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upcoming

  • Tu 03.04 >
    We 15.08     passa porta NL / FR / EN     flag schrijver
    expo

    brussels in shorts

    Cartoon artists will devise a graphic story on contemporary Brussels.


  • Th 17.05 >
    Fr 18.05     passa porta EN     flag flag Make a reservation schrijver
    in residence

    open house

    For two afternoons, Passa Porta will be opening its office to anyone who wants to learn more about its laboratory activities. Brief presentations followed by a short meeting (at 17:40) with British graphic novelist-in-residence William Goldsmith.


  • Th 24.05 | 20:30 RITS NL schrijver
    boon! uitgesproken?

    de voorstad groeit

    The second Boon debate by the Louis Paul Boon Society. A vision of Brussels and urban life based on the work of Louis Paul Boon. A conversation between Stijn Oosterlynck and the geographer Erik Swyngedouw.


  • Sa 26.05 | 18:00 de munt - malibran EN / FR / NL flag flag schrijver
    kunstenfestivaldesarts

    chantal mouffe

    Closing lecture by Chantal Mouffe...


  • We 30.05 | 20:00 passa porta EN flag Make a reservation schrijver
    meet the author

    teju cole

    Teju Cole in conversation with Chantal pattyn.


  • Th 31.05 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    meet the author

    koen peeters

  • Su 03.06 | 20:30 bozar EN flag schrijver
    meet the author

    john irving

    Best-selling American author John Irving in conversation with Annelies Beck...


  • We 06.06 | 20:00 passa porta EN flag Make a reservation schrijver
    in residence

    goce smilevski

    In Sigmund Freud's Sister (Penguin) the Macedonian Goce Smilevski describes the horrors of WWII as seen through the eyes of Adolphine Freud, whom her famous brother left behind in Nazi-occupied Vienna.


  • Th 07.06 | 20:15 flagey ES / FR flag flag schrijver
    A Writers’ Europe

    javier marías

    Exceptional encounter with the Spanish author Javier Marías.


  • Su 24.06 | 11:00 de munt / la monnaie NL / FR flag schrijver
    a stage with a view

    anna enquist

    To accompany Verdi’s Il Trovatore, the Dutch writer and psychoanalyst Anna Enquist will be talking about themes that play a major role both in her novels and this opera: parental love, passion and abandonment.
    Interviewer: Anna Luyten.


    • open house @ passa porta

    • On Thursday 17 and Friday 18 May, visit Passa Porta's office and learn more about its laboratory activities. Ask at the bookshop from 14:00 to 17:30. At 17:40, brief presentation and meeting with graphic novelist in residence William Goldsmith. Accueil dans la librairie. More...

    • We 16/05/2012 - 11:05

    • interview with michael cunningham

    • Et Alors? magazine meets Michael Cunningham in Brussels where he was invited as a writer in residence by Het beschrijf: Coffee, Belgian chocolates and a conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. The magazine is for sale at Passa Porta Bookshop.

       

    • We 25/04/2012 - 10:04

    • louis paul boon centenary

    • On Thursday 15 March the great Belgian writer Louis Paul Boon (Chapel Road...) would have turned a hundred. The centenary starts with a literary birthday party in his native city of Aalst, and will come to a close on Sunday 7 October in Brussels, when Passa Porta will be holding The Great Boon Marathon at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS). Check Boon!2012 (in Dutch).

    • Tu 13/03/2012 - 16:03

    • watch our evening with new portuguese voices

    • Full recording of the event with Portuguese authors Pedro Rosa Mendes, Dulce Maria Cardoso and José Luis Peixoto, in Brussels on Thursday 16 February 2012. Introduction by literary translator Harrie Lemmens, interview by Annelies Beck.

    • Fr 17/02/2012 - 08:02

    • tomáš zmeškal wins european union prize for literature

    • In October 2010, Czech writer Tomáš Zmeškal was writer in residence in Brussels. Recently, he has been awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for his debut novel "Love Letter in Cuneiform Script" (Milostný Dopis Klínovým Písmem) which describes the post-war world of 1950s Czechoslovakia from a postmodern, fragmented perspective. More info...

    • Fr 09/12/2011 - 14:12

    • video: slavoj zizek in brussels

    • Here you can watch the recording of Slavoj Žižek's lecture in Brussels (BOZAR) on 28 November 2011. More than 2200 people attended this event, co-produced by Het beschrijf at Passa Porta.

    • Su 04/12/2011 - 11:12

    • blog # 5 neel mukherjee

    • Writer in residence Neel Mukherjee was staying in Passa Porta's writer's flat. You can read his latest blog here. The texts are posted on the website of project partner the British Council and of host Het beschrijf.

    • Mo 28/11/2011 - 16:11