Ars Poetica 2018

International Poetry Festival
Ars Poetica 2018 – Program

Date: November 13-23, 2018

Tuesday, November 13 / Slovak National Theatre / Blue Salon / Pribinova 17

19.30 Šmátranie v širočine / Fumbling in the Vastness
Premiere
A performance of magical imagery and inner voices
that will arouse the forgotten plains of your memory.

director: Soňa Ferancová
cast: Ján Gallovič, Štefan Kocán
screenplay (montage from the poetry by Ján Stacho): Martin Solotruk

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Wednesday, November 14 / Slovak National Theatre / Blue Salon / Pribinova 17

19.30 Korene / Roots
a poetic evening with the music
cast: Táňa Pauhofová, Martin Geišberg

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Thursday, November 15 / V Klub / SNP Square 12

19.00 Poetry Evening
Luc Bénazet (FR)
Kathrin Schmidt (DE)
Alexandru Potcoavă (RO)
Risto Ahti (FI)
Camilla Nelson (GB)
Kinga Tóth (HU)

Honorable guest:
Noam Partom (IL) Spoken Word Solo

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21.00 Concert
Kieslowski (CZ)

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22.00 / Open End Party for Everyone

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Free entry

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Friday, November 16 / Café Berlinka SNG / nám. Ľ. Štúra 4

19.00 Poetry Evening
Martin Poch (CZ)
Jana Beňová (SK)
Luke Roberts (GB)
Olivier Brossard (FR)
Renate Aichinger (AT)
Bruno Doucey (FR)
Endre Szkárosi (HU)

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21.00 / World-Class Sound Poetry Concert
Hannah Silva (GB) & Tomomi Adachi (JP)

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22.00 / Open End Party for Everyone

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Free entry

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Saturday, November 17 / Café Berlinka SNG / nám. Ľ. Štúra 4

18.30 / Versopolis: Evening of European Poetry
Veronika Dintinjana (SI)
Pietro Cagni (IT)
Nikolina Andova (MK)
Łukasz Jarosz (PL)
Agda Bavi Pain (SK)
Mária Ferenčuhová (SK)

Honorable guest:
Carmien Michels (BE) Spoken Word Solo

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21.00 Concert
Pospiš/Sillay/Nikitin (SK) Spev tebe

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22.00 / Open End Party for Everyone

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Free entry

Poetry read by Lucia Hurajová, Marek Majeský and Ivan Šándor

VJ sets by Zden Hlinka

Poetry evenings presented by Martin Solotruk

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Program is subject to change

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Ars Poetica 2018 Off Program

University Library in Bratislava, Liszt Pavillon, Klariská 1

Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17 / 2pm – 5pm
European Poetry Forum
colloquium and session with international authors

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Saturday, November 17 / 10.45am – 1pm
Ars Poetica for Children
Book, Sow Yourself!
creative poetry workshop run by studio Amulet

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Sunday, November 18 / 3pm – 5pm
Bring Your Poem
Ars Poetica creative workshop with Martina Straková

Free entry

Friday, November 16 / 1pm – 4pm / V-Klub, Nám. SNP 12
Poézia z tela / Poetry Rooted in the Body
workshop by Roberta Štěpánková

Free entry

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Ars Poetica Film (November 19-23)

Lumiére Film Theatre, auditorium No. 4, Špitálska 4, 811 08 Bratislava

Film Program

Monday, November 19

5:45pm / Lajka (dir. Aurel Klimt, Czech Republic, 2017, color, 87′, puppet/animated)

7:45pm / Elsewhere (dir. Juraj Nvota, Marian Urban, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2018, color, 80′, documentary)

Tuesday, November 20

5:45pm / Monster (dir. Martin Snopek, Slovakia, 2018, color, 7′, animated)
The Last Self-Portrait (dir. Marek Kuboš, Slovakia, 2018, color, 72′, docu-fiction)

7:45pm / Little Brother Karel (dir. Krystyna Krauze, Poland/Czech Republic, 2016, color, 79′, documentary)

Wednesday, November 21

5:45pm / The Best of Fest Anča 2018 (A selection of winning animated films, 63min.)

7:45pm / Válek (dir. Patrik Lančarič, Slovakia, 2018, color/b&w, 131′, documentary)

Thursday, November 22

5:45pm / There Is No Other Way (dir. Jozef Zachar, Czechoslovakia, 1968, b&w., 104′, live action)

7:45pm / The House That Jack Built (dir. Lars von Trier, Denmark/France/Germany/Sweden, 2015, color, 155′, live action)

Friday, November 23

5:45pm / Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland/France/Great Britain, 2018, b&w, 84′, live action)

7:45pm / Manifesto (dir. Julian Rosefeldt, Australia/Germany, 2016, color, 95′, live action)

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Film Section Programmer: Martin Palúch

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Program is subject to change