Rivers of poetry will run through the streets and plazas of Cordoba between the 14th and 19th of April. For five weeks poetry will be visible in music, photography, theatre, painting, sculpture, contemporary art, performances, cinema, videoarte, literature, philosophy… (and even food and football!).
While Cosmopoetica is all about poetry, it is also much, much more. More than 180 activites, 295 participants, from over 20 countries, all coming to take part in this international meeting-point for poets throughout world. Over 50 writers and poets are coming to present their work.
Star guests in this sixth edition of the festival are:
·Álvaro Mutis, Colombian writer who received the Cervantes Award in 2001.
·Bei Dao from China
·Alan Sillitoe from England
·Ruth Fainlight from North America
·Rafael Courtoisie from Uruguay
·Dunia Mikhail from Iraq
·Daniel Samoilovich from Argentina
·Lorenzo García Vega from Cuba
The Festival has also invited several Spanish poets including: Andrés Trapiello, Agustín García Calvo, Antón Reixa, and Marta Pessarrodona, as well as narrators such as Cristina Fernández Cubas and Manuel Rivas, or thinkers such as José Luis Pardo.
There are several newcomers to the programme this year including the cycle of events titled Pasión Poética (Poetic Passion), a celebration of mystic poetry set to coincide with Easter week on the 6th, 7th and 8th of April.
Cosmopoetica continues its dialogue with the other artistic disciplines with a series of film projections (La huella del verso), performances (Exploradores: otras poesías), theatre (Teatro y Poesía) and music (Trovadores), with performances from musicians such as José Ignacio Lapido, Diego Vasallo and Sergio Makaroff. Carmen Linares will also present work from her new album Raíces y Alas and you’ll have the opportunity to see Pedro Guerra in concert singing verses by the late Ángel González.
But there will also be some novel approaches to poetry in the festivals attempt to relate to everyday life. Their series of events entitled Fútbol y Poesía (Football and Poetry) will include conferences and recitles of poetry related to football, with the participation of footballers and poets enamored with the sport. These include: Miguel Pardeza, an ex-player from Real Madrid, as well as being a graduate in Philosophy and Literature.
The educational component of the festival includes the exhibit Dulces Versos: Degustar la Poesía (Sweet Verse: Tasting Poetry) and the workshop Nos comemos un poema (Eating a poem). Cakes and pastries that illustrate various poems.
Last, but not least, this is your chance to see performances on the streets of Cordoba. Events include:
·Poetry in pubs (Noctámbulos, in collaboration with the collective of young poets La Bella Varsovia)
·Anónimos, poetry workshops for unknown poets
·Ciudad de las Mujeres (The city of women), tours through the historic city centre led by female poets from Cordoba
·Bosque de Versos whereby poetry will be projected in public spaces, in attempt to take Poetry out onto the streets to share it with the city.
Tickets
Many of the events are free. We will post more information as we receive it. The main events will be broadcast live on the internet via Cosmopoética.tv.
Links
- • Official website for cosmopoetica 2009
- • Official website for Cordoba 2016
- • Take part in our competition to win a trip to Cordoba
