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Transpoesie 2022 - European Year of Youth & Poets from Black Europe
  • 19/09/2022

Transpoesie 2022 - European Year of Youth & Poets from Black Europe”

The 12th edition of the international poetry festival is back in full force with 19 new poets and the topics of European Year of Youth and Poets from Black Europe.

From 26 to 28 September in Brussels and online @Transpoesie and at www.transpoesie.eu

 

This year's edition of the TRANSPOESIE international poetry festival will take form in public events, including our traditional readings and panels, where you can meet the poets in person, as well as giving the public space a poetical touch.

The current edition, taking place between 26 and 28 September, presents the themes European Year of Youth and Poets from Black Europe and its program includes three main events, each to be held in a different location. The first two days will focus on the concept of Poetry as a literary refuge for young artists (European Year of Youth) and the last one will be dedicated to Poets from Black Europe. For the first part of the event, poets will address topics such as mental health, everyday life struggles, identity and roots. For the second part, Bozar and EUNIC Brussels invited five writers who participated in the anthology “Kontinentaldrift: das Schwarze Europa” by the author Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Their poetry challenges both the concept of a diaspora and that of national literature. The work navigates personal, collective, and universal mythologies, and is rooted in different traditions: the music and orality of African poetic tradition, and the European canonical poetic texts.

 

The TRANSPOESIE poetry festival is organised for the 12th consecutive year by EUNIC Brussels, the European Union National Institutes for Culture based in the Belgian capital and its partners. The festival celebrates multilingualism by bringing poetry in dozens of languages to Brussels. It marks the annual European Day of Languages and Linguistic Diversity on 26 September by organising a series of events (click on the events for more information, registration and tickets): 

For more information click on the events and follow us on social media: @Transpoesie

  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Swedish Institute
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Commission européenne
  • MuntPunt
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • LOFT 58
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union