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Aankleding / Ballon met tekst in de foyer van Theater aan het Spui/Filmhuis Den Haag op zaterdagavond 19 januari in Winternachten 2008. - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
Winternachten Saturday night ‘There is no hope which isn't mixed with fear, and there is no fear which isn't mixed with hope’, said Spinoza. Friday fear arose in various shapes at Winternachten, tonight the perspective shifts: how to get ‘Ghost Ship the World’ on course again? On five stages you can listen to, watch and get carried away by the question of how we relate our faith in the future. Will we manage without illusions? Make your journey from fear to hope, and plan your route in the programme, which takes places on the five stages. The programme is partly in English and partly in Dutch. Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag - Saturday, January 19 2008 - 20.00 hrs |
PROGRAMMES IN WINTERNACHTEN SATURDAY NIGHT
 Louise O. Fresco, Ronald Plasterk en Michaël Zeeman - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Louise O. Fresco | Ronald Plasterk | Michaël ZeemanBetween fear and hope. Part 1: scienceA test tube? A revealing line of poetry? Moving music? In a programme lasting all evening in the main hall of the theatre, prominent figures from the world of art, culture and science talk to Michaël Zeeman about the question: what do they see as the imagination of hope? The guests each bring an image they derive hope from and illustrate their choice. A tryptich with six modern words, images and sounds of hope – which one will convince you?
grote zaal theater - 20.00 to 21.00 hrs |
 Haytham Safia met zijn ud - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Haytham Safia Qu4rtetMusic: Haytham Safia Qu4rtetLast year ud-player Haytham Safia could be admired solo on Winternachten, now he can be heard in a quartet. In addition to Haytham (Jerusalem) the group consists of Afra Mussawisade (Iran), percussion, Hanneke Ramselaar, oboe and Eva van de Poll, cello. In 2007 the CD Promises was released. And Qu4rtet surely is a promise. Listen to the title number: inventive, virtuoso and full of musical zest. Each number is a gem. Influences from classical western, Arab and Persian music and jazz, blues and medieval music are welded together effortlessly.
grote zaal theater - 21.10 to 21.30 hrs - 22.35 to 23.00 hrs |
 Sjoerd Soeters, A.F.Th. van der Heijden en Michaël Zeeman |
with A.F.Th. van der Heijden | Sjoerd Soeters | Michaël ZeemanBetween Fear and Hope Part 2: literature & architecturePart 2 of the programme lasting a whole evening in the main hall of the theatre, on the imagination of hope. After science literature & architecture are next: does art offer hope? From their own disciplines writer A.F.Th. van der Heijden and architect Sjoerd Soeters will react on this question. Van der Heijden turns our times into a myth, he allows the present to evolve into a universe in which the world of the gods plays a role as well. Soeters gained renown in recent years because of the Haverleij, near Den Bosch, a complex of castles that links up with a new need for safe surroundings. Which expectation for the future emanates from his work? Interview by Michaël Zeeman. In Dutch.
grote zaal theater - 21.40 to 22.25 hrs |
 Adriaan van Dis, Peter-Jan Wagemans, Abeltje Hoogenkamp en Michaël Zeeman |
with Adriaan van Dis | Abeltje Hoogenkamp | Peter-Jan Wagemans | Michaël ZeemanBetween Fear and Hope Part 3: art and religionThe conclusion of the tryptich. After science, literature and architecture we now enter the fields of religion and music, and the writer has the final say. ‘Hope’ doesn't merely have to be aimed at the future, tradition can also play a vital role. But to what extent do our cultural traditions still have any power of expression? In her work clergywoman and hospital chaplain Abeltje Hoogenkamp makes use of religious conventions. For composer Peter-Jan Wagemans Wagner is the composer who succeeds in expressing human emotions at the highest level. Wagemans will play his musical hope on the piano. Does writer Adriaan van Dis know the saving power of tradition? In his seven part documentary, to be seen on tv in January, Van Dis returns to southern Africa, to countries he once visited as a travel writer. In Dutch.
grote zaal theater - 23.05 to 23.55 hrs |
 Khaled Khalifa, Geert Linnebank en Lieve Joris - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Lieve Joris | Khaled Khalifa | Geert LinnebankForbidden wordsThis summer the Syrian writer and film maker Khaled Khalifa again got to know the limits of the freedom of expression in his country. In praise of Hatred, his novel about the Syrian agression against the muslim brothers (25 years ago), was banned in Syria. In 2000 his novel The Gypsy Notebooks suffered the same fate. In this programme he talks to Lieve Joris, author of among other books The Gates of Damascus, about being a writer, censorship and freedom of expression and religion godsdienst in secular Syria and the Arab world. Interview by the London Reuters editor Geert Linnebank. In English.
