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Back2. Sopot / Salzburg – Poetry. Sopot, Poland 17-21 May 2011

Back 2 is a conference and festival focused on contemporary and modern poetry. The theme of the conference is contemporary poets’ return to poets of the first half of the twentieth century: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, H.D., Carlos Williams, Moore, Zukovsky, cummings, Auden, Trakl, Benn, Rilke, Brecht, Tuwim, Leśmian, and others. We are interested in discussions of borrowings, reworkings, rejections, and disputes. Our main concern is with contemporary English, German and Polish poetry, although we will consider papers that deal with a similar phenomenon in other European languages.

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On the third day of the festival the efforts of organizers were crowned by a letter of intent signed by the Mayor of Sopot and the Rector of the University of Gdańsk...

Javier Aquirre Fernandez in Sopot

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End of internet registration

Internet registration for discussion and theatre workshops as well as session A has been ended. If you wish to participate in theatre workshops please contact Theatre of the BICZ directly.

Zajac paints Beckett

Iwona Zajac, a street-art artist, the author of the celebrated “People” and “Shipyard” murals, is painting a portrait of Samuel Beckett. The portrait will be hung on the fence in front of the Dworek Sierakowskich. A compound of tradition and modernity? Why not? Iwona Zajac’s mrals have all become part of Gdańsk’s cityscape. Zajac’s works are extremely striking, intriguing and thought-provoking because of their combination of originality, precision of execution, metaphoric force, and visual wit.

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Programme in PDF: download

Contact: beckett@ug.edu.pl

Registration for theatre and discussion workshops: beckettnaplazy@gmail.com

Discussion workshops

Discussion workshops will be held in small groups. The language of the workshops is English. On Monday Dr Arkadiusz Misztal will discuss the relation between works of Samuel Beckett and Paul Auster.

Theatre workshops

Theatre workshops will include, among others, Douglas Rintoul’s (Complicite) workshop on acting and staging Endgame. The Sopot Dance Theatre will conduct a dance and theatre workshop inspired by Quad.

Academic Sessions

Academic Sessions will take place in the Dworek Sierakowskich and in the Theatre Off de BICZ in Sopot. A group of specialists will meet to discuss the subjects included in the programme.