Passaporta Festival: Turn your curiosity into literary discovery
Categories: Literature
Date: 28/03/2019 to 31/03/2019
Time: All Day
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The Passa Porta Festival is a true celebration of literature. It is where more than 100 authors and artists from Belgium and abroad meet their readers over the course of a busy weekend in the heart of Brussels. Join us on Thursday for the opening night with Reni Eddo-Lodge and a late night poetry slam. This will be followed on Friday by a lecture- concert under the sign of Brexit. On Saturday evening, read the city with Passa Porta!
During the weekend, let your curiosity turn into discovery: compose your parcours among the 100 events on offer – depending on your favourite authors, your language, the formulas you prefer or your mood of the moment! Feed on stories, confront your points of view and return home with new ideas. Take the time also to have your books signed, to stroll around and to have a drink: Brussels is in essence literary!
This is Passa Porta Festival 2019 💥 programme on www.passaporta.be
Publiée par Passa Porta sur Jeudi 28 février 2019
Program:
To open the 7th edition of the Festival, the British author will read a new text on her relation to the readers.
When Reni Eddo-Lodge published a blog post entitled Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race, she didn’t expect it to strike a chord with quite so many people. And it’s these readers – many of whom wanted to know how to tackle structural racism or wanted to share their own experiences – who pushed her to continue the discussion and make it the subject of a book of the same name.
Five years after the blog post that started it all, the Passa Porta Festival has asked the author to write a letter to her readers. Does she think about them when she writes ? What makes a good reader ? And what does she herself read ? The opening letter of the Passa Porta Festival will explore all these themes and will be followed by an interview of the author by Dorrie Wilson.
Tickets may be purchased here.
On Friday 29 March 2019, on the stroke of midnight, Brexit will become a reality. In Brussels, the heart of Europe, the UK’s departure from the EU cannot go unnoticed. With a highly unique lecture concert, we will turn the spotlight on the age-old artistic ties between the UK and the European continent. The leading British authors Ali Smith and Jonathan Coe will read from their Brexit novels. British writer Sulaiman Addonia, who has Eritrean roots but lives in Brussels, brings a brand new short story.
Tickets may be purchased here.
Summer 2014. Violence breaks out in Eastern Ukraine between separatists, supported by Russia, and the Ukrainian Army. During the conflict, flight MH17 is shot down. There are no survivors. Was it an accident? Or did the rebels – with or without Russian support – down it? Or did Ukraine perhaps shoot it down itself? The news reports on the event were not always very nuanced. Studio ZZZAP lets you experience the complex reality of everyday life in Eastern Ukraine on the eve of the tragic crash with the virtual reality story of the elderly Nina.
You may check out the rest of the program on their website. Have a great festival!
