Past events

Past events

Below is a selection list of past talks, workshops, performances, public readings, panel convening, and interviews by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani.

2005-2026

Talks

Talk: "From multilingual poetry to the calligraphic sign: a (hand)writing journey", Through the Wandering Hand, Language Acts...An Interdisciplinary Workshop, May 20, 2025, 14:00 - 17:00, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Organisers: Alexandra L. Dias & Julian Weiss, King's College London.
Summary:
Handwriting is more than a functional skill—it is a conduit for memory, creativity, and identity formation. In an era dominated by digital communication, this workshop will re-examine handwriting as a critical site of cognitive processing, artistic innovation, and historical record. Bringing together experts from neuroscience, psychotherapy, literature, manuscript studies and the visual arts, this event offered fresh perspectives on the creative-critical significance of the handwritten word. 
Other speakers included:  
Alexandre Castro Caldas (Professor of Neurology, Director of the Institute of Health Sciences of Portuguese Catholic University), Martin Weegmann (clinical psychologist and group analyst, editor of The Psychodynamics of Writing, 2019 ), Gill Partington (Fellow in Book History, Institute of English Studies Jess Wood (painter, researcher, Amy Cooper-Wright (founder of Mark+Fold).
Co-sponsored by:
The Institutes of Languages, Cultures and Societies and English Studies (School of Advanced Study), and the Language Acts and Worldmaking Research Centre (King’s College London).

Multilingual Poetry Displays

Display of Alphabet multilingual poems in English, French and Arabic "BA", "THA", Through the Wandering Hand workshop Language Acts..., 20 May 2025.

Arabic Calligraphy Workshops

Facilitation: Arabic Calligraphy Taster, A Free-Form Composition Exercise with Arabic Letterforms, 11:30 - 12:30, Through the Wandering Hand, Language Acts...An Interdisciplinary Workshop, May 20, 2025, School of Advanced Study, University of London.  This hands-on session facilitated by Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani invited workshop participants to explore the aesthetic and structural possibilities of Arabic script. The emphasis was on creative experimentation rather than polished outcomes—participants worked with practice papers, chisel markers, and collage materials to reflect visually on language, rhythm, and the materiality of text. At the end of the taster the participants produced a piece of work for display at the Through the Wandering Hand workshop.

2024-2022

Performances, Recitals

  • Performance: Heart monologues, Galerija Makina, Pula, 13 April 2023. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Delphine Salkin & Atau Tanaka. 
  • Performance:Heart monologues, Delaville, Paris, 21 February 2023, With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani & Atau Tanaka.
  • Performance: All that Zagreb jazz, Tears in the Fence festival 2022, 2-4 Sept 2022. With Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani.
  • Performance: 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).

For more information on all the performances go here.  The Heart monologues Youtube playlist is available here.

Public Readings

  • Open reading: Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle, Tears in the Fence annual festival, 20-22 Sept, Dorset, 2024.
  • Public reading: Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle, Galerija Kranjcar, 3 January 2024.
  • Book launch: Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle, Galerija Kranjcar, 29 December 2023. 
  • Open reading: 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.

Other Talks, Panels

Radio Shows, Interviews

2021-2015

  • Talk & Panel Convenor: "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.
  • 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).
  • "Reveries about language", online poetry reading, 11 December 2020. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Delphine Salkin, Isabelle Dumont. Host: David Caddy)
  • Performance: "Reveries about language", King's College London, Worldmaking Live festival, 3 June 2019. With: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Alo Allik, Bridget Knapper.
  • Performance: "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)
  • Featured poet at the Tears in the Fence festival 2019, 20-22 Sept.
  • Book Launch Reveries about language, Pinter Studio, QMUL, 19 March 2019.
  • Talk "The Arrival to Writing: Of the (Non-)sacrifice of Language", Session on Embodiments (audio recording), Languages Memory, 13-14 June 2018, London.
  • Open mic reading: City Lit Late Lines poetry and prose evening, May 2017.
  • Recorded reading of trilingual poem "Reveries about Language / Sanjarije o jeziku / Rêveries sur la langue" as part of the King's College London radio show on Translation, April 2016.
  • Public Reading: "Reveries about language / Sanjarije o jeziku / Reveries autour de la langue" at The Still Point Journal magazine launch, Nov 2015.