During the first week of December Ronny Someck visited Mexico for the presentation of his Spanish book of Poems 'El Paraíso del Arroz' (Poemas & Dibujos).
left to right:
Ronny Someck, Silvia Eugenia Castillero and David Grossman
November 11th 2013
Article of Ronny Smoeck in the BGU Review
The new volume of the electronic journal BGU Review, fall 2013, is dedicated to the works of authors and poets of the second generation of the 1950s immigration to Israel. All of these writers are the children of immigrants from Arab countries, with the exception of Leah Aini,
The BGU Review is a multidisciplinary journal that appears in English, sponsored by the Heksherim Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The journal presents translations of seminal essays and research regarding various areas of Israeli culture.
November 7th 2013
Exhibition Eye Territory
Ronny Someck is one of the artists of the exhibition 'Eye Territory'.
Opening: november 8th 2013, 2:00 pm.
The Diaghilev
56 Mazeh St. Tel Aviv
Opening Hours: every day 11:00-18:00.
Other artists are Ofra Ohana / Anisa Ashkar / Itay Benit / Shiri Bar-On Shani Barber-Ivgi / Shoshanna Givon / Sivan Gross / Ilan Dotan Nurit Witkon / Michael Yagudin / Ori Nir / Erez Solo Rimon / Yonat Cintra / Chava Polivoda / Meirav Cozac Hagit kazinitz / Fabio Rosenthal Kahn.
Exhibition Feather and Lead 24 october 2013 - 12 january 2014
The Feather and Lead exhibition is a photographic correspondence with the poems of Ronny Someck.
It is a project of the Department of Photography & Media featuring Julia Berezina | Maria Portnoy | Avia Weiss | Sophie Brooks | Nati Gold Roni Schweid Hazzan | Roi Kal Hai | Anat Finkelstein
Curated by: Professor Micha Kirshner
Exhibition: 24 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
The Gallery The NB Haifa School of Design
Read the article 'The Face / Ronny Someck' in Haaretz Magazine Friday, june 28, 2013 > here
july 14th 2013
On june 21th was the opening of the exhibition 'Mediterraneo sei tu' in Palazzo del Governo in Siracusa, Italy.
Ronny Someck is one of the artists.
Other artists are Naguib Mafhuz, Adonis, Moncef Ghachem, Mahmoud Ch’Albi, Fabio Iemmi, Biagio Guerrera, Sonia Maklouf, Giovanni Robustelli, Ouejdane Mejri, Afef Hagi, Raed Tarrab, Rosario Bruno, Laura Casielles, Carmen Camacho, Aldo Palazzolo, Paola Ghirotti, Hela Hammar, Khaled Mattawa, Roberto steve Gobesso, Kali Jones, Sasha Vinci, Irene Catalfamo, Abderrahmane Djelfaoui, La Casa dei Burattini di Otello Sarzi.
july 13th 2013
See a poem from Ronny Someck on a sink.
From : "Plasson exhibition IDDesighn".
july 13th 2013
Ronny Someck and Salah Al Hamdani made a promotour through France to promote their book 'Bagdad – Jérusalem, à la lisière de l’incendie' 23th - 27th june 2013.
february 23th 2013
The magazine Seneca Review number 42 spring / fall 2012 published nine poems of Ronny Someck.
You will find them on page 44 - 53, and you can read them > here
January 28th 2013
Ronny Someck visited Holland 6-10-2012
On friday december 7th he was invited for a reading in Eindhoven, together with poets as Willem van Toorn, Ineke Holzhaus en Ester Naomi Perquin.
On saturday there was in Maastricht a presentation of two new books: 'Mugshot', which he made together with the Dutch poet Hans van de Waarsenburg, and 'Nägel'.
On sunday he was invited for a concert of the choir 'Stem des volks' who sang together with an orchestra three poems of Ronny Someck.
Here are some pictures.
Ronny Someck in the Dutch snow
Ronny Someck in Eindhoven
The presentation in Maastricht
From left to right: Hans van de Waarsenburg, Ronny Someck and publisher Hennie Jetzes
In Maastricht after the concert
Poster Eindhoven
In Maastricht after the concert
Poster Maastricht
November 9-16 2012
Ronny Someck was one of the poets of The Journey of Oriental Poetry at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
With the Iraqi poet Kalid Al Maaly
With the poettranslator Moacir Amancio
November 1-3 2012
Ronny Someck was present at the 1st International Poetry in Mardin Mardin Artuklu University Turkey 1-3 November 2012.
On the pictures you see him with Yinon Muallem (music) and with Mehmet Sait Toprak.
July 30st 2012
Ronny Someck read 'Bagdad Jerusalem, à la lisière de l'incendie', on the festival 'Voix Vives, de méditerranée en méditerranée', Sète, France, july 23st 2012.
July 27st 2012
Ronny Someck has been awarded the Cross of The Order of The Knights for a Distinguished Service, at the embassy of Poland in Tel-Aviv handed by the Polish ambassador, and signed by the President of the Polish Republic, Bronislaw Komorowski.
June 16th 2012
Ronny Someck was one of the guest poets of the poetry festival 'Poetry on the Road' in Bremen, Germany (may 30th - june 4th 2012).
Here are some pictures.
Ronny Someck performed in Catania, Italy with Eyal Maoz and the Pocket Poetry Orchestra 17/10/2010 (see announcement and three pictures).
Photography: Carmen Cardillo (the teacher) and Dario Alberghina and Clara Saitta (two students of the art academy)
Oktober 12th 2011
Ronny Someck was one of the guests of the Festival International de la Poésie in Trois Rivière, Canada 30th september - 9th Oktober 2011.
August 31th 2011
Ronny Someck was one of the guests of Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia, August 2011.
May 31th 2011
American poet Mark Strand, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and translator, visited Tel Aviv University on May 25, 2011.
Mark Strand read his poems in English, and translator Uzi Weill and Israeli poets translations in Hebrew.
May 31th 2011
Ronny Someck's body-map from "mapping" during the 54th venice biennale 2011.
April 12th 2011
Ronny Someck made a cd called 'Drum Solo' with 'P'gooay Mo'ach'.
See also > here
november 12th 2010
Ronny Someck took part in the exhibition 'Resonance Boxes - artists transform violin cases' at the Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv.
This is his contribution:
Black ants crawl over nicotine-stained fingertips
dipping a mint leaf into the glass.
The alcohol dismantles Abd al-Wahab's' Cleopatra'.
Now all is clear
solo violin
solo flute
solo out
We're solo arak
november 12th 2010
Ronny Someck read his poem 'The day after' in Rabin's Memorial at Rabin's square, Tel Aviv on the 23th october 2010.
See a filmimpression > here
november 12th 2010
Ronny Someck was one of the guests of the Festival Internazionale di Letteratura Ebraica, Roma, Italy (9-13 october 2010).> here
september 14th 2010
Hear Ronny Someck read his poem 'Tractors' here > here
See a few pages from his book 'Blues van de derde zoen' > here
august 4th 2010
Ronny Someck was one of the guests of the Festival de poésie 'Voix Vives' in Sète, France (23-31 july 2010).
One of the other guests was the exile Iraqian poet Salah El-Hamdani.
Wednesday april 28th, President Shimon Peres hosted an encounter between Jewish and Arab writers and poets to discuss literary creativity as a cultural bridge. One of them was Ronny Someck. See some pictures en read the article in The Jerusalem Post > here
may 17th 2010
Ronny Someck visited Holland march 8th - march 13th 2010. Some pictures > here