One of the most creative European literary festivals, LitVest, now in its 14th edition, will bring to Timisoara, between September 24 and 26, a varied program, with guests from all over the world, but also with a premiere that combines the classic read text with artificial intelligence and bears the brand of the Timis County Library (BJT) "Sorin Titel".
"LitVest is the festival that combines debate, reading performance and aesthetic document. A highlight of the program will be 'RAI. Poetry & artificial intelligence', which is not only a debate about the phenomenon, but also an illustration of it. One of the most powerful AI software will generate video clips, starting from the literary texts of the guests. The event is a true technological-literary premiere, a BJT-branded 'texteriment'. LitVest is the festival that - since 2012 - takes literature into the most public and creative contexts, being at the same time the only Romanian literary festival part of Versopolis, the most important European network of literary festivals", declared, for AGERPRES, the director of the Timis County Library, Tudor Cretu.
Other events included in this edition of LitVest are: "The Reading Blanket", an urban reading picnic, which opens the festival again this year. The event also provides an opportunity for rural students to come into contact with great poets from around the world, making it one of the most famous reading events in Romania.
Next comes "Text-concerto", which proposes an anniversary (re)meeting with the famous band IRIS, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Cristi Minculescu will read from the texts of the protagonists of LitVest 2025, enhancing the connection between poetry and music. The event is organized in collaboration with the Timisoara County Hospital.
At the same time, every year LitVest has as a symbolic guest a deceased writer from Timisoara, this time it is the poet Valeriu Drumes (1943-2013), a personality of the Timisoara 80s, author, among others, of the volume "Terasa cu umbrele" (Marineasa publishing house, 2001), which consecrates the bohemian dimension of his poetry.
LitVest has always sought to open the appetite for reading from the earliest ages, starting with the stories that the youngest book consumers listen to from their grandparents. The festival is also a platform for launching young authors and getting to know the work of established ones.
"A country where people read a lot is already another country. Culturalization is an index that shows the level of that country. If in Romania the number of readers were to increase, hypothetically, 10 times, we would be talking about another country, which would also increase 10 times", mentioned, for AGERPRES, the director Tudor Cretu.
This year's edition of LitVest is attended by: Matthew Caley (Great Britain), Gabriel Chavez Casazola (Bolivia), Nathalie Handal (France, USA), Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Miriam Reyes (Spain). Romania: Valeriu Drumes (in memoriam, 1943-2013), Dinu Flămând, Radu Pavel Gheo, Ioan T. Morar, Tiberiu Neacsu, Simona Petrisor, Nona Rapotan.
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