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Preview Read My World 2017 BLACK USA

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

Wed 11 Oct

8 PM

Bijlmer Parktheater

Bijlmer Boekt! Read My World

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

Thu 12 Oct

8 PM

Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

Read My World 2017 OPENING NIGHT

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

Fri 13 Oct

Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

Read My World Festival 2017 FRIDAY

Check out the program of day two below!
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Fri 13 Oct

11 AM + 2 PM

MAIN HALL

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.

Fri 13 Oct

6:30 PM - 22:30 PM

FRAMER FRAMED

A Rap on Race Revisited

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

Fri 13 Oct

5:30 PM

IJZAAL

What Comes From Afar

Teenagers from Amsterdam meet American guest writers.

Fri 13 Oct

6:30 PM

IJZAAL

The Cornbread Library

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

Fri 13 Oct

7 PM

TUINZAAL

When Disaster Strikes

The Racial Politics of Disaster: Katrina and De Bijlmerramp.

Fri 13 Oct

8 PM

TUINZAAL

Filthy Mouth, Dirty Politics

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

Fri 13 Oct

8:30 PM

MAIN HALL

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?

Fri 13 Oct

9 PM

TUINZAAL

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.

Fri 13 Oct

9:30 PM

MAIN HALL

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.

Sat 14 Oct

Tolhuistuin Amsterdam

Read My World Festival 2017 SATURDAY

Check out the program of day three below!
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Sat 14 Oct

12 - 17 PM

ALL LOCATIONS

Black Netherlands meets Black USA

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

Sat 14 Oct

12:00 tot 17:00

GROTE ZAAL

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.

Sat 14 Oct

1 PM - 5 PM

FRAMER FRAMED

Black Art hosted by Quinsy Gario

Lectures and conversations about Black Art.

Sat 14 Oct

13:00 - 17:00

TUINZAAL

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

Filmviewings, lectures and discussions, hosted by Jennifer Tosch.

Sat 14 Oct

3 PM

IJZAAL

Dipsaus Podcast Live

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

Sat 14 Oct

17:00 tot 22:00

FRAMER FRAMED

A Rap on Race Revisited

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

Sat 14 Oct

6 - 9 PM

IJZAAL

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.