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World Poetry Day

Between Poems. Portuguese and Sufi Voices

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Date

Location

Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
On March 21 we celebrate World Poetry Day and Noruz, the New Year of the Persian calendar.

Words meet music in this celebration of Portuguese and Sufi poetry. In a multicultural gathering, poems by Fernando Pessoa, Maria Gabriela Llansol, Rūmī, Khayyām, Ibn ʿArabī, Rābiʿa are read in their original language. The inspiring words of these and others Portuguese, Persian and Arabic poets are combined with live music.

This meeting is held as part of the exhibition Power of the Word IV. Divine Wisdom: The Sufi Way.

Programme

Opening

Jessica Hallet — Curator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Persian and Portuguese poetry

Readings by Omid Bahrami and Teresa Coutinho

Arab and Portuguese poetry

Readings by Shahd Wadi and Isaac Jaló

A talk on Poetry and Sufism

With Fabrizio Boscaglia

Moderation: Elisabete Caramelo

Musical performance

José Peixoto

Closing

Guilherme Oliveira Martins — Administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Credits

Coordination

Jessica Hallett
Fabrizio Boscaglia

Sponsor Power of the Word

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