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WRITERS UNLIMITED INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL THE HAGUE 2025

 

ORDER TICKETS FOR:

FRIDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, 24 January 2025, 20:00-0:30 hrs, Theater aan het Spui/Filmhuis Den Haag

SATURDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, 25 January 2025, 20:00-0:30 hrs, Theater aan het Spui/Filmhuis Den Haag

PLAYING WITH FIRE, Sunday 26 January 2025 15:30 hrs, Amare (Danstheater) Den Haag

 

Get inspired and carried away by some ninety writers, poets, performers, thinkers and young talents from around the world during the 29th festival edition - from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 January 2025 - for four atmospheric winter days. 

We will announce the complete festival programme in early December 2024 and tickets will then be available for all festival events.

 

FRIDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, Fri. Jan. 24, 2025 (order tickets here from 6 Sept.)

SATURDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, Sat. 25 January 2025 (order tickets here from 6 Sept.)

Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag, 20:00-0:30 hrs.

Friday Night Unlimited and Saturday Night Unlimited are grand, super varied festival nights about and featuring books, films, stories, poems and current issues on five stages. Writers, poets and artists from home and abroad perform in talks, recite and talk about their favourite books and films.

Friday Night Unlimited including Abdelkader Benali | Benzokarim | Francis Broekhuijsen | Diann van Faassen | Dario Goldbach | Babs Gons | Maarten van der Graaff | Mirte Hartland | Rosabelle Illes | Zaïre Krieger | Mojdeh Felli | Asta Olivia Nordenhof | Joost Oomen | Elif Shafak | Yael van der Wouden.

Saturday Night Unlimited including Alara Adilow | Abdelkader Benali | Francis Broekhuijsen | Alvina Chamberland | Diann van Faassen | Rosabelle Illes | Andrej Koerkov | Zaïre Krieger | Kylie Martijn | Lev Avitan | Lara Nuberg | Alejandra Ortiz | Tommy Wieringa | DaniÃ"lle Zawadi.

You choose your own route along about twenty talks, interviews, recitations and performances that vary from night to night. Each performance lasts about twenty to sixty minutes. Dutch or English spoken.

Your ticket gives access to all talks and performances on the evening in question.

TICKETPRIZES per night:

  • Young people up to 30 years: â'¬15
  • Ooievaarspashouders: â'¬15
  • Regular:
    • 8 Sept - 26 Dec (Early Bird): â'¬25
    • 27 Dec - 25 Jan: â'¬35 / DenHaagPas: â'¬32,50

 

 

PLAYING WITH FIRE, Sunday 26 Jan 2025 (order tickets here from 6 Sept.)

Amare, Danstheater, The Hague, 15:30 - 17:00 hrs.

Be warmed and inspired by the fire of poets, spoken word artists, dancers and singers!

For 30 years, Writers Unlimited has provided a stage in The Hague for passionate and groundbreaking writers, poets, thinkers, musicians and other performers from the Netherlands and abroad.

In honour of this anniversary, during the international literature festival, Writers Unlimited presents Playing with Fire, a one-off and energetic show full of spoken word, music and dance in which words, rhythm, melody and movement meet. The show is Dutch spoken.

You will see and hear the Dutch Queen of Soul Shirma Rouse, musical superhero Spinvis, alternative R&B singer and writer XILLAN, Poet Laureate Babs Gons, writer and theatre maker Joost Oomen, singer and cellist Saartje van Camp, poets and spoken word artists Rosabelle Illes from Aruba and Zaïre Krieger, dance by students Royal Conservatory Dance, Claudia Karapanou Flamenco Trio i.c.w. Flamenco BiÃ"nnale Nederland and many others. Host will be Abdelkader Benali.

Playing with Fire is realised in cooperation with Amare, with contributions from the City of The Hague and the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

TICKETPRICES Playing with Fire:

  • Young people up to 29 years: â'¬11
  • Ooievaarspashouders: 50% discount on rang
  • Regular:
    • 1st rang: â'¬35 / DenHaagPas: â'¬32,50
    • 2nd rang: â'¬32
    • 3rd rang: â'¬23
    • 4th rang: â'¬16

 

In early December 2024, we will announce the complete festival programme on the Writers Unlimited website, with detailed day-by-day information, programme descriptions and biographical profiles of all participating authors and artists. Subscribe to our email newsletter and stay informed!

 

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About Writers Unlimited

Writers Unlimited brings together writers, poets, spoken word artists, thinkers and scientists from all over the world to discuss topical issues, literature, poetry, art, science and society with our audiences. Annually in the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague (next edition 23-26 January 2025), throughout the year in our Writers Series conversations at various locations in The Hague, in our Podcasts. And 24/7 in our freely accessible YouTube channel videos with hundreds of live registrations of our conversations and performances with authors from around the world.

Since 1995 Writers Unlimited organises the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague. Many tens of thousands of visitors have witnessed conversations and readings by writers and poets on topical themes. The festival has grown out to become one of the most important international literary events in the Netherlands. Under the motto 'Give the floor to the authors', the festival has involved literature in the national and international societal debate. The programmes take place at various locations in the city of The Hague, including Theater aan het Spui, Paard, Amare, Theater Dakota, PIP, in neighbourhood libraries and at schools and universities.

Our activities are possible by structural subsidies from the Municipality of The Hague and the Dutch Foundation for Literature, and incidentally by various private funds, and cooperation partners such as Literatuurmuseum, Huis van het Boek, De Haagse Hogeschool, Bibliotheek Den Haag and the Jan Campert-Stichting.

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