THE SECOND EDITION OF THE POEMS ON THE UNDERGROUND
Wiersze w Metrze project in Warsaw will take place
on 15 September - 11 October 2009. More details soon!
Wiersze w Metrze has been initiated by the Book Institute and the British Council. There are thirteen cultural institutes involved in it, Biuro Promocji m.st. Warszawy and many other partners.
Wiersze w Metrze has been inspired by other similar projects which have taken place in, among others: Dublin, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Moscow, but most of all by the Poems on the Underground initiated in London in 1986; an event which has been organised regularly from then onwards.
The aim of Wiersze w Metrze is to popularise contemporary European poetry in public city spaces. There will be poems extracts in the original and in Polish translation from countries like Poland, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Portugal and Sweden. These will be displayed in the Warsaw underground from 19 May till 16 June.
The programme will include author meetings with European poets, a happening, IV Spoke’n’Word Festiwal, slam workshops for students, ‘Haiku for Warsaw’ – a competition. All events will take place in the Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Cafe Kulturalna and Chłodna 25.
Wiersze w metrze is organised as a part of the EUNIC – Warszawa Cluster and celebrations of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.
It is also a part of a national festival - „Pora Poezji” organised by the Book Institute, and an international project ‘Creative Cities’ initiated by the British Council.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the President of Warsaw, is the Honorary Patron for the venture.