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Get ready for a poetic downpour of powerful messages!

 

Poetry International is thrilled to announce the upcoming ‘Bombing of Poems’ event, set to shower Rotterdam with words of peace and beauty on Wednesday, May 14, 2025*. This art intervention is part of the celebrations leading up to Poetry International's festive 55th festival in June.

Where bombs once fell, poems will now fly!

 

Picture this: 100,000 poems printed on bookmarks, falling from the sky… It's not magic, it's Bombing of Poems - a spectacular and deeply symbolic project originated by the Chilean art collective Casagrande. Their Bombing of Poems initiative has been carried out in cities like Berlin, Dubrovnik, Guernica, London, Milan and Warsaw - all of which, like Rotterdam, have experienced actual bombings in their past. Now, we're turning Rotterdam into a poetic playground, transforming a space once touched by war into a canvas for art and reflection.

 

 

Bombing of Poems

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Bombing of Poems Rotterdam • May 14, 2025

December 05, 2024

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Gemeente Rotterdam
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Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
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