Jakarta and Yogyakarta

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Onder de titel 'Winternachten overzee' bracht het Haagse literatuurfestival Winternachten dichters uit Suriname, Zuid-Afrika, de Antillen en Nederland naar Indonesië. Vier dichters reisden van 24 april tot 1 mei 2001 naar Jakarta en Yogyakarta voor optredens in o.a. het festival JIPR (Jakarta International Poetry Reading). Het was voor het eerst dat het festival Winternachten zich buiten Nederland presenteerde. Het was op verzoek van de Javaanse schrijvers Goenawan Mohamad en Ayu Utami dat Winternachten zijn activiteiten uitbreidde naar Indonesië. Winternachten is het jaarlijkse ontmoetingspunt voor schrijvers uit Suriname, Zuid-Afrika, de Antillen, Indonesië en Nederland. Steeds vaker kreeg het festival het verzoek om die ontmoeting ook in de andere landen te laten plaatsvinden. Dat gebeurde nu voor het eerst in Indonesië; de voorbereidingen voor een soorgelijke evenementen in Zuid-Afrika en op Aruba en de Nederlandse Antillen zijn in gang. Winternachten maakte in overleg met de Indonesische partners de keus voor de dichters Mustafa Stitou (Nederland), Loit Sôls (Zuid-Afrika), Gibi Bacilio (Curaçao) en Surianto (Suriname). De optredens vonden plaats in het festival JIPR (26 t/m 28 april, Theater Utan Kayu, Jakarta), de Universitas Indonesia (26 april, Depok, Jakarta) en in Yogyakarta (30 april en 1 mei).

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Date and time Tuesday 24 April 2001 from 19:09 to Tuesday 1 May 2001 19:09 hrs
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Gibi Bacilio

(Curaçao, 1950) is a poet and a literary performer. He studied philosophy and theology in Colombia and The Netherlands. In Utrecht he finished his studies at the Academy of Expression, and became a tutor of dramatic expression. He lives on Curaçao, where he is very active in street theatre, especially with the group Grupo di Teatro Foro of which he was the artistic leader during the seventies and eighties. He produced and presented cultural television programs and trained and became an expert in the field of oral literature and written rhythmic poetry. Bacilio writes about the colonial past, the Indians, the slaves and the dominant and confusing position of the Dutch. But there is also tenderness and eroticism in his work. His poems have been published in various collections and magazines. In 2000 his collection of poems Kueru Marká was published.
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Loit Sôls

(Retreat, South-Africa, 1957) grew up in the cape province. He worked as a graphic designer but is now a famous face in Cape Town, being a street singer and poet. He plays guitar and sings in Goema – a composite street language taken from many languages. For Sôls, language is a way of life: Kyk mooi na dié Taal. (Take a good look at this Language). Hoe haal sy asem? (How does it breath?) Noemmit Patois of Pidgin, (Call it Patois or Pidgin), djy waste jou wasem (You are wasting your breath) en djy hoonie rai beat-tie. (And you don’t hear the beat). Taken from: Dié Taal (This Language). In 1998, the collection My streat and other talk-poems appeared.
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Mustafa Stitou

(Tetouan, Morocco, 1974) studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1994, he made his debut with the poetry collection Mijn vormen (My Forms). It was followed by Mijn gedichten (My Poems) (1998), Varkensroze ansichten (Pig pink postcards) (2003), awarded the Jan Campert Prize, among others, and Tempel (2013), for which he received the Awater Poetry Prize. He was Amsterdam's City Poet for a year, has performed at numerous festivals at home and abroad, and collections with selections of his work were published in both Swedish and English translations. Waar is het lam (Where is the Lamb?, 2022), his fifth collection of poems, is a probing investigation into the meaning of sacrifice; an intriguing collection of poems in which the personal and political, dream and reality, fear and desire continually interact. The collection is competing for the Grote Poëzieprijs, the leading Dutch award for poetry, the winner of which will be announced on 17 May 2023.
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Surianto

(pseudonym of Jozef Ramin Hardjoprajitno, Désa Lasmborek, Surinam, 1937, died in 2006) worked as a civil servant for amongst others the Department of Internal Affairs. Surianto’s father was born on Java and was part of the second to last group of Javanese immigrants to arrive in Surinam. His grandparents from his mother’s side had arrived in Surinam earlier. Surianto was predominantly focused on Indonesia and was a correspondent member of the writer’s group Sangar Sastra Triwida on East Java. His poems are not written purely in Surinam-Javanese, but rather in ‘a complex mixture of Surinam-Javanese and the Javanese of Middle and Eastern Java.’ In 1986 the bilingual poetry collection Aruming melathi (The smell of Melati) appeared, the first collection in Surinam of Javanese poems. In 1990 followed by the collection : Tetesing un adi (Noble Dew Drops).
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