Mart Smeets

Ramsy Nasr

David Winner

Simon Kuper

Chika Unigwe

Paul Binding

Abdelkader Benali

Sanneke Van Hassel

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Litro Magazine is proud to partner with the Dutch embassy London, to host a free spoken word and music festival in celebration of the Netherlands and the impact it has had on the world through literature, sports and the arts. The main stage will be in Hyde Park at the Serpentine Bar and Kitchen from 10:00 – 18:00, and evening events will take place at the Kensington Gore Hotel.

With London playing host to what is the greatest sporting show on earth, our theme on the day will be Sports, the Arts and everything else in between. There will be readings, discussions, interviews and live music from the soulful ‘Dust’, and we will welcome back ‘Mad Dog’ who rocked our Camden Crawl stage back in 2010 following on from their 2011 tour in the evening. Guest speakers include Mart Smeets, David Winner (journalist and author of Brilliant Orange), Simon Kuper of the Financial Times, award-winning writer & poet laurete Ramsey Nasr, Abdelkader Benali (marathon enthusiast and writer of the novel Marathon Runner), and award-winning Flemish writer Chika Unigwe, winner of the 2004 BBC Short Story Competition and a Commonwealth Short Story Competition award. Many more award-winning writers are to be announced.

And all for free!

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ABDELKADER BENALIAbdelkader Benali wrote his first novel Bruiloft aan Zee

(Wedding by the Sea) aged 21. The novel won the Geertjan

Lubberhuizen Prize for Best First Novel. Other novels include De

Langverwachte (The Long-awaited) published in 2002 and he won

the LIBRIS LITERATURE PRIZE and Laat Het Morgen Mooi Weer Zoig

(May the Sun Shine Tomorrow). Abdelkader is also an avid long-

distance runner and has written a book about his failed attempt to

improve his best result, Marathonloper (Marathon Runner) .

PAUL BINDINGPaul Binding is a novelist, critic regular contributor to the Times

Literary Supplement, poet and cultural historian. He studied English

Literature at Oxford University. He has written over ten books. Four -

The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer, Lorca, St Martin’s

Ride and My Cousin the Writer - are to be reissued in Faber Finds.

SANNEKE VAN HASSELSanneke van Hassel studied theatre arts and cultural history. Her

debut collection of short stories IJsregen (Ice Rain), published in

2005, was nominated for several literary awards. In 2006 she wrote

about every day life in Sarajevo after a three week stay: Pieces

of Sarajevo. In 2007 she published her second collection of short

stories titled Witte Veder (White Feater). For this book she won the

BNG Literary Award.

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CAROLINE HAVERSSince 1990 Caroline has moved all over the world with her husband

and children. Manila, Washington D.C., Prague and Brussels were

considered home for many years.

In the studio of Kathryn Freeman (Chevy Chase) she was taught all

about the ‘old-school’ technical aspects of painting. Caroline has

since then worked as a full time artist.

BEN MOORBen Moor is an actor and writer. He has starred in several films

including Dead Man Running. His television credits include The

I.T Crowd and Knowing Me, Knowing You…with Alan Partridge.

He’s also created three series of sci-fi comedy titled Undone for

BBC Radio, and his journalism has appeared in newspapers and

magazines such as The Guardian, The Observer and The Idler, of

course.

DAVID WINNERDavid Winner is the author of Brilliant Orange: the Neurotic Genius

of Dutch football and Those Feet: a Sensual History of English

football, which, among other things, he states proves that the

global game was created as a direct consequence of Victorian

masturbation anxiety.

MART SMEETSMart Smeets is a celebrated Dutch sports presenter and

commentator with the Dutch public broadcaster NOS. He is most

famous for his reporting of the Tour de France, but also comments

on speedskating. Smeets was a former player for the Dutch national

basketball team.

JORIS LUYENDIJKSince 2006, Joris Luyendijk has been living in Amsterdam. In the

summer of 2006 and 2007 he carried out interviews for the talk show

Zomergasten (Summer Guests) on VPRO. As of January 2010, he

will be holding the Leonardo Chair at the University of Tilburg, and

teach the masterclass: Journalism for the 21st Century!

RAMSEY NASRRamsey Nasr was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In addition

to being a prize-winning author of poetry, essays, dramas, he is

a gifted film and theatre actor. In 2009, Ramsey Nasr was voted

Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. In 2000, he was the winner of the

Hugues C. Pernath Prize. In 2006 Nasr was awarded the honorary

prize ‘Journalist for Peace’ by the Humanistisch Vredesberaad

(Humanistic Peace Council).

