Lit Link Festival - Visiting Vienna 12 December 2019 Salon Goldschlag Goldschlagstrasse 70 1150 Wien   BLOCKFREI is proud to announce its most recent cooperation with the Lit Link Festival from Croatia dedicated to literary exchange and networking. The Vienna edition of this years' Festival is dedicated to authors from Croatia and German-speaking countries and will take the form of several readings in Croatian and German (with parallel translations). We cordially invite you to hear the most relevant literary positions coming from Croatia and Austria and to enjoy the informal socializing after the official program. Participating authors Barbara Rieger,

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"KID'S STUFF" 2 – 4 August 2019 Library "Ivan Vidali", Summer Cinema Island of Korčula, Croatia     ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words 2019 is dedicated to children's and youth literature, which is often out of focus, and which rarely gets a deserved place in a wider cultural-artistic sphere, even within literary-festivals. At the level of an individual child, literature is a medium within which it learns vocabulary, acquires indirect experiences, and has the opportunity to see different images of the world, helping it to build the idea of how the world works and where the child's interests

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“READ ACTIVELY” Friday, 3. August 2018, 9pm Summer cinema Korčula, Croatia   In a pleasant ambiance of the Korčula Summer Cinema on Friday, 3rd of August, starting at 9 pm, ŠUŠUR! Literature Festival in its seventh edition, entitled "READ ACTIVELY!", will remind the audience about the legacy of 1968 and the values we enjoy today, which are a result of a self-sacrifice and activistic actions of our predecessors. Half a century after this significant year, the invited guests of the Festival will talk about whether it is possible to influence contemporary society by writing, what are the implications

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ŠUŠUR! FESTIVAL OF WORDS 2017  6. - 7. August 2017, 21h Square in front of the St Mark’s Cathedral Korčula, Croatia   This years’ 6th edition of the ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words presented some of the most prominent authors coming from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia to the local and international audiences during the two festival evenings. Titled “Among Us”, this years’ Festival was dedicated to female authors and their position in the contemporary literary canon as well as the position of female characters in the contemporary narratives. The public program took place on the central

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August 2016, 21h Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral Korčula, Croatia The emphasis of the 5th ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words is on the issues of origin, belonging and identity in which a language/dialect plays a vital role. The audience will have an opportunity to hear personal testimonies, stories, and fragments by writers, travelers, historians with characteristic immigrant status and (im)permanent addresses. They will discuss their positions as migrants, the artistic process that is determined by nomadism and other phenomena of exchange of cultural patterns characteristic for the “life abroad”. Authors: Alida

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9. August 2015, 20.30h Square in front of the St. Peter's Church Korčula, Croatia In the warmest month of the year, on 9 and 10 August, Šušur! brings literary treats to Korčula for the fourth time with the hot topic of Love & Mystery novels, reserving for each genre one evening of literary debate in the surroundings of the picturesque medieval old town of Korčula in Dalmatia, Croatia. During the discourse the authors will share with the audience their interpretation of these genres. Authors: Ante Tomić, Želimir Periš, Rumena Bužarovska and Mirjana Novaković. August 2015,

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11. August 2014, 21h Trepoce Terrace Korčula, Croatia The third edition of the ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words is going to be realized in partnership with the Croatian association Kulturna Akcija - KULA and the poetic collective Pesničenje from Belgrade, Serbia. In the heart of Korčula island in Dalmatia, poets from the local and regional scene will be presented in two rounds. Come and actively support this unique artistic performance with your applause or be a part of it by reading your own verses which might have never seen the light of the day

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30. December 2013, 19h Cultural Center GRAD Belgrade, Serbia In the last glimpse of the year 2013, BLOCKFREI is co-producing winter edition of ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words in Belgrade. Up until now, ŠUŠUR! has been winning over summer crowds in Koručula, island in Croatia. This summer event dedicated to literature and art was presented as a part of regular gastronomic and cultural program of the Cultural center GRAD Deli Monday. On this occasion the newly published book Jugoton is burning! by Marko Pogačar will be presented. This collection of personal essays on music that marked one

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