Winternachten 2007
Monday 8 - Sunday 14 January 2007
Programme
They moved beyond the beaten track, looking for the unknown. Nearly one hundred writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers and scientists challenged us to take part in the experience. They came from among others India, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Surinam, the Antilles, South Africa to Winternachten. They read from their own work, played the main part in discussions, debates, concerts, public discussions and film programmes. This year there was a lot of attention for Berber culture, with poets from Morocco and the Netherlands. The history of the Netherlands and Indonesia was the subject of two programmes in cooperation with NIOD. Pankaj Mishra, the prominent Indian writer, opened the festival with the Winternachten lecture on literature and globalization. You could witness the first public dictation of Sranantongo in Winternacht 2.
Writers' Conference
A closed conference of eleven writers from eight countries took place during the festival. Read the report of the conference here in PDF.
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Retrospect
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Exhibition: Past time - forgotten time
Wednesday 10 January 2007Streetnames and signs, modeshows and trade fairs. Six visual artists from Indonesia looked into the way East Indian cities became Indonesian from 1930-1960. Their work can be seen in Artoteek Den …
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Winternachten lecture
Wednesday 10 January 2007The Indian writer Pankaj Mishra opened the festival in the Nieuwe kerk with the first Winternachten lecture. He spoke about the influence of globalization on literature. The lecture in English and …
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From the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia
Thursday 11 January 2007Winternachten and the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) this year worked together in the final presentation of the research programme "From the East Indies to Indonesia" into the decoloniz…
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Exhibit: Youssouf Amine Elalamy
Thursday 11 January 2007Through his literary comments Moroccan writer and visual artist Elalamy displays his sharp analyses in collages. In Morocco this had led to his work being censored. His work can be seen in the …
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Art Deco(lonization)
Thursday 11 January 2007From Batavia to Jakarta in art and history. The Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and Winternachten presented a programme with poetry, prose, music and film on the most important period in …
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Living Apart Together
Friday 12 January 2007Living Apart Together - religion and multiculturalism in The Netherlands. A paneldiscussion on multicuturality in the Netherlands. How do nonbelievers and believers with their various religions live …
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WINTERNACHT 1
Friday 12 January 2007A journey into a dreamed Netherlands. That is the adventure our travelling writer Cees Nooteboom ventured into at the opening of the first Winternacht. It started a programme on five stages with …
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Reading Club Live
Saturday 13 January 2007The NRC-Handelsblad reading club came live from Winternachten. Bas Heijne, Elsbeth Etty and Sjoerd de Jong publicly discussed Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, in the translation by Bas …
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Living together multi-coloured: the Antilles, Surinam, the Netherlands
Saturday 13 January 2007A debate. Creole, Hindostani or Javanese, Bakra, Makamba or Indian. How do the various population groups live together on the Antilles and in Surinam? Are there problems with integration or have the …
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WINTERNACHT 2
Saturday 13 January 2007What do we know about the soul? Ask Midas Dekkers and he will strip you of all illusions. He opened the second Winternacht, and in doing so the quest for the soul. On other stages: young poets, women …
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VPRO's OVT - Live in Winternachten
Sunday 14 January 2007The last sounds from Winternachten 2007 were heard on Sunday morning from The Hague in a live broadcast of OVT, the history programme of VPRO radio. The programme was dedicated to Winternachten …
