Transletting Walk

Transletting is coming to NYC again and brings along a second edition of the Transletting Walk. After last year's success, we once again let translation enter the streets of New York City - the most polyglot city in the world, where more than 800 languages are spoken. With the Transletting Walk, we celebrate this richness and explore what happens when translation leaves the page and enters the city.
The walk begins at 3:00pm at the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial (Riverside Drive at West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023): readers read aloud in many languages – often at the same time – and participants are invited to join in. Translation can happen across or within languages. You can read along, translate, or simply listen and drift alongside. Feel free to bring your own texts – the walk is porous by design.
At 6:00pm the event continues at Columbia University's Casa Hispánica (612 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027) where we want to create a space to dive deeper into the texts read during the previous walk. Parts of this workshop can be a mix of short prepared pieces, collective translation prompts, and an open stage where results from the walk (or other texts participants bring) can be shared.

Transletting is a collective of writers and translators from Leipzig and New York. Founded with students from Columbia University and the German Literature Institute Leipzig (DLL), the project explores translation as creative method, political gesture, and collaborative art form.

Please note that in case of inclement weather, attendees will be emailed an update the day of the event.