Archive

18 January 2019 23:40 - 01:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Dancing the Night Away

18 January 2019 23:05 - 23:35 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My life: Damiaan Denys

18 January 2019 22:55 - 23:40 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Seven authors read their visions on the future.

18 January 2019 22:30 - 23:00 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My Life: Joke Hermsen

18 January 2019 22:30 - 23:55 uur Filmhuis - zaal 2

Film: 'Frankenstein' (1931), introduced by Martijntje Smits

The obsessed Dr. Henry Frankenstein is far ahead of his time. He succeeds in bringing dead tissue to life. Screening of the classic 1931 movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's epistolary novel. Introduced by philosopher, engineer and innovation thinker Martijntje Smits.

18 January 2019 22:30 - 23:45 uur Filmhuis - zaal 1

Forever Clips Clips Clips

Writers Hanna Bervoets and Mark O'Connell and film curator Gerlinda Heywegen presented and commented on video clips, short films and excerpts from games and feature films related to the festival theme 'Who wants to live forever?'

18 January 2019 22:05 - 22:50 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Eternal Texts

Writers from Uganda and Israel, and poet and translator Kawa Nemir chose literature, songs, speeches and sacred books with eternal value.

18 January 2019 21:55 - 22:01 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My Life: Leni Zumas

18 January 2019 21:50 - 22:50 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2

Artificial ignorance: Digital Failure

Eight authors read their literary vision on artificial ignorance.

18 January 2019 21:30 - 22:15 uur Filmhuis - zaal 1

Till Death Do Us Part

A road trip with film-fragments around life, death and the desire for eternal life.

18 January 2019 21:20 - 21:50 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My Life: Arshia Sattar

18 January 2019 21:15 - 22:15 uur Filmhuis - zaal 2

How to read a movie? with Lidewijde Paris: 'To Light' by Nora Särak

A documentary from Estonia on the close ties between a mother and a son. With some tips beforehand on what to watch for, and discussing the film after the screening.

18 January 2019 21:10 - 22:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Man-Machine: And Technology Created the New Human

Hanna Bervoets and Irish writer of bestselling novel To Be a Machine discuss our "trans-human" future.

18 January 2019 21:05 - 23:40 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Friday Night Wintercafé

Here, at the beating heart of the Winternachten festival, you encountered one another, or the writers for booksigning. Your festival guide and presenter Francis Broekhuijsen showed the way through the programme. The De Vries Van Stockum Bookshop was open all evening in the foyer, offering a special selection of titles by all festival authors.

Meet & Greet - time schedule
20.50-21.20 Damiaan Denys and Dimitri Verhulst
21.15-21.45 Joke Hermsen and Adam Zagajewski
21.55-22.25 Jennifer Clement
22.10-22.25 Hanna Bervoets and Mark O'Connell

18 January 2019 20:45 - 21:15 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My Life: Aafke Romeijn

18 January 2019 20:45 - 21:45 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2

Books Unlimited: Leni Zumas & Jennifer Clement

US writer Leni Zumas about her futuristic bestseller Red Clocks and US-Mexican writer Jennifer Clement about her latest novel Gun Love.

18 January 2019 20:15 - 21:45 uur Bibliotheek Nieuw Waldeck

Rodaan al Galidi in the Nieuw Waldeck Library

An evening of stories, poems and music

18 January 2019 20:10 - 20:40 uur Filmhuis café

Book of My Life: David Van Reybrouck

Writers told us about their favourite book, followed by a book-signing session.

18 January 2019 20:10 - 21:05 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Spot On Young Poets

High-school students from Dalton Den Haag, Edith Stein College and Chr. College De Populier recited their own poetry, the result of workshops and poetry lessons given at the schools by members of the Hague Poets Guild. Appearing with them are poets Radna Fabias and HemelBesem from South Africa, and the young student-poet Sumai Yahya.

18 January 2019 20:00 - 21:05 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Living forever: eternal desire

Adam Zagajewski, eminent poet and essayist from Poland readis from his work, followed by Ramayana expert Arshia Sattar (India) in conversation with Dutch writer and philosopher Joke Hermsen.

18 January 2019 20:00 - 21:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 1

Immortality by Choice

Philosopher Tom Dommisse shared his thoughts about immortality and illustrates them with excerpts from films like E.T., Blade Runner, Wall-E, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Citizen Kane.

18 January 2019 20:00 - 20:40 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2

On the Couch: Dimitri Verhulst as Dorian Gray

Psychiatrist Damiaan Denys invited writer Dimitri Verhulst onto his couch, as the protagonist of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

18 January 2019 20:00 - 21:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 2

How to read a movie? - 'I'm here' by Spike Jonze

Enjoy this romantic sci-fi film. With some tips beforehand on what to watch for, and discussing the film afterwards.

18 January 2019 20:00 - 01:00 uur Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

Friday Night Unlimited

Literature, music and film on six stages