NON POETRY – UNIQUE LITERARY EVENING

NONpoetry – series of literary evenings including presentation of video art, performance, and music bands.

NONpoetry project aims to establish ongoing literary evenings filled with high quality literature, which had been lacking in Košice for a rather long time. They will pose an opportunity to meet with reputable authors, which is a new phenomenon in Košice region, since there was no forum in the past for young aspiring authors to have noted writers confront their work, to meet with other authors and audience. We seek to form a common forum for regular presentation of work by reputable authors, and young aspiring authors in literature, theater and music. NONpoetry evenings should become a motivation factor to stimulate new production and new cultural hub in the Košice region, and to pose as a safety net for new talents.

Literary evenings will take place on a monthly basis, and they should incorporate presentations of young authors engaging in literary, theater (performance), fine art (video art), and music production. The evenings will be enhanced by author reading sessions held by renowned writers from Košice, Slovakia, even Europe, as well as by presentation of recent and older book publications. All concerned will get an opportunity to influence the final form and atmosphere of the evening by presenting their work.

Literary evenings seek to bridge various artistic forms (e.g. merging the presentation of literary texts with visual projection and music into a symbiotic unit providing mutual interpretation).

Literary evenings will also include literary club meetings organized every Friday after the literary evening. They will provide a platform for discussions on literature, presented texts, etc. Art pieces presented at literary evenings NONpoetry, along with interviews of renowned writers, will be published in a low-budget magazine.

Mgr. Oliver Tomáš – Project coordinator