Book Arsenal 2025 has announced its program

The 13th International Book Arsenal Festival has announced its program by publishing it on the festival’s official website.

The festival program includes around 200 events and are organized by theme. The programs include: the focus theme program, the main program, special and curated programs — the professional program; the main program, “Our Arsenal”; the children’s and teen program, “A Familiar Language of Imagination”), and the publishers’ program, comprised of discussions, lectures, readings, workshops, meetings with authors, and musical and performative events.

The book fair will feature more than 100 publishing houses, six bookstores, and partner stands of military and volunteer initiatives.

In 2025, the Illustrators’ Fair returns to the Book Arsenal — 12 artists, graphic designers, and illustrators will present their works in various visual styles. In addition, the festival will showcase 16 exhibition projects.

The full program is available at this link.

As reported earlier, the Book Arsenal will run from May 29 to June 1. Marci Shore and Oksana Forostyna were chosen to curate this year’s focus theme, which is “Everything Between Us Is Translation.” Eight participants from Georgia, Estonia, Italy, Poland, Czechia, Finland, France, and Sweden will take part in the Book Arsenal Fellowship Program 2025.

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