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

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

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 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

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

Website

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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