Poets from different lands on March 21 participated in the World Poetry Day programmes at Hagelbyparken, Botkyrka in Stockholm.
Writers Centre of Sweden along with Swedish Academy, European Union literary project Shahrazad and Swedish Cultural Council organised the programme.
I along with Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, Georgian poet Zurab Rtveliashvili, Polish-Swedish poet Ewa Korolczuk, Swedish poets Anneliu Ostlund, Sara Rassolie, Niclas Nilsson, Cecilia Hansson, Daniel Boyacioglu read poems in the programme. Singer Hind Hamdi. Writers’ Centre official Cecilia Svanberg produced the programme while Cesar Svanberg conducted it.
The occasion was also celebrated one day early at Uppsala City Theatre. Representing Bangladesh, I read my poems in Bengali along side in English and Swedish versions by Ewa Korolczuk and Lars Häger.
Participant poets in Uppsala celebration included Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar, Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, Swedish poets Lars Hager, Lena Koster, Jasim Mohamed, Katarina Frostenson, Ann Jaderlund, Bita Yari and Nahide Arabadji. Angelica Matveeva along with Magnus Karlsson presented musical performance on the occasion.
World Poetry Day is on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to ‘give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements.’ #
photo link: http://www.forfattarcentrum.se/varldspoesidagen_2010.aspx
Writers Centre of Sweden along with Swedish Academy, European Union literary project Shahrazad and Swedish Cultural Council organised the programme.
I along with Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, Georgian poet Zurab Rtveliashvili, Polish-Swedish poet Ewa Korolczuk, Swedish poets Anneliu Ostlund, Sara Rassolie, Niclas Nilsson, Cecilia Hansson, Daniel Boyacioglu read poems in the programme. Singer Hind Hamdi. Writers’ Centre official Cecilia Svanberg produced the programme while Cesar Svanberg conducted it.
The occasion was also celebrated one day early at Uppsala City Theatre. Representing Bangladesh, I read my poems in Bengali along side in English and Swedish versions by Ewa Korolczuk and Lars Häger.
Participant poets in Uppsala celebration included Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar, Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, Swedish poets Lars Hager, Lena Koster, Jasim Mohamed, Katarina Frostenson, Ann Jaderlund, Bita Yari and Nahide Arabadji. Angelica Matveeva along with Magnus Karlsson presented musical performance on the occasion.
World Poetry Day is on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to ‘give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements.’ #
photo link: http://www.forfattarcentrum.se/varldspoesidagen_2010.aspx
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