11 October 2018 | 8 PM | Balassi Institute
  • 28/09/2018

11 October 2018 | 8 PM | Balassi Institute”

After having moved the city for two weeks to the lively beat of poetry, Transpoesie 2018 reaches a new station. The Balassi Institute, long-time partner of the festival, opens its doors to the third poetry-reading event of 2018.

Seven different voices, ideas and attitudes towards life will collide, giving you the chance to discover trough poetry seven European cultures. Poets from all corners of the continent will unveil their talents: you will have the chance to plunge into the rhythm of Hungarian, Hebrew, Estonian, Greek, Greenlandic, Portuguese and English (from Scotland) while the translation in English will be screened on the historic wall of the city of Brussels!

Experience a veritable Babelian evening with:

  • Dóra Gabriella Sós, a Hungarian poet, author, researcher, publisher, ghostwriter and cultural manager. She writes poems and proses, creates image poetry and participates in literary performances. Dóra follows a PhD programme researching experimental arts, post-humanism and science fiction.
  • Indrek Koff, from Estonia, who received Estonia’s most prestigious award for poetry by writing an assemblage of Estonian sayings complemented by a few musings about the nature of Estonianness. Through his work, you will experiment playfulness, self-irony, seriousness, and theatricality.
  • Dimitris Lyacos from Greece. His trilogy has been translated into thirteen languages and was developed as a work in progress over thirty years. He combines, in a genre-defying form, themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology.
  • Pivinnguaq Mørch. After writing a short story about a heart-breaking daughter and father relationship, the poet from Greenland explores, in nine short stories and fourteen poems, existential themes related to life.
  • Tahel Frosh, poet from Israel, doctoral student, teacher and columnist. In her first major poetry book, she offers a documentation of the discontent in Israel and all over the world, a universal aesthetic analysis of the social order, which is much more radical than the social justice protests that began in July 2011.
  • Pedro Mexia, a Portuguese columnist and literary critic, who participates in TV and radio political commentary programs and is currently cultural consultant of the President of the Republic. He was twice a member of the jury of the Camões Prize (the most important cultural price in Portugal).
  • Catherine Wilson, from Scotland, known for her reflections on the everyday, blended with a sense of humour and solemn questions about the big things in life. She has spoken at two of University of Edinburgh's TEDx conferences and organised the first non-American team to compete in America’s national competition C.U.P.S.I.

>>> Balassi Institute Brussels | Treurenberg 10, 1000 Brussels

>>> 11 October 2018 - 8 PM 

>>> Free

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