AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT “EUROPEAN LITERARY MARATHON” LAUNCHED. “SAVA DOBROPLODNI” REGIONAL LIBRARY-SLIVEN IS THE BULGARIAN PARTNER IN THE PROJECT
The first coordinating meeting on the project “European literary marathon”, sponsored by the “Culture 2000” programme of the European Commission was held from 19 to 22 of October in Verona /Italy/. “Sava Dobroplodni” Regional Library is the only Bulgarian partner in the project. Rositsa Petrova-Vasileva - a directress of the library and Petya Kaneva – a librarian, attended the meeting.
The project “European literary marathon” will last one year and will end on 1.10.2007г. A coordinator of the project is “Aida” Foundation /Verona, Italy/, and partners are – “Prisma” Foundation /Athens, Greece/, Informational centre /Cartagena, Spain/, the Romanian National Radio /Bucharest, Romania/ and “Sava Dobroplodni” Regional Library-Sliven.
Associated partners of the project are organizations from the town of Krakow /Poland/, the town of Järvapää /Finland/, York /Great Britain/ and Beograd /Serbia/.
The aims of the project are: Making easier the access to culture and widening the cultural participation of European citizens; organizing a unique cultural event, in which several countries will take part in one and the same time; popularizing the active citizens’ participation in European cultural events.
The project foresees the organizing of literary marathons with one and the same style and characteristics, which will be a unique and innovative European event and the celebration of the 9th of May 2007 at the same time in all partners’ towns.
The marathons will start at one and the same time in all the towns in 11.00 a. m. Roman time and will last 8 or 10 hours. Each partner chooses the author and his work, which will be read as it must be a national masterpiece dated from the 20 century. The reading will take place in theatres, cinemas, squares etc. place, suitable to gather together the numerous audience, which will attend the event. This way hundreds of citizens in different towns and countries will read out loud one after other the literary work, chosen by each country. Readers will be selected preliminary from people, who are interested in literature and theatre, pupils, students, pensioners and volunteers from the project’s staff, willing to take part in the event. Each literary marathon will be recorded in audio and video files and will be broadcasted in real time in live on the Internet. A common movie will be made after the event as a final document of the event and it will be recorded on a DVD and disseminated in the countries, partners in the project.
The common criteria for selection of a masterpiece, place fro implementation and selection of readers for each literary marathon were defined on the first partners’ meeting on the project in Verona. Also a common communication strategy was accepted, which will be directed to: mass-media, audience and readers. The project will be popularized by: a web page, created especially for the project /a common one and of each partner, constantly updated /, radio-advertisements, brochures will be printed, posters etc. The authors and their literary works, selected to be read during the literary marathons in each country, will be announced on the 30th of November.
