Shahrazad - Stories for life

On Valentine's Day, Stavanger City of Refuge and Shahrazad - stories for life
offer a heartwarming evening of poetry and music from around the world.

Manal Al-Sheikh (above, photo: A.L. Norheim), Stavanger's current ICORN Guest Writer from Iraq, Mansur Rajih (Yemen) and Maria Aano Reme (Norway), and Gunnar Roalkvam (Norway) will be sharing words of love, and Liv Runesdatter, Odd Børge Sagland and Hadil Mousawi will share music based in Norwegian, Lebanese and Latin-American traditions. Visitors of the Norwegian Children's Museum have made decorations - colorful hearts that will ensure a lovely atmosphere in Obstfelder at Stavanger Cultural Centre Sølvberget. The event starts at 18.00, and is free.

Mansur Rajih (Photo: Å. Fagervik)     

Gunnar Roalkvam (Photo: S.C. Urdal)

ICORN Guest Writer and filmmaker Prudence Uriri teaches film and is working on her next project, "After the Storm". This film has received support from Shahrazad's Neighbourhood Challenge, and will be made in cooperation with producers Elisabeth O. Sjaastad and Bob Coen.

Uriri has taken part in the organising of this week's South African Film Days in Lillehammer, Norway. Under the heading of "Reconciliation - Democracy - Justice?", the annual Winter Film Seminar has directed its attention towards this year's World Cup host. What kind of films are made in South Africa? And what kind of films are made about South Africa?

To see the program, go here .

Ayaz Khonsyawashan, ICORN Guest Writer in Bergen City of Refuge, recently published a collection of poems in Iraq, in the Kurdish Sorani language. "Anahita u cepke khewni dizraw" ("Anahita and a bunch of stolen flowers") is a collection of work that has previously been published in two separate volumes in Iraq, but that has not been available to Khonsyawashan, or readers, in Norway until now.

If you are interested in purchasing this book, please contact olaug (at) icorn.org