Multilingual Baby Poetry with Francesca Cricelli

This event is for children of all ages who want to have fun learning new words: we'll teach each other new words and sentences in different languages in a friendly inspiring environment. Fun activities for children are also always on the menu!

Poet and literary translator Francesca Cricelli will host this Kakó Lingua gathering where we will read poems about animals in different languages and invite children to draw, color, cut out their favorite animals from all over the world and add them to a map. We will learn where those different animals live and what languages are spoken where they come from! Our host speaks Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and even some Icelandic and we welcome all other languages to join us as well and we will find ways to understand each other! 

All materials will be available on location.

Francesca is a poet and literary translator. She was born in Brazil, her family is originally from Italy and she grew up in Malaysia. Her interest in translation and migration has brought her to become a writer and a researcher. She holds a PhD in Literature and Translation Studies from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), she has also published several books of poems among which Repátria (Demônio Negro, 2015), 16 poemas +1 (Sagarana Forlag, 2017), As curvas negras da terra (Nosotros, 2019) and the book of travel prose Errância (Macondo, 2019). Her work has been published in different countries and languages. She currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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For more information:

Martyna Karolina Daniel, intercultural specialist
martyna.karolina.daniel@reykjavik.is