Saturday Night Wintercafé: Who's Afraid of Youth

Pupils of the Lyceum Ypenburg and Dalton Voorburg perform together with poet Kira Wuck and singer Faya. Francis Broekhuijsen presents.

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Date and time Saturday 18 January 2014 20:00 tot 20:50 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - foyer

The Wintercafé is the meeting point of the festival, where writers and audiences meet and are welcomed by MC Francis Broekhuijsen. In this first hour pupils of the Lyceum Ypenburg and Dalton Voorburg secondary schools present their poems; the result of a series of workshops at school. They perform together with singer Faya and poets Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Kira Wuck. Meanwhile in the Wintercafé: snacks and drinks and Paagman bookshop sell their books.

Johnny Bruce Muller

Kira Wuck

(1978) is the daughter of a Finnish mother and an Indonesian father. Her 2013 poetry debut Finse meisjes (Finnish girls) was often nominated for literary prizes, among others the C. Buddingh' Prize, and was winner of the C.W. van der Hoogt Prize and the Eline van Haaren Prize. According to Wuck her poems are sometimes euphoric, but in addition they allude to a great emptiness. Everyday situations sometimes become threatening and loneliness rears its head. The dyslectic Wuck grew up in Amsterdam, but feels at home in the absurdism and melancholy of the northern countries. Wuck studied at the Hogeschool Utrecht and at the Schrijversvakschool in Amsterdam. Right now she is working on her first film. In addition she gives creative writing workshops as well as cooperating in the literary magazine Tirade. With her appealing performances she won the NK Poetry Slam and the annual finale of Festina Lente. Arnon Grunberg is a fan of hers. He praises Wuck's compact wryness and reads her poems before going to sleep.
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Francis Broekhuijsen

(The Netherlands, 1970) is a presenter, producer, actor and voice-over artist specializing in music, literature, arts and culture. After graduating as actor from the Toneelschool Amsterdam he was a member, among others, of the ensemble of the Nationale Toneel. He was a presenter at Amsterdam-based broadcaster AT5 and a radio producer with the KRO on national network NPO Radio 1. He narrates audio books, and was shortlisted for the Storytel Award 2019 for Best Audio Book with his reading of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's novel Grand Hotel Europa. Until last year, he presented on radio station Sublime the daily morning show Sublime Sunrise, the Instagram poetry programme Sublime Smooth and evening show The Sublime Experience. In 2025 he wrote and hosted the tv-series Kringlopen met Francis on regional Dutch broadcaster NH. Broekhuijsen works for Writers Unlimited as festival curator and presenter.

Go to the website of Francis Broekhuijsen
Instagram: @francisbroekhuijsen
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