Lead partner:
Poet in the City

Lead partner contact name:
Vivienne Rosch

Art forms involved:
Poetry and Digital Art

Countries involved:
UK, Georgia, Israel, Romania

Secondary partners:
Creative Union Cumbo, Georgia
The Spaceship, Israel
W.U.R. (Writers’ Union of Romania), Romania

Project Description:
Using video screen technology to enable generation of poetry and text-based art for use in a variety of transformative contexts, in public squares, commercial spaces, art galleries, at concerts and at spoken word performances. Using leading artists and poets from all participating countries. Work will be shown and performed in each collaborating country.

Poet in the City is a registered charity committed to attracting new audiences to poetry, making new connections for poetry, and raising money to support poetry education. As well as its interests in poetry in the built environment and poetry as public art, the charity organizes a richly varied programme of poetry events at interesting venues across London.

Project launch date:
March 2009

Contact information for further details on project:
+44 7810 801 046
vivienne.rosch@googlemail.com

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