kleine zaal theater - 20.00 to 21.00 hrs |
 Jonas Hassen Khemiri tijdens 'Young Urban Writer' - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Ahmed Alaidy | Hassan Bahara | Paul van der Gaag | Jonas Hassen KhemiriYoung + Urban + WriterIs this a coincidence? Three debuts from countries far apart, showing striking resemblances. The novels of Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Sweden), Hassan Bahara (Netherlands) and Ahmad al-Aidi (Egypt) are set in the big city, in multi-ethnic surroundings, and the main characters share the same radical anti-attitude: they rebel against the dominant culture or against their own insensitive milieu. How to rebel? By manipulating, bastardising, by silencing language, by, as is the case with Al-Aidi, mixing street language with classical Arabic. These young urban writers give us their image of contemporary, chaotic city life and although this is not particularly cheerful, at least their free use of language makes for an agreeable vitality. New literature of the 21st century. Interviewer: Paul van der Gaag. In English.
kleine zaal theater - 21.40 to 22.25 hrs |
 Salimata Diabaté - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Salimata DiabateMusic: Salimata DiabatéFull, hot and powerful, that's the description of Salimata Diabaté's voice. Her music takes the listener to the days of the once powerful Mandinka empire, covering a large part of West Africa in the 14th century. Its history is still sung by griots, a kind of praise poets. Salimata too hails from a line of griots. In addition to traditional repertoire she brings her own compositions. Her voice seems to float above the bluesy sound of the ngoni, the repetitively rippling balaphone, the sparkling kora and the tense yet dosed percussion sounds. Resulting in a subtle, lazily swinging yet irresistible groove.
kleine zaal theater - 21.10 to 21.30 hrs - 22.35 to 23.00 hrs |
 Ruth San A Jong, Sonia Garmers en Usha Marhé - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Noraly Beyer | Sonia Garmers | Usha Marhé | Ruth San A JongTraditions, taboos, belief and superstition. Writers from the Antilles and SurinamA man dies. His lover puts a set of used underpants of her in his coffin. That's the custom in Surinam. But how do you do it without arousing the suspicion of his wife? And is this the only pair of underpants? Budding talent Ruth San A Jong wrote stories from Paramaribo like the one about the underpants above. Grande dame Sonia Garmers from Curaçao and Usha Marhé, who lives in the Netherlands, have written about rituals, magic and traditions which are part of daily life in their country. Belief and superstition can defuse fear but also arouse it: what if you don't keep to the accompanying customs? What if you want to break though tradition. The writers, varying in age, discuss this and other questions and read from their work. Noraly Beyer leads the conversation. In Dutch.
kleine zaal theater - 23.05 to 23.55 hrs |
 Ayada Ghamhi |
with Asis Aynan | Ayada Ghamhi | Mohamed el Hadaoui | Ahmed ZianiBerber poetry and prose: In stone I'll writeWhy a Berber is not an Arab. And why not all Berbers speak Tamazight. On Berbers and Berber culture there is the necessary misunderstanding and ignorance in the Netherlands. At the same time Berbers here are increasingly aware of their own background and culture - see the fast growing number of Berber sites. At Winternachten three writers discuss Berber culture and their place in it. Ahmed Ziani (1954) is a pioneer in the struggle for recognition of the Berber language and culture. He lives in Morocco, after having lived in the Netherlands for many years and one of the first to write his poems in Tamazight. In stone I'll write and Song of Joy for the Bridegroom are two of his titles, both published in Tamazight and Dutch. Mohamed El Hadaoui (1973) writes in Tamazight, Arabic and Darija (Moroccan-Arabic). A quote by him: ‘He deposits a secret on his shoulders, keeps silent, remembers the pain of the streamn and melts.’ The prose writer Ayada Ghamhi (1980), who speaks Tamazight and Arabic, opens her story without further ado with: ’Aaaahhh… Whát the fuck’. Interviewer is writer and columnist Asis Aynan. In Dutch
filmhuis 7 - 20.00 to 21.00 hrs |
 Saskia de Jong en scholieren van Scholengroep Johan de Witt - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with ao Saskia de Jong | Alfred SchafferWho's Afraid of Youth? Pupils have the floorDon't miss it: pupils of Scholengroep Johan de Witt and the Atlas Onderwijs Groep, The Hague. They read their own work expressing their greatest fear. They are inspired by poet Saskia de Jong, who visited their schools, and by closereading a great many poems. Alfred Schaffer presents the new poets. They then reveal themselves as interviewers, asking De Jong questions on stage about the secrets of her trade.
