Off the Shelf Festival with University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam

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    Description

    Off the Shelf is one of the largest and most accessible literary festivals in the UK. Every year they bring the biggest names in literature and the arts to Sheffield. They joined with Roma Futures based in Sheffield to curate a series of events. October 8th, 2018 the festival welcomed Valdemar Kalinin.

    Valdemar Kalinin is a celebrated Romani language poet and author, born in Belarus and resident in the UK for 25 years. He will take us on a personal, cultural and poetic journey sharing his collection of posters, books and ephemera from 1930s Russia. Embodying the promise of the ‘Roma Enlightenment’ Kalinin guides us with passionate readings from his poems Romani Dreams.
    Period8 Oct 2018
    Event typeFestival
    LocationSheffield, United KingdomShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • Roma
    • Literature
    • Roma Studies
    • University of Sheffield
    • Sheffield Hallam
    • Russian

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