Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
A térkép
the following text was written by one of the participating children, Dorka:
Dorka: A térkép
Nyugtalanul nézek az elhagyatott város romjaira. Hid
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
A térkép
the following text was written by one of the participating children, Dorka:
Dorka: A térkép
Nyugtalanul nézek az elhagyatott város romjaira. Hid
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Helena Bijnens - Krakow - Poland
Review your own literature event with regards to participation
We have developed a methodology that organisers of literature events can use to evaluate their current practices.
During the international ENGAGE! Workshop in Poland, we have reviewed together each other’s current practices in a creative way. Participants critic
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Photo & text 1.
The results of the 'Wherem am I? - Contemporary literature and creative writing in the classroom' workshop. Photo and text by Anke Leenders.
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Photo & text 5.
The results of the "Wherem am I? - Contemporary literature and creative writing in the classroom" workshop. Photo and text by Rick Heyens.
Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Naplemente
the following text was written by one of the participating children, Lizi:
Naplemente
A vakáció első napján máris elhagytam Budapestet, és Siófokra utaztam. Legfőképp sportolni szeretek itt, de másért is lejárok. A város végén van
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
When I visited ny dad for the last time
I drove past the hospital on my way home from work. My Dad smiled tiredly when he saw me. He was alone, so my Mum must have gone home. I saw my energetic, wonderful Dad. I didn’t see how tired he was. I only saw his smile. I asked him if he wanted me to read the newspaper to him. He said yes. H
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FUNDACIÓN UXÍO NOVONEYRA - Folgoso do Courel - España
COORDINATION MEETING OF CREATIVE EUROPE SILO DURING THEIR VISIT TRIP TO KROKODIL CENTER OF BELGRAD
From 16th to 19th January 2018 we have been visiting Krokodil Center for Contemporary Literature with the company of our sister-on-arms of twin Engage! project. We have been working on 2019 planning as last phase of our project and rethinking together the sustainability of the project and the par
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
Relative perspetive
There's a beginning and an end. It's obvious that he's in pain, so much that he can't sit in an ordinary chair, but has to use the couch while he waits for the news. He's lying on one side, hopeful, trying to catch our gazes to see if he can read whether we know what the news will. I've a hard ti
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Sötétség
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Robin:
Sötétség
Ha lekapcsolod a villanyt sötét lesz, kivéve, ha nappal van. Viszont ha a nap is kikapcsol, nem látsz
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Thibo C. and other students UCLL - Hasselt - Belgium
impression of the SILO event at UCLL on 13 dec 18
We celebrated the firstgrand editionof the SILO Literature and Poetry day for future teachers. Here is an impression if what you can do with books!
Anna Gács - Budapest - Hungary
Budapest Fragments - The winners
At the closing event of the Budapest Fragments project the second prize was awarded to Tünde Virág Katona. Her slam poem, called Monoluge to the City, is a paraphrase of a Hungarian classic, and it tells about a night in which the protagonist wanders along the derelict streets
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Rab
The following text was written by one of the participating adults, Tamara:
Rab
Olyan rutinszerű volt az az este is, mint egy jól betanult sikeres koreográfia. Hálóköntösben olvasgatta Ali az aktuális limonádé könyvét, teát iszogatott
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Hideg
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Brúnó:
Hideg
A hópelyhek lassan szállingózva érnek földet, majd szinte azonnal a kígyózó sártengerbe vesznek. A macskakő között kacskaringós patako
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Madalena, Pico - Lisbon - Portugal
Motivational Lecture Attracts More Than One Hundred People to the Madalena, Pico Municipal Library
Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
A poem
The cove’s completely still
Seaweed has been washed ashore
But it doesn’t smell any more
There’s frost in the air
I look at you
Only your body is left
“Let go,” I say
Inside myself
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
A nurse perspective
still remember her – the young woman, the girl. She was 20 years old – or thereabouts. She made an impression on me – and I on her. I was her contact nurse during her radiation therapy. But sometimes I was also her friend and her mother. I still remember the day she took me aside in the d
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Fundación Uxío Novoneyra - COUREL (LUGO) - Galicia (Spain)
IV Festival dos Eidos
"IV Festival dos Eidos" is the festival of scenic poetry and musics, that will celebrate on August 22th-26th on Parada village of Courel chain of hills (Galicia).
Festival dos Eidos is celebrated each August on Courel Hills since 2015. 3 days of cultural programation of differen
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Anna Gács - Budapest - Hungary
Budapest Fragments - The winners
A special prize was given to Ákos Ferenc for poem that reuses a classical lyrical genre in an accutely contemporary manner.
Levél a házakon túlra
Kedves Hugi!
Nagyon érdekes ez a hely.
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
When a human dies, ‘a world dies’ and cries for ‘resurrection’
My mother died on 6 October 1997 on a sunny autumn day when the leaves were golden and the berries red. When you’re small, you fear and you worry that your mother’s going to die. And then she actually dies. It’s a great sorrow, a loss. You learn that the person who has died isn’t gone, bu
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Anna Gács - Budapest - Magyarország
Lisbon Creative Writing
At the Lisbon ENCC Project Fair we did not only present SILO, but also discussed the creative writing aspects of the project and held a mini creative writing workshop. Participants used photos on their mobile phones as inspiration for short texts. Take a look at the works!
