This year, the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival will be held from May 29 (the evening of the official opening) to June 1. The festival will consist of the program component and the book fair, which will take place on the first floor of the Old Arsenal building.
The festival’s Focus theme “Everything Is Translation” will be curated by author and historian Marci Shore, and writer, translator, publisher and member of PEN Ukraine Oksana Forostyna.
The Book Arsenal program, which will be developed by the invited curators, will include events within the festival’s Focus theme, the Main Program, the Kids and Teens Program and the Professional Program.
In addition, the special teens program is prepared by participants of the Litlab Teens.
Book Arsenal will host the Translatorium Literary and Translation Festival with a special program.
PEN Ukraine will present a special program of events for the third time. Publishers will also have separate events in the festival program.
Lectures, discussions, performances, public interviews and poetry readings will take place on seven stages of the festival. We will also present exhibition projects during Book Arsenal.
Book Arsenal is organized in cooperation with Art Arsenal Community NGO. The Festival is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
The Festival is supported by the Partnership Fund for Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), funded by aid from the governments of Canada, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Book Arsenal’s Focus Theme program is co-organized by Documenting Ukraine, the program of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM Vienna). The development of the Focus Theme was also supported by the US Embassy in Ukraine.
The special teens program from the Litlab Teens is supported by the British Council’s program “Support for Cultural Activity in Ukraine with UK Involvement”.