The fifth festival “The city that inspires. Transformation” premiered!
On Friday 27th of November we listened to the stories from other Сities of literature – Krakow, Nottingham and Ljubljana, discussed interesting topics with the representatives of Ukrainian festivals which were held this year in online format - Pokrovska Book Toloka in Chernihiv, Toloka art-book fest from Zaporizhzhia and the festival of literature “Frontera” which took place in Lutsk. You have the opportunity to listen our podcasts using the links below.
“City of Support. City of Refugee. City of Literature”. Facebook Support and protection are the most important, especially now, aren’t they? In modern conditions, it is a topical conversation with those, for whom the protection is one of the key ideas and actions. The UNESCO City of Literature and the ICORN City of Refugee office are on the air.
“Seems like we need to talk”There are 39 cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Of course, we are well aware of how important it is to talk to each other, but sometimes the circumstances are not on our side. How to promote communication in such a large network – the conversation about the importance of communication with the members of UNESCO Creative Cities Network - Nottingham and Ljubljana.
Festivals offlineOnline discussion on how this year's literary festivals in Ukraine took place in an offline format. Olena Zastavna, director of the Toloka Literary and Art Festival, Ella Yatsuta, director of the «Frontera» Literary Festival, and Lyudmyla Zinevych, director of the Pokrovska Book Festival, are on air. The moderator is Anastasia Levkova, a literary critic and cultural manager.
On Saturday, 28th of November, we had the opportunity to delve into the stories of the Manchester City of Literature projects and listen again to the stories about Ukrainian festivals that took place online this year - Author's Readings Month in Lviv, Translatorium Literary and Translation Festival, Lviv Publishers Forum, International Book Festival. Book Space Festival and Book Arsenal. Recordings of the conversations are available by links.
Online festivalsOnline discussion on how this year's literary festivals in Ukraine took place in an online format. On the air - Yevheniya Nesterovych - press director of the Month of Author Readings in Lviv, Tanya Rodionova - director of the literary and translation festival "Translatorium", program director of the Publishers Forum - Sofia Chelyak, art director of the book festival "Book Space" - Victoria Narizhna and the main coordinator of the Book Arsenal - Julia Kozlovets. The meeting was moderated by literary critic and cultural manager Anastasia Levkova.
Also, we would like to open for you a little behind the scenes of the local program of our festival. This year's local program was dedicated to deliberation about what Lviv's next four years should be like as a "UNESCO city of literature." During the week, we conducted 3 working groups, online, offline and mixed, and worked out a lot of things for the next four years to make Lviv the best city of literature.