THE STOCKHOLM POETRY FESTIVAL IS OVER

BUT THE WORD-WAR HAS JUST STARTED

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STILLA MIN ELD

00TAL presents: STILLA MIN ELD (Be still my fire) – a live-movie-opera-show by Nicolai Dunger and Mick Drougett at ZITAs 15th anniversary.

ZITA – the people´s cinema have been showing independent movies for 15 years, now they brake loose from the cinematic landscape and declare themselves: The free cinema nation Zita. Come and apply for citizenship and celebrate the birth of a new cinema nation!

December 11th the nation is inaugurated with art, music and – of course – lots of movies. Experience the choir Sweptaways, a chocolate- fountain-buffet, DVD-fishing and 00TALs exclusive live-movie-opera with singer/songwriter Nicolai Dunger, tenor Jacob Wistrand, singer Anna Järvinen and bass-player Johan Berthling.
Kristina Sigunsdotter
Project manager 00TAL

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THE STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL

POETRY FESTIVAL 2008

THE STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL

Thorny words cannot be swallowed

Now all of our foreign participants have left Stockholm. But not all of them could go home – Chenjerai Hove, the poet and literature professor from Zimbabwe who opened the festival – will be killed if he does.

In the poem with which he opened the festival he describes a country where a word-war is fought every day, where his words:

have died a painful death
murdered on the pavement
slaughtered in the streets
crushed along the path to the empty tap
silenced by the roar of the factory machine

But also in a country where

words rip the republic apart
words break the fences of the republic

When the magazine 00TAL declared word-war with the Stockholm Poetry Festival 2008 our goal was to give a voice to these words – and bring forward the message about the right to Narrate through poetry, music, dance and art.

Already in the theatre foyer the audience encountered the art project FA+ Noren/WAR that have been lynched by the press and banned by the mayors of the Swedish cities Gothemburg and Vara so that it “wouldn’t disturb the emotions of the new Nazis.” - decisions that has not been followed by neither debate nor criticism. Even in Sweden words are silenced when they are too provocative. They are also silenced – drowned – in an increasingly commercialized media noise.

Nearly 1000 persons visited the Stockholm Poetry Festival. In a review in Swedish national radio the journalist Marie Lundström says: Stockholm Poetry Festival is best at gathering poets from other countries, far away. Poets who reach out to their audience, who with their poetry and human fates, for one night, make this night in tiny tiny Stockholm bigger, less mediocre and wonderfully complicated.”

Thorny words cannot be swallowed, read Chenjerai Hove and cried in the taxi back to his hotel. Now 00TAL continue our fight for the word and the poetry. We will soon release the next issue of 00TAL with the same theme as the festival: WORD-WAR and we run a debate about the conditions for culture magazines in Sweden.


Participants in the Stockholm International Poetry Festival: Joy Harjo (USA), Ying Chen (Canada/China) , Nora Gomringer (Germany), Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana), Chenjerai Hove (Zimbabwe), Joumana Haddad (Libanon), Steinar Opstad (Norway), Rebecca Kjelland (Norway), Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Christine Falkenland, Elisabeth Rynell, Tobias Berggren, Bodil Malmsten, Stewe Claeson, the musicians Anna Järvinen, Plura Jonsson, Jonas Kullhammar and Mulatu Astatké (Ethiopia), actors Stina Ekblad, Irene Lindh, Anna Wallander, Marika Lagercrantz, Lina Englund, and many more.

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Order the new issue of 00TAL now!

The latest issue of 00TAL, themed “The Right to Narrate,” has been printed and sent out to subscribers and retailers.  We cannot take freedom of speech for granted.  Writers are silenced, jailed or ignored.  If the right to narrate, to tell stories, is not free, how are we supposed to conceptualize freedom?  This time, 00tal brings you writers from all over the world who fight for the free word. 

The issue is published in conjunction with the writer-and translator conference WALTIC (Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Congress), which gathered a thousand participiants in a common manifestation for the value of the word. 

Read Madeleine Grive's editorial here >>

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00TAL in GBG
25-28 of September, Göteborg Book Fair, Röda Sten and the Göteborg Museum of Art

Come and see us in our display case, browse through our latest and old issues of the magazine 00TAL (and 80TAL, 90TAL), talk about literature and art, get information about the Stockholm International Poetry Festival and listen to great music. 

We open the fair on Thursday September 25th, 7 pm at Röda Sten in cooperation with the Latvian embassy and show Mara Brasmanes exhibition THE GOAT CLIMBS TO THE SKY that shows everyday-life in Riga during the Soviet 60’s. The Riga coffe shop THE GOAT was a popular meeting place for young bohemian poets, artists, musicians, and a place where the alternative culture brainstormed new ideas, new ways of living and of making art.  We continue the evening with readings by the Swedish writer Björn Ranelid and young contemporary poets from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; Inga Gaile, Agnese Krivade, Ingmara Balode (Latvia) Arnas Alisauskas, Donatas Petrosius (Lithuania);Triin Soomets, Elo Viiding (Estonia), heart-beating Modern Chamber Music by Kristaps Grasis & Liene Sejane and folk music by Valdis Muktopavels.

Then wine and dancing until nightfall.

Saturday, September 27th we hang out at the Göteborg Museum of Art, listen to Peter Kihlgård, Juris Kronbergs and dance to the Wolf One-Eye Band.

