INVITATION
THE COURAGE TO REMEMBER
LITERARY EVENING
as finissage of the exhibition
“NICOSIA – FLOWERS TO THE STAR”
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 19.30 hrs,
Marfin Laiki Bank Cultural Centre, 39 Boumboulinas Str./Corner Makariou, 3rd floor
You love your island? Or you love this island feeling almost Cypriot?
Or you would like to discover Cyprus from a new perspective?
Then you are most welcome to this literary evening on the last day of the exhibition
“Nicosia-Flowers to the Star”, dedicated to the last divided city in Europe.
The Goethe-Zentrum Nicosia, the Turkish-Cypriot Artists’ and Writers’ Union
and the Cyprus Writers’ Association cordially invite you to a literary event at which the focus lies on
THE COURAGE TO REMEMBER the changing history of Cyprus through the poetic word.
In PART I of the evening Niki Marangou, Panos Ioannides, Christos Hadjipapas, Vakis
Loizides, Gur Genc and Jenan Selchuk will share with us their experience of events in this country.
With a glass of wine we will have time to enjoy poetry and prose in Greek and Turkish,
with a translation into English or the other languages at hand.
In PART II the current debate on MIGRATION will be mirrored in the texts to be read:
With unsurpassed humour, special guest Slobodan Snajder from Croatia will recite the story of his German ancestors, who, two hundred years ago, left Germany under most dangerous circumstances
to go south and find a better life. Dimitris Karayannis and Aydin Mehmet Ali contribute texts on the fate of foreign workers in Cyprus in our times. Zeki Ali will close the evening presenting his vision of the future. These texts will be read in English with one exception.
Slobodan Snajder, Niki Marangou, Panos Ioannides and Gur Genc took part in the
Southeast-European literary project COURAGE TO REMEMBER which was organized under the auspices of the Goethe-Institute Athens and asked writers from the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus to contribute texts revealing the complex history of their countries. These texts, were translated into the nine languages of the participating countries and published in German, including collage poems by Nobel prize winning Herta Müller,
in the reputed Periodical for Literature, Art and Art Criticism
“die horen”, which was presented at Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2010.
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU