Saturday Night Unlimited
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Sat 24 Jan 202620:00 - 00:30Theater aan het Spui, Den HaagAll halls
vrije plaatskeuze Regular € 35 Youths up to and including the age of 30 € 15
Festival programme
Saturday Night Unlimited includes twelve performances with readings and discussions by twenty-five authors. Renowned writers José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) and Pankaj Mishra (UK/India) offer a new, non-Western perspective on colonial rule and its impact on the present day. They will discuss the role that Western domination and resistance to it play in their work and in our current times.
South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon is one of the most influential contemporary poets in the world. She will read from her poetry and talk about her search for a different way of writing. As a tribute, poets Don Mee Choi and Simone Atangana Bekono will read from their own work.
Poet Maxime Garcia Diaz and British writer Sheena Patel will read from their work and discuss how digital spaces shape our perspective. In Hoe draag je een gedicht (How to carry a poem), musician Wasim Arslan and actor Robbie Wallin combine performance, music, and language to create a new embodiment of spoken word. In On being young, old and beyond, authors Pamela Sneed (USA), Kim de l’Horizon (Switzerland) and others talk about what they find exciting about young people, older people, or people in the prime of their lives (inspired by disabilities, sexual fantasies, coming-of-age stories, queer and trans work).
Also in Saturday Night Unlimited: six writers talk about their favorite books in “Book of My Life,” students from The Hague perform their own Very Short Stories in the foyer, and bookstore De Vries Van Stockum sells books and poetry collections by festival authors.
Full festival
Do you want to see more of Writers Unlimited Festival? From 22 to 25 January 2026, the festival is to be found in theatres, libraries and schools throughout the city: from Theater aan het Spui, Filmhuis Den Haag, GR8 to Theater Dakota, Curaçaohuis, the Laakkwartier, Nieuw Waldeck, Schilderswijk and Ypenburg libraries, the Institute of Social Studies and De Haagse Hogeschool. With over 100 writers, poets, spoken-word artists and musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. With readings, prose, poetry, storytelling, spoken word, author interviews, topical talks, films and music.
Check the website of Writers Unlimited for the full programme and timetable:
