Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival to Be Held In Chernivtsi on September 3-5 With Support From Open Ukraine Foundation
05.09.2010
On September 3-5 with the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Open Ukraine Foundation Chernivtsi will organize Meridian Czernowitz international poetry festival.Famous poets of Ukraine, Germany, Austria and Switzerland will take part in the festival. Namely, Yurii Andrukhovych, Ihor Pomerantsev, Serhii Zhadan, Brigitta Oleshynski, Elke Erb, Franz Josef Czernin, Michael Marchi, Julian Shuttinh and others.
The festival will include a number of events, among which poetry readings, translators’ seminars, youth poetry stage, books presentations, cigarettes and poetry as well as wine and poetry discussions, excursions and solemn awarding of annual Buk National Video Poetry Prize. Every night Elektropoeziya electronic music parties will be organized with the participation of famous European DJs.
In the frames of the Meridian festival presentation of Temple video installation will become an important event. It will be a retrospective journey with reproduction of the look of destroyed Temple synagogue by means of light projection.
Poems of the participants will be published in a collected edition.
Site http://www.meridiancz.com/
Contacts:
Sviatoslav Pomerantsev, president of the festival
+38 067 503 96 38, pomer@meridiancz.com
Oleksandr Bulich, press secretary of the festival
+38 095 838 89 62, bulich@meridiancz.com








