Trafika Europe Radio – Europe’s literary radio station, free online – is launching with a gala streaming literary event, this Sunday May 10, 2020 from 2:00-4:30pm EDT.
To tune into this livestreaming gala premiere: https://trafikaeurope.org/go/radio.
It’s free online radio! No subscription or signup is required.
The three European women poet-performers featured in this launch event each ply an exquisite line between two literary cultures: Christine De Luca has brought her native Shetland dialect into the mainstream of Scottish culture, serving for a time as the Makar (Poet Laureate) of Edinburgh. Dutch autobiographical storyteller Rajae El Mouhandiz also sings in her native North African spoken dialect as well as English, sharing the painful journey and redemption of her family’s generations. And French-Occitan poet Aurélia Lassaque has inherited the mantle of troubadour culture in southwestern France. These three women will share and discuss their work, followed by a panel all together on gender and identity in European cultures.
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For more detail and to share on Facebook, our Facebook event page is right here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/925915544505761/.
And by the way, we’ll be streaming a couple of encore presentations of this launch event during the week, in case the premiere is at an inconvenient time. Here are the three scheduled times for this launch event:
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Sunday 10 May 2020 at 2:00pm EDT = 11am in California = 7pm in London = 8pm in Berlin = 9pm in Istanbul (etc.)
[with an encore presentation Tuesday 12 May 2020 scheduled more conveniently for our friends farther to the east — at 2:00pm in Jerusalem = 4:30pm in New Delhi = 8pm in Tokyo = 9pm in Sydney (etc.)] [and a second encore presentation Thursday 14 May at 2:00pm EDT = 11am in California = 7pm in London = 8pm in Berlin = 9pm in Istanbul (etc.)]—
Then in the weeks following, Trafika Europe Radio will begin its first season of regular rotation with 5 new podcast series, showcasing literature and literary communities across Europe – featuring authors in our first weeks from Switzerland, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey… and more! Anyone can sign up with their email at the Radio page on our site to stay informed of upcoming shows.
Trafika Europe Radio is Europe’s *brand new* literary radio station, free online. Especially in this time of pandemic, we’re taking our mission of serving European literary communities to a whole new level!
