FIPBB SESSION are brief instances of the International Poetry Festival of Biobío, a festival that was born to accompany the project For a Poetic Education for Chile. Thus, the first sessions emerged as a way to disseminate the educational project, one in Berlin at the Andenbuch bookstore in the German capital and another in New York, at St. John's...

Event type Other Events Address Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Event dates 9 October 2023 - 11 October 2023, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
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In 2023 we developed the OASIS program, in five courses at the Republic of Israel Lyceum, intervening for the first time in all secondary education, in addition to having the International Poetry Festival of Biobío as official guests (three of its students and former students) in all sessions in the Bío-Bío Region. In this context we have decided...

Grateful to the community of poets in London, who accompanied us and participated so actively in the conversation around Poetry Education and the New Poet. It was the ideal public, among whom was the poet Consuelo Riveras-Fuentes, who despite her delicate health was the first to arrive at the Embassy. Also the poet Isabel del Río, translator into...

Do you know anywhere in your country or in the world where an educational establishment supports a Poetry Festival, producing one of its sessions? In Chile, the truth is that we do not know of any other, and it is called Liceo República de Grecia, which thanks to its director, Mr. Florentino Pedreros, has made such an extraordinary action...

The Poetic Education program that we are developing today, has its founding origin in two days conceived as a "cloister" (2015), in which a group of Chilean poets met at the Las Ánimas farm, in the town of Copiulemu, with the purpose of making a diagnosis and proposing a declaration of principles that shed light on the steps to...

The figure of the poet mentor, is a proposal in the context of the functioning of a robust Poetic Education, which allows poets from different parts of the world to come together, with the purpose of giving special support, such as advising young students with a special creative writing talent The invited poets can thus form a network of...

Fifth version of the FIPBB 2022