Krusa Laman - Bonaire

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A programme with literature and music from Indonesia, the Netherlands, South-Africa, Suriname, Saint Martin, Curaçao and Aruba, with MC Tica Sealy-Nicolaas. Six authors travel from island to island in these weeks, for the festival Crossing the Seas. This evening they perform with their Bonairian fellow-authors Henri Toré and Linda Coffie. The Dutch former 'Dichter des Vaderlands (inoffical 'poet laureate') Gerrit Komrij will perform his poems. One of the main writers from Indonesia, Putu Wijaya, wil read one of his wonderful stories. The Dutch/Surinamese novelist Clark Accord - known through his debut-novel De Koningin van Paramaribo (The Queen of Paramaribo) - wil read from his latest novel Tussen Apoera en Oreala (Between Apoera and Oreala). Poet Diana Ferrus comes from Cape Town. She became known through her poem on Saartje Baartman, the  'Hottentot-Venus', a black South-African woman who in the 19th century was forced to travel through Europe as a kermiss-attraction. Myra Römer, born in Curaçao, now lives in The Netherlands. Early she a surprising writers' debut with Verhalen van Fita (Stories of Fita), about a girl growing up in Curaçao in the fifties. Drisana Deborah Jack is a poet from Saint Martin.  All foreign authors will read in their mother tongue, while their text is simultaneously projected on a screen in Papiamento, the language of Aruba. Also in the programma a presentation of Bonairian poety by the local performers Tiri Trinidad & Kathleen Thielman-Winklaar.

Information

Date and time Wednesday 20 April 2005 from 19:45 to 22:45 hrs
Location Fort Oranje - Bonaire

Line-up

Clark Accord

(Paramaribo, 1961) moved to The Netherlands when he was 17. He studied at medical school and worked for several years at the AMC Hospital in Amsterdam . After that, he studied to be a beautician in Amsterdam and left to live in Vienna for six years. He built a successful career as a make-up artist in several countries and his creations can be seen in magazines such as Elle, Marie-Claire and Elegance. In 1999 he made his debut with the historical novel De koningin van Paramaribo (The queen of Paramaribo) and participated for the first time in the Winternachten festival. In 2001 a musical was made of this succesful book.Clark Accord writes columns for amongst others Man and News Magazine. His second novel Tussen Apoera & Oreala (Between Apoera & Oreala) was published in January 2005.
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Diana Ferrus

(Worcester, South-Africa, 1953) is a writer, poet and activist for marginalised African women. She works at the University of West Cape, where she also participates in a Women's Studies course. Ferrus is a member of WEAVE (Women’s Education & Artistic Voice Expression), an artist's collective in Capetown. She became well known with her poem Tribute to Sarah Baartman. The poem was translated and included in the French governmental documents that were necessary for the transportation of the remains of Sarah Baartman - in nineteen century Europe known as the Hottentot Venus. The remains left Paris and eventually arrived in South Africa in 2002 where they were buried. Ferrus published her first collection of poetry in the Afrikaans language called 'Ons Komvandaan' ('We come from') in 2006 and was the co-editor for a book about fathers and daughters called, Slaan vir my 'n masker, Vader (Forge Me a Mask, Father). She recently released a cd of poetry with music by the band Mamela, called "Never again", "Nooit weer nie".
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Drisana Deborah Jack

(St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles) is a poet and visual artist. Her work currently deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Salt, the sea and hurricanes reoccur as metaphors in her body of work. In her poetry and visual art she tries to go beyond the parameters of style and genres. Her literature is as much music, dance and art as it is text. For her artwork, which is an expression of a personal and cultural history, she uses paint, video, photography, sound and poetry. She has published two poetry collections, The Rainy Season (1997) and Skin (2006). Her visual art has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Her poetry has appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Calabash and has recited her work in the Caribbean, United States, South Africa and the Netherlands. Deborah Jack is an Assistant Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
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Gerrit Komrij

