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Winternachten The Hague 2008

Winternachten 2008

Wed 16 January - Tue 22 January 2008

The writers have the floor. During Winternachten they participated in debate, read from their own work, discussed the world in their work and the literature in the world. This year numerous Arab authors were performing, in addition to writers from South Africa, Indonesia, Turkey, Surinam, the Antilles/Aruba and of course the Netherlands and Flanders.

This year's theme was 'Ghost Ship the World'. Winternachten focused on fear. We are afraid of or are being frightened by globalisation, terrorism, refugees, technological developments, climate change, and a host of other things. Writers and thinkers deboned fear to the very core on the various stages. What is it we're actually afraid of?

In addition to renowned authors there were many young international writers at the festival. There were poetry readings, there is an afternoon dedicated to Arab literature and there was, not to forget, a wide range of music and film, including the Dutch premiere of the Turkish filmhit 'Mutluluk'. On this website you'll find the programme in full.





Retrospect

Thursday 17 January 2008  
20:00 - 22:00  
Nieuwe Kerk

Winternachten Lecture: Elif Shafak

The writer as commuter The novels of Elif Shafak have been praised in the Dutch press as "cosmopolitan, with a universal human message". In 2005 Winternachten introduced Shafak in the Netherlands…
Friday 18 January 2008  
14:00 - 16:30  
Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

In A State of Fear

"The only thing we fear is fear itself", said president Roosevelt. The Netherlands is one of the safest countries in the world. The government does everything to protect us. And yet fear reigns. …
20:00 - 01:30  
Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

Winternachten Friday Night

'Ghost Ship the World': on five different stages writers, journalists, film makers and philosophers will represent and map the concept of fear. Fear will show its many faces, sometimes terrifyingly, …
Saturday 19 January 2008  
14:00 - 16:30  
Theater aan het Spui - kleine zaal

NRC Reading Club Live

A city gripped by fear, and what does that fear do to people: Albert Camus wrote his fabulous novel 'The Pest' (1947) about it. Are their paralls to be drawn with our present day and age? In the …
20:00 - 01:30  
Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

Winternachten Saturday night

'There is no hope which isn't mixed with fear, and there is no fear which isn't mixed with hope', said Spinoza. Friday fear arose in various shapes at Winternachten, tonight the perspective shifts: …
Sunday 20 January 2008  
10:00 - 11:30  
Dudok

VPRO's OVT Live from Winternachten

The last of Winternachten 2008 can be heard in the Sunday morning Radio 1 programme OVT (Simple Past Tense), a live broadcast from The Hague. In VPRO's OVT history and literature come together in …
17:00 - 22:00  
Gemak

Shabandar Café - Grand Café Oriental

Shabandar Café is a programme by Gemak, the new centre for western and non-western art, politics and debate, of The Hague Gemeentemuseum and the Vrije Academie. With Shabandar Café Gemak links up …

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Colofon