13 Octo­ber – poet Taras Malkovych pre­sent­ed his poet­ry and did a talk on «Image Trans­fu­sion: Where is that bridge between movies and poet­ry?” at the Cen­tral Library, Cape Town

Taras Malkovych is a Ukrain­ian poet and trans­la­tor, the author of the poet­ry col­lec­tion “The one who loves long words”, and a Vis­it­ing Ful­bright Schol­ar at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty in New York (2014–2015), where he com­piled an anthol­o­gy of young poet­ry of the USA in his own Ukrain­ian trans­la­tions. He start­ed his African con­nec­tion with tak­ing part in “I’ll Be Wait­ing For You Under The Kaice-drat”, an inter­cul­tur­al poet­ry project of Ukraine and Africa. His poet­ry is as cin­e­mato­graph­ic as the dreams he sees at night, thus his first lit­er­ary project was an anthol­o­gy of writer’s dreams called “The Sleep­walk­ers”.