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Xth Festival of poetry of the Mediterranean (03.06.2008)
The theatre Principal is the scenary of this appointment with music and poetry, tomorrow and the Friday at 21 hours
Biel Mesquida, Joana Lluïsa Mascaró and Gerard Quintana
At the presentation, Joana Lluïsa Mascaró has congratulated the organizer of the Festival because this year is already ten years since the event started. Moreover, she has highlighted that for the Consell de Mallorca is «a pleasure and a honour» having had the chance of collaborating with this initiative since it began a decade before. Furthermore, the councillor has remarked that celebrating it at the scenary of the theatre Principal will consolidate the prestige of this Festival, that mixes music and poetry, but also a commitment with the dialogue between the cultures all over the world.
Gerard Quintana is the one in charge of initiating the Festival this year. He will do it tomorrow Wednesday, at 21 hours, presenting his last work, Treu banya. The night of the Thursday the stage of the Principal, at the same hour, will be full of poetry. It will be an evening dedicated to the art of the word and the protagonists will be Maria del Mar Bonet (Catalan), Lolita Bosch (Catalan), Maria Grech Ganado (Catalan), Perejaume (Catalan), Sebastià Perelló (Catalan), Manuel Rivas (Galician), Màrius Sampere (Catalan), Ipek Segounaji (Turkish), Aiden Shaw (English), Àngel Terrón (Catalan), Colm Tóibín (Irish), Nada Yosif (Arab), Salem Zenia (Berber) and Monika Zgustova (Czech). The Friday the Xth Festival of Poetry will say bye until next year, with Pascal Comelade and Enric Casasses, two poets of luxury that will close these three days of culture at the theatre Principal.
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