With Love - Ten letters of comfort

Maurice Ruffin

New Orleans

Sharda Ganga

Suriname

Rokhaya Diallo

Paris

Asmaa Azaizeh

Haifa

Donatella Della Ratta

Rome

From the world, to you. 

The virus changed everything and this crisis hits everyone. But not in the same way. For some people the hit may still be coming, others are just recovering. From a small disruption to a radical difference.

Ten writers from around the world write letters of comfort in these times of crisis. They reflect on a post pandemic age, search for beauty and solidarity and find intimacy in distance. Together they show the wide-ranging worldwide impact of this crisis.

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With Love – Ten letters of comfort. From the world, to you. 

The virus changed everything and this crisis hits everyone. But not in the same way. For some people the hit may still be coming, others are just recovering. From a small disruption to a radical difference. Ten writers from around the world write letters of comfort in these times of crisis. They reflect on a post pandemic age, search for beauty and solidarity and find intimacy in distance. Together they show the wide-ranging worldwide impact of this crisis.

These letters are for you. Do you want to receive them? That’s possible. Now that not only our interactions, but also all our cultural activities increasingly move to online spaces, we are creating something analogue. Subscribe and receive ten letters in your physical mailbox. The letters are illustrated by international artists and printed in a unique way. To hold on to and to pass on.

With Love consists of ten letters from Maurice Carlos Ruffin from New Orleans, Max Czollek from Berlin, the Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh from Haifa, Bernice Chauly from Kuala Lumpur, Sharda Ganga from Paramaribo, Rokhaya Diallo from Paris, Donatella Della Ratta from Rome, Sulaiman Addonia from Brussels, Vladimir Lucien from New York en Süreyyya Evren from Istanbul.

All letters are bilingual, English and Dutch.

Read My World Productions

Throughout the year we work on productions that require a different approach to our regular festival programme. Read My World Productions stands for theatre and music showcases of literature, experimentation, unlocking previously untranslated work and devising challenging writing assignments. These could be a theatre play, a mini-documentary, a letter exchange, a podcast series, a publication - whichever medium will better suit the story we want to tell.