Poets in the Prinsentuin
About this activity.
This summer, on July 12, 13 and 14, Groningen's Prinsentuin will once again be the setting for the poetry festival Poets in the Prinsentuin. Because the festival has grown in recent years, the festival will be expanded to the Martinikerkhof and surrounding area. This edition the festival offers the stage to Lieke Marsman, Robin Block, Babeth Fonchie Fotchind, Piet Gerbrandy and many others.
The 27th edition of the festival opens on Friday evening with a program around the mystical experience with, among others, Lieke Marsman and Roelof ten Napel. There is a Poetry Processing Party on Saturday evening; a festive evening full of musical poetry and music full of poetry.
On Saturday and Sunday there will be various performances and lectures during the day and the close-up moments that are so characteristic and valued for the festival in the foliage corridors. In addition, there are interviews, conversations and programs from, among others, Center Groninger Language and Culture, Noordstaat, Poetry Magazine Awater and the Poetry Palace. Visitors can work with poetry themselves in one of the many workshops on topics such as translation, form and spoken word.
Crossover with photography
Poet Aly Freije and photographer Annemarie van Buuren give a presentation about their book The Dark Room. This collection contains poems by Aly Freije and photos by Annemarie van Buuren that make palpable the strong connection with the landscape and the power of the elements. Poet and photographer wander through damaged landscapes full of threat, loss and mourning. Responding to each other's work, they have to enter 'the dark room' to bring to light the awareness of finitude and loss and to find a certain balance. Poems and photos together form a mosaic. In this presentation they take those present on a journey through their poems and photos. They discuss the role of imagination and what the relationship between poetry and photography brought them.
During Poets in the Prinsentuin 2024, more than seventy poets and other artists from the Netherlands, Flanders and other language areas will be on stage. For example, city poet Esmé van den Boom, Idwer de la Parra, Lilian Zielstra, and Ruth Lasters op. Guests from abroad include John Murillo and Nicole Sealey from the United States.
More information about the programs can be found on the festival website dichtersindeprinsentuin.nl
The daily programs on Saturday and Sunday are free of charge.
Noordwoord.
Location.
Prinsentuin
Martinikerkhof 23
9712 JH Groningen
www.noordwoord.nl/