For ten days every summer, Berlin becomes a temple of poetry. Between 100 and 200 poets from all over the world take part in this festival, which showcases current trends in contemporary poetry. The festival offers visitors the opportunity to experience poetry in all its diverse forms: theatre, performance, music, dance, cinema and digital media.
This year’s edition (19–27 June) includes e.poesie – Electronic Music Meets Contemporary Poetry – an event which explores the relationships between words and music, and between language, rhythm and sound and their different meanings. It features a meeting between French sound poet Anne-James Chaton and German sound artist Alva Noto, and the Galician poetry band Tender a man formed by Yolanda Castaño, Isaac Garabatos and Jesús Andrés, on the afternoon of 26 June.
Eduard Escoffet of Barcelona will perform with three musicians from Bradien, an experimental Catalan band. Both guest groups, who are attending the event thanks to the support of AC/E through its Mobility programme, will explore the space between voice and electronics and poetry and music, venturing beyond the boundaries of national languages and artistic language.
These Spanish artists are taking part in the Poesiefestival Berlin as a direct consequence of the invitation extended to Thomas Wohlfarht of Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, through AC/E’s Visitors programme, to attend the Festival Poetas por km2 in 2014.
This year’s edition (19–27 June) includes e.poesie – Electronic Music Meets Contemporary Poetry – an event which explores the relationships between words and music, and between language, rhythm and sound and their different meanings. It features a meeting between French sound poet Anne-James Chaton and German sound artist Alva Noto, and the Galician poetry band Tender a man formed by Yolanda Castaño, Isaac Garabatos and Jesús Andrés, on the afternoon of 26 June.
Eduard Escoffet of Barcelona will perform with three musicians from Bradien, an experimental Catalan band. Both guest groups, who are attending the event thanks to the support of AC/E through its Mobility programme, will explore the space between voice and electronics and poetry and music, venturing beyond the boundaries of national languages and artistic language.
These Spanish artists are taking part in the Poesiefestival Berlin as a direct consequence of the invitation extended to Thomas Wohlfarht of Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, through AC/E’s Visitors programme, to attend the Festival Poetas por km2 in 2014.
