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Creative Residency of Authors
The project participants, young writers Kibsa Anthony Ouedraogo, Laura Sheilla Inangoma, Greta Ambrazaitė-Norkūnė and Teodora Marija Grigaitė, have been maturing their texts on pandemic and post-pandemic experiences in their countries for three months through discussions, mind maps, lectures and workshops, and at the same time about the external and internal constraints of the contemporary world and the utopias of liberation, searching for common images, keywords and narratives, for the shared dreams of their generation that would stretch across the continents of Europe and Africa.
Greta Ambrazaitė-Norkūnė
Greta Ambrazaitė-Norkūnė is a Lithuanian poet, musician, and translator from Spanish who has recently published her second book of poems. She publishes her work in the country’s most important cultural publications and actively participates in literary events. Her work combines anthropological and feminist themes.
Writer and poet Greta Ambrazaite was awarded the Jurga Ivanauskaite Prize for her poetry book “Adela” at the Vilnius Book Fair 2024. Greta Ambrazaitė is a participant in the international Creative Europe project Deconfining and the author of the text “The Island Where People of Anxiety Meet,” which was created for the liberation from restrictions in the fields of art, culture, and politics.
The author donated the prize money to the Lithuanian Writers’ Union campaign to support Ukraine.
Laura Sheilla Inangoma is a Kirundi, Swahili, and French playwright from Burundi whose plays have been produced in theatres and festivals in various African countries. She presented her work at the Avignon Festival in 2022, and her work seeks to make connections between her ancestral cultural heritage and global contemporary processes and experiences.
LAURA SHEILLA INANGOMA
KIBSA ANTHONY OUEDRAOGO
Kibsa Anthony Ouedraogo is a Burkina Faso-based writer, screenwriter, actor, and mime artist from Ouagadougou who writes in Mori and French and is active in African and European theatre events and projects (including the well-known pan-African festival Récréatrales). His political works deal with contemporary life and society.
Teodora Marija Grigaitė is a Ph.D. student at the Lithuanian Institute for Cultural Research, a philosopher, translator, publisher, and educator. At ‘Phi Knygos’, she worked on texts ranging from ancient philosophy to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. She also writes philosophical books for children. Her international publication on the role of laughter and humor in the feminist movement is forthcoming.
TEODORA MARIJA GRIGAITĖ
On 21 December 2022, the National Kaunas Drama Theatre organized an online public reading session, including a panel discussion with four writers. Kibsa Anthony Ouedraogo, Laura Sheilla Inangoma, Greta Ambrazaitė, and Teodora Grigaitė read excerpts (and discussed them with the audience) of their works, which they wrote in an attempt to describe the actual experience of deconfinement and of the pandemic and post-pandemic restrictions in their respective countries, as well as describing the external and internal constraints and utopias of liberation in the contemporary world.
If you missed it, we invite you to listen:
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