish library  / round table

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, his novels 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

Balmont and Parland

February 3, Saturday

Trakai, Kybinlar and Karaim School

11:30 sessions of network

visit to the Castle.

13:00 Lunch

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

15:00 Karaim museum

16:00 dinner in Kibinlary

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

19:00 Free evening

February 4,

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 organisers in the network

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

Vladimir Hanaan (Jerusalem) about literary organisations in Israel.

Session of the Network: preplanning the 2019 activity

13:00 Lunch

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

Uzupis cafe-parliament

18:00 multilingual poetic mini-festival “Frannie”

featuring Polina Kopylova (Helsinki), Larissa Joonas (Tallinn), Tomas Czepajtis (Vilnius), Alina Borzenkaitė (Pabradė-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 Hanan Babinsky (Jerusalem) Vitaly Asovsky (Vilna), Fikrat and Liubov Salimov  (Pavilnys)

 

 

2-nd meeting } Tartu, Estonia } March 16-18, 2018

guest country > Denmark

 

3-rd meeting } Helsinki, Finland } April 19-21, 2018

guest country > Sweden

 

Juhani Ihanus (Helsinki) “Diaspora and Otherness in Therapeutic Writing”

 

 

4-rd meeting } Saronno, lago Comoor Anacapri  (Italy)

May or October

 

 

5-th meeting } Pskov and Mihailovskoye (Russia) 5-8 June, 2018

organizer Artem Verle

guest country > Latvia

 

 

6-th meeting } Tartu, Estonia, August 19-21, 2018

guest country > Norway

 

7-th meeting }  Stromstadt, Sweden  or Norebro (Copenhagen, Denmark), September-October, 2018

guest country > Iceland