(Winterswijk, 1944) was the first Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. He is considered one of the best columnists in the country, a novelist, renowned translator, and an enhtusiastic reviewer of poetry. Komrij is a cat in a Strange Warehouse, as he called a book of collected essays that came out in 2001. The world is never a trusted or obvious place, but if you look good, there's always something surprising around. 'I don't think I'm a no-nonsense guy. There's too much noise inside of me'. Komrij, who has lived in Portugal since 1984, is one of the most productive Dutch writers. Since 1968 he has published several works annually. Recently Komrij's choice of the one-hundred best Dutch poems (2008) appeared, in addition to an anthology of Dutch children's poetry in over 1000 poems (2007) and Kakafonie (2006), an 'encyclopaedia of shit'. In 2005 he published Eendagsvliegen (Ephemera, literary diary entries) and a volume of poetry Fata Morgana.
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Putu Wijaya

(Bali, 1944) after completing his law study in Yogyakarta followed his artistic vocation and became a writer, dramatist, scriptwriter, journalist and essayist. He gained a lot of experience abroad. From 1985 to 1988 he worked as writer and director for various universities in the U.S.A and he taught modern Indonesian literature and theater. He has his own theater group Mandiri, which he founded at the beginning of the 1970's. In his short stories Putu Wijaya likes to shock and desorientate his readers; according to him he places 'mental time bomb's' in the ordinairy life of ordinairy people. Surrealism and absurdism, humor and violence form the foundations of his stories. Putu Wijaya avoids analysing and moralizing; he leaves the end open and the reader confused.
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Henri Toré

(Curaçao) has lived on Bonaire for almost 40 years. In this period he has been member of several foundations in the social field, and like no other knows the social situation of the population of Bonaire. He worked as a inspector of education, and is now retired. Henri Toré published Tropische Kruisiging (1997), De Ontspoorde Benjamin (1999) and Tranen over Matravagera (2003).
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Linda Coffie

is better known on Bonaire as Tan Linda. Since 1987 she has presented radio-programmes, in which she tells stories to children. She performs regularly at various occasions, to tell her stories to younger and older audiences. Her poems and short stories were published in newspapers. In 1986 she won a first and a second prize in different categories in a short story contest. Her first collection of short stories, Tante Linda ta konta. Rekuerdonan di tempu balioso (Tante Linda tells stories. Memories of a valuable time), was published in 2002.
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Tica Sealy-Nicolaas

(1946) writes poems since 1996. She recites her poems at several occasions. As a former Miss Bonaire she uses her experience in appearance in public as master of ceremonies. She assists young people in modelling and she gives workshops in etiquette and protocol.

Tiri Trinidad & Kathleen Thielman-Winklaar

Tiri (Reginald) Trinidad is known as singer of folksongs on the occasion of the celebration of Rinconday and Carnaval. In 2005 he was for the seventh time the King of Carnaval. Tiri is solosinger in the bands Tutti Frutti and Glenn & Friends. In 2004 he went on a tour with Tutti Frutti in the Netherlands. With Krusa Laman 2005 he has his first experiece with literary performance.

Kathleen Thielman (1963) is a teacher in primaryschool. As a storyteller she participated in bookweeks for children on Bonaire. She presents a weekly radioprogramme for childeren on a local radiostation. In 2004 she appeared in Rèke Buriko Rèke, a farytale of Grimm in Papiamentu, on Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba and Saba.
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Myra Römer

(Curaçao, 1946) left the island for the Netherlands to study Visual Arts in Tilburg. In Groningen she continued her studies, now in Art History and Archeology. She worked as a teacher and manager in a secondary school. Now she has retired. In 2001 her first poetry was published in a collection called Na mi nombre/ Bij mijn naam. In the same year her poetic work appeared in the collection Voetsporen. Myra regularly performs at literary events. Early 2005 her first prose was published: Stories of Fita. Römer writes her stories in Dutch, most of her poetry is in the language of her heart: Papiamentu. Myra Römer is also a painter. Since 1970 her work has been exhibited at several galeries.
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