The second and this year the last day of the festival brings exciting and top-notch poetic events.
We will begin the evening with the audio-verbal-video manifestation TOK, which was created to coincide with the release of PRIMOŽ ČUČNIK's poetry collection Niti v sanjah.
Next, the main poetic guest of this year's Izrekanje, Croatian poet TATJANA GROMAČA, will take the festival stage.
The festival will conclude with another breathtaking intertwining of poetry and music, when poet JANEZ RAMOVEŠ and URŠULA RAMOVEŠ AND THE BOYS FROM JAZBEC'S GRAPE will perform.
In the sound-word-musical manifestation TOK, the poet PRIMOŽ ČUČNIK (small instruments, gramophone, feedback loop, lyrics), whose poetry collection "Niti v sanjah" was the starting point for the present project, the poet ANA PEPELNIK (speech, voice) and the double bassist TOMAŽ GROM (small instruments, electronics, double bass) joined forces after a long time.
Poet, writer and critic Muanis Sinanović wrote about the project, among other things: “The performance was magnetic and personal. Despite the fact that the trio collaborated more often years ago, there was no sense of nostalgia, but only an impression of camaraderie, open to the new in the same place, to the dervish dance in the place. Such events represent the living tissue of the urban landscape, they are part of its hidden soul. And we want the spaces where they can be realized to continue to stand alongside established cultural institutions. Despite the awards and engagements in central institutions, all three authors continue to browse peripheral spaces, practices, ways of socializing and organizing events, and thus testify to their indispensability. "
TATJANA GROMAČA (Sisak, 1971) graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb in Comparative Literature and Philosophy. Between 2000 and 2017, she worked as a journalist, reporter and columnist for Feral Tribune and Novi list (Rijeka), focusing on culture and art.
Since 2017, she has been working as a freelance writer and critic. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists. She regularly collaborates with the Third Program of Croatian Radio with book presentations, essays, travel stories and articles on the humanities. She publishes the literary column "People and Books" on the portal prometej.ba and columns on the portal autograf.hr
Based on the text of her short novel "Črnec", the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka staged a play in 2009.
In 2012, she received the "Vladimir Nazor" award from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia for the best prose work for her novel "Božanski otroci" (Divine Children), and in 2013, the Jutarnji list award for the best novel of the year.
Her works have been translated into English, German, Italian, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Macedonian and Bulgarian.
She was the recipient of a scholarship from the Berlin Akademie der Künste. She has published 12 books of prose and poetry to date.
He lives in Istria.
In 1987-89, JANEZ RAMOVEŠ was a co-creator and member of the socially critical group (since 1988, the Terrorist Organization) Ne bom oprala teh kravih majelev (I Will Not Wash These Bloody Stains) (with Metodo and Brane Frlic). His poetry, in which he depicts the Poljana Valley and its people in a very authentic way, is written mostly in the Poljana dialect. His poems, accompanied by tunes and music by his wife Uršula, have also been published in electronic form (Sugar free baby, 2000; Staroselski cirkus, 2006). In the book Moja velika debela mama (My Big Fat Mama), he edited an anthology of naive poetry from Poljana.
He is a member of the vocal-instrumental band URŠULA RAMOVEŠ IN FANTJE Z JAZBECOVE GRAPE, which was founded in 2005.
The music of the group Uršula Ramoveš and the Boys from Jazbec's Grove is unique, and not only in the Slovenian music scene. Their music is genre-diverse, almost elusive, and its common denominator is a powerful authorial charge. In it, you can find elements of alternative chanson, pop, folk, Slovenian singer-songwriter tradition, enta, folk music, jazz, the discipline of classical music and more. All of this flows in an arbitrary ratio and orchestrations that are set differently each time.”
A magnificent evening of poetry is promised, don't miss it!
The festival is hosted by the Celje Central Library, and the main sponsor is the City of Celje.