CHIKA UNIGWEChika Unigwe is a Nigerian born author and she writes in English and

Dutch. Her debut novel, De Feniks was published in 2005 by

Meulenhoff and Manteau (of Amsterdam and Antwerp) and was

shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur female writer. She is also the

author of two children’s books published by Macmillan London.

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MAD DOGMad Dog are a three-piece rock band from Southeast London,

fronted by Tommy Smith. They are the first band to sign to legendary

Yamaha’s new North American label. The bands roots are in classic

rock, but they have a hard hitting current style; and have recorded

the whole of their latest album on analogue tape, which is almost

unheard of in this age of drum machines, auto-tune and tablet

touch screen recording.

DUSTUp and coming singer signed to Rocket Management, originally

from Hartlepool, now lives in London. Her velvet tones come from

growing up listening to jazz singers. She has been described as

“a modern day Jessica Rabbit” and “sounds like honey.” She will

not be doing many performances until late 2012, so this is a rare

chance to see her at one of her earliest gigs.

KIM WASSENSinger and model Kim, studied jazz at the Conservatory in

Amsterdam and despite her studies she hasn’t lost her passion for

singing. She has a residency at London’s Supperclub.

JARETHUK soul sensation has already recorded with Sway, Ty and Professor

Green, 23-year-old Jareth released her debut single last summer.

She launched the single with a clever campaign by releasing a

set of viral videos of her singing out and about in London, and her

soulful voice is also soon to be paired with Lioness on a new track

they’re working on together.

This will be a great opportunity to catch Jareth in a unique intimate

surrounding.

Litro Live! World Series, Presents Double Dutch 28th February 2012

FESTIVAL SITE: HYDE PARK SERPENTINE BAR & KITCHEN10:00 – 18:00

10:00 – 10:30 DOORS OPENA welcome message from Litro

10:30 – 11:00 CAROLINE HAVERSThe contemporary Dutch artist talks about her series paintings titled

A walk in the park inspired by the surrounding Serpentine lake and

Hyde Park

11:00 – 11:40 JORIS LUYENDIJKThe writer and journalist, talks about the changing face of

communication in the digital age

12:00 – 12:40 SIMON KUPERAuthor and sports columnist for the Financial Times, talks on Dutch

Football and the transformation of the Netherlands

13:00 – 13:40 KIM WASSENSMusic from Dutch Jazz singer

14:00 – 14:40 SANNEKE VAN HASSELReadings and discussion from emerging Dutch short story writer

15:00 – 15:40 RAMSEY NASRPoetry from Dutch-Palestinian Poet Laureate, writer and actor: followed

by a conversation with Paul Binding from the Times Literary Supplement

16:00 – 16:40

Leading Netherlands’ writer in conversation with British author about

marathon running, the myth of the ‘runner’s high’ and more…

17:00 – 17:40 MART SMEETSCelebrated Dutch broadcaster and former national basketball

player and voice of the Tour de France in conversation with Litro

Magazine’s Editor in Chief Eric Akoto

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ABDELKADER BENALI & DAVID WINNER

11:00 – 12:00 IDLER ACADEMYThe Academy’s head of games, actor and writer Ben Moor, will be

organising games of Frisbee Tree Golf, in the park.

(Outside the festival site)

14:00 – 15:00 ROCOCO CHOCOLATESSwap your ink pen for a chocolate-dipped paintbrush and create

your own edible work of art- across the street at Rococo.

(Registration is essential, on the day, at the front desk of the main

festival site.)

5 Motcomb St London, SW1X 8JU

EVENING: KENSINGTON GORE HOTEL

19:00 – 19:40 CHIKA UNIGWEReadings from the writer and children’s author, followed by Q&A

19:40 – 20:20 LITRO LIVE! WORLD SERIES DEBATE

Topic (themed on SPORTS AND LITERATURE) will be decided by fans of Litro

Panel: Lead by Litro Editor in Chief, Eric Akoto

Panelist: Simon Kuper, Mart Smeets, David Winner,

Abdelkader Benali and Joris Luyendijk

Each panellist will have 5 minutes to argue their point on a given

topic which will be opened to the floor for the audience to decide

who’s right and who’s wrong.

20:20 – 21:00 DJ

21:00 – 21:40 LIVE MUSIC FROM DUST

22:00 – 22:40 LIVE MUSIC FROM JARETH

22:50 – 23:30 LIVE MUSIC FROM MAD DOG

Close guest DJ

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Wednesday 29 February – Saturday 3 March 2012

Relating CulturesA series of events at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), free and open to all, exploring the relationships between the academic cultures of the arts and social sciences, the interaction between global cultures, and the art of communication and language with award-winning authors and academics.

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