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                                                       Poetry Slam European Championship & International Gathering

 

Hungary is proud to host the European Poetry Slam Championship 2018, extended into a week-long international performance poetry festival!

 

The main organizer, Slam Poetry Hungary Association welcomes more than 20 national poetry slam champions from all around Europe to a series of events between November 27 and December 1. The Guest of Honor is none other than the founding father of the genre, Marc Kelly Smith from Chicago and a small spoken word team led by him, the Chicago’s Speak Easy Ensemble 2018. They will work together in a 3-day workshop series with poets coming from the Visegrad4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), along with young slam poets representing Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Turkey and France. Other VIP guests of the festival are Mwende „FreeQuency” Katwiwa (Kenya/USA), 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, and poet, professor and ‘Slam Master’ Bob Holman from New York, whose previous appearance on the Hungarian slam stages has already been a great success. Additionally, along with local slam poets, Philip Meersman, Belgian slammer, head coordinator and organizer of the European Championships and Jaan Malin alias Luulur, Estonian sound poet, editor, essayist, curator will add poetic colour and joy to the program.   

 

November 27th will be a “Conference Day” at Anker’t Budapest, where workshops, debates and open discussions will let the audience gain an insight into the origins and the present status of the genre both overseas and in Europe. The next day is the day of the Semi-finals, also at Anker’t, with over 20 European slammers competing with each other. November 29th is dedicated to performances at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, where among other solo productions, the American-European collaboration will present a unique, multilingual showcase with the title „Bridging Barriers”, as the culminating result of the intensive workshop sessions. Finally, the main highlight, of course, is the European Poetry Slam Championship Finals, taking place on November 30th, also on the stages of Trafó.

 

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
https://www.visegradfund.org/
#V4 #Visegrad

Funding is provided by the United States Government.

 

Link: http://slampoetry.hu/en/euro2018budapest/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/579420465821653/
Press Contact: Péter Mészáros media@slampoetry.hu

 

Program

  

 

Tue 27 November 2018 - CONFERENCE DAY

 

16:00 Slam Masters' Public Talk @ Anker't Budapest

16:00 Workshop held by Hungarian artist, slammer, former national champion Kristóf Horváth

17:00 Bob Holman's lecture on one of his main projects, "The Oral Tradition".

18:00 Marc Smith's master class about the genre of his invention

 

19:30 The Grand Slam Debate @ Anker't Budapest

An interactive dialogue about the developments of the genre, led by Marc Smith on one side and Bob Holman on the other. For the first time in the history of slam poetry, the two slam gurus can publicly discuss their sometimes conflicting views of slam poetry, reflecting on its origins, definition problems, commercialisation tendencies, institutionalised models, successes and downfalls.

Hosts: Philip Meersman (B) & Márk “Saiid” Süveg (H)

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/327091874769057/

 

Wed 28 November 2018 - DAY OF THE SEMI-FINALS

 

08:00 Tilos Radio Broadcast @ Tilos Studio

Invitation of Euro18 participants for radio interviews and live acts to popular Wednesday morning talk show “Kolorlokal”.

  

17:00 Semi-finals of the European Poetry Slam Championship @ Anker’t Budapest

First rounds of the competition involving all European slam champions. Judges will be selected mainly from the US delegation and possibly other EU slam affiliates. Judge President: Bob Holman.

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/274350969878400/

 

Thurs 29 November 2018 - PERFORMANCE DAY

 

19:00 Showcase by Hungarian slammers

20:00 „Bridging Barriers” Live Showcase @ Trafó

Final performance production of an intensive, 3-day workshop session, worked out by European slam poets (from Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, France, Hungary) and Chicago’s Speak Easy Ensemble 2018, led by Marc Kelly Smith, displaying how different languages and cultures may be creatively brought together, with purpose and harmony, to produce fruitful and intriguing works of art, with dynamic interaction and audience engagement.

 

21:00 American Slam Showcase @ Trafó

Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa - 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion

Bob Holman (USA)
 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/171547683792742/

 

 Fri 30 November 2018 - DAY OF THE FINALS

 

16:00 Discussion about the past, present and future of European Poetry Slam Championships (private event)

 

19:00 Finals of the European Slam Championship @ Trafó

Final rounds of the competition. Judges will be selected mainly from the US delegation and possibly other EU slam affiliates. Judge President: Bob Holman.

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/566252053816462/

 

Sat December 1 2018 – POST-GATHERING @ Mika Tivadar Mulató

Last informal gathering where you can meet the participants, to look bakc and share some good memories of the past happenings and exchange contact.

 

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Venues:

Anker’t                                                  Paulay Ede Utca 33, 1061 Budapest   

Trafó House Of Contemporary Arts       Liliom Utca 41, 1094 Budapest   

 

Main organizer:

Slam Poetry Magyarország Egyesület (Slam Poetry Hungary Association)

 

Partners, Sponsors & Support:

International Visegrad Fund https://www.visegradfund.org/

US Embassy Budapest Hungary https://hu.usembassy.gov/hu/

Trafó House of Contemporary Arts http://trafo.hu/

Anker’t Budapest  https://www.facebook.com/ankertbar/

Tilos Cultural Foundation https://tilos.hu/

Slovak Institute Budapest https://www.mzv.sk/web/sibudapest-hu

Austrian Institute Budapest https://www.bmeia.gv.at

Finnagora Hungary http://www.finnagora.hu

Citizens Association „Poezin” (Serbia) http://www.slamstudio.org/

Association of Citizens - Theater Workshop Prilep (Macedonia) http://teatarskiraboti.wixsite.com/prilep

Public Organization Artistic Council Dialogue (Ukraine) http://dialogue.lviv.ua/

literarnyklub.sk Civil Association (Slovakia) http://www.literarnyklub.sk/

Detour Production z.s. (Czech Republic) http://www.slampoetry.cz/

CultureAction Foundation (Poland) http://fundacja-fka.pl/
StreamOn http://streamon.hu/

 

 

European Poetry Slam Champions:

Austria: Katharina Wenty

Belgium: Nathan Jonniaux aka REQ

Croatia: Stilda Roguljić

Cyprus: Constantinos Papageorgiou

Czech Republic: Filip Koryta aka Dr Filipitch

Estonia: Silver Sepp

Finland: Jonna Nummela aka Nihkee Akka

Hungary: Péter Molnár

Iceland: Jón Magnús Arnarsson

Ireland: Nuala Leonard

Italy: Luca Bernardini, Paride Rama

Lithuania: Aistė Šivytė

Macedonia: Marija Grubor

Norway: Sofie Frost

Poland: Aleksandra Kanar

Serbia: Nenad Ignjatović

Slovakia: Samčo Brat ďážďoviek (Sammie the brother of worms)

Slovenia: Neža Prah Seničar

Spain: Adriana Bertran

Sweden: Mattias Hammarström

Ukraine: Dmytro Lazutkin

  

Bridging Barriers Workshop & Performance:

Chicago's Speak Easy Ensemble: Marc Kelly Smith, Nate Smith, Bailey Castle, Joel Chmara, Eli Bensusan

Goran Zivkovic (Serbia)

Elena Prendjova (Macedonia)

Tomas Straka (Slovakia)

Anna Kalfas aka Rudka Zydel (Poland)

Vaclav Sindelar aka Anatol Svahilec (Czech)

Pavlo Korobchuk (Ukraine)

Marton Simon (Hungary)
Mr Zurg & Yopo (France)

  

US Team:

Bob Holman

Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa (2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion)

Chicago’s Speak Easy Ensemble 2018:

Marc Kelly Smith

Nate Smith

Bailey Castle

Joel Chmara

Eli Bensusan

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