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Joseph Brodsky’s 80th birthday celebrated with flash mobs and online shows

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Joseph Brodsky’s 80th birthday celebrated with flash mobs and online shows


25.05.2020

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On May 24, the prominent Russian poet, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky would have turned 80. His anniversary will be celebrated in St. Petersburg, the poet’s native city, as well as in other cities of Russia and the world. Literary flash mobs, online lectures, premieres of films and performances about Brodsky, and other events are planned.

Joseph Brodsky was born in the Soviet Union, lived in the USA and other countries for more than 20 years, and is buried in Venice. At the same time, throughout his life he felt like a Russian poet and wrote poetry mainly in Russian. In 1987, Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Several events dedicated to Joseph Brodsky will be held in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg Bolshoi Puppet Theater will present the premiere of Procession – a film based on the eponymous poem by Joseph Brodsky.

The Central Children's Library of the Petrograd District launched a poetic marathon #балконбродского. Participants were asked to record a video with them reading Brodsky’s poems on their balcony and post them on social networks.

In Irkutsk, a literary flash mob has been prepared for the anniversary, which will last eight hours. Eighty cultural figures, journalists and representatives of local authorities will read poems of the poet.

The Gorky Moscow Art Theater will gather friends of Joseph Brodsky, contemporary poets and actors, who will read the poet’s works, on its YouTube channel.

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