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Mail: info@readmyworld.nl

For questions about our workshop series, contact us at workshop@readmyworld.nl

Read My World
Tolhuisweg 1-I
1031 CL Amsterdam

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L'Equipe

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Willemijn Lamp

Willemijn Lamp is the co-founder and artistic director of Read My World.

Marije Koens

Marije Koens has worked for a variety of cultural organizations, including the house of poets Perdu, spoken word platform Poetry Circle Nowhere, educational organisation School der Poëzie and ensemble for new music Asko | Schönberg. She specializes in contemporary poetry en loves gardening

Pelumi Adejumo

Pelumi Adejumo is a runaway pastor child, writer, (vocal) artist and lucid dreamer living in the Netherlands. Working with themes as displacement, devotion, healing and lamentation. Using unintelligibility and the mix-match of languages to open up disruptive creative and musical possibilities. She wrote ‘soms ik voel mij zombie’, a text on multilingualism in grammar. She has written for nY, de Gids, De Appel, deBuren, Nationale Opera & Ballet, Sonsbeek 20,24, Mister Motley, and performed at festivals such as Into The Great Wide Open and Read My World. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Artez University of the arts, and is enrolled for a MA at the Dutch Art Institute.

Fatma Bulaz

Fatma Bulaz is a programmer, coordinator and researcher. She studied Cultural and Social Education at in The Hague and Middle East Studies in Leiden. In the past few years she has traveled along the borders of Eastern Turkey, including in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran. Her fascination with the history, language and culture of that region has led her to become program coordinator of the Freedom Book Fair.

She is currently a project officer for the 20th edition of Arab Film Festival and a volunteer for the NGO The Hague Peace Projects.

Canan Marasligil

Canan Marasligil is a feminist writer, artist, literary translator, editor, podcaster and cultural programmes curator based in Amsterdam.

Canan’s interest is in challenging official narratives and advocating freedom of expression through a wide range of creative projects and activities, and to tell stories on paper, on stage, on screen using a wide range of media. She is a programme curator at the international literature festival Read My World and has a.o. initiated the Performative Translator’s programme for the festival.

More:

www.cananmarasligil.net

Tim Blaauw

Tim is een programmamaker die onder andere heeft gewerkt voor organisaties als de Tolhuistuin, Amerpodia, Prince Claus Fund en Poetry Circle Nowhere. Op dit moment werkt hij voor, naast zijn werkzaamheden voor het Read My World festival, in de zorg als Geestelijk Verzorger en aan een documentaire voor productiehuis Een van de Jongens. In zijn programmering maakt hij  gebruik van verschillende disciplines in het vertellen van verhalen. Hierbij gebruik makend van de verschillende kwaliteiten die poëzie, literatuur, film, dans, theater en muziek in zich dragen voor het tonen en onderzoeken van verschillende thema’s, vragen en verlangens.

Emma van Meyeren

Emma van Meyeren is a essayist and DJ. In 2020 a collection of essays about mourning was published: ‘Ook ik ben stukgewaaid’. With Read My World she created the workshop series ‘Het dagboek als feministisch genre’. Her favorite diaries are those of Susan Sontag, she loves the prose of Astrid Roemer and the poetry of Adrienne Rich.

Olivier Willemsen

Olivier Willemsen is a writer who loves short bio’s.

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Lorraine Masamba

Lorraine Masamba is a freelance creative marketeer, producer and (radio)host.

Merel Wildschut

Merel calls herself a ‘professional sharer’. She’s always online, except when she is laying in her garden reading novels and poetry. Merel is founder of De Groene Meisjes. In 2021 she published a cookery book. She feels at home in the Queer community and she is always questioning and exploring her activism.

Merel Hobrink

Merel grew up in the East of the Netherlands and moved to Utrecht to study Art and Economics at the HKU. She graduated in 2017 after which she started working as a freelancer in the cultural sector. She is production manager at various theater companies, sets up her own theater projects, is business leader at iona & rineke and produces Read My World.

Gwen Peroti

Gwen Peroti is a freelance producer. She worked for cultural events and organisations as IFFR, Museum De Lakenhal and ZigZagCity Architectuur Festival. We’re proud she’s in our team since the first edition!

Houda Bibouda

Houda (1992) is committed to social issues. She has started an anti-racism action group in Tilburg and organizes Safe Space events. She writes under the pseudonym Tough and Vulnerable and performs regularly as a Spoken Word artist. For the past two years she has been a coordinator at Poetry Circle Nowhere and she worked for The Stage. She is currently developing the fringe program for a performance by House of Nouws.

Tessa van Dooren

After studying in Maastricht and Glasgow, Tessa van Dooren has been a fulltime translator since 1998. She has worked at a small translation agency, a multinational localization company and became a freelancer in 2006. After many years in the B2B industry, she decided the time was right to follow her love for language and pursue a literary path. She did not feel at home in the business world anymore. Her first steps in this direction have been made, her first translations have been submitted an published, and now she is eager to put her past experience to use in new, surprising ways that rekindle her passion for the written word.

Rik van der Veen

Rik van der Veen has worked as theater technician for many years. He has been our head of technics since the very first edition.

LABland

LABland is een collectief van drie scenografen: Juul Dekker, Sofie Doeland en Roos Matla. Samen maken zij (theatrale) installaties op locatie, die ontstaan vanuit beeld. Ze zoeken steeds naar plekken die onontdekt, vergeten zijn of overbodig zijn geraakt. Het collectief doet ingrepen in deze bestaande vorm: kleedt deze uit, of pakt deze juist in.

LABland verzorgt al sinds de eerste editie de locatievormgeving van het festival.

O4

Bureau O4 ontwerpt en bouwt gebruiksvriendelijke websites op maat voor uiteenlopende bedrijven en organisaties, zoals die van SLAA.nlAbrahamkef.nl en Brainwashfestival.nl

Many thanks to

Fondsen
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds21, Nederlands Letterenfonds, VSBFonds, Lira Fonds, Stichting Dioraphte, Woorden van West en Taalunie.

Partners
Partners: SLAA, School der Poëzie, Perdu, Bijlmer Parktheater, ZINA platform, Tolhuistuin, AALFIE, Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas, Uitgeverij Pluim, Uitgeverij de Geus, Beyond Walls, Bozar, OBA, Black Heritage Tour, Uitgeverij Chaos, Woorden van West, Boekhandel Perdu, MAQAM, Holiday Inn, Indira Travel, LABland.

  • Team With Care 2021

  • Team Europa 2020

  • Team Marokko 2019

  • Team Turkije 2018

  • Team Oekraïne en Polen 2016

  • Team Zuidoost-Azië 2015

  • Team Caraïben 2014

  • Team Arabische Literatuur 2013