Migration of Souls
One of the main events of the Migrations programme arch will be the Migration of Souls, a unique literature pavilion, where visual and performance art will join together with the goal of showing the influence migrations have on the individual. The programme will be realized at the Novi Sad Fair from 3 to 13 March.
As part of the Migration of Souls project, the exhibition ‘Migration of Souls – Novi Sad in Books’ will be available for the audience, from 3 to 13 March, for which three guided tours will be organised on 4, 8 and 12 March from 2 to 3 p.m.
One part of the accompanying programme is dedicated to the performances of translated, award-winning and influential regional authors who are currently trying to deal with the complex topics of migrations, by which the emphasis will be brought from the collective to the domain of the personal, individual experience of intellectual and existential movement.
The most significant and biggest contemporary writers will be hosted in the Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair:
Rumena Bužarovska, 3 March from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
Milica Vučković, 5 March from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
Miljenko Jergović, 6 March from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.,
Damir Karakaš, 7 March from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
Kristian Novak, 9 March from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
Darko Cvijetić, 9 March from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
As part of the Migration of Souls programme, we will have the opportunity to hear famous local and international musicians in the Hall 1 of the Novi Sad Fair:
Miyavi, 3 March at 8 p.m.,
Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra, 6 March at 8 p.m.,
Kaori Ito and Bogdana Rankovića & Ethnoforia, 8 March at 8 p.m.,
Chalaban, 9 March,
Bilju Krstić & Bistrik Orchestra, 10 March at 8 p.m.,
The Carnival of Ritual Processions, 11 March at 6 p.m.,
Gotan project — Antropoceno!, 12 March at 8 p.m.,
Original Enigma Voices and Camerata Academica, 13 March at 8 p.m.
The rich programme of the Migration of Souls project will show us this theme through other types of art. We will have the opportunity to experience migration through plays, carnivals, children’s masquerades, lectures, and performances:
The Carnival of Ritual Processions – Lecture, 4 March, Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
Reading of the Essay ‘In the Promised Land’ by László Végel, 4 March at 6 p.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
The play ‘Fugitives’, 5 March at 8 p.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
Following Roma Paths – performance, 6 March at 7 p.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
Following Roma Paths – performance / Sremski Karlovci, 12 March in Sremski Karlovci,
Following Roma Paths – performance / Barka Cultural Station, 13 March in Barka Cultural Station,
The play ‘We All Came from Somewhere, Some a Little Earlier’, 7 March at 8 p.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
The staged reading of the book by Michael Martens, ‘In the Fire of Worlds: Ivo Andrić, A European Life’, authored by writer Muharem Bazdulj, 8 March at 4 p.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair,
The Carnival of Ritual Processions – Children’s Masquerade Ball, 10 March at 11 a.m., Master Hall of the Novi Sad Fair.
Much of European and world literature is dedicated to migrations, and the migrations are one of the greatest themes of the art of words, and migrant literature is one of those that always remains relevant. In a broader sense, literature is emigration to another world, to the world of words, to another place or at another time, into a fictional environment, utopia, or dystopia, into a new dimension. And the writer is a kind of emigrant, that is why one part of the Migration programme arch is dedicated to art, which is the metaphor of migration itself, through the unique literature pavilion in this part of Europe, accompanied by other arts. The goal is to put emphasis on the personal, individual experience of migration, thematization of physical departures and arrivals, wanderers, but also on less tangible, but important issues of existential and metaphysical movements.
In order to preserve their health, the organisers ask all visitors to wear face masks and keep their distance. Masks will be provided at the entrance.
Tickets for all concerts and plays within the ‘Migration of Souls’ programme arch are on sale, and all those interested can buy them at Gigstix outlets or online, via gigstix.com, as well as at the Novi Sad Fair ticket office, where tickets for all events will be sold between 5 and 8 p.m.
The partner of the Migration of Souls programme is the Novi Sad Fair, and the companies Globos osiguranje and Dijamant DOO also provided support.
Photo: Promo, Saša Jokanović