Festival Poetry Calabar 2019 opens today, to probe the relationship between Bytes and Heights in the Digital Age.
Poets in Nigeria (PIN) todays opens activities of the fifth
edition of Festival Poetry Calabar (FPC) themed “Poets in the Digital Age:
Bytes and Heights”. The annual fiesta of poetry, culture and tourism holds in
the city of Calabar from 18th to 20th December,
2019.
The
3-day event will host poets, writers, artists, literary critics, social
commentators and lovers of literature from different parts of the country,
thereby elevating arts and literature above ethnic and geographical barriers.
For
the fifth year running, all activities of the festival including poetry
reading, writing and performances, Calabar Welcomes, Sights & Sounds of
Calabar, Teens Forum, storytelling, music, dance, poetry workshop, book chats,
panel discussions and Live Photo Booth will take place at James Ene Henshaw
Foundation and Transcorp Hotel, Calabar.
Sights and Sounds (Poetourism) and a Walk for Poetry are slated
for Day 1 – Wednesday 18th December. On the second day, Kolade
Olanrewaju Freedom will manage a workshop on Chapbooks and Digital Promotion of
Poetry.
Notably, this edition of FPC will examine how poets can utilize
the digital space to aid their growth. A keynote address exploring the theme of
the festival will be delivered by Mr. Peter Onyekachi Onuoha from the
University of Calabar.
Also,
the organizers have revealed Pearls of
the Mangrove by Dr. Obari Gomba, To
the Sun at Sundown by Mr. Obo Effanga, The
47th Year of the 21st Century by Mr. Felix
Ayuk and Micah (Top 100 Poems of the
Nigerian Students Poetry Prize) as featured publications for the Reading
Session.
Precocious
talents, Ade Sunny Bright, Antigha Dorothy, Favour Along and Ruth Along will
feature in Teens Forum while young performers, Sunday Roselyn and Genevieve are
expected to stage some poems excerpted from Colours and Borders, a collection
of poems authored by Sir Eriata Oribhabor.
The
Chairman of FPC Volunteers’ Group, Mr. Bassey Asuquo assured that this edition
of the festival will merge arts, culture and tourism to give participants a
highly remarkable experience. Commenting on the theme of the festival, he said
inter alia: “The digital space is very pivotal to the promotion of poetry. We
want to expose writers and artists to the opportunities that are available to
them via digital technologies.”
Since its inception in 2015,
Festival Poetry Calabar has been championing a literary renaissance in the city
of Calabar.
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