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24 September 2015 | 20:00 | BOZAR (Brussels)
  • 15/09/2015

24 September 2015 | 20:00 | BOZAR (Brussels)”

Come and listen to poets from Iceland, the Basque Country, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium at the opening night of Transpoesie. This annual poetry festival celebrates the diversity of languages. KLARA journalist Gudrun De Geyter will be interviewing the poets. A translation of their work is projected as they read it out to the people gathered.Notable guests include Brussels’ very own Laurence Vielle, our Belgian national poet for 2016, and Tonnus Oosterhoff of the Netherlands, who you might know from his ‘moving' poems. In addition you will get the chance to discover the young Swede Ida Börjel, the Icelandic wonder boyEiríkur Örn Norðdahl and from the Spanish Basque Country.


7 October 2015 | 20:00 | PASSA PORTA (Brussels) | Poëzie & Crisis / Poetry & Crisis / Crise & Poésie
  • 15/09/2015

7 October 2015 | 20:00 | PASSA PORTA (Brussels) | Poëzie & Crisis / Poetry & Crisis / Crise & Poésie ”

We have invited five poets from various countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Moldova and Turkey) to think about the relationship between poetry and the 'crisis' facing the contemporary world — whether this crisis be of a social, political, economic, spiritual or poetic nature. The goal of this topic is to raise a few questions which should give rise to an interesting exchange during which the poets will have the opportunity to define and outline the work they do. How does the theme of crisis make itself felt in their texts? What kind of crisis is dealt with? Does poetry need crisis or is it a threat? How does poetry help us to think about the concept of crisis? Can it still serve as a record for crisis or hope to offer a response? Is poetry itself in crisis? ...


8 October 2015 | 20:00 | Slam, music and performance | BALASSI Institute (Brussels)
  • 15/09/2015

8 October 2015 | 20:00 | Slam, music and performance | BALASSI Institute (Brussels)”

6 poets for a crazy evening dedicated to performance


23 September 2015 | 20:00 | Maison de la Poésie (Namur)
  • 15/09/2015

23 September 2015 | 20:00 | Maison de la Poésie (Namur)”

La soirée namuroise inaugurera le festival en présence de cinq poètes aux langues et aux alphabets différents 


  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Commission européenne
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Swedish Institute
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • MuntPunt
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • LOFT 58
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union