Helicon Poetry Festival and Offline Istanbul Poetry Festival

Helicon Society for the Advancement of Poetry in Israel was founded in 1990. Helicon is a Poetry journal, a Publishing House, a Poetry School, Sha’ar International Poetry Festival (SIPF), Poetry On the Map – poetry within the community.

Helicon is a partner of "Eurozine", the European Network of Cultural Journals, a partner of LAF, a member of Lyrikline, and a founding member of ENCWP, the European Network of Creative Writing Programs. In collaboration with "Literature Across Frontiers" organization.

Offline Istanbul Poetry Festival is an independent festival with the main aim of introducing world poetry to Turkish readers and promoting Turkish poetry abroad.