VLAK magazine (www.vlakmagazine.com) and Psí Víno (www.psivino.cz), in co-operation with Versal Magazine (www.wordsinhere.com) and VEER Books (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books), invite you to the 3rd Prague Microfestival, 14-18 May, 2011.
Venue: Krásný Ztráty, Náprstkova 10, Praha 1, Staré Město (www.krasnyztraty.cz)
PROGRAM
*Friday 13 May, pre-Microfest fiction evening at Klub Utopia, Bělehradská 45, Praha 2, from 7.30pm. Featuring Thor Garcia, Holly Tavel, Ken Nash, Louis Armand--with the launch of Thor Garcia's TUND from Litteraria Pragensia. (EN)]
*Saturday 14 May, 6.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Discussion: "Poetics & Translocality"
*Saturday 14 May, 8.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Reading: Carla Harryman, Keston Sutherland, Barrett Watten, Lenka Daňhelová, Alistair Noon [CZ/EN]
*Sunday 15 May, 6.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Launch event: VLAK 2
Reading: Ondřej Buddeus, Jane Lewty, Adam Borzič, Joshua Mensch, Carla Harryman, Stephan Delbos, Jeroen Nieuwland, Kasia Bazarnik, Zenon Fajfer, Megan M. Garr, Michal Šanda, David Vichnar [CZ/EN]
*Monday 16 May, 6.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Reading: Donna Stonecipher, Sean Bonney, Aodan McCardle, Stephen Mooney, Ulli Freer, Jan Těsnohlídek [CZ/EN]
Launch event: Maurice Scully, Gilbert Adair (Veer books).
*Tuesday 17 May, 6.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Reading: Sylva Fischerová, Dagmar Pokorná, Megan M. Garr, Martin Skýpala, Jane Lewty [CZ/EN]
Launch event: Versal 9 (Versal Magazine)
*Wednesday 18 May, 6.00pm, Krásný ztráty
Reading: Catherine Hales, Josef Straka, Laura Conway, Louis Armand, Karla Kelsey [CZ/EN]
Launch event: David Vichnar, Louis Armand, and Stephan Delbos (Litteraria Pragensia Books)
[CZ/EN] = All events are in both English and Czech
*Free entry
Participants: Keston Sutherland, Megan M. Garr, Stephen Mooney, Donna Stonecipher, Ulli Freer, Lenka Daňhelová, Sean Bonney, Martin Skýpala, Jane Lewty, Jan Těsnohlídek, Laura Conway, Alistair Noon, Dagmar Pokorná, Louis Armand, Ondřej Buddeus, David Vichnar, Barret Watten, Carla Harryman, Sylva Fischerová, ...
*Sunday 15 May launch event for VLAK 2. There will also be launch events during the festival for Versal 9, books by Sean Scully, Ulli Freer, Louis Armand, Stephan Delbos, and David Vichnar. Louis Armand will be launching a new Czech translation of his "Letters from Ausland," Stephan Delbos his anthology of 20th-Century Prague poetry, "From a Terrace in Prague" (http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/terrace.html) and David Vichnar his edited essay volume "Thresholds" (http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/thresholds.html).
Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, and Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University.