The performative piece Light that was shadow, inspired by contemporary Polish poetry, is premiered in the framework of the 10th edition of the festival De Poesía por Getafe this afternoon, at 7 pm, in the southern town of Madrid in the Espacio Mercado (Plaza de la Constitución, 5). Free admission until capacity is full.
This artistic project of the Instituto Polaco de Cultura and the University School of Arts TAI, is directed by Marika Masairi, playwright and director of the piece, and performed by young artists from TAI.
Light that was shadow is an anthology of Polish poetry written by women that was published by Vaso Roto in 2021. It collects the poems of seventeen poets born in the second half of the twentieth century, between 1963 and 1981, over a period of eighteen years-as if they had reached the age of majority.
The authors who published their first series of poems between 1992 and 2014 are: Marzanna Bogumiła Kielar, Joanna Oparek, Jolanta Stefko, Marta Eloy Cichocka, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Justyna Bargielska, Klara Nowakowska, Urszula Zaczkowska, Joanna Mueller, Bianka Rolando, Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało, Renata Senktas, Marta Podgórnik, Krystyna Dabrowska, Magdalena Bielska and Barbara Klicka.
