New festival programme: Crossing Border NXT
On Sunday 3 November, Crossing Border and the Hague Central Library will launch a new festival event: Crossing Border NXT. A literary programme developed for and by young adults (16+). This edition will focus on the theme 'The power of speaking out .
VPRO Club Lees will be a guest with a special live edition of the Club Lees Meet-up. The regular club members: singer-songwriter Naaz, actor Hanneke van der Paardt and Booktokker Noah de Campos Neto will physically meet on stage in the Central Library in The Hague and will discuss Noah's book of choice with each other and with you: Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang: a layered, satirical book about a white writer who appropriates the literary work of her Asian friend. Artist Rui Jun Luong will join the stage to discuss Asian representation and appropriation: who gets the space to tell a story?
From 30 September, this book will be available for free in the Club Lees app, enriched with Noah's notes, links and videos.
The afternoon ends with a conversation about activism in literature with Daria Serenko (Rus.) and Carolina Trujillo (NL). Writers Daria Serenko and Carolina Trujillo in conversation about activism, hope and the power of expressing yourself. Both Serenko (I wish ashes for my house) and Trujillo (De instructies) wrote books in which they expose the layers of activism. Moderator is Roos van Rijswijk.
More about the program and the writers here.
Location: Centrale Bibliotheek, 5th floor
Starting time: 12.30
Tickets: 5 euro ex servicekosten
Language: VPRO Club Lees is Dutch spoken, the conversation is in English
The Chronicles 2024 announced!
The Chronicles is Crossing Border’s unique annual residency project for talented authors and translators. Each day of the festival, five up-and-coming international as well as Dutch-speaking writers work on a festival story of that day’s events, capturing their insights and experiences of the other artists performing on the various Crossing Border stages.
At the same time, five translators get to work and offer the audience a near-simultaneous translation. The translators are at the start of their literary careers, and the aim is to showcase the skill and talent of both the writer and translator and show how the process works.
The Chronicles will perform live in the Saturday evening programme!
All the festival stories and translations will be published on our website.
The five couples are: theatre-maker and writer Rinske Bouwman who will work together with Swedish translator Robin Lindqwister Viker. Austrian writer Arad Dabiri will be translated into Dutch by Lotte Lentes. Award-winning poet Amina Elmi will join us from Denmark and will be translated by Marilena van der Pol. Harmen van Liemt just recently had his debut with Lentekind ('Child of Spring') and will work together with Romanian translator Oana Maria Brumă. Kven-Norwegian poet and artist M. Seppola Simonsen will be joined by translator Lieke Maier.