filmhuis 7 - 21.10 to 22.25 hrs |
 Gabeba Baderoon tijdens 'Profetieën van de nieuwe generatie dichters' - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Osama Abdulrasol | Tamim al-Barghouti | Gabeba Baderoon | Yra van Dijk | Saskia de Jong | Henk de Laat | Ester Naomi Perquin | Lamis Saidi | Violetta SimatupangProphesies of the new generation of poetsCome and see: Seven young poets from allover the world enter the stage as modern prophets. They will conclude this Winternight prophesying with a poem assigned by the festival. What kind of future awaits us? Tamiem al-Barghuti (Palestine), Lamis Saidi (Algeria), Violetta Simatupang (Indonesia), Saskia de Jong (Netherlands), Ester Naomi Perquin (Netherlands) and Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa) read and Osama Abdulrasol and Henk de Laat will improvise on the poems on ud and bass. The poets will also read from existing work. Yra van Dijk leads the (English) programme.
filmhuis 7 - 22.35 to 23.55 hrs |
 Publiek tijdens 'Groot dictee Papiaments' - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with Sonia Garmers | Sidney Kock | Quito Nicolaas | Igma van Putte | Ruben Severina | Ronald SeveringGreat Dicatation in Papiamento/u of the Kingdom of the NetherlandsProlongated because of its success in 2006: the public dictation Papiamento/u. Since March 2007 it is the official language on the Dutch Antilles - so high time to test your knowledge. Participants may choose from Papiamentu, spoken on Curaçao and Bonaire, and Papiamento (Aruba). The FPI (Foundation for Language Planning) from Curaçao will provide the text, together with the writer Sonia Garmers, who will dictate it herself. The Papiamento will be dictated by Sidney Kock, press officer of the Aruba House in The Hague. It is just and fair that old-member of the Council of State Gilbert Wawoe and writer Olga Orman, who did the dictation in 2006, will be subjected to this spelling test. Winternachten provides pen and pencil. A professional jury with Quito Nicolaas and Igma van Putte, led by Ronald Severing of the FPI, will judge the dictations and award the winners with a suitable prize. The dicatation is programmed at the start of the evening. Be on time, full is full.
filmhuis 6 - 20.00 to 21.20 hrs |
 Trefossa - foto Paul van den Bos |
with Ida DoesFilm: Trefossa. World premiere‘With his poems he knows how to play all the keys, from the simplest emotions to modern mystical experiences, from a dancing song inspired by the rhythm of the drum to sonnets.’ Dutch critic and poet Paul Rodenko wrote this in 1957 in NRC very enthusiastically about the poetry of the Surinamese poet Trefossa (1916-1975). But who (still) knows who Trefossa is, or rather, was. Paul van den Bos, maker of ‘Nynke’ and other films, and Ida Does have made a documentary about this forgotten testator of Surinamese culture. A gripping document about his life and work, with excerpts from his diaries, interviews with relatives and people of his generation and library pictures of Surinam. Winternachten brings the world premiere of the film, fifty years after Trefossa’s collection Trotji appeared, ‘the big bang’ of Surinamese literature. With an introduction by Ida Does. In Dutch.
filmhuis 6 - 21.30 to 22.30 hrs |
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with A.F.Th. van der HeijdenThe film choice of A.F.Th. van der HeijdenIn his latest novel, winning him the prestigious Dutch Ako-literatuurprijs, A.F.Th. van der Heijden plays a unique and complex game with data from the life of film maker Roman Polanski. De murder of Polanski’s wife, actress Sharon Tate, by Charles Manson and his sect members is told in the novel from a very moving perspective. Van der Heijden is unmistakably gripped by the life and work of the Polish film maker and as a film viewer had been fascinated by how he plays with our fears. For Winternachten he dissects how Polanski in his films builds tension and how he manipulates the audience before striking. The writer selects scenes from Polanski’s work, using them to give a verbal ‘découpage’ of the fear. In Dutch.
filmhuis 6 - 23.05 to 23.55 hrs |
 DJ eXeS in de foyer - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with DJ eXesFoyer programmeDJ eXeS is one of the few women who succeed in maintaining themselves within the men's guild of DJs. Brazilian music is her speciality. With this music in your ears you play the Syrian computer game Quraish, in which you can pretend to be either a mujahedeen or a crusader. Furthermore: books and writers autographing their books at book store Van Stockum, drinks and snacks from all four corners of the globe.
foyer theater - 20.00 to 23.55 hrs |
 Rabasa in de foyer van Theater aan het Spui - foto Serge Ligtenberg |
with RabasaMusic: RabasaGo into the night dancing with Rabasa! They know what swing is, deeply rooted in the Capeverdian musical traditions, with an undeniable sound of their own. From melancholy morna’s to steaming funaná’s. This multiculti group consists of the four brothers Ortet, Terezinha Fernandes, Paulo Bouwman (all Capeverdian), Hans de Lange (Dutch), trumpet player Kabiné Tagus Traoré, who used to play with Salif Keita in the legendary Malinese group Les Ambassadeurs. Guaranteed hot-blooded.
foyer theater - 23.55 to 01.30 hrs |