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Santa Mònica Ràdio presents the Thursdays of voice and word podcast, a space where orality and the spoken word are the protagonists. Poetry recitals, readings, performances and experimental proposals by creators, invited every Thursday at 7 pm in the Bar Lounge at Santa Mònica.
Check the next sessions live, or listen to previous proposals through the XRCB, IVOOX and Spotify.
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To celebrate World Poetry Day, Santa Mònica proposes a recital with three singular voices of current Catalan poetry. Their work has been recognised with long-standing and prestigious awards (among others: Calafell, Carles Riba Prize 2023; Plantada, Rosa Leveroni Prize 2021; Fiol, Rosselló-Pòrcel Prize 2019) and the three voices offer a highly committed proposal that challenges and shakes through the power of the word and images that shake.
As a troubadour game, Vicenç Altaió will read and comment on unpublished poems from his book Siisuuu, hrss, rseiss, uuus and Marçal Font will recite poems with the concepts of being born, growing and living in the interstices as a horizon.
Raquel Santanera and Oriol Sauleda are two poets born in the 90s who have arms too short to box with God. They've been brought together so many times already, and after having already varnished their duo recitals with humor, they finally said to themselves: what if we do things differently and fight? And it’s not that they want to be provocative, they’re not after likes nor are they trying to stage a happening — they’re simply going to beat each other up with verses and try to keep a straight face the whole time. It was too tacky to make a joke about "agonal" and "inguinal", so let's leave it at that.
In a sound poetry recital, Maria Sevilla and Laura López will deliver poems about impulse and fear, courage and oviparous insomnia, vertigo and inclinations.
When words deform and break apart, and you find yourself right in the middle of a sea of written and sonic debris, listening intently without discovering anything that holds concrete meaning — then you’ve entered the territory where both Cova and I dwell.
This is the collision of two artistic projects that aim for, at the very least, two things. On one hand, to summon the violin, pedals, and voice into an impertinent mix that refuses to abandon tenderness. On the other, to head toward post-rock, contemporary classical music, and love in struggle — in order to flee repetition and comfort as if fleeing the plague.
Todo o que escribo convértese en realidade (Everything I Write Becomes Reality) is a performance halfway between a poetry recital and what in Galicia is known as a contada — that is, the act of sharing stories told aloud to an audience.
