Gaasbeek School Festival in September
Categories: Festival
Date: 06/09/2019 to 09/09/2019
Time: 14 h 00 - 2 h 00
Location: De School van Gaasbeek
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Now in its sixth edition, the September Festival 2019 of Gaasbeek School once again offers a diverse and unusual programme. The programme features both new talent and experienced masters from different disciplines across the arts.
On Friday evening experience and renowned skills will be on display, on Saturday an abundance of up-and-coming talents will be exhibited, and Sunday will remain as usual ‘Poetry Sunday’. During the three-day festival, the festival organisers and participants will work together to make this historic place buzz with life, as in previous years.
The former village school, village square, surrounding meadows, attics around the square, and orchards will function as the designated play areas for children throughout the festival.
Highlights:
Friday September 6th at 20.00: An evening with Dirk Roofthooft, an unusual, special, brilliant actor. Exclusively for Gaasbeek, Dirk Roofthooft reads pieces from his almost endless repertoire and some of his favorite texts.
Saturday September 7th at 20.00 Cassiel Gaube, FARMER TRAIN SWIRL – ETUDE
Cassiel Gaube is a dancer and choreographer who graduated from P.A.R.T.S. He lives and works in Brussels and Paris. In recent years he has focused on learning and practicing house dance. He is currently working on creations at the interface between contemporary dance, hip hop and clubbing. He sees his creative outputs as the result of a sensitive movement back and forth through this resilient ecosystem of practices, of experimenting with the forms present therein and of imagining new forms.
On Sunday September 8th at 16:00 Anne Provoost, Paul Demets
Anne Provoost is mostly known to the general public for her novels, essays and short stories. Her children’s books, including My Aunt is a Grindewal with which she debuted in 1990 and De Arkvaarders, have been awarded and translated several times. Just like in her novels, she explores in her essays the boundaries between literature and youth literature that are invisible to the adult eye.
Paul Demets is completely at home in the Dutch-speaking literary world. In addition to writing his own poetry, he is also poetry critic for De Morgen, Awater, Poëziekrant and Ons Erfdeel. Both his poems and poetry collections have received awards several times. The Herman De Coninck Prize for De Bloedplek (2011), Fear for the Flower Arrangement (2002), and his poetry debut De Papegaaienziekte earned him a nomination for the C. Buddingh Prize. He received the Prize for Literature from the province of East Flanders for this. He has been the rural poet in East Flanders since 2016.
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