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The International PEN Congress is the annual gathering of PEN Centres from around the world. In legal terms, it is the annual general meeting of the London headquarters, but the role it plays in strengthening the community of writers and celebrating the literature of the host region is of equal significance.
Bogotá.- The Congress has an annual theme and includes the Assembly of Delegates, meetings of the standing committees of International PEN and a literary programme. The Assembly of Delegates is composed of representatives of all PEN Centres who debate and vote on the issues fundamental to the governance and strategic direction of the organisation. The Assembly decides matters such as the election of the Board of Trustees of International PEN, their elected representatives who oversee the management of the organisation by the Secretariat between Congresses. Committee meetings include those of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, Writers for Peace Committee, Writers in Prison Committee, Women Writers’ Committee and the Exile Network. The literary programme is commonly an opportunity to celebrate the work of great writers from the host Centre.
Each year a different Centre hosts the Congress in partnership with International PEN. The staging of a Congress is a significant undertaking, which requires several years of planning and development. Centres interested in staging a Congress should contact the Secretariat to develop an understanding of the responsibilities involved and to develop an outline proposal, which must be endorsed as viable by the Board, before it can be presented to the Assembly to vote on.
Invitation from PEN Colombia
Welcome to Bogotá
Dear PEN Colleagues,
Many years have elapsed since PEN held its last Congress in South America. In 1936, PEN met in Buenos Aires. In one of the sessions the President was Baldomero Sanín Cano, the well-known Colombian essayist and founder of PEN Colombia. In 1979, PEN met again in South America, in Rio de Janeiro, and Mario Vargas Llosa presided over its Assembly of Delegates. In 1983 PEN met in Caracas under the presidency of the poet Ramón Medina. Two congresses were held afterwards in Mexico, Guadalajara in 1996 and México D.F. in 2003.
In this year of 2008, Bogotá will be the host city. The city, has recently received a number of international prizes and acknowledgments: World Book Capital (2007); Iberian-American Capital of Culture (2007); Leone d’Oro as the best city in the Architecture Biennale in Venice (2006); special mention at the II International Contest of Active Cities - Healthy Cities (2005) and finally Cities for Peace Prize (2002-2003).
Along with Bogotá’s development into a great contemporary city, we have unearthed the charm of La Candelaria, our colonial neighbourhood nestled under the blue, green, lilac cordillera edging the city to the east. The streets there follow the old intimate road grid, set with baroque churches and houses still evocative of a bygone era-deliberate and inward-looking-and monuments that constructed a very different social order. The present urban soundscape of La Candelaria combines the buzz of diverse voices in the space shared by cultural institutions, concert halls, libraries, schools, universities, a theatre, art galleries, street markets, bars, restaurants and cafés…
The theme of the Bogotå Congress is “The role of the Word”. We hope to see emerge around this key point a critical vision of language as the builder of transitory fictions and truths expressed in the dimension of writing, in the system of inclusion and exclusion of cultural and social values and in the game of politics.
Words possess us and equally constitute us. Words are a fire-like gift that creates and constructs the world we live in, while conversely they close and blur the open horizons, confining us in their prison of invisible walls. It is in this context that we would like to renew the principles that inspire PEN: tolerance; respect for the opinions of others; the radical defence of the right to express oneself without
censure or fear, and the right to dissent. The right to dream and create once and again the utopia that unites us.
The site of the Congress will be the Hotel Tequendama, frontier between old and new Bogotá. The hotel dates back to the fifties and has recently been renovated as part of the Crown chain. Our sessions will be held in a room with a view to the eastern cordillera and overlooking San Diego, a colonial church, the old panóptico that became the National Museum, the Moorish Circo de Toros (bullring) and the Torres del Parque, a landmark trio of apartment buildings by the great architect Rogelio Salmona.
We have programmed a roundtable, jointly sponsored and organised by the Friedrich Elbert and Konrad Adenauer Foundations, to debate the situation of freedom of expression in Colombia.
Parallel to the Congress, we are organizing a literary program at the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the García Márquez Center of the Fondo de Cultura Económica de México. For master classes and recitals we have invited literary figures like our emeritus president Homero Aridjis. We will also feature thinkers
and poets like Michel Deguy, invited by the French Embassy and other writers, still to confirm, invited by the Canadian Embassy and the Library Luis Angel Arango.
It will be vital for the Congress to benefit the community, with a number of delegates interacting with different Bogotá audiences, staging dialogues with children, young people and local writers; we hope delegates can offer short readings of their work. To this end, we encourage you viva voce to register at your earliest convenience, or at least communicate your intention of attending, sending your CV, with references of any work published in Spanish if such be the case.
