{"id":4672,"date":"2010-09-03T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2010-09-03T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T12:06:07","slug":"wish-i-were-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wish-i-were-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish I Were There&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>3\u00a0&#8211; 5 September 2010<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nChernivtsi, Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Czernowitz Poetry Festival\" rel=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erstestiftung.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Czernowitz_typewriter1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ChernTyper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4675 lazyload\" title=\"ChernTyper\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ChernTyper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"264\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ChernTyper.jpg 358w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ChernTyper-300x221.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 358px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 358\/264;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The major theme of the festival is contemporary German and Ukrainian  poetry. The participants are well-known poets from Ukraine, Austria,  Germany and Switzerland who will present poetry and video poetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The programme of\u00a0MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ consists of varying cultural and  artistic events. During the day guests will be able to participate in  poetry readings, literary discussions, book launches, and cultural  excursions. DJs and music producers will hold parties with electronic  music.\u00a0At night,\u00a0the light projections of the video installation <em>Temple<\/em> will\u00a0revive Chernivtsi&#8217;s\u00a0destroyed synagogue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translators will be\u00a0present throughout the festival.  The\u00a0participants&#8217; poetic work\u00a0will be published in a\u00a0collection after  the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The date of the festival has been selected to\u00a0honour the 90th  anniversary of Paul Celan. The famous German-language lyricist was born  in Chernivtsi\u00a0in 1920. To the organisers\u00a0he\u00a0stands for the literary  tradition of the city that they want to bring to new life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Paul Celan\" rel=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erstestiftung.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Paul-Celan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paul Celan\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.erstestiftung.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Paul-Celan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"80\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/80;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPaul Celan (1920 &#8211; 1970)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridiancz.com\/Meridian\/index.asp?DBID=1&amp;LNGID=1\" target=\"_blank\">www.meridiancz.com\/Meridian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival 3\u00a0&#8211; 5 September 2010 Chernivtsi, Ukraine The major theme of the festival is contemporary German and Ukrainian poetry. The participants are well-known poets from Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Switzerland&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,83,93,94,103],"tags":[811],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-paul-celan","category-poetry-readings","category-poets","category-translation","tag-czernowitz-international-poetry-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}