{"id":14942,"date":"2025-10-21T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/?post_type=event&#038;p=14942"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:04:02","slug":"u-bevindt-zich-hier","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/en\/event\/u-bevindt-zich-hier\/","title":{"rendered":"U bevindt zich hier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From a transmission tower to the core of an extinct pear species<\/strong><br><br>Literary talent encircles the city of Leeuwarden. What do you encounter when you look around from a\u00a0<em>fixed position<\/em>\u00a0on the boundary between city and landscape? What do you see when you\u2019re allowed to turn around your own axis, in all dimensions? You are\u00a0<em>here<\/em>\u2014but what does that mean? Who is being addressed? And what is\u00a0<em>here<\/em>, really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen young wordsmiths who took part in&nbsp;<em>deBuren<\/em>\u2019s writing residency this year were each assigned a coordinate on the outskirts of Leeuwarden. Eighteen coordinates, then\u2014and eighteen artistic interpretations. From their unique positions, the makers looked out into the world\u2014in all its dimensions\u2014allowed themselves to be inspired by something in their field of view, and began to shape that spark into their own artistic language. They wrote short, powerful texts connected by a single thread: the words&nbsp;<em>You are here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a transmission tower to the pit of an extinct pear species, a pirate boat or the material of the road surface, land subsidence or a random passerby on Google Street View\u2014the inspirations they found at \u201ctheir\u201d coordinate are as diverse and surprising as the poems and short stories these young creators wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;<em>Explore the North<\/em>, these 18 emerging talents from Flanders and the Netherlands will present their texts to you. At three moments throughout the festival program, you can discover six authors each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday 21 november<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ayoub El Ouali &#8211; <em>Geen plek voor oud eikenhout&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeanne Verwee &#8211; <em>een oefening voor recreanten&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maria Magdalena de Cort &#8211; <em>Beton en asfalt hebben andere hechtingsstijlen<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joshua Snijders&nbsp; &#8211; <em>Flesjespost&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lars Meijer &#8211; <em>Tochtig &nbsp; <\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zo\u00eb Dankert &#8211; <em>gedicht van de woningnood in de hounspolder<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 22 november<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Marlena Tokarska &#8211; <em>swing&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mirthe Wouters &#8211; <em>Opdrogen<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rojda Yavuz &#8211; Wolkenkrabbers bestaan niet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faye Schumacher &#8211; <em>Een goed bommetje&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jane Stuhlmacher &#8211; <em>Mooie Neeltje en de lakei&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rahman Qul &#8211; <em>file in Frysl\u00e2n&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday 23 november<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maarten Jochems &#8211; <em>magia continua manuum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayada Srouji &#8211; <em>In uw hoofd was ik allang dood<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alisa Noa Bloemendaal &#8211; <em>Memory Foam<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eelke Veltman &#8211; <em>Deine meid<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthijs van Rumpt &#8211; <em>Slagbomen dalen automatisch&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanne Lolkema &#8211; <em>hier daalt de bodem&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>The authors<\/strong><br>Alisa Noa Bloemendaal, Ayoub El Ouali, Eelke Veltman, Faye Schumacher, Jane Stuhlmacher, Jeanne Verwee, Joshua Snijders, Lars Meijer, Maarten Jochems, Maria Magdalena de Cort, Marlena Tokarska, Matthijs van Rumpt, Mayada Srouji, Mirthe Wouters, Rojda Yavuz, Rahman Qul, Sanne Lolkema, and Zo\u00eb Dankert. <a href=\"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=14942&amp;action=edit\">Read more about these creators.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They took part in the\u00a02025 writing residency of deBuren, a talent development program for language-based creators under 30 from Flanders and the Netherlands.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=14942&amp;action=edit\"><em>Read more about the writing residency.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special edition of&nbsp;<em>Kluger Hans<\/em>&nbsp;magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18 texts will be published in a special edition of the literary magazine\u00a0<em>Kluger Hans<\/em>. Visitors of this program will receive a copy of this issue. The 18 texts appear in a special issue of\u00a0<em>Kluger Hans<\/em>\u2014a platform for emerging talent in word and image. They are accompanied by new work from two former writing residents:\u00a0Aya Sabi\u00a0and\u00a0Obe Alkema. Acting as mentors, they have taken this issue under their wing and each contributed a text reflecting, from their own literary perspective, on the theme\u00a0<em>You Are Here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This special edition also features work by visual artists\u00a0Thomas Verstraeten\u00a0and\u00a0Eline Vansteenkiste.<br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.klugerhans.org\">Read more about Kluger Hans here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You Are Here\u00a0is a collaboration between\u00a0deBuren,\u00a0Kluger Hans, and\u00a0Explore the North.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14309,"template":"","class_list":["post-14942","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U bevindt zich hier - Explore the North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/en\/event\/u-bevindt-zich-hier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U bevindt zich hier - Explore the North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From a transmission tower to the core of an extinct pear species Literary talent encircles the city of Leeuwarden. 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