Madalena, Pico - Lisbon - Portugal
taste for reading
Over the past week, the Municipal Library hosted multiple lucid-pedagogical activities, stimulated by the students of the Technical Course of Psychosocial Support of the Professional School of Pico, instilling the taste for reading. The students dramatized
Anna Gács - Budapest - Hungary
Budapest Fragments - Closing Event
From the 60+ applications from 17 secondary schools, the jury picked the winners. At the closing event award winning students read their texts together with writers who have participated in the project.
Helena Bijnens - Krakow - Poland
Syrian writer Kholoud Charaf presents us her work
Kholoud Charaf is a poet, an art critic and a social activist in search of better opportunities for women and children who survived the war. She is now the new resident of the City of Krakow as part of the ICORN programme. Kholoud Charaf comes from Al Mjemr in the south of Syria. As a poet, Chara
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Macska
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Prisca:
Macska
Hosszú, barna, göndör copfja utána lobog az enyhe szellőben. A tőle jobbra pihenő város ablakaiban fény ragyog, de a koromsötétség, mint egy nyúlós
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Tánc
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Leila:
Tánc
Otthon vagyok. A zene az otthonom. Elringat a hárfa hangja, felébreszt a dob szólója, s éltet a zongorából előhívott hangok. A zeneszó megmozgatja az embe
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Anna Gács - Budapest - Magyarország
At the Lisbon ENCC Project Fair we did not only present SILO, but also discussed the creative writing aspects of the project and held a mini creative writing workshop. Participants used photos on their mobile phones as inspiration for short texts. Take a look at the works!
Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Gyökér
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Döme:
Gyökér
Kiültem a kertbe. A szél borzolta a hajamat. Éreztem, ahogy árnyék vetődik az arcomra. Először azt hittem, hogy egy felhő takarja el a napot. Az árnyé
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Photo & text 6.
Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Szakadék
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Lulu:
Szakadék
Tombol a szél. Belekap a hajamba és repíti, akár a sellőkét, mikor kiülnek egy szirtre az óceán közepén és csábosan kémlelik a hullámo
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
The phone rings
The phone rings. It’s 5am in the morning. It's still dark outside. It’s from the Hospice. I’m certain it is. Who else could it be? I only just returned from there. Have slept a few hours, I reckon. Did I say sleep? Have I slept? My body won’t give in. My body is floating 5 inches above th
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Photo & text 7.
The results of the "Wherem am I? - Contemporary literature and creative writing in the classroom" workshop. Photo and text by Yves Kun.
Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Bee's Dance - Storytelling's Past and Future
Below you can find a report by the event's organizer, Rita Abody:
BEES´ DANCE – STORYTELLING´s PAST AND FUTURE
Storytelling is an ancient legacy of mankind – from the very beginning of ages, when members of the tribe sat around the fire and
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
Relative perspective
It was hard and it wore us out. Two things happened in the spring of 2008. I fell in love and my relationship with the young man was full of future plans and things to look forward to. Then my sister got the news. You’re a terminal patient. Her treatment back in 2005 hadn’t killed the cancer
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Helena Bijnens - Hasselt - Belgium
hip hop versus poetry
SILO workshop at the congres "from global teacher to global citizen" on 12/10.
If you opened the enveloppe and were to find a mix of poetry fragments and a hip hop texts, would you be able to see the difference?
In this workshop for poetry-haters, the haters realised they do not hate
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Ferenc Czinki - Székesfehérvár - Hungary
Valóság
The following text was written by one of the participating children, Jázmin:
Jázmin: Valóság
Követtek. Lépéseik zaja visszhangot vert a fejemben. Megálltam és szembefordultam velük. Persze ez lehetetlen volt, hiszen ők csak a képzelet
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
Relative perspective
My first anxiety came when she was at the neurologist. I don't know where it came from because she wasn’t worried herself.
She had tried everything for her back: chiropractor, physiotherapist, injections at the doctor’s. It helped a little at first, but when I called again... That stupi
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Anna Gács - Budapest - Hungary
Budapest-fragments
Szépírók Társasága has launched their project, Budapest-fragments, which is also part of SILO. Cofinanced by the Open Society Institute, this programme connects the variuos literary representations of Budapest with contemporary writers and secondary school students. Students learn about how
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Patient perspective
Story 1
Every morning I wake up feeling like someone has punched me in my side. The first step out of bed is always the most difficult because it means a new day of worrying and having to face people around me who don’t look at me like they used to do. It feels like someone has written CA
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Katrine Solvang - Aarhus - Denmark
Patient perspective
I’ve sometimes felt like taking the time to try and tell the full narrative of my disease. Now I can.
I was probably a little surprised that I was the one to be struck by cancer. Yeah well, who isn’t?
I have to say, however, that I’d been close to cancer before, as two of my sis
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