Past events

Past events

Performances, Recitals

  • "Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle", Galerija Kranjcar, 29 December 2023 & 2 January 2024.
  • "Heart monologues", Galerija Makina, Pula, 13 April 2023. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Delphine Salkin, Atau Tanaka. For full details, go here.
  • "Heart monologues", Delaville, Paris, 21 February 2023, With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani & Atau Tanaka.
  • "Heart monologues", Regent Street Cinema, 16 March 2022. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Atau Tanaka, Robert Šantek and Bridget Knapper (Co-directed by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Delphine Salkin).
  • "Reveries about language", online poetry reading, 11 December 2020. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Delphine Salkin, Isabelle Dumont. Host: David Caddy.
  • "Reveries about language", King's College London, Worldmaking Live festival, 3 June 2019. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Alo Allik, Bridget Knapper.
  • "Reveries about language", Pinter Studio, London, 19 March 2019. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Alo Allik, Bridget Knapper, Robert Šantek, Emily-Céline Thomson, Pierre Elliot. (Co-directed by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Catherine Boyle).

For more info about past performances and recitals go here.

Public Readings, Open Mics, Book Launches

  • Book Launch "Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle", Galerija Kranjcar, 29 December 2023.
  • Open reading at the Tears in the Fence festival 2023, 15-17 September 2023, Stourpaine, Dorset
  • Book Launch "Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues", Morocco Bound Bookshop, 23 February 2023.
  • Open Mic reading, Morocco Bound Bookshop, Thursday 22 Sept 2022.
  • Performance of "All that Zagreb jazz", Tears in the Fence festival 2022, 2-4 Sept 2022.
  • Featured poet at the Tears in the Fence festival 2021, "Digging Deeper: Roots and Remains", Stourpaine Village Hall, Stourpaine, 3-5 Sept 2021.
  • Guest speaker in the Multilingual Poetry session, Tears in the Fence online festival 2020, "Lost Connections: Light and Darkness", 10-13 Sept (video available here).
  • Featured poet at the Tears in the Fence festival 2019, 20-22 Sept.
  • Open mic reading at the City Lit Late Lines poetry and prose evening, May 2018. 
  • Public reading of poem "In the Room of Longing",. Between the Lines Anthology launch, Sept 2017. 
  • Public reading of trilingual poem "Reveries about language" at the The Still Point Journal magazine launch, Nov 2015. 

Talks, Panels

  • Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani & Atau Tanaka gave a talk on the Heart monologues series performance at All Borders Blur, Mapping Intersections and Genre Crossings in UK Spoken-Word Poetries Since 1965, 11-12 November 2023, London.
  • Talk "Reveries about language: challenges and opportunities of performing multilingual poetry", as part of the panel "Multilingual writing: strategies of translation, disruption and resistance", Languages Future online conference, 15 April 2021. (convened by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani), King's College London. Other panelists: David Caddy, Maria Jastrzębska, Zoë Skoulding. Video available here. 
  • Talk "The Arrival to Writing: Of the (Non-)sacrifice of Language", Languages Memory Conference, 13-14 June 2018, London.

Radio Shows

    Selected Essays & Blogs

    • Na svjetlosti dana, u sijeni sjecanja; slika, akordi, gazela (In the light of day, in the shadow of memories: an image, a guitar, a gazelle), 1.1.2024
    • “Heart monologues”: the cultural, experimental, and sensorial journey of a multilingual poetry performance, 1.12.2023
    • Heart monologues for Pula: “does a rose lose its colour in the rain?”, 24.4.2023
    • Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues, Book Launch, 23.3.2023
    • Close to heart: collaborative work and the practice of (heartbeat) listening in Heart Monologues, 30.6.2022.
    • Unbound Lines: Writing in the Space of the Multilingual, 27.01.2022.
    • “Reveries about language”: challenges and opportunities of performing multilingual poetry (talk given at the Languages Future online conference, 15 April 2021)

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