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Fifth International Poetic February Festival (FIFP) East - West
From February 25, 2022 until February 26, 2022
MADRID
Free entry until the room’s capacity is reached.
Friday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m., Casa Árabe (Calle Alcalá, 62).
Saturday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m., Espacio Ronda (address: Ronda de Segovia 50).
The fifth edition of FIFP, coordinated by Iraqi-born poet Abdul Hadi Sadoun, will be devoted to the meeting points between East and West. It will include the participation of 22 poets from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, China, Spain, Iraq, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Serbia, Syria and Uruguay.
Each edition has been dedicated to a specific poet or theme, including Bécquer, Cervantes, Assayab and Ibn Zaydun; 2022 will be the turn for a woman’s poetic voice, that of Enheduana, a Mesopotamian writer considered the oldest known poet in history and “High Priestess” at the temple of the god Nannar (the Moon).
The event will feature a musical performance by Marisa Cortés (Argentina), with a showing of short poetry videos (by Charles Olsen and Lilian Pallares).
Schedule:
Friday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m.
Casa Árabe (address: Calle Alcalá, 62, 28009, Madrid)
Maram al-Masri (Syria), Paloma Chen (Spain-China), Juan Carlos de Sancho (Canary Islands – Spain), Muhamed al-Amin (Iraq- Holland), Itisha Giri (Nepal), Dusica Nikolic Dann (Serbia), Alfredo Pérez Alencart (Peru-Spain), Silvia Cuevas Morales (Chile), Marta López Vilar (Spain), Salma Bechar Aatif (Morocco), Pedro Enríquez (Spain), Emma Romeu Riaño (Cuba – USA).
Music and interpretation: Marisa Cortés (Argentina) Video poems: Charles Olsen (New Zealand) and Lilian Pallares (Colombia)
Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
Espacio Ronda (address: Ronda de Segovia 50, 28005, Madrid)
Ismaël Diadié Haïdara (Timbuktu, Mali), Leo Zelada (Peru), José Manuel Lucía Mejías (Spain), Juan C. Tajes (Uruguay), Hussein Nhaba (Iraq), Malak Mustafá (Syria), Aída Acosta (Spain), Yeison F. García (Colombia), Feli Moreno (Spain), Virginia Fernández Collado (Spain), Marta Mar (Spain), Sanae Mokaddim (Morocco), Pío Serrano (Cuba).
Music and interpretation: Mayte Domínguez, performer - Pablo Bethencourt, piano and composer (Grupo Retablo, poetry and music)
Video poems: Several authors (in homage to Abbas Kiarostami)
FIFP
Casa Árabe, Espacio Ronda, Casa Asia.
In association with: CIHAR, Poéticas de la Modernidad, Antena Blue, the Alulbeyt España Foundation, the Alrokon Alarabe Association, Culture Lazuli, the Haiku Festival of The Hague.