"Hullunud Tartu 3" kogumiku esitlus / Presentation of the anthology Crazy Tartu 3

19. mail esitleti Tartu Kirjanduse Majas kogumikku "Hullunud Tartu. Pilt ja sõna 3". Raamatut tutvustas koostaja Jaan Malin, talle olid toeks Jüri Kolk, Siim Lill, Kristel Mägedi, Berk Vaher, Kersti Unt ja Kerstin Vestel.
Among other online events, this strange spring has brought to the audience the presentation of the anthology Crazy Tartu. Picture and Word 3 ("Hullunud Tartu. Pilt ja sõna 3" in Estonian). Broadcast on May 19th from Tartu Literature House, the video features readings of the works included in the anthology both in Estonian and in English. The multilingual anthology is a collection of works by authors and visual artists who have prformed at the international interdisciplinary festival Hullunud Tartu/ Crazy Tartu during 2016-2018.
Initiated in 2010 and organised in cooperation between the bookshop Utoopia, the Estonian Literary Society and the Estonian Writers' Union, Crazy Tartu brings together writers, poets, musicians and artists from all over Estonia and also from abroad. The 2-day festival offers an intense program and the atmosphere always has some contceptual wierdness. It is a festival with a twist, inviting the performers as well as the audience 'go crazy' and this crazyness as well as the of informality characteristic to the festival itself is also reflected in the video of the presentation: it a conceptually amateur recording, some parts of the program and the order of the readings are discussed during the event and the the performers remember half way through the event that there might also be internatioanl viewers. Still, the excitement, creativity and humor are visible as it is at the times of the festival which hopes to welcome guests and audience live again in November 2020. The collection will also be published digitally and will soon be available on Tartu City of Literature website tartu.kirjandus.ee
Piano - Kerstin Vestel
Jaan 'Luulur' Malin (the initiator of the festival and editor of the anthology) - introduction
Kristel Mägedi - poem in Estonian
Kristel Mägedi - English translation by Kersti Unt
Kristel Mägedi - a song
Jüri Kolk - English translation by Kersti Unt
Jüri Kolk - a poem in Estonian, some of his translations of Russian poetry and a parody of how (some) Estonian actors read poetry
Poems by Philip Meersman (Belgium) in Estonian translation (Kersti Unt)
Poems by Nilson Muniz (Portugal) in Estonian translation (Kersti Unt)
Siim Lill - a poem by his collective Iso Pullo in Estonian and in English and four of his own poems
Kristel Mägedi - a poem and a song
Berk Vaher - poems in Estonian and in English
Jaan 'Luulur' Malin - poems
Kristel Mägedi - song
The performers say thank you and good-bye listening to this song (as it is a Crazy Tartu event, the equipment fails and sound is not audible in the video itself): soundcloud.com...