Revolusi | David Van Reybrouck

Sunday 13 december 2020

On 13 december 2021 Framer Framed Beyond Walls and RMW organized a program around David Van Reybroucks’ new novel REVOLUSI. Wim Manuhutu talked with David Van Reybrouck, Goenawan Mohamad, Sadiah Boonstra and Amanda Pinatih. With a multimedial performance Manual for the Displaced by Robin Block and Jeremy Flohr.

Tongues

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Languages travel all over the world and are changing almost every day. It is through languages that we pass on family stories and get together with people. A large majority of people speak more than one language. Europe also has an endless diversity of languages, although many European states do tend to limit the scope of languages to their official ones.

How do people combine this multilingualism? And in which mother tongue(s) does someone feel most at home? In Tongues, multilingual poets, a storyteller and a singer-songwriter pay a literary and musical tribute to European multilingualism!

Revolutionary Jargon

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Together with Mitchell Esajas, Munganyende Hélène Christelle, Gary Younge and Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen we reflect on the current state of journalism and the language of political movements and revolutions.

The experts will engage in sharing their knowledge and insights surrounding the organization and formation of a collective language. At the same time we have a unique opportunity to learn more about the work of the guest speakers and how they challenge the status quo through their journalism and through their thought. What has been their experiences over the past 6 months, and how has this changed from a year ago? What does momentum mean in the formation of such a language and its activism? And in what ways is it important to also challenge mainstream media through this?

LET’S GET LOUD!

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Don’t you sometimes want to go out in the street and just scream your lungs out? Did it happen during the so-called lockdown? Do you have that feeling you need to get even louder about injustices occurring in your city, your country, the world we all live in and are supposed to share? So much is happening across a wide variety of cultural and political contexts. The many inequalities and racism built into our institutions and lives in a systemic way has been brought to light more than ever during the pandemic. We have started to get louder and louder about the issues we all care about.

In this interactive session, we invite our festival visitors to listen to Rokhaya Diallo’s take on the need to be “loud”. Following an inspirational talk (in the format of a masterclass), the audience will be invited to “be loud” and in this way, be part of this performative way of sharing our emotions (whether it is anger, sadness, hope, dedication…) collectively.

Our Common Wars

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Every day we consume images of war and violence. Wars that seem far away from us geographically, but we are nevertheless a part of. Wars that may have seized but will forever be embroidered into our collective memory. These are the wars we commemorate and live throughout the years; whether it be in the news, through stories online, within gatherings, the presence of monuments, education, or through the perpetual stream of videos and images on social media. Our collective consciousness is influenced and formed by these different forms of media, but what does it mean to read a story? To have a story of war told to you in words, in honest encounter with a writer. And which stories have been left unread?

Our Common Wars investigates in what ways storytelling and literature form our collective imagination of war and proposes new questions surrounding the ethics of memory.

In this programme, we travel between different realities and experiences, from Georgia, Rwanda, Germany, Palestine, to Bosnia, and try to create links between our imaginations.

Together with guest speakers including Max Czollek and more, rhythmed by the poetry of Asmaa Azaizeh, the audience is invited to contemplate these questions, as the programme proposes a different understanding of ‘our common wars’ and how these connect us.

The Life Library of Gary Younge

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Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and academic. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he has been appointed Professor of sociology at Manchester University. He is also the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media in America. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South.

But what is on Gary’s bookshelves? What were the highlights of only reading African female authors for a year? What does he consider his first ‘serious’ piece of writing and why? Which works have offered comfort in times of distress and which books have inspired action?During the Life Library of Gary Younge we take a deep dive into the works that inspire and intrigue this renown London based author and journalist.

Seada Nourhussen met Gary Younge en Sulaiman Addonia

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Meet our international guests: Sulaiman Addonia is writer and initiator of the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival in Exile. After having lived in Eritrea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and London, he is now based in Brussels.

In addition to his literature festival, Addonia also founded a refugee academy for creative writing in Brussels. This course is for refugees and asylum seekers who always wanted to write, tell their own stories in their own voice, but never had the space or knew where to start.

Read My World asked Addonia which author he would like to bring to Amsterdam. He chose Gary Younge. In a talk moderated by Seada Nourhussen, both writers will discuss the influence of a diasporic existence on their writing.

My Words Matter

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Four poets will tell us why their poetry is urgent and what they want to draw attention to at the moment. Poetry means something different for everyone, for the writer, but also for the reader. In My Words Matter, we want to ask poets why they started to write poetry and what their process has been towards publishing their first collection of poetry.