Current Literary Affairs #1

Colson Whitehead speaks with Nancy Jouwe.

Current Literary Affairs #2

Yaa Gyasi speaks with Clarice Gargard.

Women’s Resistance Through Arts and the Media in Indonesia

A special evening with the Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha.

Current Literary Affairs #3

Maya Angelou door de ogen van bewonderaars.

Preview on Read My World Black USA

A preview of the 2017 festival with the curators Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Shantrelle P. Lewis from New Orleans.

Read My World: Black American Literature

Is there such a thing as a transnational literary culture? If one case can stand the test, it is that of Black culture. This afternoon, we will discuss diasporic identities and talk about similarities and differences with experiences of in- and exclusion between Europe and the USA. With: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Shantrelle P. Lewis.

Mapping Slavery in New York: A sneak preview

Tori XL: An ode to Toni Morrison

In the fourth edition of Current Literary Affairs a program about the work of writer Toni Morrison. You can expect literature, poetry, dancing and good food!

Reflecting Cities #1 Poetic Justice (1994)

Come and watch 'Poetic Justice' (1994) with us! The Read My World Film Series are warm summer night programs in the garden of the Tolhuistuin with delicious food, good music and movies.

Reflecting Cities #2 Time is Illmatic (2014)

A warm summer night program in the garden of the Tolhuistuin with delicious food, good music and movies.

Reflecting Cities #3

It is Videoclip Night! Open air cinema! Reflecting Cities selected music videos that represent the futurism in cities.

RMW on Lowlands: Tobacco and Cotton

Read My World on Lowlands Festival 2017

Reflecting Cities #4 CB4

Writer Karin Amatmoekrim reflects on the movie CB4. Attention: this program is moved to LAB111.

Preview Read My World 2017 BLACK USA

Preview on the Read My World Festival in BOZAR Brussels, Belgium.

Bijlmer Boekt! Read My World

Read My World at Bijlmer Boekt! This edition is all about Read My World Black USA.

Read My World 2017 OPENING NIGHT

The official opening of the festival: meet all our American guests!

Read My World Festival 2017 FRIDAY

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Read My World Revue

In this cheerful theater programme, thirty youngsters from Amsterdam present their own poems, inspired by the work of our American festival guests.

A Rap on Race Revisited

The triptych A Rap on Race, Revisited explores the conversation between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead (1901-1978).

What Comes From Afar

Teenagers from Amsterdam meet American guest writers.

The Cornbread Library

The Cornbread Library is the place where we will celebrate the literary work of leading Black writers.

When Disaster Strikes

The Racial Politics of Disaster: Katrina and De Bijlmerramp.

Filthy Mouth, Dirty Politics

An experiment with transgressive speech acts, filthy, vulgar language and radical feminism.

When I look at you, I see myself

Can we genuinely put ourselves in someone else’s shoes? Or is our gaze limited by our own cultural and social history?

An Intimate Approach

An American and a Dutch writer investigate images surrounding intimacy and identity with regards to the position of the Black author in the western literary canon.

Black Joy

In a world in which the lives of African-Americans are depicted as hellish, writers and artists search for ways to tell an alternative story.

Read My World Festival 2017 SATURDAY

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Black Netherlands meets Black USA

Dutch and American scientists, curators and artists have their say in a series of lectures, panel discussions and performances

His/herstories met Nancy Jouwe

Dutch and American scientists have their say in a series of lectures, panel discussions and performances. They give their view of the connections between Black citizenship, migration, (post)colonialism, art, heritage and Dutch cultural identity, linking history and present day.

Black Art hosted by Quinsy Gario

Lectures and conversations about Black Art.

Let’s: watch/invoke/talk! with Jennifer Tosch

Filmviewings, lectures and discussions, hosted by Jennifer Tosch.

Dipsaus Podcast Live

Live Podcast! Anousha Nzume, Ebissé Rouw & Mariam El Maslouhi speak with Kleaver Cruz en Morgan Parker.

A Rap on Race Revisited

The triptych A Rap on Race, Revisited explores the conversation between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead (1901-1978).

The Cornbread Library

The Cornbread Library is the place where we will celebrate the literary work of leading Black writers such as hooks, Baldwin, Du Bois, Danticat and Kincaid.

Afrofuturism

An artistic tradition of satirical art & resistance literature.

The Dutch Literary Canon cracked

The Dutch Literary Canon under Fire.

Cotton & Tobacco

Inspired by the American South Slave Narratives, performers tell penetrating stories about their ancestors who grew up in imprisonment.

About the Body

An intimate programme about the black body.

The Discomfort Zone

In the Discomfort Zone is it important to know you are, but to also consider who you are not.

American Songbook

Right About Now Inc. invites Dutch artists to perform and reflect on songs that are of personal meaning to them.

Woorden Worden Zinnen

As you sit under the starry sky, let words carry you into the night.