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Programme à la Maison de quartier Espace Bel-Air, 12 rue du Nord à Vevey

• Dès le 18 March, O Spring Calligrams on window for free reading – poem by Vera Pavlova from the collection “The Celestial Animal »
• Le vendredi 17 March 2023, free workshop for creating calligrams – poems in drawings
• Calligram competition
• Exhibition of calligrams including the creations inside – slip your A4 format creations with your contact details and the poem written on a separate sheet, in the ideas box located in front of the entrance to the Neighborhood Center. April 1 2023 draw among the participants for a book of poems

“Womenx and natureculture

The poet whose work we chose, she is a woman but above all she is a multiple being.

In this poem she describes, very simply, that she is as much an animal, INSECT, bird or woman, in it coexist different kingdoms of the living (Chlorphyliique, mammals, birds).

This opens up the possibility that the feminine being is multiple. In his poem, Vera Pavlova includes her multitudes – it is a being which is composed of a multitude of beings and in this, with the beings around us, she is like us part of a whole.

This raises the question of how our relationship with human beings and other than human beings changes, if we see ourselves as multiple and able to live with different species.

This is what some would today call cross-species positioning..

On the window, the calligram interacts with external spaces and people.

The text takes a specific form that catches the eye of the spectators, who makes him discover the poem of this Russian writer from another angle by materializing what he translates.

We see this as a possibility of discovering an extract of her work and then looking for other texts or poems that she may have written.”