The Festival Voix Vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée, a major celebration of contemporary Mediterranean poetry, organises literary festivals in Sète and, since 2013, also in Toledo, Tunis and Genoa. The French organisers stage more than 450 events in different parts of the resort of Sète. For ten days in July, poets and musicians, actors and storytellers provide audiences with unexpected and privileged moments of enjoyment: readings aboard boats, poetry shows and musicals in gardens, improvisations and street performances.
At the 17th festival in 2014 – the fifth to be held in Sète – Voix Vives is staging more than 650 poetry and music sessions with poets from more than 38 different countries who represent the Mediterranean in its different expressions. The guest artists will be involved in a host of workshops, actions, art installations, street performances, concerts and shows. All these events will take place in special places – a distinguishing feature of the festival – such as poetry readings in parks and private gardens, aboard sailing boats and small fishing boats, on the beach by candlelight and even atop Mount Saint Clair. The general public will thus have the chance to enjoy a unique experience that comes not only from the content of the poems but also from the outstanding settings where the readings take place.
In addition to these activities, the festival also includes a book fair that brings together more than 100 publishers and brings out an annual anthology of the festival (together with the Bruno Doucey Publishing House) and five bilingual collections (with the Al Manar Publishing House).
Through the PICE mobility grants, AC/E is supporting the participation of poets Manuel Vilas, Dani Orviz and Anna Rossetti, who are taking part in various festival activities.
At the 17th festival in 2014 – the fifth to be held in Sète – Voix Vives is staging more than 650 poetry and music sessions with poets from more than 38 different countries who represent the Mediterranean in its different expressions. The guest artists will be involved in a host of workshops, actions, art installations, street performances, concerts and shows. All these events will take place in special places – a distinguishing feature of the festival – such as poetry readings in parks and private gardens, aboard sailing boats and small fishing boats, on the beach by candlelight and even atop Mount Saint Clair. The general public will thus have the chance to enjoy a unique experience that comes not only from the content of the poems but also from the outstanding settings where the readings take place.
In addition to these activities, the festival also includes a book fair that brings together more than 100 publishers and brings out an annual anthology of the festival (together with the Bruno Doucey Publishing House) and five bilingual collections (with the Al Manar Publishing House).
Through the PICE mobility grants, AC/E is supporting the participation of poets Manuel Vilas, Dani Orviz and Anna Rossetti, who are taking part in various festival activities.