Coracle Europe Festival 2021
Programme
All times listed are British Summertime
Wednesday 14 and 16 April there will be festival special story care and share sessions hosted by People Speak up and facilitated by Rufus Mufasa
Friday 16 April
18.00 : Story Telling with Deirdre Wadding (live-streaming on YouTube) here
Enter a world of ancient Irish gods and heroes with a storytelling session by Deirde Wadding, mythological storyteller, poet and pagan priestess.
19.30 : Axelsson and Boberg Spread Worry (You Tube Première) here
The duo Axelsson och Boberg sprider oro is a collaboration between musician Magnus Axelsson and poet Christer Boberg, both living in Gothenburg, Sweden. The 16 minute text and sound piece, Hej orgel! (Hey organ!) was performed live during Tranås at the Fringe in October 2020. The recorded version is now premièring at the Coracle Europe Festival 2021.
Saturday 17 April
11.00 : Poets without Borders (part 1) (You Tube Première) here
Hosted by Pankhuri Sinha, this is a group of internationally acclaimed poets, from all over the world, who meet for regular, periodic, theme based readings, celebrating poetry, the art of writing and performing poetry. The idea is to enrich from the cultural diversity on show here and also improve upon the poetic craft. Most of all, it is to unite poets as a coherent group and to promote poetry over all other forms of art and entertainment. It is also an effort to underline the importance of poetry as a medium of resistance, and platform for the fight of rights. Two films were made for the Coracle Europe Festival from a recent live event themed around Easter, Springtime, Passover, Holi, Nawroz.14.00 : Gransgenerational Manifests (You Tube Première) here
On the 18 April at 16.00 Éfrin Gonzalez will host a panel discussion with four Guatemalan writers on facebook live (click on the title to find this Spanish language event) Convesatio - Manifestos transgeneracionales: Gautemala entre siglos. The discussion will feature Estuardo Prada, Emilio Rodriguz, Alejandro Marre and Simón Pedroza. write4word is collaboraing in the process of providing an English language subtitled version of this event as a film but in the meantime Éfrin provides us here with his own personal introduction and background to the discussion, with readings from the manifest authors.15.00 : Rhian Elizabeth - Passion for Words (You Tube Première)
hereThis is the YouTube premiere of a live event at the 2018 Tranås at the Fringe festival. Rhian talks about Disability Poetry and introduces Word Ward, an ongoing project for writers with disabilities and long-terms conditions.
16.00 : Ataxia, only joking. - Readings from Louise and Karl Treharne (You Tube Première) hereMel Perry of write4word presents a dialogue between Louise and Karl Treharne. They express their experiences of living as a couple with Louise's significant life-limiting physical and cognitive impairments
17.00 : Spoken Word Saturday - hosted by Eleanor Shaw (Zoom and live-streaming on You Tube)
here19.00 : Rockport Poetry Festival Prelude and 'Poets in Therapy' (Zoom) here
Between 2pm and 3:45pm EDT will be a traditional Open Mic
that does not require prior registration. It will be “first come first serve”
and we will accommodate as many poets as possible in that one hour and
forty-five minutes. Please Note: the Open Mic is NOT open to any poet who is
already scheduled to read at either the Rockport Poetry Fest Sunday program or
the Coracle Europe Festival.
At 4pm EDT, we are thrilled to present Poets in Therapy, a
film by Finlay Hall from Scotland. A film about poets, featuring poets. Finlay
will introduce and host this part of the Prelude event.
Sunday 18 April
12.00 : Poetry Films (You Tube Première) here
For more information about this programme of video poems please click here
This programme features films by:
Milica Denkovic
Elizabeth Torres
Christer Boberg
Dominic Williams
Inês Lampreia
Calvin Wharton
clare e potter and Jo Shapland
14.00 : The Rock Port Poetry Festival 2021, Global Voices (live-streaming on You Tube) here
The 3rd Annual Rockport Poetry Fest goes international this year: GLOBAL VOICES: Poetry from Around the World: Live Stream Event starts 9am EST (in Australia!) 80+ poets from 22 countries will read their poems live ALL DAY streaming on Zoom and YouTube Live
Monday 19 April
11.00 : Poets without Borders (part 2) (You Tube Première) here
Hosted by Pankhuri Sinha, this is a group of internationally acclaimed poets, from all over the world, who meet for regular, periodic, theme based readings, celebrating poetry, the art of writing and performing poetry. The idea is to enrich from the cultural diversity on show here and also improve upon the poetic craft. Most of all, it is to unite poets as a coherent group and to promote poetry over all other forms of art and entertainment. It is also an effort to underline the importance of poetry as a medium of resistance, and platform for the fight of rights. Two films were made for the Coracle Europe Festival from a recent live event themed around Easter, Springtime, Passover, Holi, Nawroz.
12.30 : A RAMP event hosted by La Libélula Vaga and Litteraturcentrum KVU (You Tube Première)
Sadly, due to unforseen circumstances we have had to cancel this event. This film will be re-scheduled for broadcast at a later date.
14.00 : An interview with Madam Neverstop (You Tube Première) here
An interview with Elizabeth Torres from May 2020, two months into European lockdowns. Considering the impact upon those working in the arts and actions of adaptability and resilience.
16.00 : The Llansteffan Writers (You Tube Première) here
A sharing by participants in a village writing circle, facilitated by Mel Perry. Funny and moving short fiction, memoir and poetry have emerged from the wide range of themes that we have explored. Written and read by Wendy Evans, Celia Strange, Alison Terry and Lottie Williams.
18.00 : Festival Special Pilsnerpoesi/Poems & Pints (Zoom and live-streaming on You Tube) here
