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

Samanta Franco

Born in 1990, she entered the world of theatre as a teenager in the Associação Gato que Ladra. In 2011, she received the degree of Licenciada in  Theatre Studies, having specialized in Acting, at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. During her academic studies she also participated in workshops on theatre and music in London, in addition to having spent one semester in an Erasmus student exchange at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki. Since then, she has worked as an actress and as a singer in various projects, having collaborated e.g. with Teatro Rápido and with the  Lisbon Players. Furthermore, she studied Meisner Technique during nine months at the John Frey Studio for Actors, in Lisbon. Besides her theatre activities, she has studied dance and music since her childhood (having participated in singing and piano classes at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional).

writing

locations

authors

Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław