05/08/2021
REORIENT Festival 2021A New Home
Overview
The Dutch Syrian cultural organization Pages Bookstore Café in cooperation with Nieuw Dakota Art Space presents the first edition of REORIENT festival, an annual event in Amsterdam, four days long, in which Middle Eastern culture, music, books, art, and literature are highlighted in one venue.
Significance
Amsterdam is known for its cultural and lingual diversity. Through time it has offered a new home to people from different nationalities and different cultures. The community of people from the Middle East is steadily growing. However, manifestations of Middle Eastern culture still remain invisible to a larger Dutch audience. It is the aim of the REORIENT festival to unveil this hidden treasure and build a bridge between Middle Eastern and Dutch culture.
REORIENT Festival
From its start Pages, Bookstore Café carries the slogan: Pages, it’s your home. This is what we seek with the REORIENT festival: to create a new home, where artists and people come together, share ideas and celebrate culture in a friendly and joyful environment with events, music, and food.
We will introduce Middle Eastern culture to a Dutch audience through art, music, and literature. There will be talks, performances, and exhibitions - a Five-day continuous exchange of cultural experiences. We connect writers, artists, musicians from both the Middle East and the Netherlands. The REORIENT festival offers them a beautiful opportunity to get to know each other and learn from each other’s cultures.
The artists, writers, and musicians we bring to the REORIENT festival are widely admired for their mastery, ingenuity, and high-quality performances. They have a big following and will attract many people with a Middle Eastern and - in combination with the Dutch names - Dutch background.
Books are a key element in all our cultural projects. They deliver the stories of history and culture, of suffering and joy. They teach us the lessons of our lives and reveal the secrets of our souls. Through books, we learn about the self and about the other.
This event is intended as a nonprofit event. Its purpose is to bring people together through culture and cultural events. REORIENT festival will show a new blend of Middle Eastern and Dutch creativity
1st September 2021 Open At 17:00 until 22:00
Opening speech - drink - Sufi dance - Oriental Music and Singing
2nd September 2021 Open At 11:00 until 22:00
Book fair - Children's workshop - Literary event - Live Music.
3rd September 2021 Open At 11:00 until 24:00
Book fair - Children's workshop - Literary event - Stand-up-Comedy- DJ.
4th September 2021 Open At 11:00 until 22:00
Book fair - Children's workshop - Literary event - Live Music.
Ticket for full Day 13 euros including 1 drink
Ticket for full festival 33 euros including 4 drink
Address
Nieuw Dakota Art Space
Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 41b
1033RC Amsterdam
For online booking 15% discount
Using coupon (REORIENT)
To find out more, please visit our website through this link:
https://www.pagesonlinestore.com/projects-2
