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Program of the "Day Made In Poetry" dedicated to Šopov at UNESCO
The Centenary of Aco Šopov's birth was celebrated in association with UNESCO, in the Headquarters of the International Organization, on 21st of March 2023, Room II.
PROGRAM
09:35 Opening speeches by Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO and by Mr Stevo Pendarovski, President of the Republic of North Macedonia
09:50 Screening of the animated film “Horrordeath”, poem by Aco Šopov inspired by the Skopje earthquake of 1963. Flipbook Production 2023, Skopje
10:00 Opening of the international symposium in honour of Aco Šopov “Poetry: The Creativity, Translation and Circulation of Works in Languages of Lesser Diffusion,” by Jasmina Šopova, Aco Šopov Poetry Foundation
10:10 ession I : “What are the poets for?”
Moderator: Katica Ćulavkova, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and arts (MANU)
Vlada Urošević (North Macedonia)
Sibelan Forrester (USA)
Sylvestre Clancier (France)
Sibila Petlevski (Croatia)
José-María Paz-Gago (Spain)
David Shook (USA)
11:30 Announcement of the 2023 winner of the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings and the winner of the Struga Bridge Prize, by Todorče Tasevski, Director of the festival
11:40 Session II : “Literary translation, another way of existing in poetry”
Moderator: Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau, INALCO, Paris
Dionicio Morales (Mexico)
Daouda Ndiaye (Senegal)
Christina E. Kramer (Canada/USA)
Rawley Grau (USA/Slovenia)
Maciej Kawka (Poland)
13:00 Free time
15:30 Session III : “Poetry within everyone’s reach?”
Moderator: Jasmina Šopova, Aco Šopov Poetry Foundation
Jamila Mejri (Tunisia)
Will Evans (USA)
Roland Kayser (Luxembourg)
Yves Bergeret (France)
Mia Lecomte (Italia)
Јean Portante (Luxembourg)
16:50 Closing of the symposium: address by Mr Ljupčo Kocarev, President of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU)
16:55 Address by Ms Bisera Kostadinovska Stojčevska, Minister of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia
17:00 Visite of the exhibition "The Road I Walk", on the creative journey of Aco Šopov (in front of Room II)
17:30 „The Long Coming of the Fire”,
Multilingual poetry performance: performed by:
Jean Pétrement (France),
Nikola Ristanovski (North Macedonia),
Duo SoliPse (French-Macedonian),
Dijana Tomić Radevska (North Macedonia)
with the participation of Luisa Futoransky (Argentina)
More information on the organisers and participants is available in English, Macedonian and French in the event brochure.