V4 Borders and Bridges Festival - MAP Poetry

The MAP POETRY or URBAN POETRY event is designed to bring literature to the streets, bringing art to wide public, including non-readers, otherwise not reached by book culture. It comprises of public readings of poetry and literature of contemporary V4 writers on different, site-specific spots and public spaces around the city, all somehow connected to the nations and countries of the invited guest authors, with a special focus on places with a common V4 memory. The individual venues and author readings will be reached by means of interactive maps given to the participants together with the festival brochure. Map Poetry is a kind of genuine literary boardgame with poets, writers, poems to be traced and found, except, that the field here is the city itself. The event will be always accompanied by guest musicians and performers, who will give acoustic street music concerts following each public reading, and interaction with the audience.