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00TAL presents:
The Stockholm Poetry Festival 2008
The Royal Dramatic Theatre November 17th

A lack of poetry may cause severe damage to you and to people in your surroundings.

We believe poetry can change the world.
In November, 00TAL welcomes you to The Stockholm Poetry Festival.  As always, we offer you an addictive blend of poetry, music, dance, theatre, and festivities.  You will meet brilliant authors from all corners of the world, whose writing will open your eyes.

Concept and Direction: Madeleine Grive
Arrangements: 00TAL, www.00tal.com, +46-8-612 10 39

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"Just like in earlier issues, there is a cleverly interweaved collaboration between interviews, texts, essays and pictures." SvD

"Once again 00TAL touches on questions that could not be more contemporary." Arbetarbladet

Never before have the paperback shelves of bookstores been this full of autobiographies och documentary novels. In conventional novels, the line between the author and the main character of the story seem to become more and more blurred, a development that has been feverishly instigated by medial debates. The reason for this development is a bottled-up desire for the real and the private. 00TAL explores this topic with the help of our premier authors, critics and artists.

In this issue, Agneta Klingspor open-heartedly explains how the corporate world turned their backs on her after she wrote one of the most crushing confrontations with the new Swedish egocentric society. Anna-Karin Palm paints an in-depth and balanced picture of Klingspors authorship in an ambitious essay. Brand new pages from Marguerite Duras and Jonathan Safran Foer appear when newly translated works by the authors are placed in a textual duel about the authenticity of eating.

Furthermore, we present, for the first time in Swedish, two highly interesting authorships who create new fronteers in the genre of autobiography: the notorious French counterpart to Maja Lundgren - Christine Angot and the progressive Polish homoerotic writer Michael Witkowski. Apart from numerous interviews, critical essays and art reports, we offer among other things a glance at Erland Loes diary and follow a correspondence between the Swedish award-winning language-virtuoso Martina Lowden and the international popstar Dickon Edwards (Fosca, Orlando, Spearmint). On the debutant pages we find poetry from Alan Asaid and Kristofer Folkhammar.

You are welcome to sign up for a subscription with four issues of 00TAL to the modest prize of 360 SEK (students 320 SEK). As a subscriber you'll pay reduced entrance fees to the journals poetry readings, seminars and parties. As if all of this wasn't enough, we also offer one of the strongest Swedish reading experiences of last year, Agneta Klingspors Går det åt helvete är jag ändå född. which we will send to you with your copy of 00TAL # 26.

Read Madeleine Grives editorial >>
Place your order here >>

Varmly,
00TAL

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Full house at the Stockholm Poetry Festival 2007

Friday the 30th of November at 3 PM the sun rose over the stage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, split the auditory-darkness, and the eleventh edition of the Stockholm Poetry festival began. Nature guided the festival as poetry-lovers filled the auditorium and the stage dazzled with chirping, howling, pouring, roaring poetry, music and dancing.

Participating were some of our time´s most important poets, musicians, dancers and actors – both Swedish and international stars like Kerstin Ekman, Nicolai Dunger, Martina Lowden, UKON, Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique, Thomas Öberg, Dickon Edwards, Dariusz Suska and many, many more.

While waiting for the 2008 Stockholm Poetry Festival, come and hang out with us at our literature club RUMLA, wallow in the magazine 00TAL and look out for more events and information on our website!

Read more about the festival here

We warmly welcome you to the Stockholm Poetry Festival 2008!

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The 10th anniversary of The Children´s Poetry Festival was a rousing success!

Finally the sun glared down over Stockholm and the Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Children´s Poetry Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary! For the second year in a row we delivered Ulf Stark’s and the magazine 00TAL’s space fairytale Apiara with music by Georg Riedel and Axel Englund. The Children´s Poetry Festival invaded the stage with poetry, music, dancing, bananas, love, horror and red balloons! The foyer was full of expectant children, elephants, siblings, snakes, grandmas, giraffes, frogs and fathers. The air was filled with sounds and whispers, the jungle flashed from the lights of fireflies and all the magic of love and poetry.

This year we invited the audience to an updated version of last year’s success with new music, dance acts and characters. In addition, the monkey-girl Apollonette had a bun in the oven – she was about to have a little monkey-baby! When her love Apollinaire was abducted by the horrible Dr Shame (Henrik Ståhl) and the Ice-queen (Arja Saijonmaa), Apollonette and her baby-monkey had to travel in to space to rescue him. On the way they passed strange places like the Fruit- and Vegetable Planet where the Banana King shared his wisdoms and songs; the Sea Planet where Siri Grive sang and the space monkeys danced their aquatic dance; and the Horror Planet where the Horrible Teeny Bopper Zombina kicked murderers and corpses with her feisty flip-flops and her zombie friends (Freestyle Phanatix) danced breakdance and spun on their heads.

Participants: Arja Saijonmaa, Sissela Kyle, Ayla Kabaca, Glenn Nilsson, Monica Dominique med orkester, Henrik Ståhl, Jan Unestam, Lina Englund, breakdancers from Freestyle Phanatix och ballet dancers from Stockholm´s Ballet Studio.

Idea and direction: Madeleine Grive Choreography: Claire Parsons

The Children´s Poetry Festival is arranged by 00TAL in cooperation with the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

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