AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL BRIDGE<\/p>\n Founded in 2008 as a Spanish sister foundation of the Belgian publishing house POINT Editions, founded in 1984, the cultural foundation ITHACA has rapidly built up an international fame as organizer of multilingual poetry recitals, splendid music performances and exhibitions of paintings by excellent artists, receiving offers by national and international artists, interested in cooperation. The foundation cooperates with several cultural centres and Universities, but The Poetic Evening Concerts of Ithaca, yearly organized at the seat of the foundation in Altea (Alicante), Spain, are its most important cultural event, yearly organized at the seat of the foundation in Altea (Alicante), Spain.<\/p>\n The objective of the Foundation ITHACA is to be a cultural bridge for Spanish artists, poets and musicians to other countries and vice versa. The Foundation organized already several cultural activities in Spain, concerts, poetry readings and exhibitions of paintings and sculptures by well-known Spanish and foreign artists<\/p>\n Exhibitions of paintings: The Foundation organized exhibitions of paintings by and sculptures by the world famous Indian artist Satish Gupta, by the Belgian artists Frans Minnaert, Roland Monteyne, Felix Roulin and Yves Rhay\u00e9. By the German: Siegfried Reich an der Stolpe, by the English Allan Smallwood, by the India Satish Gupta, by the Spanish Luis Pla, Riera I Arag\u00f3 and Fernando de Quir\u00f3z, by the Chilean V\u00edctor Ram\u00edrez, the Brazilian Gra\u00e7a Marquez, the Chinese Lo Ch\u2019ing and Wang Lee from Taiwan, the Swiss Verena Eichenberger\u2026<\/p>\n Publications: The Foundation ITHACA published as well several scores: \u201cQuatre Pieces pour viola et guitare\u201d by the French composer Thierry Laforge and \u201cDos meditaciones para guitarra\u201d by the Spanish composer Valent\u00edn Bielsa, as well as several books, including \u201dLa jota en la comarca de la Sierra de Segura\u201d and \u201cCancionero de la Sierra de Segura\u201d by Marina Garc\u00eda Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n Cultural cooperation<\/p>\n In Spain: the foundation cooperated with the Liceo Po\u00e9tico de Benidorm to organize a homage to the late Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti, with Denia Classics, with the Curso & Concurso Internacional de M\u00fasica de Benidorm, with the Jornades de Guitarra \u201cCiutat de D\u00e9nia\u201d, organized in Altea a Gala to support the humanitarian organisation Visi\u00f3 Sense Fronteres. Organized poetry & music recitals as well, as exhibitions at the cultural centres of Alfas del Pi, Alicante, Calpe, Denia, Elda, La Nuc\u00eda, Petrer\u2026<\/p>\n International: The foundations Ithaca cooperates with POINT Editions (Belgium), The Academy Mihay Aminescu, organisator of the International Poetry Festival in Craiova (Romania), with JUNPA (Japan Universal Poets Association, Japan), with Margutte (Italy), with Poieinkaiprattein (Greece) and\u00a0 Cross-culturalcommunications (USA).<\/p>\n International representations<\/p>\n ARAB COUNTRIES: Professor, author Dr. Benaissa Bouhmala<\/p>\n AUSTRALIA: poet, translator, publisher George Roca<\/p>\n BANGLADESH: poet, organizer Aminur Rahman<\/p>\n CHINA: Dr. Li Dingjun, professor, poet, translator (poet\u2019s name Hai An).<\/p>\n ITALY: poet, translator, organizer Laura Garavaglia<\/p>\n MONGOLIA: poet, publisher .Mend-Ooyo,<\/p>\n ROMANIA: poet, organizer Ion Deaconescu, author, translator Gabriela C\u0103lu\u021biu Sonnenberg<\/p>\n RUSSIA: professor, poet, translator Viacheslav Kuprianov,<\/p>\n SLOVAKIA: poet, translator , editor Dr. Milan Richter.<\/p>\n JAPAN: Mrs Mariko\u00a0 Sumikura and Taeko Uemura, poets, translators<\/p>\n USA: poet, translator, editor Stanley H. Barkan,<\/p>\n For the local cultural activities in SPAIN: music director, Vicent Ballester, Luis Pla (painting), Rafael Carcel\u00e9n (poetry), Marijke & Marius van Wijk (Dutch contacts),\u00a0 Gabriela C\u0103lu\u021biu Sonnenberg (contacts with Romania), Uta (German contacts).<\/p>\n The Poetic Evening Concerts of ITHACA<\/p>\n The cultural Foundation Ithaca organizes every year in July and August 5 Sundays concerts of classical music by excellent Spanish and foreign musicians, poetry recitals in 5-6 languages and exhibitions of paintings and sculptures by excellent Spanish and foreign artist.<\/p>\n Any proposal of a \u2013 professional – cultural exchange project with the Foundation is welcome and will be carefully studied. Mail to: elpoeta@point-editions.com<\/p>\n September 2015: in Craiova, Romania<\/p>\n 16th till 20th September<\/p>\n \u201cInternational Poetry Festival Mihai Eminescu\u201d with participation of more than 40 poets from all over the world<\/p>\n October 2015: in Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n 1st till 4th October<\/p>\n \u201cZagreb Literary Talks\u201d<\/p>\n With poets and authors from several countries<\/p>\n October 2015: in Antwerp, Belgium<\/p>\n 31st October,<\/p>\n Opening of the 79th Book Fair in Antwerp, where POINT Editions exhibits till the 11th November.<\/p>\n November 2015: in Antwerp, Belgium<\/p>\n till the 11th November, POINT exhibits its publications of modern international poetry at the Book Fair in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/p>\n November 2015: in Denia, Spain<\/p>\n \u201cLa Noche del Flamenco\u201d, repetition of the \u201cPoetic Evening Concert of Ithaca\u201d which had been\u00a0 sold out, with the legendary flamenco guitar player \u201cSerranito\u201d and Vicent Ballester<\/p>\n More details will be added as soon as they are available<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n POINT Editions: poems from the world’s best<\/p>\n known and unknown poets in English, Spanish, Dutch and Arab<\/p>\n Already more than 130.000 visits<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.point-editions.com<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CulturalFoundation ITHACA AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL BRIDGE Founded in 2008 as a Spanish sister foundation of the Belgian publishing house POINT Editions, founded in 1984, the cultural foundation ITHACA has rapidly built up an international fame as organizer of multilingual poetry recitals, splendid music performances and exhibitions of paintings by excellent artists, receiving offers by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/6074"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1475060424_image1.jpeg\")
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