Descripción
The International Poetry Festival of Medellin has crossed intact a third of a century of changing history of the city and the country. With the theme Canto de Amor del Planeta (Love Song of the Planet), it will hold its next edition, with 75 activities between July 13 and 20, with the participation of 80 poets and 5 musicians from forty nations.
The international meeting will be inaugurated on Saturday July 13th, 4:30 p.m., at Teatro Carlod Vieco, Cerro Nutibara with the presence of the Ministers of Culture of Colombia and Honduras, Juan David Correa and Anarella Vélez Osejo, and with poetry readings by poets Carlos Vásquez (Colombia), MoAfrika wa Mokgathi (South Africa), Alexander Selimov (Russia), María Ángeles Pérez López (Spain), George Wallace (United States), Murad Sudani (Palestine) and Su Yang (People's Republic of China).
Fourteen Colombian poets were selected by call to take part in the Festival and will join the nearly fifty poets of the new generation who will read their poems and take part in the International Meeting of Young Poets convened by the World Poetry Movement, which will meet to consider the themes Globalization of Poetry through New Technologies and Poetry as an Expression of Human Solidarity.
The event, which is free of charge, will take place in open spaces such as the mythical Cerro Nutibara, parks and small squares, and in closed spaces including auditoriums, theaters and movie theaters, libraries, universities and schools, museums, cultural centers, cultural development centers and cooperatives in Medellín, Bello, Envigado, Itagüí, Sabaneta, Caldas, Girardota, Rionegro, La Ceja, Jericó, Cisneros, San Roque and in the villages of Santa Elena, Palmitas and Altavista.