| Darlleniadau i ddathlu pen-blwydd Ilhan Sami Çomak
Mae’n bleser gan PEN Norwy a Wales PEN Cymru eich gwahodd i ddathlu pen-blwydd Ilhan Sami Çomak – bardd Cwrdaidd sydd wedi ei garcharu. Ymunwch â ni ar Zoom am gerddoraieth a darlleniadau barddoniaeth i ddathlu ei ben-blwydd. #RhyddhewchYBardd 8 Mawrth 2021. 6pm CET / 5PM GMT / 8PM amser Twrci. Gweler amserlen lawn y digwyddiad isod. E-bostiwch caroline@norskpen.no i gofrestru. |
Ilhan Sami Çomak Birthday Readings
PEN Norway and Wales PEN Cymru invite you to join us to celebrate the birthday of imprisoned Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak. Join us on Zoom for music and poetry readings to celebrate his birthday. #FreeThe Poet 8 March 2021. 6pm CET / 5PM GMT / 8PM Turkish time. See below for the full event schedule. Please email caroline@norskpen.no to register for the event.
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EVENT SCHEDULE
INTRODUCTION by PEN Norway’s Turkey Adviser Caroline Stockford
Suna Alan, Kurdish Folk Singer
Message from Ilhan’s mother & Ipek Özel
FIRST READINGS
Alice Oswald
Menna Elfyn, President, Wales PEN Cymru
Norwegian poet Aasne Linnestå
New Zealand poet Sophia Wilson
Member of Turkish Authors’ Union, Hakkı Zariç, speaks about Ilhan’s work
Turkist poet Nilay Özer reads one of Ilhan’s poems
Message from Ilhan to Wales PEN Cymru on his being
made an honorary member
SECOND READING
Caryl Bryn reads Ilhan’s poem ‘Things that are not Here’ in Welsh
to a piece for harp composed for Ilhan by Shelley Musker Turner
American poets
Lee Herrick
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Haleh Liza Gafori
Caroline Stockford thanks all and reminds participants
and audience to leave birthday messages for Ilhan in ‘Chat’
Screening of Øivind Hånes and Karsten Brustad’s
video and operatic rendition of Ilhan’s poems
