Lauch! Contemplation--Уничтожение, A Joint Project
Dear everyone,
The Drozdovanian Empire is growing and we are now venturing into joint projects with other clubs.
'All artists are not chess players – all chess players are artists' Marcel Duchamp
To celebrate the artist within us, we are launching a joint project between the Great Minds and Rahil Drozdova and the Koroleva Army.
The title of this joint project is Contemplation--Уничтожение. As the name suggests, it requires contemplation - observation at the very least. To contemplate one has to be observant of issues around us. No issue is too small to be discussed. In the end, even though we can’t take away anything with us when we die, thus the word “Уничтожение” ( a Russian word for obliteration), legacies can remain behind - so can unresolved issues.
In our hectic everyday lives even before the coronavirus struck, we didn’t have time to communicate properly with the world--everyone was always too busy or too occupied. Now that the coronavirus has struck, more people are staying at home than before with time on their hands.
Poetry can’t always resolve issues directly or immediately but raising awareness about them can help to indirectly resolve them. At Contemplation--Уничтожение, the goal is at the end, to encourage self-reflection. What are the issues around you? What can you do to impact others? How can these issues be solved? Basic questions indeed, but hard to answer.
Poems in different (and ancient) languages are accepted, but specifically: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Tamil / Hindi / Bengali, Spanish, French, German, and other European and Asian languages. Poems don’t have to rhyme or have a certain length but must allow the reader to think and contemplate the issues around him/her.
However, poems MUST be original and not plagiarised. Only original works that are written by yourselves will be accepted. You can take inspirations from other poems from well-known poets (i.e not written by our members) but the source of the inspiration must be stated to avoid plagiarism and copyright issues.
We are looking forward to fruitful collaboration.
We are now officially calling for interested team members who shall also be contributors for this publication. Become a team member by signifying your interest in this news.
We will also make this an opportunity for other members who wanted to initiate several collaborative effort. We always strive to make our club a reflection of what we find interesting.
Best,
Jane Panda
Rahil Drozdova
Executive Director-TGM
Koroleva-RDKA
