Festival Basic Info
Who organizes the Festival?
The Granada International Poetry Festival Foundation is non/profit,and independent. It has so far organized five international poetry festivals with the participation of 486 poets from all over the world plus 312 Nicaraguan poets. More than 120,000 people have attended the Festival events.
What is the purpose of the Festival?
-To celebrate poetry!
-To promote the exchange of experiences between poets from all over the world and Nicaraguan poetry.
-To share Nicaragua´s poetry tradition and love of poetry with our guests.
-To give Nicaraguan people and foreign visitors the unique
experience of listening to poetry in a wondrous scenario: the colonial city of Granada.
-To contribute to the city’s nomination as Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO
-To contribute to the city’s inclusion within the circle of Colonial Cities in the Americas
-To include the Festival in the world’s and the America’s cultural calendar
-To encourage large numbers of people nationally and internationally to attend the festival.
-To reaffirm Nicaraguan poetic and cultural traditions
-To facilitate the exchange of ideas between Nicaragua’s youth and the artistic expressions throughout the world.
-To grant youth and the general population the opportunity to enjoy a national cultural event with international appeal.
-To achieve an annual report of the status and new tendencies of world poetry.
-To promote a positive image of Nicaraguan poetry in the world
-To promote among youth a spirit of creativity, freedom and solidarity as cornerstones of Peace and Democracy.
>What takes place during the Poetry Festival?
Granada’s International Poetry Festival is an extraordinary celebration of poetry that takes place across the entire city. For a week, every February, Granada is transformed into a virtual Capital of the World’s Poetry.
During the Festival there are:
-Poetry readings at the atriums of churches, markets, in the streets of the cities, at schools, police headquarters, universities, and educational institutions.
-Poetry readings in small towns near Granada: Nandaime, Diriomo, Diriá, Niquinohomo, Masaya, San Marcos, Diriamba, Jinotepe, Nindirí, Rivas, León y Managua.
-Round tables dealing with the work of the year´s honored poet.
-Book Presentations which include the Memoir of the previous year which samples the work of all the attendees, and an anthology of the honored poet of the year.
-Crafts and book fair
-A reading dedicated to women poets
-Concerts by Nicaragua’s better known musicians
-Poetic funeral-carnival procession with poetry readings in every corner of the city accompanied by dances, theater and many expressions of Nicaraguan folklore.
-Unveiling of a sculpture of the honoree poet of the year at the Poetry Park in Granada, a park designed and financed by the Festival, where statues of many poets have already been set.
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please send me information: dates/ schedule for the VI Annual International Festival in Granada, 2010
The festival will take place 14th to 21st February. The program will be published soon.