GREEN VERSES The film narrates literature in the time of climate change: how two poets performed the show “Foresta rossa” amidst burned forests of Portugal, taking part in the 6ª edição do Festival Literário Internacional do Interior – FLII Palavras de Fogo.
Project winner of Culture Moves Europe mobility grant for artists implemented by Goethe Institut.
Poetry, live painting and intermedia performance by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova
Project winner of Culture Moves Europe mobility grant for artists implemented by Goethe Institut
16 June 2023 2:30 pm Jardim do Centro da Referência da Memória Goiense Gois
16 June 9:00 pm Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal de Arganil Arganil Panel Discussion – José Vaz, Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino, moderated by Miriella de Vocht
17 June 7:00 pm Avanteira Municipal Park – Pelmá Alvaiazere
Description Foresta Rossa is a two-poet show featuring spoken poetry, audiovisual and live painting. The performance is created specifically for a festival location in Lousa (Portugal) that was impacted by forest fires. The show aims to address the issue of environmental emergency and its effects on people, in the face of the increasing threat of global warming. The performance consists of a pre-structured dialogue, with improvisational parts that respond to the unique context of the performance location. The site-specific element of the show involves visits to the location to collect memories from victims and analyze artifacts of forest fires.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Onorata di partecipare con la nostra prossima performance di poesia “Café Europa” al Festival Internazionale di Poesia Palabra en el mundo, Ateneo Veneto, Venezia, 26-28 maggio 2023.
26 May 2023, 17.00 Ateneo Veneto Campo San Fantin 1897 – Venezia
Café Europa Two-poets performance by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova, 2023 photo album
Two characters (Europa and the East-Comer) meet in a café in an unknown city. They confess their visions, feelings and memories to each other, giving the sense to seemingly solipsistic monologues.
Supported by Research Foundation Flanders and LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven Premiered at Festival internazionale di poesia Palabra en el mundo di Venezia 2023
Café Europa Audiodramma, durata 14’41, 2023 Link Soundcloud
Poesie e voci di Sara Maino e Marina Kazakova Montaggio e regia di Sara Maino
Paesaggi sonori registrati da Sara Maino in tutta Europa Effetti sonori tratti dall’archivio gratuito di BBC Rewind Musica tradizionale (Katioucha Otchi Tchornye eseguita dal Sirba Octet)
Sinossi Due personaggi (Europa e East-Comer) si incontrano in un caffè di una città sconosciuta. La scena pullula di suoni, di segnali e voci di un luogo cosmopolita, vivace. Due esseri monologanti, nei loro solipsismi contemporanei, si sfiorano, si confessano a vicenda visioni, sentimenti, ricordi, riflessioni sul presente, sulla situazione politica e sociale europea.
Con il sostegno di: Fondazione di ricerca delle Fiandre e LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven. Presentato in anteprima al Festival internazionale di poesia “Palabra en el mundo” 2023 di Venezia
FRIDAY 22nd JULY ART EXHIBITION featuring Leinster Graphics Society Opening: Adrian McGoldrick MC: Derek Egan 9.30 Festival Club: Coffeys (Main St.) Upstairs. A Favourite Hopkins Poem: Seán Bagnall; Elizabeth Doyle; Bruno Gaurier (France); Sara Maino (Italy); Anne Doyle; Koji Katsurayama (Japan); Jenny Adamson; Sorcha Doyle; Bill Schwartz (USA); Elaine Murphy;Eva Donlon; Marina Kazakova (Russia). MC: Will Adamson
SATURDAY 23rd JULY 3.00 PERFORMANCE College Theatre “I Think About Your Hands”: Marina Kazakova (Russia) and Sara Maino (Italy) Moderator: Seán BagnallMC: Derek Egan
Il Comitato Salvaguardia Area Lago e la Associazione “Bosco dei Poeti” invitano all’appuntamento con la poesia
Sabato 2 aprile 2022 POETI AL PARCO MIRALAGO-SEEBLICK Via Cristoph Hartung Von Hartungen, 4 Riva del Garda TN 10.00-13.00 e 14.00.-17.30
Letture e performance per un incontro poetico con gli alberi.
