Writers Unlimited Festival and Mensen Zeggen Dingen - platform for poetry and performance - join forces and words! In Paard, we bring you a party full of poetry, poetry slam, prose and punchlines with a musical note. Besides Dutch spoken-word artists Sabina Lukovic, Duimalot, Hasan Gök and Damaris, two of the festival's international authors will let their voices be heard: George Abraham (United States) and Rosabelle Illes (Aurba). Host: Dean Bowen!

Mensen Zeggen Dingenn speaks out, starts conversations, puts exclamation marks or question marks! The poetry and performance platform has been a welcome and regular guest for ten years, with club shows in venues including Paard (The Hague), Theater Bellevue (Amsterdam), Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht), Doornroosje (Nijmegen) and festivals such as Lowlands, Down The Rabbit Hole, Zwarte Cross and Writers Unlimited Festival.

Festival tip 1: go to the festival opening at Theater aan het Spui on Thursday night 23 January first! From 19:30, you will see performances and readings by Ukraine's leading writer Andrei Kurkov, British author/stand-up comedian Viv Groskop and South African writer Resoketswe Manenzhe, among others.

Festival tip 2: for the full festival experience, go to the grand festival events Friday Night Unlimited (24 January) and Saturday Night Unlimited (25 January)! Both nights you choose your own route along some 20 performances, readings and conversations on five stages in Theater aan het Spui and Filmhuis Den Haag. English and Dutch spoken.

Festivaltip 3: as Writers Unlimited celebrates 30 years of making festivals, we are celebrating our anniversary with a show full of music, dance and literature at Amare (Danstheater) on Sunday afternoon, 26 January. You will see and hear Spinvis, Shirma Rouse, XILLAN, Babs Gons, Joost Oomen, Zaïre Krieger, Claudia Karapanou Flamenco Trio, Royal Conservatoire Dance and Pulse led by Eli Wing, among others. Tickets 11 euros (under 29s or students), or 16 - 35 euros (depending on seat chosen).

From 23 to 26 January 2025, Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague is to be found in theatres, libraries and schools throughout the city: from Theater aan het Spui, Filmhuis Den Haag, Amare and Paard to Theater Dakota, Theater De Vaillant, the Nieuw Waldeck, Schilderswijk and Ypenburg libraries and De Haagse Hogeschool. With over 120 writers, poets and spoken-word artists and musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. With readings, prose, poetry, storytelling, spoken word, author interviews, topical talks, films and music.