"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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07. August 2016, 9pm Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral Korčula, Croatia   In August 2016, the Festival celebrates its 5th edition. ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words 2016 has devoted this year’s program to the socio-political aspect of intellectual migration and associated cause-effects. The goal is to examine the emergence of nomadism in the context of art, primarily literature, and try to find an answer to a question whether the origin of this phenomenon lies in a search for inspiration and adventure, or it is a consequence of the necessity and actuality. The topic of

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9 - 10. August 2015, 21.30h Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral, Square in front of the St. Peter's Church Korčula, Croatia    ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words 2015 is focusing on the phenomenon of “summer readings”, romance novels and noir stories in the perception of regional and local authors of former Yugoslav countries. In the warmest month of the year, on 9. and 10. August, ŠUŠUR! Festival brings literary treats to Korčula for the fourth time with the hot topic of Love & Mystery novels, reserving for each genre one evening of

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10. August 2014, 21h Trepoce Terrace Korčula, Croatia In partnership with Croatian association Kulturna Akcija-KULA from Croatia and Serbian poetry collective Pesničenje, BLOCKFREI is co-organizing another edition of the literary festival ŠUŠUR! Festival od riči. This is the third year that ŠUŠUR! takes place in the heart of Korčula island in Dalmatia, where poets from the local and regional scene will present their lyrics. Among others, the following poets will give their perfomrances: Ružica Dević, Irena Delonga Nešić, Tugomir Matić, Olja Savičević Ivančević, Darinka Krstulović, Marko Pogačar, Marko Tomaš, Jelena Vidović,

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30. December 2013, 19h Cultural Center GRAD Belgrade, Serbia In the last glimpse of the year 2013, together with partners from Croatia, with association Kulturna Akcija KULA, BLOCKFREI is co-producing a winter edition of Šušur! Festival of words 2013 in Belgrade. This summer event dedicated to literature is going to be presented as a part of regular gastronomic and cultural program of the Cultural center GRAD under the name Deli Monday. The event will feature three Croatian authors, Marko Pogačar, Igor Štiks and Srećko Horvat, on which occasion the newly published book Jugoton is burning! is going to be presented by its author,

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