Program of the International Poetry Festival Meridian Poltava
08-10.06.2018
08.06.2018 (Friday)
Poltava city – Reshetilivka town – the battlefield of Poltava
11:00
Event: Informal communication with the participants and organizers of the festival over coffee
Location: Hotel “Aristocrat” (9a Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: All participants
11:30
Event: Transfer to Reshetylivka town
Location: Hotel “Aristocrat” (9a Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
12:30
Event: Arrival in Reshetylivka town
Location: Barrow (Reshetylivka town)
Participants: Everyone interested
12:45-13:30 UKR/SWD
Event: Poetry reading near the barrow
Location: Barrow (Reshetylivka town)
Participants: Agneta Pleijel, Elizabeth Hjorth (Sweden); Yuriy Andrukhovych, Halyna Kruk, Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine)
15:00-16:30 UKR/SWD/RUS
Event: Poetry reading
Location: Reshetylivsky Regional House of Culture (Reshetylivka town, 9 Pokrovska Str.)
Participants: Malte Persson (Sweden); Serhiy Zhadan, Oksana Zabuzhko, Iryna Tsilyk, Miriam Dragina (Ukraine); Ihor Pomerantsev (UK-Ukraine)
16:45
Event: Transfer to Poltava city
Location: Reshetylivsky Regional House of Culture (Reshetylivka town, 9 Pokrovska Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
17:45
Event: Arrival in Poltava city
Location: Hotel “Aristocrat” (9a Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
18:30
Event: Transfer to State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“
Location: Hotel “Aristocrat” (9a Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
19:00
Event: Arrival in State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
19:15-19:45 UKR/ENG
Event: Excursion around the museum „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
20:00-21:00 UKR/SWD/RUS
Event: Poetry reading at the museum „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Elisabeth Hjort (Sweden); Yuriy Andrukhovych, Iryna Tsilyk, Andriy Lyubka, Miriam Dragina (Ukraine)
21:15
Event: Transfer to redoubt (fortification structure) of Poltava Battle
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
21:30-23:00 UKR/SWD/RUS
Event: Poetry reading at the redoubt of Poltava Battle
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Agneta Pleijel, Malte Persson (Sweden); Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine), Ihor Pomerantsev (UK-Ukraine)
23:15
Event: Transfer to Poltava city
Location: State Historical and Cultural Reserve „The Field of the Great Poltava Battle“ (32 Shvedska Mohyla Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
23:45
Event: Arrival in Poltava city
Location: Hotel “Aristocrat” (9a Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
09.06.2018 (Saturday)
Poltava city
11:00 UKR/ENG
Event: Formal opening of the festival
Location: Square near Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama, an open stage (in the case of rain – Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama) 23 Sobornosti Str.
Participants: Svyatoslav Pomerantsev, Ihor Pomerantsev, Serhiy Zhadan, Valeriy Golovko, Oleksandr Belenkiy, Evgenia Lopata, Oleksandr Tkachenko (Ukraine); Donald Boström, Ewa Stackelberg (Sweden)
12:30-14:00 (UKR/RUS/ENG sub)
Event: The film by Ihor Pomerantsev and Lidia Starodubtseva „Amputation“(poetry and war) and discussion
Location: Cinema «Wizoria» (22, Gogol Str.)
Participants: All participants
12:30-14:00 UKR
Event: Presentation of child art publishing house “Chorni vivtsi” and its books
Location: Olesia Honchara Youth Library of Poltava region (25a, Olesia Honchara Str.)
Participants: Lilia Shutiak, Oleksandra Prytkova (Ukraine)
14:30-15:30 UKR/ENG
Event: Discussion on forbidden forms of love and metaphysics of punishment: novel by Yuriy Andrukhovych „Lovers of Justice“
Location: Poltava Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Krichevsky (2 Konstytutsii Str.)
Participants: Yuriy Andrukhovych; moderator – Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine)
15:45-16:30 UKR/ENG/RUS
Event: Presentation of the book by Katja Petrowskaja „Maybe Esther“
Location: Poltava Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Krichevsky (2 Konstytutsii Str.)
Participants: Katja Petrowskaja (Germany); moderator – Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine)
16:45-17:45 UKR/SWD/RUS
Event: Poetry reading
Location: Poltava regional library for children named after P. Myrnyi (17 Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Agneta Pleijel (Sweden); Ihor Pomerantsev (UK-Ukraine); moderator-translator – Lev Hrytsiuk
18:00-19:00 UKR/SWD/RUS
Event: Poetry reading
Location: Poltava Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Ivan P. Kotliarevsky (17 Nebesnoi Sotni Str.)
Participants: Malte Persson (Sweden); Miriam Dragina (Ukraine); moderator-translator – Lev Hrytsyuk
19:30-21:00 UKR/ENG
Event: Oksana Zabuzhko. Literature event
Location: Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama (23 Sobornosti Str.)
Participants: Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
21:15 UKR
Event: Multimedia project – play “Endless journey or Aeneid”
Location: Square near Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama, an open stage (in the case of rain – Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama) 23 Sobornosti Str.
Participants: Yuriy Andrukhovych, Mark Tokar, Viktor Novozhylov, vj-group CUBE, Olha Mykhailyuk (Ukraine)
23:00 UKR
Event: Concert of the band Zhadan and the Dogs
Location: Concert hall «Villa Крокодила», (20b Pershotravnevyi prospekt)
Participants: “Zhadan and the Dogs”
10.06.2018 (Sunday)
Poltava city
11:30-13:00 UKR/ENG
Event: Walking tour around Poltava
Guide: Аrtur Aroyan
Location: Poltava Museum of Local Lore named after Vasyl Krichevsky (2 Konstytutsii Str.)
Participants: Everyone interested
13:15-14:15 UKR/SWD
Event: Poetry reading
Location: Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V.G. Korolenko (2 Ostrohradskoho Str.)
Participants: Elisabeth Hjorth (Sweden); Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine); moderator-translator – Lev Hrytsyuk (Ukraine)
14:45-15:45 UKR/SWD
Event: Poetry reading
Location: Poltava Art Museum named after M. Yaroshenko (5 Evropeiska Str.)
Participants: Ingrid Kallenbäck (Sweden); Halyna Kruk (Ukraine); moderator-translator – Lev Hrytsyuk (Ukraine)
16:15-17:30 UKR/RUS/ENG
Event: Discussion „Landscape after the Battle“
Location: Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama (23 Sobornosti Str.)
Participants: Yuriy Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Ihor Pomerantsev (UK-Ukraine), Ewa Stackelberg (Sweden), Boris Reitschuster (Germany)
17:45-19:00 UKR/SWD/ ENG
Event: Poetry and prose
Location: Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama (23 Sobornosti Str.)
Participants: Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine); Per Westberg (Sweden): video message and poetry
19:30-20:30 UKR/SWD
Event: Poetry reading
Location: White gazebo (in case of rain – Holy Assumption Cathedral) Sobornyi Maidan, 1
Participants: Evgenia Lyuba, Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine)
21:00
Event: Concert of contemporary classical music “Poltava 03:44” with the participation of string quartet
Location: Square near Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama, an open stage (in the case of rain – Poltava regional Academic Ukrainian Gogol Theater of musical drama) 23 Sobornosti Str.
Participants: Composers – Thomas Jennefelt (Sweden) and Zoltan Almashi (Ukraine);
“String Quartet named after Levko Revutskiy” (Ukraine) – Zoltan Almashi, Eduard Skrypa, Mariana Skrypa, Andriy Tuchapets