Welcome to listen to Ukrainian poets in Edinburgh

On March 10th, the Mystetskyi Arsenal and Stanza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, invite you to join an outstanding event — Translation in Focus: Beyond Any Curtain.
The event will take place live from 11:30 to 12:30 (GMT) in Edinburgh, The Byre Theatre — Auditorium, St Andrews, Abbey Street, KY16 9LA (how to get there — google maps link). Tickets to attend the offline event — click here.

For those of you, who are interested but will not have an opportunity to attend the live event, there will be a live stream on StAnza website and YouTube channel (tickets to attend the online event — click here).
During 2021, StAnza collaborated with Mystetskyi Arsenal and the International Book Arsenal Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine), inviting eight poets from Scotland and Ukraine to participate in the project. With the help of translator Uilleam Blacker, they transposed poetry between English and Ukrainian languages, Shetland and Hutsul dialects. Based on the project, Grigory Semenchuk created music tracks for which ukrainian poets have tried themselves in the role of performers
The project was curated by Oksana Schur (Ukraine) and Annie Rutherford (Scotland).
The Ukrainian poets are appearing as the final part of a collaborative translation project. You’ll hear poetry, translations and creative versions by Hannah Lavery, Roseanne Watt, Andrew Blair, and Vicki Husband, as well as Les Beley, Olena Huseinova, Myroslav Laiuk, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Also, below you can find the results of this creative, Ukrainian-Scottish collaboration:

• e-book of poetry and translations created within the Beyond Any Curtain project via issuu.com
• music tracks created by Grigory Semenchuk, that use the fragments of poetic texts and translations by the participants of the project. Ukrainian poets have recorded vocal parts specifically for these compositions, trying themselves in the role of performers via soundcloud.com
• lyrics videos created by Eugene Arlov featuring the music by Grigory Semenchuk via youtube.com

Ukrainian-Scottish poetry readings during the Book Arsenal festival in Kyiv in 2021 via youtube.com.

This event takes place within the framework of the Ukraine—Scotland: Collaborative Literary Project that is supported by the European Union within theHouse of Europe programme.

The Mystetskyi Arsenal, Ukraine’s flagship cultural institution, brings together various arts – from diverse art practices to music and literature. The multidisciplinary International Book Arsenal Festival, the largest intellectual event in Ukraine, takes place annually within the scope of the institution’s activity.

StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has long-standing experience in holding international literary events. Authors and artists from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, take part in the festival’s programs. The Stanza International Poetry Festival is a platform for the presentation of Ukrainian poetry in Scotland, among other countries of the world.