Litteraturcentrum i Uppsala stad och Uppsala län celebrates UNESCO International Mother Language Day 21 February

through an international poetry event. We call it Six Seasons Poetry Festival. The festival will be graced by poets from

different languages and countries.

Everyone welcome. We will serve drinks and snacks during the break.

Free entrance!

Program

Introduction: . Lars Häger, Uppsala litteraturcentrum
.Anisur Rahman, Uppsala litteraturcentrum
.Signe Westin, Statens kulturråd

Music
Roland Keijser
Reading from invited poets
Dmitri Plax, Sweden/Belarus
Ann Kavli, Norway
Magnus Dahlerus, Sweden


Presentation: ‘Poetry as an international language’
Mats Söderlund, president of The Swedish Writers Union

 

Reading from invited poets

Jonas Modig, Sweden

 

Maria Ripenberg, Sweden

Presentation: The state of mother languages in Africa
John Y. Jones, Dag Hammarskjöld Program, Voksenåsen-Oslo

BREAK

Music
Roland Keijser

Reading
Lars Burstedt läser Anisur Rahman
Heather Spears, Canada/Denmark
Henrik C. Enbohm, poet and editor, SFF’s tidskriften Författaren

Zurab Rtveliashvili, Sweden/Georgia, fristadsförfattare in Stockholm
Ingvild Burkey, Norway

Music
Roland Keijser and Jayant Bäckström

Contact
anisur.rahman@studieframjandet.se 0725 3711 55
leonidas.aretakis@studieframjandet.se 076 781 0830

Litteraturcentrum I Uppsala stad och Uppsala län/Teater Blanca uppsala
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