A poetry meeting on the borderline between languages and cultural contexts. This time, the flying café visited two places. The first was Tačka susretanja - Тачка сусретања in the city of Vršac, where we began our journey and to which we returned at its end. In addition to the poems of the invited poets, the evening was also filled with selected works by the masters of each of them - poetry that lay at the beginning of their journey. The second venue was Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju - a cultural center established in 1995 by Borka Pavićević, which has been a bastion of freedom of speech, thought, and conscious opposition ever since. Today, it resonates particularly strongly, also with the poetry of resistance, which was especially present that evening – as we ended our meeting on the streets of Belgrade, another round of anti-government protests, already ongoing for eight months, was beginning.
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Cafe Europa, the event was accompanied by unique poetry collections, a kind of record of what those two June evenings looked like. The music, which is already a permanent feature of the Cafe, was played by Paweł Szpura and Mikołaj Pol.
The literary evenings were hosted by Weronika Czyżewska-Poncyljusz and Vladimir Arsenić.
The following poets took part in Cafe Europa:
Jelena Marinkov, Dejan Aleksić, Krzysztof Czyżewski, Marjan Čakarević, Eka Kevanišvili, Iryna Muliarchuk, Marija Stojanović, Vitomirka Trebovac, Dragana Mladenović, Ana Marija Grbić, Monika Herceg, Zvonko Karanović, Tomislav Marković
Poljski institut u Beogradu / Instytut Polski w Belgradzie
Udruženje HILA
