Archive

16 January 2009 22:10 - 23:30 uur Filmhuis - zaal 6

Film: Orson Welles' F for Fake

The last film by Orson Welles is the classic F for Fake – Nothing But the Truth: a highly personal film essay on forgery in art and fake biographies, about real and fake. In English.

16 January 2009 22:10 - 23:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 7

Wintercafé 3: Metamorphoses

Gündüz Vassaf (Turkey), Nury Vittachi (Hongkong) and the Moroccan author Youssouf Amine Elalamy tell stories about metamorphoses. In English.

16 January 2009 22:10 - 23:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

How Illusions Can Change Your Life - with Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton talks to Stine Jensen about his latest book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, presented tonight, and about the power of the illusion in work, art and love. In English.

16 January 2009 22:10 - 23:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Tibetan music: Namgyal Lhamo

You'll be surprised by the beautiful Tibetan singing of Namgyal Lhamo.

16 January 2009 21:10 - 22:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 7

Pupils from local secondary schools just do it: climbing the stage and reading their poetry on the topic of ‘masquerades’. In addition to them, Gerrit Komrij reads poems specially selected for Winternachten. In Dutch.

16 January 2009 21:10 - 22:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

Music: Palio-Paréa

Greek music with among other things characteristic compositions based on the work of the poet Kavafis.

16 January 2009 21:10 - 22:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 6

Jan Baeke's Fake film choice

How feature films and documentaries are used for political manipulation. The film choice of Jan Baeke, poet and programme maker with the Film Museum in Amsterdam. Interviewer: Paul van der Gaag. In Dutch.

16 January 2009 21:10 - 22:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

True Fiction - conversation with Amitav Ghosh

The Indian writer talks to Bas Heijne about his oeuvre and his new novel Sea of Poppies. Ghosh, who does research for years before putting pen to paper. finds fiction more interesting than history. In English.

16 January 2009 20:10 - 21:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Connie Palmen's State of the Novel: 'Fake it till you make it'

Especially for Winternachten Dutch writer Connie Palmen wrote a State of the Novel: ‘Fake it, till you make it’. After her lecture she'll talk with Christiaan Weijts on truth and falsehood. Host: Kees ’t Hart. In Dutch.

16 January 2009 20:10 - 21:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 7

Wintercafé 1: Herman Koch

Specially for Winternachten Koch wrote a ‘short history of deceit’, in cooperation with DeBuren in Brussels. The Wintercafé is hosted this entire Friday-night by Hassnae Bouazza and Petra Possel. In Dutch.

16 January 2009 20:10 - 21:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

'Travellers' Tales'

The satirical author Nury Vittachi (Hongkong) and the Indonesian writer and poet Laksmi Pamuntjak read and talk to Mathijs Deen on stereotype images of East and West. In English.

16 January 2009 20:00 - 21:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 6

Film: The Fake Trade

A cheap Rolex, Prada jeans for little, Ray Ban sunglasses for a trifle, it's all possible owing to the fast growing ‘fake’ industry. Director Nick Hornby made a film about this criminal industry, and its often frightening consequences. In English.

16 January 2009 20:00 - 00:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Foyer: Books, Art and Music

In de foyer artistic fake by thirdyear students of the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag, book stalls, writers autographing, drinks and (fake) snacks.

The whole evening, DJ mps Pilot will weave a musical worldwideweb of Flamenco, Balkan beats, fullcream Afro-sounds and eastern sounds.

16 January 2009 20:00 - 01:30 uur Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag