photo by Jan Boeven

I am very happy to have been curating programmes again this year for Read My World.
This year, our theme is With Care. I’m so proud of being part of a team making this line-up happen: https://www.readmyworld.nl/en/line-up-2021/

If you’re in Amsterdam 2, 3 & 4 September join us at the Tolhuistuin! if you’re further away, we will livestream a few events ❤️‍🔥

and let me highlight the programmes I’ve curated this year:

on Friday 03/09:

Language of the Flesh - ‘The Art of Making Love to Yourself’ with Sulaiman Addonia, Athena Farrokhzad, Soula Notos and Anastasis Sarakatsanos

also on Friday 03/09, we have a programme about writing as a multilingual writer: Twee Talen op Een Kussen created by Neske Beks, founder of editorial think-thank de Tank, and I’m so proud we worked together on bringing powerful texts to the stage

on Saturday 04/09:

with my wonderful friend and colleague Fatma Bulaz, we have developed an event in two parts to tackle Freedom of expression with all the complexities it requires: “Tales of Freedom” will include performance, spoken word, comics, prose, lecture… We subtitled the programme Creative Expression With Care and have divided it into two parts, one focusing on Imagination and the other on Society. We will dive deep into it under the guidance and moderation of journalist and writer Warda El-Kaddouri. We first invite our guests to express their voices through their work and imagination: with a dance performance by Mala Badi, comics and illustrations from Sinine Nakhle (aka BeirutByDyke), and new writing from this year’s festival co-curators Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and Grace Ly. In the second part of the programme, we bring our focus on society and follow-up with a spoken word performance by benzokarim and a short academic lecture by Michiel Leezenberg putting the overall theme of Freedom of Expression into perspective. We end with a discussion with all our creators.