City2Cities - Intermezzo: Building the Spiegeltent.

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The Spiegeltent has - again - arrived. Come visit us at the square on the Hamburgerstraat (Restaurant De Rechtbank) for a Czech Budvar or a Catalonian Cava. Careful! He'll be gone on Queens Day, monday…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster - Chapter VII & VIII - Barcelona

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In which our hero flies to Barcelona and finds a woman there. Mercedes Abad is City2Cities writer-in-residence, on Wednesday the 25th of April she will give this years Belle van Zuylen-lecture and…

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CIty2Cities - Bookie Monster - Chapter VI - Eten met Koch

by SLAU / Added 1 month 2 weeks ago

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In which our hero has returned from Prague, eats the dancing tangerines with local hero Herman Koch and gets the advice to go to Barcelona in search of a woman. On Wednesday the 25th of April Mercedes…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster - Chapter V - drinking habits

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In which our hero finally finds a good bar to taste the true Czech beer and drink it with a Becherovka and other (local?) heroes Jáchym Topol and Rainer Maria Rilke. He regrets not remembering much…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster - Chapter IV

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In which our hero reads "why he should read Kafka before he wastes his life", visits the grave of Dr. Franz and finds himself impressed by the way Kafka - even from his grave - makes it clear to him…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster. Chapter III - I. M. Václav Havel

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In which our hero arrives in Prague and goes to the Vinohrady Cemetery to pay tribute to playwright, essayist, poet, dissident, last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster. Chapter II: Meeting Kafka

by SLAU / Added 2 months 2 days ago

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In which our hero meets up with local heroes Ingmar Heytze and Hagar Peeters (who introduces him to Franz Kafka) and decides to leave for Prague. City2Cities is an international literature festival…

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City2Cities - Bookie Monster. Chapter I: Leaving the office

by SLAU / Added 2 months 1 week ago

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Met nog 3,5 week te gaan wordt het hoog tijd de literatuur uit Praag en Barcelona op te halen en naar Utrecht te brengen. Voor deze gewichtige taak hebben we onze nieuwste medewerker Bookie Monster…

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Het Huis van de Poëzie 2012 in het Centraal Museum

by SLAU / Added 2 months 3 weeks ago

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Het Huis van de Poëzie is de enige live-poëziebloemlezing waar je zelf doorheen kunt lopen. Ieder jaar wordt een locatie gekozen die op zichzelf al een avondlijk bezoek waard is. Het Centraal Museum…

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City2Cities: Alexis de Roode in Stockholm

by SLAU / Added 7 months 2 weeks ago

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Dichter Alexis de Roode en schrijfster Wiegertje Postma gingen in opdracht van City2Cities op expeditie naar respectievelijk Stockholm en Edinburgh. Ze doen in woord en beeld verslag van hun reis…

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City2Cities: Wiegertje Postma in Edinburgh

by SLAU / Added 7 months 2 weeks ago

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Dichter Alexis de Roode en schrijfster Wiegertje Postma gingen in opdracht van City2Cities op expeditie naar respectievelijk Stockholm en Edinburgh. Ze doen in woord en beeld verslag van hun reis…

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Huis van de Poëzie 2011: Onthulling dichtregels stadhuis

by SLAU / Added 1 year ago

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De bijzondere locaties waar het Huis van de Poëzie gebruik van maakt zijn van groot belang voor het unieke karakter van Het Huis van de Poëzie. De gastheer wordt dan ook altijd op gepaste wijze bedankt.…

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