Event: June 2022
Mon
20/6/22
11:00 AM
AWARD CEREMONY AND READING: Silence/Presence
With Raymond Antrobus, Poet Jamaica/UK | Moderation: British Council
7th-12th grade & all interested people
For the third time ever, school classes were invited to engage with the work of an important contemporary English-language voice as part of a competition organized by the British Council and the Haus für Poesie. This year, young people composed a poetic response to the poem "Silence/Presence" by British Ted Hughes Prize winner Raymond Antrobus.
The event will be held in English.
Limited capacity. Register at mitmachen@haus-fuer-poesie.org
Project leaders: Lucy Curzon, Karla Montasser, Lena Scheitz
The AWARD CEREMONY AND READING: Silence/Presence is kindly supported by the British Council Berlin and Aktion Mensch.
Raymond Antrobus takes part in the festival as part of the European poetry platform Versopolis, funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
The event is part of the poesiefestival berlin: poesiefestival.org
The poesiefestival berlin is a project of the Haus für Poesie in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, with support from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Akademie der Künste
Clubraum
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
Eintritt frei