Lotte van Dijck
(1979) is a musical jack-of-all-trades, who has been singing and playing her own songs since she was eleven years old. She accompanies herself on such varied instruments as the piano, banjo, ukelele and guitar. One of her latest big projects is Muzikaal Verhaal (Musical Story), a series of family shows in the Rotterdam Doelen concert hall. She composed the music, played by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, but wrote the stories as well, read by Anneke Blok and Wilfried de Jong, among others. In September 2010 her first solo album Lege plaatsen in de stad (Empty places in town) appeared, with seemingly innocent songs about daily life. Together with Ellen Kromhout she made PrivéCarré, a mini performance in a self-constructed theatre on wheels. With it she performed at Oerol and the Amsterdam Fringefestival in the summer of 2010. One part of the duo Kirke she won the big prize of the Netherlands in 1997 in the category singer-songwriter. Lotte van Dijck composed film music for amongst others Sextet by Eddy Terstal and Jongens zijn we (We are boys) by Tomas Kaan.
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Wintercafe 3: VPRO De Avonden Live
In the second hour of De Avonden poet and performer Hagar Peeters tells how she incorporates Utopian Thinking in her new book Wasdom. Writer and cabaret artist Martijn Knol writes a manual of how we can indeed build a new Utopia together for the 21st century. It is a passionate and concrete plea for a new world community. Motivational speaker and spoken word artist Omékongo Dibinga will convince the audience in a short performance that personal happiness is within reach. Tim Parks and David Mitchell talk to each other on the need of the imagination of a better world in their own work. Hosts: Jeroen van Kan and Catherine van Campen. Broadcast live on VPRO Radio. In Dutch and English.
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Wintercafe 2: VPRO De Avonden Live
Can literature help is in imagining new possibilities of becoming a better and happier 'Mensch' In VPRO's De Avonden poets, musicians and writers offer the audience a glimpse of ther own Utopia. With readings by Rodaan al Galidi and Thomas Möhlmann. The writer Iman Humaydan tells of how against the backdrop of violence, one can hold on to the belief in a better world by going deeply in people's small stories. In her narrator's performance Abeer Soliman imagines the stories of those small people. Singer songwriter Lotte van Dijck, together with Peter Akkerman, takes the audience right through performances to her own musical Utopia. Hosts: Jeroen van Kan and Catherine van Campen. Broadcast live by VPRO Radio 6. In Dutch and English.