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Winternachten The Hague 2007

Winternachten 2007

Mon 8 January - Sun 14 January 2007

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.





Retrospect

Wednesday 10 January 2007  
00:00 - 00:00  
Artoteek Den Haag

Exhibition: Past time - forgotten time

Streetnames 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 …
20:00 - 23:00  
Nieuwe Kerk

Winternachten lecture

The 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 …
Thursday 11 January 2007  
10:00 - 17:00  
Theater aan het Spui

From the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia

Winternachten 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…
17:00 - 00:00  
Vrije Academie

Exhibit: Youssouf Amine Elalamy

Through 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 …
20:00 - 00:30  
Theater aan het Spui

Art Deco(lonization)

From 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 …
Friday 12 January 2007  
20:00 - 01:30  
Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

WINTERNACHT 1

A 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 …
Saturday 13 January 2007  
15:00 - 17:00  
Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Reading Club Live

The 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 …
15:00 - 17:00  
Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

Living together multi-coloured: the Antilles, Surinam, the Netherlands

A 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 …
20:00 - 01:30  
Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

WINTERNACHT 2

What 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 …
Sunday 14 January 2007  
10:00 - 11:30  
Dudok

VPRO's OVT - Live in Winternachten

The 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 and …

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