EU Culture weekWeek Speakers:

David Gorgiladze David Gorgiladze is a Georgian journalistwho has worked at the magazine ‘Tabula’and at the press relation department at thePresident administration of Georgia. Hewas an editor and club member of the TVshow ’What? Where? When?’. In 2012 hewas the winner of the literary competition“Legend of Autumn” organized by TbilisiState University and Geocell. Since 2013 hehas been a blogger of the online-magazinewww.mastsavlebeli.ge. He is also amember of online library grouphttp://lib.ge/.

EU Culture FactoryWeek Speakers:

David Gabunia David Gabunia is a playwright, writerand translator from the English andSwedish languages. He studiedLiterature and Gender Studies in Tbilisi.He has worked as an editor, translatorand a literary critic. His plays have beenstaged at several Georgian theatres. Heis the head of the literary department atRoyal District Theatre, Tbilisi. He hastranslated plays by Shakespeare,Strindberg and Ibsen. He is thecoordinator of international projects atthe Writers' House of Georgia.

Ana Kordzaia-SamadashviliAna Kordzaia-Samadashvili is a Georgianwriter, translator and cultural journalist.She also teaches literature and creativewriting at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.She has won various Georgian literaryprizes. She also translates from Germaninto Georgian and has translated ’ThreeComrades’ by Erich Maria Remarque, ‘The Thief Lord’ by Cornelia Funke and‘Women as Lovers’ by Elfriede Jelinek.She is the author of several novels: ‘Whokilled Chaika’ (2013) and ‘Sons ofShushanik’ (2011) and short stories ‘MeMargarita’ and ‘Berikaoba’. She wasawarded with the literary prize ‘Saba’ in2004 for short stories and in 2013 shewon the Ilia State University prize forbest novel of the year ‘Who killed Chaika’.

Dato Turashvili Dato Turashvili is a writer, playwrighter.He writes novels, short stories,screenplays and plays. His first prosecollection was originally published in1991. DatoTurashvili has published a 14books overally. Turashvili translated both

prosaic and poetry texts, from Russian,Spanish and English languages. His lastnovel “Flight from the USSR” (“Jeansgeneration”) is the bestseller numberone in Georgia. His short stories aretranslated to 7 languages (Croatian,English, Russian, Spanish, Korean,German, Bask) had been published invarious periodicals of different countries.In 2003 and 2007 he was awarded byliterary award SABA for The Best Play ofThe Year.

LOUDspeakers LOUDspeakers is an alternative/indieBand from Tbilisi, Georgia, formed in2009. The full crew first came to thelight on Altervision/Newcomers 2010.The band members are Levan Cxvaradze(Guitar, Vocals), Sandro Tskhvaradze(Keyboards, Piano), Levan Mamaladze(Bass Guitar) and Dato Tsomaia (Drums).

EU Culture weekMusicians/Bands:

Tinatin Tinatin is a Georgian vocalist, songwriter,author and radio personality. Sherecognizes herself as an indie performer.The style of her music is a mix of Indie Popand electronic music. She is the author ofmore than ten songs.

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Poti

4 October

Central Park12.00 – 18.00 EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREOpen Air European Book Fair

EUROPE THROUGH EDUCATIONEU Educational Corner

12:00 – 14:00EUROPE THROUGH CUISINEEuropean and Georgian culinary delights fair

13:00-14:00EUROPE THROUGH EDUCATION for KidsReading session with David Gabunia (writer)

14:00 – 18:00Fun Activities for Kids

16.00EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREPublic Discussion with Georgian Writer aboutthe European LiteratureSpeaker - David GorgiladzeTopic: Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children

18.00EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREPublic Discussion with Georgian andEuropean WritersSpeaker - David Gabunia: Topic: Shakespeare `Hamlet`

19.00EUROPE THROUGH MUSICOpen Air Concert: Live concert Tinatin

21.00EUROPE THROUGH CINEMA”In Bloom” by Nana Ekvtimishvili and SimonGroß

5 October

Poti, Central Park 12.00 – 18.00EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREOpen Air European Book Fair

EUROPE THROUGH EDUCATIONEU Educational Corner

12:00 – 14:00EUROPE THROUGH CUISINEEuropean and Georgian culinary delightsfair

13:00-14:00EUROPE THROUGH EDUCATIONfor KidsReading session with the Children`sWriter with Davit Turashvili (writer)

14:00 – 18:00Fun Activities for Kids

16.00EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREPublic Discussion with Georgian Writerabout the European LiteratureSpeaker - Anna Kordzaia SamadashviliTopic: Erich Maria Remarque - ThreeComrades

18.00EUROPE THROUGH LITERATUREPublic Discussion with Georgian WritersSpeaker - David TurashviliTopic: European Vision in GeorgianLiterature

19.00EUROPE THROUGH MUSICOpen Air Concert: LOUDspeakers

21.00EUROPE THROUGH CINEMAOpen Air Cinema: `Die Fremde` (FeoAladag) presented by Goethe InstitutDiscussion Session Theme: Women rights

EU Culture weekView Europe Through the Arts

LITERATURE MUSIC FUN ACTIVITIESfor Kids

EDUCATION for Kids

EDUCATION CINEMA CUISINE

‘EU Culture Week’ is a cultural festival that aimsto promote European values through the sharedExperiences and Understanding of theARTS through various cultural activities such asliterature discussions withGeorgian and Europeanwriters, musical concerts,cinema screenings, theatre performances, exhibitions and street art.

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