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Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks na književnom festivalu „Glasovi sveta“ u Njujorku

Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks, autori Arhipelaga, učestvuju na ovogodišnjem književnom festivalu Glasovi sveta koji se održava od 28. aprila do 4. maja u Njujorku u organizaciji Američkog PEN centra.

Tasić i Štiks učestvuju i u posebnom festivalskom programu koji je posvećen književnosti Balkana. Zajedno sa njima, književnost Balkana na čitanju u Bruklinu 3. maja predstaviće Aleksandar Hemon, Ognjen Spahić i Miljenka Mika Buljević.

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Festival Glasovi sveta za svega nekoliko godina postao je jedan od najprestižnijih svetskih književnih događaja. Festival je 2005. godine osnovao Salman Rušdi zamišljajući ga kao „platformu za podsticanje dijaloga o individualnim pravima i slobodama među piscima i intelektualcima iz različitih kultura“. Rušdi je i dalje na čelu ovog festivala čiji su učesnici bili najpoznatiji savremeni svetski pisci. Festival Glasovi sveta posvećen je „širokom spektru aktuelnih društvenih i političkih pitanja važnih za pisce i umetnike širom sveta“.

Tokom gotovo nedelju dana programa koji se održavaju na različitim tačkama Njujorka festival Glasovi sveta okupiće više od 150 pisaca, teoretičara, kritičara i drugih intelektualaca iz tridesetak zemalja. Među učesnicima festivala nalaze se i Salman Rušdi, Đerđ Konrad, Noam Čomski, Adam Mihnjik, Adonis, Lin Ulman, Adonis, Timoti Garton Eš, Kolm Tojbin, Džudit Batler, Ivan Klima, Martin Amis, Pol Maldun, Sjon i mnogi drugi.

U središtu ovogodišnjeg, desetog po redu festivala jeste tema Na ivici koja je, prema rečima organizatora, „inspirisana dugogodišnjim praksama pozvanih autora koji su preuzimali umetničke i političke rizike, imajući hrabrosti da javno istupe, stavljajući na kocku društvene uloge, vlastite karijere, a ponekad i živote da bi progovorili protiv statusa quo“.

Govoreći o ovogodišnjoj temi, direktor festivala Glasovi sveta Laslo Jakab Orsos podsetio je da je Kurt Vonegat svojevremeno rekao da je želeo da se približi ivici koliko je to moguće a da se ne padne s nje, jer je samo iz te perspektive mogao da vidi stvari koje nije mogao da sagleda iz centra.

Nastojeći da predstave program u rasponu od književnosti do politike, od poezije do filozofije, festival Glasovi sveta, pored čitanja i razgovora o savremenoj književnosti, obuhvatiće i čitav niz aktuelnih pitanja kao što su sloboda izražavanja, globalni nadzor u 21. veku, upotreba hrane kao političkog oružja, uloga intelektualne javnosti danas, nelegalno špijuniranje ili obeležavanje 25 godina od pada Berlinskog zida.

Posle održavanja festivala Glasovi sveta biće objavljena antologija tekstova učesnika ovogodišnjeg festivala. Vladimir Tasić biće predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Oproštajni dar, čije je novo izdanje nedavno objavljeno u Arhipelagu, dok će Igor Štiks biti predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Elijahova stolica po kome je nastala i istoimena predstava u JDP.

Izvor: Arhipelag


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Ana is invited to play the prestigious New Orleans Jazz Fest where she introduces her new project; a nine-piece power blues and funk machine under the name Ana Popovic & Mo' Better Love. With AP & Mo' Better Love, Ana fronts a musical collaboration with Tony Coleman (drummer BB King) and John Williams on bass (Al Green), adding rhythm guitar, keys, a horn section and background singers. On April 16th follows the world wide release of 'Can You Stand The Heat', Ana's ninth full-length album. The daring release features guest performances of Grammy Award winner Tommy Sims and Grammy Award nominee Lucky Peterson.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0