FESTIVAL KORČULA CENTER OF EUROPE - Program week 2

Week 2:

Hrvatski
Francais

16.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Snežana Bukal 

16.7.2019 

19:00h 

Summer cinema

Evening devoted to the books of Snežana Bukal and more specifically to Marco Polo. The evening is intended for young and old alike and is organized in partnership with the Municipal Library Ivan Vidal. 

Note concerning the author 

Snežana Bukal lives and works in Amsterdam and Korčula. She graduated university in Beograd and holds a degree in comparative literature. She has released several novels, short stories and poems, and also writes for magazines around Europe.

17.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Srđan Duhović & Chris Agee 

17.7.2019 

19:30h 

City library Ivan Vidal

Poetry evening with Srđan Duhović and Chris Agee organized in partnership with the municipal library Ivan Vidal. 

Note concerning the authors 

Srđan Duhović is a poet from Žrnovo. In his thirty-year career he has written six selected poems editions and more than 500 poems which he has presented throughout the region as a member of Croatian Society of Writers from Rijeka. 

Chris Agee is a poet, essayist and editor. He is from Belfast, but divides his time between Ireland, Scotland and Croatia. 

He is inspired by the picturesque village of Žrnovo, located in the center of the island of Korčula. 

18.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Nada Topić 

18.7.2019 

19:00h 

Cultural center of Korčula

Evening devoted to the presentation of the books of the writer Nada Topić, in particular her poems as well as her books for children. 

Note concerning the author 

Nada Topić is a poet and author of children’s books. She has been the President of the Librarians Association in Split since 2017 and is a member of the International Association for the History of Authors, Letters and Publishing (SHARP). 

19.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Antica Branka Bavčević 

19.7.2019 

19:30h 

City library Ivan Vidal

Evening in the presence of the writer Antica Branka Bavčević and her books relating her childhood memories in Račišće, on the island of Korčula. 

Note concerning the author 

Antica Branka Bavčević is from Račišće, a small fishing village at the northern side of the island. She spent her early childhood in Korcula and then, grew up in Dubrovnik where she worked as a cashier. After she moved to Split, and she now lives in Paris, France. In her book Anita’s First Dance, the author writes wistfully about how her life started in little Račišće. 

20.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Korčula sous la domination de Venise au XVe siècle 

20.7.2019 

18:30h 

Hotel Korčula 

For this evening devoted to the Venetian past of Korcula, the Italian journalist Giovanni Vale will present the book Korčula sous la domination de Venise au XVe siècle written by Oliver Jens Schmitt. 

In 1420, the island of Korčula on the Dalmatian coast (now in Croatia) passed under the administration of Venice. Its exceptionally rich archives paint the “total” picture of a small society living on the edge of the Venetian maritime empire in the 10th century, facing Ragusa (Dubrovnik), the rival: how this microcosm of peasants and shepherds, fishermen and sailors traders, patricians of the city and Populars of the countryside a-Has it been transformed by its integration into the economic and political area of the great Mediterranean power? 

21.07.2019 - Festival Korčula Center of Europe / Daniel Baric + Film 

21.7.2019 

19.00h 

Movie : French with croatian sub. 

Evening around the theme of cruises and the sea in the presence of the French writer and translator Daniel Baric. The evening will be accompanied by the screening of the film Odyssée by French director Jerome Salle, which is a biographical film about the famous sailor and documentalist Jacques Cousteau. The film will be screened in original French, subtitled in Croatian. 

Note concerning the author 

Daniel Baric is a lecturer in Germanic studies in France, where he teaches the civilization of Central Europe. 

Baric will be present twice during the festival. The first evening will focus on the theme of cruises and the sea. A second evening of storytelling will be an opportunity to present his recent French translation of Croatian tales.