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What does it take to collaborate in life and art? Poet Omar Musa and cellist Mariel Roberts Musa create and perform together, each shaped by the other’s art, both excelling in their respective fields. How does a poet hear music, how does a musician hear poetry? Drawing on memories of listening to each other, they explore where language and sound converge in a performance followed by a conversation. «Individually (they are) stunning; together they are truly magical» (ArtsHub).
The Curator in Residence Program is made possible by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.
With Omar Musa, Mariel Roberts Musa
Moderated by Jeet Thayil
The event will be held in English.
What does it take to collaborate in life and art? Poet Omar Musa and cellist Mariel Roberts Musa create and perform together, each shaped by the other’s art, both excelling in their respective fields. How does a poet hear music, how does a musician hear poetry? Drawing on memories of listening to each other, they explore where language and sound converge in a performance followed by a conversation. «Individually (they are) stunning; together they are truly magical» (ArtsHub).
The Curator in Residence Program is made possible by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.
With Omar Musa, Mariel Roberts Musa
Moderated by Jeet Thayil
The event will be held in English.
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Marianne Kaurin hält die Eröffnungsrede zum Kinder- und Jugendliteraturprogramm auf dem 21. ilb.
Marianne Kaurin is reading the opening speech of the Childrens and Young Adult Literature Program at the 21. ilb.")
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Helga Schubert erschreibt sich in den knapp dreißig kunstvollen Prosastücken »Vom Aufstehen« eine »ästhetisch suggestive Autobiographie« [FAZ] und lässt in Momentaufnahmen, Meditationen, Bekenntnissen und Protokollen die familiären und historisch-politischen Verwerfungen eines deutsch¬-deutschen Lebens aufscheinen. Literatur als »Wärmestrom« [FAZ], als Versöhnung mit der Schicksalhaftigkeit eines steinigen Lebenswegs.
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