Poetry will be the central theme of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival, which will be held from March 15 to 24, and will be mostly based at the Old Navy Yard’s Contemporary Art Centre’s Inner Harbor.
According to a statement issued yesterday, the festival will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of American poets Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, as well as the 100th anniversary of the birth of Portuguese authors Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen and Jorge de Sena, and Macanese poet Jose dos Santos Ferreira (Adé), who wrote his poems in the local creole language, Patuá. Event organizers said that special tributes will be paid to them through a series of discussion panels, performances, film screenings and exhibitions involving local and international guests.
The festival will also be celebrating the 100-year-anniversary of the 1919 May 4th New Literature Movement in China, by highlighting the contribution of writers such as Hu Shi, Lu Xun and Zhu Ziqing, Bing Xing and Lin Huiyin.
During its 10-day program, the festival will welcome poets from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, such as Jidi Majia, the vice-president of the Chinese Writers Association, Bei Dao, Yan Ai-Lin, Chris Song, Yam Gon, Chen Dong Dong, Shu Yu, Huang Fan, Lu Weiping, Na Ye, Tan Wuchang and Hsiu He.
Poets arriving from Portuguese-speaking countries include José Luís Tavares from Cape Verde, Pedro Lamares from Portugal, Hirondina Joshua from Mozambique, Gisela Casimiro from Guiné-Bissau, and Eduardo Pacheco from Angola.
Local poetry association The Other Sky will join the event represented by members Mok Hei Sai, Lou Kit Wa, Wong In In and Gaaya Cheng. The Macau based theatre group Rolling Puppets will stage their puppet-theatre show “Drug” at the Navy Yard over three days, which is a renewed adaptation of Lu Xun’s novel “Drug” published in 1919.
In the field of music, Portuguese 2017 Eurovision Singing Contest winner Salvador Sobral will visit Macau for the first time, and will perform a concert on March 17.
Alongside the Contemporary Art Center at the Old Navy Yard, the Art Garden, Albergue SCM, Macao Creative Industries Center, IPOR, Cinematheque Passion and the Portuguese Bookshop will be additional venues of the Script Road.
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