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Mark your Leipzig arts calendar: Leipzig Book Fair this week

The Leipzig Book Fair is taking place 12-15 March at the Leipziger Messe: "The Leipzig book fair and its reading festival 'Leipzig reads' are the spring events of the book and media sector. Authors, readers and publishing companies meet to collect information, to engage in exchange and discover what is new."

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#Haiku of the day (March 10)

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Daily haiku: Trams – Riders live and die/ Warmth turns to cold turns to warmth/ They loop on unfazed

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#Haiku of the day (March 9)

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Daily haiku: Us – The first shy flowers/ Peeked out the frozen ground white/ Turning red in spring

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Dolus Mutombo

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The music of this Congolese singer-songwriter turned out to be deeply relatable to me: musically, it reminded me of the instantly-cheerfulness-inducing Caribbean rhythms I had grown up around in Miami (I am thankful for transnational transfers); sentimentally, one of his songs, especially, gave a close description of a romantic situation I thought I was living

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Stewart Tunnicliff and his poetry

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Our first guest blogger is Stewart Tunnicliff, a Brit and a glocal who loves Leipzig, been here 14 years and (for sure) counting. Stew does a lot of things in this community, often dealing with sharing the power of words and communications – a lead in Leipzig Writers and Trans Lingo; an organizer and avid promoter

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The Cyans

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"The Cyans is an independent international power trio from Leipzig/Germany that plays original music apparently closest to alternative rock, based on songs written by Zomb Menon. The band plays concerts regularly in the Leipzig area."

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