Fiston Mwanza Mujila travelled on the OMNIBUS Reading Tour in the very first week from Helsinki across the arctic circle way up into the north. Coming originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, journeying has become a necessary part of Fiston’s life as an author and migrant emplyoing a unique perspective on countries and national borders. I talked with Fiston about travelling, the OMNIBUS Reading Tour, guilt and influences on writing. Continue reading Fiston Mwanza Mujila – “Finland was my non-lieu”
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CROWD Diary Entry #1 (RKS)
Polip International Literature Festival
22-24 May 2015, Pristina (Kosovo)
After an intense and productive CROWD-partner meeting in Graz together with the teams of Lettrétage, Nuoren Voiman Liitto, FORUM Stadtpark and Ideogramma I continued my journey first to Slovenia and then to Kosovo, in order to meet some literary activists (and, hopefully, future members of the CROWD!) and to get more information about the free literary scenes in this countries…
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Portrait: Steven J Fowler (GB)
This photo of SJ Fowler comes as “Bear as the Bear”. Best wishes to Jack London.
By Julia Schiefer
The atmosphere of the “Hay Festival” in 2014 is buoyant and somewhat noisy. One could imagine that outside of the small frame of the youtube picture there could be people passing by, mumbling to each other, going out or in or stay for a while before moving on. Yet, it is poet/artist Steven J Fowler reading out his poems, that the screen is showing. Approaching the microphone, he says: “Oh my god, I just realized I am in Mexico” and right in this moment a technician appears out of nowhere to fix the height of his microphone as if he wanted to answer: Yes, my friend, here you are. Before reading out his poetry he states in a brutally honest fashion that he thanks “whoever insane person who decided to invite me” from London to Mexico, who invited a guy who writes poetry. A guy who is actually very restless about organizing collaborative poetry events with now over “100 events in over a dozen countries”, and has published just recently his sixth book of his own poetry {Enthusiasm}, doing exhibitions, and before he has been a poet actually was a martial artist. Continue reading Portrait: Steven J Fowler (GB)
Time to eat the dessert – The résumé
Long time no hear! Summarizing the discussions of the conference in Berlin we want to share with you the résumé of the efforts of January. Let’s CROWD across Europe with this neat little résumé in our pockets to present it to sponsors, to activists, to policians alike and let’s disseminate it in any digital way possible. In the Beginning of 2015 it was time to eat. Now it is time to spread the word. Here you go, ladies and gentlemen:
Résumé conference (download, PDF 537 kb)
Photos Berlin Conference January 2015
(© Ulrike Techert)
(Ideogramma, Cyprus), Laura Serkosalo (Nuoren Voiman Liito, Finland), Lily Michaelidou (Ideogramma, Cyprus) Katharina Deloglu (Lettrétage, Germany) (© Ulrike Techert)
Steven Fowler at the CROWD Conference (Videos)
SJ Fowler talks about “The Enemies project”.
Vera Kurlenina at the CROWD Conference (Videos)
“hochroth publishers Europe- a pilot project in the alternative publishing scene”
Martin Jankowski at the CROWD Conference Berlin (Videos)
Martin Jankowski from the Berliner Literarische Aktion e.V. explains their projects involving literary and theatre workshops in prisons.
Jennifer Bode at the CROWD Conference
Jennifer Bode talks about ‘U30 – Neue Literatur für Berlin’ (U30 – New Literature for Berlin).
Nora Theiss at the CROWD Conference (Videos)
Excerpts from Nora Theiss’s presentation. She’s part of our Austrian partner of the CROWD, the FORUM STADTPARK.