On Thursday, the KCB organizes a discussion about the situation it is in since its Hall was blocked, but also a poetry festival, as it has been doing for 24 years, every World Poetry Day
Thursday, March 20 is World Poetry Day. On that day, the Cultural Center of Belgrade invites you to two events, the first of which was scheduled on this holiday just by coincidence.
It is a conversation about the situation in which the KCB has been living since the KCB Hall was occupied on February 18 by the informal initiative Culture in Blockade. It starts at 13 pm in the Artget gallery, and everyone is welcome.
In the invitation, they say that despite "difficult circumstances, the Cultural Center of Belgrade strives to, as much as possible, continue to question social realities with its activities", and they emphasize that in the wake of student demands, that institutions should do their work, this kind of conversation opens up the possibility of a different, more adapted role for institutions in new social circumstances.
The second starts at 18 pm and is dedicated to World Poetry Day.
Namely, two years after UNESCO declared March 1999 as World Poetry Day in 20, the Cultural Center of Belgrade, in cooperation with the poet Dubravka Đurić, started an event dedicated to contemporary poetry, which very quickly grew into an international poetry festival.
This year it is focused on the following topics and issues:
"Until recently significantly more stable, our spaces - physical, affective, civil, spiritual - are becoming more and more questionable: the borders between land and water, security and uncertainty, inherited patterns and circumstances that require their re-examination are increasingly porous, and in this complex context, poetry takes the role of not only a witness, but also a mediator between different forms of knowledge, experiences and language", they say.
That's why this year's "World Poetry Day(s)" is directed "precisely towards these changes, and is realized with regard to the thematic portent - and the paraphrase of Rastko Petrović's verse - On the peat bogs. Whether it is about the ground that trembles under climatic, cultural or social pressures, or about the space in which through poetry they try to capture and understand moments of transformation, vulnerability, but also new possibilities - this year's festival sets out to meet the issues with content and value instability and change".
The programs of the festival will be realized in the Cultural Center of Belgrade, the Astronomical Observatory and the Museum of African Art.
Program editors Jelena Nidžović and Uroš Đurković invited Anja Marković, Dragana Mladenović, Ivan Isailović, Maša Seničić, Nenad Stanković, Ognjen Aksentijević, Petar Matović, Tanja Stupar Trifunović, Bartolomej Majzel, Emilija Konverska, Stanislav Kalina Jaglaž, Julija Fjedorčuk, Gregoar Suris, and Juana Adkok to participate in this year's Festival.
"World Poetry Day(s)" at KCB runs until March 23.
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