Kosmopolis | The Amplified Literature Fest

Kosmopolis15 Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Kosmopolis
Science Fiction and Fantasy in Kosmopolis
William Gibson, Brian W. Aldiss, Joe Haldeman, Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, George RR Martin, Rhianna Pratchet...
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Third culture at Kosmopolis
Literature at the centre of the scene in interaction with the arts and the sciences.
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Kosmopolis Performances
Rap, spoken word, slam and poetry. Selection of prominent performances from the different festival editions.
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K Dialogues. Highlights from last editions
Teju Cole and Enrique Vila-Matas | Kim Stanley Robinson and Ian Watson | John Banville and Pierre Lemaitre | Svetlana Aleksievich and Francesc Serés | William T. Vollmann and Juan Francisco Ferré | Robert Coover and Màrius Serra | Rachel Kushner and Eduardo Lago | Jon Lee Anderson and Martín Caparrós
Continuous programme 2018
Talk with Orhan Pamuk
3 April | The Turkish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, talks with journalist Pepa Fernández about his work and his professional career.
Continuous Programme 2018
Travels in Sketches. Travel literature through graphic fiction
20 April | Workshop on producing travel chronicles led by Jorge Carrión and Sagar, presentation of the special “Drawn Journeys” issue of Altaïr Magazine by Pere Ortín and conversation with American author Peter Kuper.
Continuous programme 2018
Frankenstein in the Anthropocene
14 March | On the occasion of the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's novel, researchers Dehlia Hannah and Fernando Vidal explore the links between the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and the reflections that accompany the concept of the "Anthropocene”.
Kosmopolis 2017
20 variations on amplified literature
Highlight sessions of the year.
Kosmopolis 17
Narrative immersion: the next challenge
The three Alpha Channel chats that we are offering investigated virtual reality and other immersive experiences, pioneers of what can be glimpsed as the next great language.
Kosmopolis 17
Seven Talks About Climate Change
Climate change is already a reality and many are the symptoms that show it, from the emergence of vegetation in Antarctica to the alterations in the planet temperatures. At Kosmopolis we wanted to reflect on this and we offered several talks about climate change, because facing climate change involves talking and accepting other changes.
Kosmopolis 17
The female constelations at K17
Subversive mothers, repentant mothers, grieving mothers and free mothers. Women who celebrate their old age, who write from experience and imagination. We are going to dedicate part of the programming of Kosmopolis to the Female constelations.
Continuous Programme 2017
Colson Whitehead Answers the Proust Questionnaire
We put to Colson Whitehead, author of "The Underground Railroad", the Proust Questionnaire in order to find out some interesting aspects of his personality.
Continuous Programme 2017
Karl Ove Knausgård Answers the Proust Questionnaire
During his visit to Kosmopolis, we put to him the French author's questionnaire.
Continuous Programme 2017
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Ian McEwan | Teju Cole | Enrique Vila-Matas | Ngugi wa Thiong’o | Canadian literature | Karl Ove Knausgård | Translation Slam| Colson Whitehead
Continuous Programme 2016
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Radio Kosmopolis | The Stomach of the Writers | John Irving | Svetlana Aleksievich | Don DeLillo | New Voices from Europe | Eurocon 2016
Kosmopolis Archive
KOSMOPOLIS VIDEO CHANNEL
With this Vimeo video channel you can travel back to all past sessions of Kosmopolis, the event-laboratory where literature is the main character in all its aspects in interaction with the arts and sciences.
Kosmopolis Archive
Kosmopolis Radio Podcast
Radio Kosmopolis is a radiophonic experiment that aims to explore new paths in narrative.
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Kosmopolis Images
K17 Photo Gallery on Flickr
Blog Veus
A commitment to literature
Barcelona is now part of the UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as a City of Literature. It has been awarded this distinction thanks to the many initiatives related with the world of letters that exists in the city. The CCCB has been involved in the candidacy with many literary projects, including Kosmopolis.
Kosmopolis 2017
PJ Harvey at K17 Festival
The artist will close this year’s festival with readings from her poetry book "The Hollow of the Hand".
Kosmopolis 2017
Werner Herzog at K17 Festival
German film director and writer Werner Herzog will be talking with Paul Holdengräber, founder and director of The New York Public Library’s Live programme, in a discourse entitled “Ecstasy and Terror in the Mind of God”.
THE SEBALD LEGACY
SEBALDIANA BLOG
Sebaldiana is the digital magazine produced to accompany the exhibition Sebald Variations.