“L’atmosfera mi sembrava una figura, una voce, ed era colorata e pregna di significati. […] ogni fiore era una parola, un pensiero. L’erba, gli alberi, le acque, i venti: tutto era linguaggio.” George William Russell, “The Candle of Vision” in “Passeggiata sotto gli alberi” di Philippe Jaccottet, Ed. Marcos Y Marcos, 2021
November 16 2021, International Dada Livestream Three Rooms Press is proud to sponsor the 2021 International Virtual ¡DADA! Festival: A series of livestreamed dada actions by contemporary dada artists from around the world. The festival will include close to 100 artists and writers from 14 countries, performing over a series of seven events live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook. The series will highlight the art and writing of contributors to MAINTENANT 15: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, published annually by Three Rooms Press since 2008, and will be hosted by MAINTENANT 15 editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges. Events will include performance, art, and poetry inspired by the theme of this year’s journal “HUMANITY: The REBOOT” Prepare for the provocative, eclectic, and unpredictable collage of performances by more than 50 artists in a series of lively sessions tracking European, South American, Canadian and US performers. Admission to all events is free. All events will be livestreamed to both Facebook and Youtube. Copies of MAINTENANT 15 will be available to order during all events.
Featured performers: Volodymyr Bilyk (Ukraine) | Jamika Ajalon (France) | Zoë Darling (Switzerland) | Giovanni Fontana (Italy) | Sandra Gea (Greece) | Genco Gulan (Turkey) | Marta Janik (Poland) | Marina Kazakova (Belgium) | Sara Maino (Italy) | Benjamin Robinson (Ireland) | Poul Weile (Germany) | Syporca Whandal (Hungary)
13 August 2021 ore 17.00 Demistify 2021 Festival Šilėnų kaimas, Kalvarijos savivaldybė Lithuania
A TALE OF TWO (Dvi poetés vienas balsas) live poetry performance Marina Kazakova and Sara Maino on stage
We take a road through the favourite verses of great poets – alchemists from different centuries. You just need to listen – and we will hear the innermost secrets, learn about the muses of Francesco Petrarca, Marina Tsvetaeva, Igor Severyanin, Joseph Brodsky. The answers to all our questions are stored in encrypted messages of poets, they contain the whole palette of human feelings: love and grief, resentment and forgiveness, sin and temptation. You can overcome whole distances without fear, and stop 5 millimetres from your fate – this is the discovery we want to share in our new show, through their voices and ours.
Nel Museo Casa Andriollo a Olle, frazione di Borgo Valsugana, una stanza è riservata ad Alice. A lei Supernova dedica questo libro curato da Lucia Guidorizzi con i contributi di: Isabella Albano, Antonella Barina, Anna Barutti, Gabriella Beber Bonvecchio, Adriana Bertoncin, Rocio Bolanos, Antonella Bontae, Francesca Ruth Brandes, Rosa Maria Campregher, Rosanna Cavallini, Marta Celio, Mariapia Coppola, Marinella Cossu, Brunamaria Dal Lago Veneri, Sabrina De Canio, Leila Falà, Silvia Favaretto, Fernanda Ferraresso, Fabia Ghenzovich, Giuliana Gilli, Laura Guadagnin, Lucia Guidorizzi, Anna Lombardo, Sara Maino, Nina Maroccolo, Nadia Martinelli, Anita Menegozzo, Martina Michieli, Marina Montagnini, Giulia Panetto, Marta Paolantonio, Cristina Pappalardo, Emanuela Parodi, Giorgia Pollastri, Vittoria Ravagli, Perla Lusete Rivera, Bruna Sartori, Annalisa Scialpi, Assunta Spedicato, Grazia Sterlocchi, Eleonora Stevanin, Gabriella Valera, Graziella Valera Rota, Marisol Vera Guerra, Serena Vestene, Sabrina Vian, Claudia Zaggia, Claudia Zironi.
Elisa Da Costa, attrice
Matteo Franchini, chitarra classica
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Fornasa, Longo, Maino, Spagnolli
“La montagna dal cuore di perla” raccoglie il senso ed il testo di tre eventi organizzati dagli autori nel Comune di Terragnolo nelle estati del 2012 e 2013. Oggetto e soggetto della serata e dei pomeriggi in natura trascorsi a Sega di Terragnolo, a Passo Borcola ed in cava “Val Giordano” sono le voci, i linguaggi ed i simboli che quei luoghi sanno trasmettere: acqua, passo e pietra attraverso i racconti di Spagnolli, la poesia di Lando e l’impianto scenico di Maino smuovono interiorità e relazione, visibilità di segni e capacità di memoria, freschezza di costruire cultura senza cadere in tradizionali “luoghi comuni”.