One night – many experiences: public readings of contemporary literature performed by well known personalities at attractive and unusual venues in cities across Europe.

 

European Literature Night builds on the concept of literature being a unique creative medium which embraces the voices of individuals along with the values of the society they live in. The umbrella project “European Literature Nights 2012 – 2014” aims to bring contemporary European literature to the general public in an innovative way through a series of public readings and accompanying events. Supported by a grant from the Culture Programme of the European Union, the project partners hope to deliver high level of impact to their audiences. Although it is Brno, Bucharest, Dublin, Lisbon, Vilnius, Prague and Wroclaw who are jointly co-organizing the project “ELN 2012 – 2014”, the other partner cities where Literature Night already took root are of no lesser importance for the event’s development.

partner cities
Brno
Bucharest
Dublin
Lisbon

Quartel do Carmo

Largo do Carmo

The Convent of Carmo was founded in 1389 by the military commander and saint D. Nuno Álvares Pereira. The great earthquake of 1755 and the subsequent fire left in ruins much of the convent and its church. In 1836, the inhabitable part of the convent was converted into military barracks.

During the Carnation Revolution of 1974, it was in the Quartel do Carmo, the General Command of the Republican National Guard, that the prime minister of the "Estado Novo" government, Marcelo Caetano, sought refuge from the military revolt. The siege of the Quartel do Carmo was led by captain Salgueiro Maia.

 

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław