Next week marks the tenth edition of our festival weekend, offering a wealth of discoveries—especially when it comes to language. Poets, performers, and musicians from near and far will treat you to underrepresented but profoundly urgent stories. Artists will captivate your ears in Frisian, Urdu, Kigogo, Spanish, Dutch, Catalan, Polish, English, Lithuanian, Farsi, and more. Of course, there will also be plenty of programmes in English.
Below, we’ve highlighted some of the English performances. You can find the full English programme on our website (link in bio).
In addition, the festival features an incredible lineup of music performances, including: LIONSTORM, The Zawose Queens, MC Yallah and Debmaster, Merope, Tapir!, Dame Area, Velocity Made Good, and an afterparty hosted by Queer Factory and GLITCH—plus much more.
For students and people up to the age of 25 we’ve got a special discount ‘Jongerenticket’. With this ticket you can visit the full three day festival for only €22,50. Find more about the ticket prices here.
Check the full English programme below:
Marah Haj Hussein – Language: No Broblem
22 Nov 2024, 20:00 – 21:00
De Harmonie (Middenzaal)
A Dialogue between here and there. How does a language evolve within the social and political conditions in which it finds itself?
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Gaja Caruso – Men of Meat and Fire
22 Nov 2024
21:30 – 22:15
De Harmonie (Middenzaal)
A performance with intensely-felt choreography about loneliness, misogyny, self-hatred and the crisis of masculinity.
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Fatena Al-Ghorra and Christine Otten – Eyewitness reports from Gaza
22 Nov 2024, 21:45 – 22:30
Podium Explore
Christine Otten will interview the Palestinian poet Fatena Al-Ghorra about the book Exodus to Gaza.
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Resonate Productions – FOR REAL
23 Nov 2024
13:30 – 15:00
Podium Explore
FOR REAL is a theatrical radio show about what it means to matter. The starting point is intellectual undermining of women: the lack of interest in what they think, say, make or try to achieve.
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Lisa Weeda, Ghayath Almadhoun and Chris Keulemans – Looking away from war – you too?
23 Nov 2024, 18:45 – 19:30
Podium Explore
What responsibility do we in our (for now) safe, Western Europe have towards our fellow human beings in war?
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Sunni Lamin Barrow – A Fist of Tongues
23 Nov 2024
15:30 – 16:15 & 19:15 – 20:00
De Harmonie (Middenzaal)
In this solo theater performance, Sunni uses storytelling, visuals, sound and dance to take you through his life so far. It features poems and stories he wrote in his home country, where being openly LGBTQIA+ is forbidden.
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Sanamika & Explore the North – Beyond the Triangle (sneak preview)
The road from incarceration to celebrating freedom: a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the Iranian Women’s Liberation movement.
23 Nov 2024, 20:00 – 20:45
De Doopsgezinde Kerk
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URLAND – REBOOT
24 Nov 2024
16:15 – 16:45, 18:00 – 18:30, 20:00 – 20:30
Natuurmuseum Fryslân
A three-dimensional sound experience through on headphones. It starts out as an informative lecture and gradually turns into an existential struggle in which the story itself takes the lead.
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Oerhert
24 Nov 2024
17:15 – 18:05
Neushoorn Grote Zaal
What does it mean to be a young woman in today’s world? An impressive listening performance in which themes such as femininity, physicality, and boundaries are central.
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Photo credit: Wolfskers at ETN23 by Annemarie Seunnenga