I hope to see you in Bogotá and I send you on behalf or PEN Colombia warmest
greetings,
Cecilia Balcázar de Bucher
President Emeritus, PEN Colombia
Board Member, International PEN
Bogotá.- The Congress has an annual theme and includes the Assembly of Delegates, meetings of the standing committees of International PEN and a literary programme. The Assembly of Delegates is composed of representatives of all PEN Centres who debate and vote on the issues fundamental to the governance and strategic direction of the organisation. The Assembly decides matters such as the election of the Board of Trustees of International PEN, their elected representatives who oversee the management of the organisation by the Secretariat between Congresses. Committee meetings include those of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, Writers for Peace Committee, Writers in Prison Committee, Women Writers’ Committee and the Exile Network. The literary programme is commonly an opportunity to celebrate the work of great writers from the host Centre.
Each year a different Centre hosts the Congress in partnership with International PEN. The staging of a Congress is a significant undertaking, which requires several years of planning and development. Centres interested in staging a Congress should contact the Secretariat to develop an understanding of the responsibilities involved and to develop an outline proposal, which must be endorsed as viable by the Board, before it can be presented to the Assembly to vote on.
Invitation from PEN Colombia
Welcome to Bogotá
Dear PEN Colleagues,
Many years have elapsed since PEN held its last Congress in South America. In 1936, PEN met in Buenos Aires. In one of the sessions the President was Baldomero Sanín Cano, the well-known Colombian essayist and founder of PEN Colombia. In 1979, PEN met again in South America, in Rio de Janeiro, and Mario Vargas Llosa presided over its Assembly of Delegates. In 1983 PEN met in Caracas under the presidency of the poet Ramón Medina. Two congresses were held afterwards in Mexico, Guadalajara in 1996 and México D.F. in 2003.
In this year of 2008, Bogotá will be the host city. The city, has recently received a number of international prizes and acknowledgments: World Book Capital (2007); Iberian-American Capital of Culture (2007); Leone d’Oro as the best city in the Architecture Biennale in Venice (2006); special mention at the II International Contest of Active Cities - Healthy Cities (2005) and finally Cities for Peace Prize (2002-2003).
Along with Bogotá’s development into a great contemporary city, we have unearthed the charm of La Candelaria, our colonial neighbourhood nestled under the blue, green, lilac cordillera edging the city to the east. The streets there follow the old intimate road grid, set with baroque churches and houses still evocative of a bygone era-deliberate and inward-looking-and monuments that constructed a very different social order. The present urban soundscape of La Candelaria combines the buzz of diverse voices in the space shared by cultural institutions, concert halls, libraries, schools, universities, a theatre, art galleries, street markets, bars, restaurants and cafés…
The theme of the Bogotå Congress is “The role of the Word”. We hope to see emerge around this key point a critical vision of language as the builder of transitory fictions and truths expressed in the dimension of writing, in the system of inclusion and exclusion of cultural and social values and in the game of politics.
Words possess us and equally constitute us. Words are a fire-like gift that creates and constructs the world we live in, while conversely they close and blur the open horizons, confining us in their prison of invisible walls. It is in this context that we would like to renew the principles that inspire PEN: tolerance; respect for the opinions of others; the radical defence of the right to express oneself without
censure or fear, and the right to dissent. The right to dream and create once and again the utopia that unites us.
The site of the Congress will be the Hotel Tequendama, frontier between old and new Bogotá. The hotel dates back to the fifties and has recently been renovated as part of the Crown chain. Our sessions will be held in a room with a view to the eastern cordillera and overlooking San Diego, a colonial church, the old panóptico that became the National Museum, the Moorish Circo de Toros (bullring) and the Torres del Parque, a landmark trio of apartment buildings by the great architect Rogelio Salmona.
We have programmed a roundtable, jointly sponsored and organised by the Friedrich Elbert and Konrad Adenauer Foundations, to debate the situation of freedom of expression in Colombia.
Parallel to the Congress, we are organizing a literary program at the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the García Márquez Center of the Fondo de Cultura Económica de México. For master classes and recitals we have invited literary figures like our emeritus president Homero Aridjis. We will also feature thinkers
and poets like Michel Deguy, invited by the French Embassy and other writers, still to confirm, invited by the Canadian Embassy and the Library Luis Angel Arango.
It will be vital for the Congress to benefit the community, with a number of delegates interacting with different Bogotá audiences, staging dialogues with children, young people and local writers; we hope delegates can offer short readings of their work. To this end, we encourage you viva voce to register at your earliest convenience, or at least communicate your intention of attending, sending your CV, with references of any work published in Spanish if such be the case.
I hope to see you in Bogotá and I send you on behalf or PEN Colombia warmest
greetings,
Cecilia Balcázar de Bucher
President Emeritus, PEN Colombia
Board Member, International PEN
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