24 — 30 May 2022
Poet­ry Spring Fes­ti­val with Safiye Can
Vilnius

Orga­nized by Lithuan­ian Writ­ers’ Union

The Poet­ry Spring Fes­ti­val (In Vil­nius and oth­er places in Lithua­nia) is the biggest poet­ry event of the year in Lithua­nia that will be held for the 58^th time next year. Rich tra­di­tion com­bined with inno­va­tion engages dif­fer­ent gen­er­a­tions and audi­ences. Every year more than 100 events are being held dur­ing the fes­ti­val. The fes­ti­val will fea­ture a vari­ety of events: poet­ry read­ings, meet­ings with Lithuan­ian writ­ers, poets from oth­er coun­tries and poet­ry read­ers; con­fer­ence with round-table dis­cus­sion and poet­ry read­ing tours to var­i­ous places in Lithua­nia to name but a few.Traditional fes­ti­val anthol­o­gy will also be published.
Each year the almanac of the fes­ti­val is published.

May 24^th 

20:00 Din­ner with the fes­ti­val guests (loca­tion will be specified)

 

May 25^th

17:30 Din­ner with the fes­ti­val guests (Carre Terasa, Ged­imi­no ave. 9)

 

May 26^th

 

14.00 Recep­tion host­ed by the
May­or of Vil­nius for the poets
par­tic­i­pat­ing in POETRY
SPRING and invit­ed guests.
Vil­nius Town Hall, Didžio­ji St.
31, Vil­nius

 

18.00 Poet­ry read­ings by the guests
par­tic­i­pat­ing in POETRY
SPRING. Trans­la­tors’ award
cer­e­mo­ny. The Big Hall of
Lithuan­ian Acad­e­my of Sci­ences,
Ged­imi­no Ave. 3, Vil­nius Read­ing 4–5 min­utes, Antanas A. Jony­nas will read the translations

 

20:00 recep­tion at the Lithuan­ian Writ­ers Union, K. Sirvy­do str. 6, LT-01101, Vilnius

 

May 27^th

 

Road trip to Nida (Coron­ian Spit) with the group of Lithuan­ian poets, overnight stay at the Writ­ers’ and Trans­la­tors’ Cen­tre in Nida. Antanas A. Jony­nas will go togeth­er, read the translations.

 

19.00 POETRY SPRING in Eduardas
Jonušas House. E. A. Jonušo
St. 1, Nida