Echoes of Loss x Close Up: Stories we tell
Curated by our Close Up team of student programmers
- Date
- 28 November 2024
- Time
- 19:30 -22:00
- Location
- BG 3
- Room
- VOX-POP (ground floor)
The programme
The evening will begin at 19:30 with a walk-in, followed by the official start at 20:00 with a Long Table Talk. This hybrid performance, installation, and roundtable discussion invites both conversation and creativity. Guests can listen, join the conversation, or take notes and doodle on the paper tablecloth as we explore questions such as: How can storytelling help us navigate grief? How can it create space for mourning in a world that often avoids it? And how can it connect us in our shared experiences of loss?
After a short break (and a piece of cake!), we’ll dive into a Storytelling and Writing Workshop led by Krina Huisman, founder of Rouw & Zingeving (Grief & Meaning). Krina will introduce her research on the vital role of storytelling in processing grief and guide you through letter-writing techniques and a creative writing journey. The evening will close with time for sharing, reflection, drinks, and more cake, accompanied by music.
Practical
Entrance to this programme is free, but due to limited capacity we kindly ask you to sign up via the form. The programme starts at 19:30 and ends around 22:00. Adress: binnengasthuisstraat 9, VOX-POP (ground floor).
Biographies of Speakers
Noa Appelman is a dramaturg and theatre scholar that during her studies at the UVA has specialized in youth theatre. In her master thesis Memento Mori Mama, she has researched the conceptualization of death in youth theatre. In this thesis she also looks into youth cinema, literature and education to find out how young audiences are confronted with a thing as heavy and unavoidable as death. How can children learn how to grieve when we try to keep death hidden from them?
Krina Huisman defended her PhD on narrative meaning-making and loss in popular Dutch books on grief at the University of Groningen in 2023. She’s been giving lectures and workshops on the topic ever since. Additionally, she is working on a research project about the experiences of the bereaved of people who have undertaken self-euthanasie (‘sterven in eigen regie’). For this project, she uses the narrative research method ‘letter-writing’.
Paul Sin Nam Rigter is a Korean-Dutch filmmaker who grew up in the Netherlands after being adopted from Korea at the age of three. He studied Political Science and Communication Science in Amsterdam. He made his debut as a documentary filmmaker with Play for the past, which he produced as well. The film was purchased by Dutch national broadcaster NCRV, sold to NHK in Japan and toured several festivals. His second film The Nose-Searching for Blamage is about a rebel perfumer in search for a new perfume called Blamage. It was coproduced by Dutch national broadcaster AvroTros and was selected for the largest documentary festival in North-America HotDocs. His documentary Dealing with Death, a film he worked on for six years, shows how the white Dutch society tries to incorporate the rituals around death and mourning in various ethnic communities. The film premiered at IDFA and won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary. His most recent film was Utopie van Sofie for NPO 2Doc and showed how a passionate teacher fights for the best education for her classroom of highly gifted kids.
Currently, Paul is working on a new documentary about the prison system in the USA.
