LE MADONNE POETRY READING

LE MADONNE
POETRY READING
SUNDAY 16 JULY, 2006 2PM-4PM

A STELLAR LINE UP OF ITALO/AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
     Each presenter is bilingual, and will be able to engage with the        
     audience in both English and Italian.

Laura Ancilli, academic and broadcaster at SBS Radio will offer a  visual presentation  titled: Italian print advertising: how the language has  changed over the last 35 years to accommodate “globalization”

Josephine Eberhard, actress, writer and playwright will offer poetry in English and Italian by Emily Dickinson.

Marisa Fazio, poet, singer, and teacher will present her own unique poetry in English and in Sicilian.

Josephine Gargano – Carey, is a Dante enthusiast and a poet, will present her own thought provoking poetry in English and in Italian.

Gabriella G-Hubbard, journalist and actress will give voice to the poetry of Eugenio Montale.

At Rinaldi Gallery 334 Victoria Street Brunswick
Tel: 9380 4624
Cost: $7/$10 at door

poeSIA Programme out now!

We can’t tell you how excited we are that the poeSIA programme is now available. The printed brochures are on their way and the festival launch on July 2 is fast approaching. All the exciting events are behind this link or you can download a copy of the brochure to print!

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PoeSIA in Moreland

The poeSIA in Moreland Festival will not only be part of a wide range of arts and cultural activity in the city, but it will also proudly celebrate cultural diversity by creating cross-cultural engagement between Italian poets, writers, translators and musicians and other ethnic groupings within Moreland, thus promoting a wider Australian literary/arts consciousness. Read the rest of this entry »

Words that sing!

This Mentoring Project is designed to enable World Poetry to assist Regional Writers who compose in languages outside of the English language sphere to be given the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience at literary events in Melbourne in 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

Bulayt bulayt: World Poetry’s first book

Just six months after “In Other Words”, its inaugural festival of poetry in translation, World Poetry proudly presented another first: an anthology of poetry from four poets writing in languages other than English. Two of the poets, Bruce Pascoe and Vanessa Fisher, are indigenous Australians who write in their respective languages and in English. Of the other two poets, Cristina Neesham is Romanian and Hidayet Ceylan comes from Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to World Poetry

World Poetry is a Melbourne, Australia-based organisation formed in 2004 with the express aim to help create a more inclusive literary scene.  From its very beginning it has operated under the auspices of Multicultural Arts Victoria.

In brief, World Poetry ’s raison d’être is to be inclusive, to work towards the recognition of literatures outside the English language sphere. Read more >>

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