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Writing talent performs in the Mauritshuis during Writers Unlimited Festival 2025

Detail uit 'Het oestereetstertje' van Jan Steen, collectie Het Mauritshuis.
Detail uit 'Het oestereetstertje' van Jan Steen, collectie Het Mauritshuis.

On Friday 24 January, eighteen Dutch and Flemish writing talents will read at the Mauritshuis. Tip: afterwards, you can go straight to the grand festival night Friday Night Unlimited! Order your tickets now.

In the series Old works, young writers, eighteen Flemish and Dutch writing talents who took part in deBuren's 2024 writing residency are inspired by works from the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

The common theme is 'The Alternative': the young makers looked at the centuries-old paintings with an eye for alternative history and bring them to life in short, powerful texts in their own artistic language. With poetry, prose, essays and song lyrics, they let you experience the old works in a unique way.


The young makers recite their texts live in the Mauritshuis during the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague on Friday evening 24 January 2025, start 18:30 hours, end 20:00 hours. The performances will be in Dutch.

 

ORDER TICKETS HERE (8,50 Euro) FOR 'OUDE WERKEN, JONGE SCHRIJVERS' ON THE MAURITSHUIS WEBSITE.

 

Festival tip: afterwards, walk from the Mauritshuis to Theater aan het Spui in ten minutes. From 20:00 (doors open from 19:00), the grand festival night Friday Night Unlimited will start there and in the adjacent Filmhuis Den Haag on five stages. Choose your own route along the many readings, talks and performances by many foreign and Dutch authors and artists. Book your tickets here on the HNT website (young people 15 euro, regular up to and including 26 December 25 euro, after 26 December 35 euro).

Authors
Aska Hayakawa, Dan Afrifa, Emilie Pariel, emma ydiers, Frances Welling, Helen Weeres, Hilde Onis, Jan Wester, Lennert De Vroey, Lin An Phoa, L.J. De Brouwer, Mei-yun Boswinkel, Mieke 'Mik' Schelstraete, Naomi van Kleef, Roan Kasanmonadi, Sad Banana, Stefanie Parisius-Sewotaroeno and Wietse Leenders.

Some authors can also be seen and heard elsewhere in the festival edition 2025. Stefanie Parisius-Sewotaroeno and singer XILLAN perform as the support act of the theatre production BRADA about Surinamese freedom fighters in Theater De Vaillant (pay what you can for a ticket here). Authors L.J. de Brouwer, Naomi van Kleef, Wietse Leenders, Hilde Onis, Helen Weeres and Jan Wester perform on Saturday afternoon 25 January 2025 in the foyer of Theater aan het Spui during the Open Mic event of The Hague poetry collective FFÛH (13-14 hours, admission free).

The texts of these 18 authors will be published early December 2024 in a special of Dutch literary magazine De Revisor, flanked by new work by five alumni writing residents: Frank Heinen (writing residency 2013), Alma Mathijsen (writing residency 2015), Bob Vanden Broeck (writing residency 2017), Amarylis De Gryse (writing residency 2019) and Zindzi Tillot Owusu (writing residency 2023).

The deBuren writing residency
Every summer since 2012, Flemish-Dutch house deBuren has been taking up-and-coming writing talent from the Low Countries to Paris on a writing residency. They stay there for a fortnight to get to know each other's work and ideas across borders and to work on new material.

In the Ancient Works series, the 2024 batch of young writers will bring paintings from the 17th-century collection of museum the Mauritshuis in The Hague to life in a unique way in short prose, poetry and audio stories. Our question to them was as simple as it was challenging: write a new text about an old work, starting from one key question: what do you see when you look at these artefacts with an eye for 'The Alternative', alternative history?

All texts of Oude werken, jonge schrijvers are published in literary magazine De Revisor, and can be read and listened to in deBuren's digital Magazine and on the website of cultural organisation de lage landen.

Find more information on the writings residency on the website of deBuren here.

Posted on: Thursday 31 October 2024