Moving Center Literair Festival (Day 1 – Amsterdam)

Programma

14:00- 15:30 – Workshop “Poetry and Breaking Free” door Christine Otten & Lucien Zell.
16:30-17:30 –  Christine Otten leest The Last Poets
18:00 -19:00 – Peter-Jan Wagemans & Natálie Kulina spelen Modern classical music.
19:00-20:30 – Andrei Codrescu, Eden Roding & Lucien Zell hebben een Poetry reading.
21:00 – 23:00 – Jeff Babcock “Blind Date with a Film”

14:00–15:30 – “Breaking Free”: Poetry workshop with Christine Otten and Lucien Zell
Visionary poet William Blake wrote about “mind-forged manacles” which confine us. Christine Otten’s foundation goes into four Dutch prisons to teach prisoners how to write. Join her and Lucien Zell in a discussion of what it takes to truly break free.

16:30–17:30 – Christine Otten: The Last Poets
The Last Poets were a legendary group of Afro-Americans whose groundbreaking revolutionary poetry made them world famous in the late 1960s and early 70s. They shocked both black and white audiences and had a profound influence on hip-hop culture. Otten wrote a highly acclaimed novel based on lengthy interviews with these men, their families and friends. The book is highly personal and political, has been adapted for the stage many times, and was translated into Arabic. Otten will be interviewed and will read from the book.

18:00–19:00 – Peter-Jan Wagemans and Natálie Kulina: “Folk music without Folk”
Five pieces for solo violin and electronics, commenting on the folk music which disappeared in the Netherlands: dance, jazz dance, farmers’ songs, workers’ songs and religious songs.

19:00–20:30 – Andrei Codrescu, Eden Roding and Lucien Zell
Andrei will read selections from his many published books, including The Poetry Lesson, New Orlean: Mon Amour; Jealous Witness, So Recently Rent a World, The Art of Forgetting, Now Time Like Now, etc. Eden Roding will combine spoken words (long and short poems) with dancing and music. Lucien Zell will read from his collection Tiny Kites and from his upcoming collection, Mad Honey, punctuated with songs and a music video.

21:00–23:00 – Jeff Babcock: “Blind Date with a Film”
Babcock is well-known in Amsterdam for his guerilla screenings of little-known and long-forgotten cinematic masterpieces. He will select a film with a literary theme and surprise the audience with his choice.