PEN Residency 2023 for Young Catalan and Palestinian Playwrights
PEN Català, in collaboration with the Ramon Llull Institute and Èter editorial services, is opening a call for applications to participate in a literary residency in Catalonia in April 2023, available to six young Catalan and Palestinian playwrights. Two years ago, PEN Català and the...
“Translation in Motion”: open call for literary translation residencies
Translation in Motion is a RECIT's program that aims to enrich and intensify the flow of translated literature in contemporary Europe, and specifically between the Western Balkans countries and the EU member states. The residencies offer EU translators working from or into the languages of the...
LiterACTION: Engage Final conference
Get acquainted with some of the most interesting literary initiatives for young people on the European and international level. Young people who think critically about their culture and cities, teams who include young people in their governing bodies, literary festivals organized by teenagers, secondary school students...
Swedish librarians discover the creativity of Catalan libraries
“Young people are in a moment of their lives full of decisions about their identity and their place into society. For this reason it's important to dialogue with them.” Gemma Rodríguez On April 8th, took place the 8th Public Library and Social Cohesion Conference, organized by the Consorci...
Turfu les Éditions impresses Barcelona youth
The young french editors explain how they created their business in school and how they established it asa a model of success, withiin the framework of the european project Engage! The young students of the Viladomat secondary school in Barcelona have gotten to know first-hand the...
“Engage” Partners’ Meeting in Barcelona
During the meeting, attended by the representatives of Det Fria Ordets Hus (Sweden), the Krakow Festival Office (Poland) and the National Centre for Writing (UK), the calendar of Engage!’s 2019 activities has been presented. The attendees have evaluated each institution’s evolution and results since the beginning...
Statement on the imprisoned Catalan writers and civil society leaders
PEN Català, along with the signatories listed below, denounces the excessive restrictions on the right to freedom of expression as a result of the disproportionate charges of rebellion and sedition filed against writers and civil society leaders Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, who have been...
Evaluation of experiences with young audiences in Belgrade (Serbia)
On Thursday January 17, the European project Engage led by PEN Català will be participating in a meeting to evaluate the projects that promote participation and access to European literary culture organised by SILO (Socially Inclusive Literature Operations). The meeting is in the Serbian city of...
What are teenagers reading?
Conversing about literature with a group of boys and girls in the third and fourth years of secondary school On November 9, and in the framework of the European project Engage Young Producers, lead by PEN Català we visited the Institut d’Educació Secundària Viladomat, located in...
Keep posted on Engage updates!
The European project, Engage! led by PEN Català continues with its activities. We are planning 2 focus groups in November in collaboration with the Secondary School IES Viladomat in Barcelona. The first one will take place on November 9th and will be formed by 14 girls...
Engage with young audiences: workshop in Krakow
"It was extremely surprising. I have never experienced such good partners, thematic… everything was extremely useful and helpful", Tina Popovič, Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature (Slovenia) “This workshop was designed to challenge us to look at literature broadly, in different formats. We will take the inspiration...
Rereading libraries for young people. Dividing, creativity and trust: the Swedish example
Libraries with music, videogames, concerts, night-time games and workshops with youtubers. These are some of the proposals by the Punkt127, Club Dynamo and Stockholm Kulturhuset libraries. In early May, three Catalan librarians, at the invitation of the Catalan PEN centre, participated in an exchange in Sweden...
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