{"id":398,"date":"2024-05-02T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/?p=398"},"modified":"2024-05-02T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:16:13","slug":"the-agenda-ga-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"The agenda, GA 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BALTIC WRITERS COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN VISBY&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MAY 3rd\u20135th 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Uddens gr\u00e4nd 3, 62156 Visby, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday May 3rd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14.00 \u2013 17.00 General Assembly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Opening of the General Assembly. Short presentation of all participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Approval of the agenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Election of a chair person and secretary of the GA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Activity report by Malin Kivel\u00e4, chair of BWC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Membership questions. Membership fee for the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* BCWT (Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators) news and retrospectives by Lena Pasternak, director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reports from member organisations\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>17.00 Dinner&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19.00\u201321.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Public reading at the BCWT library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>21.00 Dinner continues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday May 4th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10.00 \u2013 17.00 General Assembly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10.00 \u2013 12.50&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Reports from member organisations&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13.00 \u2013 14.00 Lunch at Jessen\u2019s Saluhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14.00&nbsp; \u201317.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Treasurer\u2019s report by Mudite Treimane, treasurer of BWC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Auditor\u2019s report by Johanna Sandberg, auditor of BWC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Approval of the 2023 finances of BWC and the budget for 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Election of board for BWC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Election of the auditor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Election of two members and two deputies into the Centre\u2019s board<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Plans for next year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Date of next GA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Other issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Closing of GA 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>17.00 Dinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19.00\u201320.30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internal event at the BWTC library: \u201dThe death of literature\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is literature a dying art form? Was the time of the reading human being just a short moment in history? Is there a point in writing in a language that very few people know well? Is the sound book the future? What about AI? Is reading even that necessary and, if so, why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keynote speeches by Dmitri Plax and Malin Kivel\u00e4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20.30 Dinner continues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<strong>Sun May 5th<\/strong> \u2013 extra day if we didn\u2019t get everything done on Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10.00\u201312.00 General Assembly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIC WRITERS COUNCIL, GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN VISBY&nbsp; MAY 3rd\u20135th 2024 at Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Uddens gr\u00e4nd 3, 62156 Visby, Sweden Friday May 3rd 14.00 \u2013 17.00 General Assembly * Opening of the General Assembly. Short presentation of all participants. * Approval of the agenda * Election of a chair person and secretary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/?p=398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The agenda, GA 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balticwriterscouncil.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}