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May 16
18:00 Festival Opening: Meeting with Nino Haratischwili (Germany/Georgia) Language: Georgian
Writers’ House
19:30 Meeting with Ludwig Laher (Austria) Language: German/Georgian
Writers’ House
21:00 Poetry Jam + Jazz (all participant poets)
Writers’ House
22:00 Marathon of Young Georgian Poets / Language: Georgian
Writer’s House
May 17
18:00
Discussion: Women Writers on the verge of activism with Tamta Melashvili (Georgia), Hasmik Simonian (Armenia), Ester Naomi Perquin (Netherlands), moderator: Tata Tsopurashvili / language: English/Georgian
Frontline Georgia
18:30 Poetry evening with Sergio Badilla Castillo (Chile) and Kristian Carlsson (Sweden) / language: Spanish / Swedish / Georgian
Caucasian House
19:30 Meeting with DBC Pierre (UK) / language: English/Georgian
Writers’ House
21:00 Poetry Evening with Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine) and Tadeusz Dąbrowski (Poland) / language: Ukrainian / Polish / Georgian
Writers’ House
May 18
17:00 Sergio Badilla Castillo (Chile) meets students / language: Spanish
TSU, V block, room 3.
17:00 Kristian Carlsson (Sweden) meets students / language: Swedish
TSU Center for Scandinavian Studies
18:30 Poetry evening with Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan) and Ester Naomi Perquin (the Nethernalds) / language: Japanese / Dutch / Georgian
Caucasian House
19:30 Poetry evening with Lia Sturua (Georgia) and book presentation / language: Georgian
21:00 Meeting with the author Dmitry Bykov (Russia), moderator Shota Iatashvili / language: Russian/Georgian
Writers’ House
May 19
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan) meets students / language: English
Free University
18:30 Caucasian Evening with Hasmik Simonian (Armenia), Seymur Baycan (Azerbaijan) and Lela Samniashvili (Georgia)
Caucasian House
19:00 DBC Pierre (UK) meets Ilia State University Students
Bookhouse Ligamus
20:00 Discussion: Soviet Inheritance in Post-Soviet Literature with Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine), Dmitry Bykov (Russia), Seymur Baycan (Azerbaijan) and Levan Berdzenishvili (Georgia) / language: Russian / Georgian
Writers’ House
21:30 Poetry: Enemies Project – UK/Georgia
with Zura Jishkariani, Lia Likokeli, Zaza Koshkadze / Steven J Fowler, Eley Williams, Luke Kennard / language: English/Georgian
Writers’ House
May 20
18:00 Meeting with Sadik Yalsizucanlar (Turkey) / language: Turkish / Georgian
Writers’ House
19:30 Susan Shillinglaw (USA) talks about John Steinbeck / language: English / Georgian
Writers’ House
21:00 Meeting with the author Etgar Keret (Israel) moderator: Dato Turashvili / language: English / Georgian
Writers’ House
22:30 Poetry Night in the Writers’ House garden
May 21
13:00 Shakespeare for Children: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vaso Guleuri, Davit Gabunia / language: Georgian
Writers’ House
15:00 Giorgi Kekelidze (Georgia) meets young readers – “Personal experience as literature”
Writers’ House
17:00 Poetry evening with Alexander Galper (USA) / language: Russian/Georgian
Writers’ House
19:00 Etgar Keret (Israel) meets Ilia State University Students
Bookhouse Ligamus
20:30 Film screening with live music; A Woman Marketplace (1928), based on Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under Elms. directed by G. Makarov.
Writers’ House